which has three, the second two sections. To the first section of the first part[1] the translator gives the heading: Of all heresies opposed to the church and of all the differences with regard to the faith of the 318 (i.e. the Fathers of Nicaea). In the second section[2] Nestorius, as the translator observes, attacks Cyril and criticizes the judges (who condemned him) and the charges of Cyril. The third section[3] contains according to the translator his (viz. Nestorius') answer (or apology) and a comparison of their letters (viz. of Cyril and Nestorius). The first section of the second part[4] is characterized by the translator as a refutation and rectification of all charges for which he was excommunicated, and the second section[5] as dealing with the time or the events from his excommunication to the close of his life.
Even the first of the five sections shows considerable omissions; the second is incomplete in the beginning and again at the end; also of the third section the beginning is missing. The fourth section, in which all extracts from the sermons of Nestorius criticized at Ephesus as heretical are brought under review, seems, apart from small omissions, incomplete only in the
- ↑ Bedjan, pp. 10–13 f.; Nau, pp. 1–88; comp. Hauck's Real-Encyklopädie, xxiv, 240, 44 ff.
- ↑ Bedjan, pp. 147–209; Nau, pp. 88–125.
- ↑ Bedjan, pp. 209–270; Nau, pp. 126–163.
- ↑ Bedjan, pp. 138–160 and 271–366 (or 459); Nau, pp. 163–235 (or 294); comp. Hauck's Real-Encyklopädie, xxiv, 240, 55 f.
- ↑ Bedjan, 366 (or 459)–521; Nau, 235 (or 294)–331.
