We are replying briefly to Your Holiness… You ask whether the Holy Synod [of the Third Ecumenical Council] ought to receive a man [Nestorius] who condemns what it preaches; or, because the time of delay has elapsed [since his deposition by the regional Council of Rome in 430], whether the sentence already delivered is in force. Concerning this matter, let us consult the Lord, in Whose worship we are united. Will He not answer us straight away through the prophet “I do not desire the death of one who dies”; and through the Apostle Paul that He “willeth all men to be saved and come to know the truth”? Never is a quick repentance displeasing to God in any man.
- St. Celestine, Pope of Rome, to St. Cyril of Alexandria,
May 7, 431, “Intelligo sententiam,” P.L.
50.501.
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