VIII.
If
anyone shall dare to say that
the assumed man (
ἀναληφθέντα
) ought to be worshipped together with God the Word, and glorified
together with him, and recognised together with him as God, and yet as
two different things, the one with the other (for this “Together
with” is added [
i.e
., by the Nestorians] to convey this
meaning); and shall not rather with one adoration worship the Emmanuel
and pay to him one glorification, as [it is written] “The Word
was made flesh”: let him be anathema.
Notes.
Nestorius.
VIII.
If any one says that the form of a servant should, for
its own sake, that is, in reference to its own nature, be reverenced,
and that it is the ruler of all things, and not rather, that [merely]
on account of its connection with the holy and in itself
universally-ruling nature of the Only-begotten, it is to be reverenced;
let him be anathema.
Hefele.
On this point [made by Nestorius, that “the form
of a servant is the ruler of all things”] Marius Mercator has
already remarked with justice, that no Catholic had ever asserted
anything of the kind.
Petavius notes that the version of Dionysius Exiguus is
defective.
Petavius.
Nestorius captiously and maliciously interpreted this as
if the “form of a servant” according to its very nature
(
ratio
) was to be adored, that is should receive divine
worship. But this is nefarious and far removed from the mind of
Cyril. Since to such an extent only the human nature of Christ is
one suppositum with the divine, that he declares that each is the
object of one and an undivided adoration; lest if a double and
dissimilar cultus be attributed to each one, the divine person should
be divided into two adorable Sons and Christs, as we have heard Cyril
often complaining.