IN CHURCH HISTORY. 6/ 



true divinity of the Holy Spirit. The words 

 added were, "the Lord and Giver of life, who 

 proceedeth from the Father, who with the Father 

 and the Son togelher is worshipped and glorified." 



Third Council, Ephesus. — The third general 

 council met in Ephesus, in a. d. 431, under the 

 reign of Theodosius, the Second. 



The Nestorian heresy was the particular matter 

 to be considered. Nestorius the patriarch of Con- 

 stantinople, taught that, "God the Word, and the 

 man Christ Jesus, were different persons under 

 the same appearance ; that the union of the divine 

 and the human was one of will only; that Christ 

 was to be carefully distinguished from God who 

 dwelt in him." The Council determined that the 

 true faith of the Church was that the Word was 

 made flesh ; that Christ was one Divine Person, 

 but having two natures, God and man — which 

 natures were closely and intimately united, with- 

 out being mixed or confounded. 



Fourth Council, Chalcedon. — Chalcedon was 

 the place finally selected for holding another gen- 

 eral council. This fourth council met in a. d. 

 451, Theodosius being still the emperor. 



Opposition to the Nestorian heresy had led 

 some into an opposite extreme. Opposing Uie 

 Nestorian view, that Christ was to he thought of as 



