A Short History of the Copts and of Their Church

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...bishop of Nisibis, + adopted it, as did also the Christians of the land of Phars Persia, of Irak, of Mosul, and of Mesopotamia, as far as the Euphrates. And they are known now-a-days as Nestorians. DI08COKC3 Then Theodosius, king of Rum, made Dioscorus patriA.iX444 arch of Alexandria, in the second 39th Eut. year of his reign. In his days appeared the sect of Eutakhi Eutyches, J a presbyter of Constantinople, who gave out that the body of the Messiah was subtile, without any resemblance to our bodies; and that the Son took nothing from Mary. Against him one hundred and thirty bishops gathered themselves and anathematised him. At Alexandria also, on the day of the Passover, a multitude of Jews consorted together and crucified a figure in the form of the Messiah, and mocked it; whence fol John, in consequence, excommunicated Cyril, and Simon bishop of Ephesus; whereupon a dissension took place, through such an absurd conduct on the part of John. But they were afterwards reconciled by Theodosius. t See " Nestorianismi Originea," in Assem. Bibl. Or. vol. iv, c. 3, p. 67, sq., for every information on Barsumas, bishop of Nisibis, and on the Nestorians in general. J Eutyshius, as written by Eutych. ad loc. p. 84. lowed a dreadful slaughter of both Christians and Jews on either side; on account of which the king sent an army, and put to death most of the Jews in Alexandria. The fourth of the synods of Christians took place in the city of Chalcedon; and the cause of it was this. Dioscorus, patriarch of Alexandria, said that the Messiah was one substance out of two substances, one person out of two persons, one nature out of two natures, and one will out of two wills; while the opinion of Marcianus, who was then king of Rum, and of the people of his...