ecclesiastics those who rejected with sentiments of horror these
carnal, these materialistic conceptions, and raised their
protesting voices in vindication of the attributes of the
Omnipresent, the Almighty God.

EGYPTIAN DOCTRINES. In the paganization of religion, now in all
directions taking place, it became the interest of every bishop
to procure an adoption of the ideas which, time out of mind, had
been current in the community under his charge. The Egyptians had
already thus forced on the Church their peculiar Trinitarian
views; and now they were resolved that, under the form of the
adoration of the Virgin Mary, the worship of Isis should be
restored.

THE NESTORIANS. It so happened that Nestor, the Bishop of
Antioch, who entertained the philosophical views of Theodore of
Mopsuestia, had been called by the Emperor Theodosius the Younger
to the Episcopate of Constantinople (A.D. 427). Nestor rejected
the base popular anthropomorphism, looking upon it as little
better than blasphemous, and pictured to himself an awful eternal
Divinity, who pervaded the universe, and had none of the aspects
or attributes of man. Nestor was deeply imbued with the doctrines
of Aristotle, and attempted to coordinate them with what he
considered to be orthodox Christian tenets. Between him and
Cyril, the Bishop or Patriarch of Alexandria, a quarrel
accordingly arose. Cyril represented the paganizing, Nestor the
philosophizing party of the Church. This was that Cyril who had
murdered Hypatia. Cyril was determined that the worship of the
Virgin as the Mother of God should be recognized, Nestor was
determined that it should not. In a sermon delivered in the