The Second Point Cyril Argues Against Nestorius Essay
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The third point Cyril argues against Nestorius is that Jesus has two subjects. He questions who is speaking man or deity. Cyril questions that there are two ruling principles with the Logos and the human soul. He argues about where Nestorius says there is one will but not one person who is divided. And where Nestorius says the two natures are united permanently but unique and separate like a husband and wife.
Cyril says that Christ exists in a hypostatic union which is not a conjunction of wills and not 2 subjects but a single subject. He describes this as just like the human soul and body has a natural union. You cannot have a soul without a body nor a body without a soul. The incarnation happened in the same way of a human birth. The Logos connected to the human soul as it connected to the human body.
Cyril continues that the Word is different to flesh and the soul but was passed through the womb of Mary, Christ’s earthly mother. The body is created in the womb of the earthly mother but that earthly mother the mother of the body is also the mother of the soul because the soul is fashioned in the womb alongside the body at the same time. The flesh mother is also the soul’s mother. A mother only gives birth to one living creature. Christ, according to Cyril, is one man formed with two things occurring simultaneously in a natural union with properties being mingled in the one body. Humans are composite beings being comprised of both body and soul without the ability to