{"marius-mercator-praefationes/15":{"o":"Marius Mercator Christi seruus lectori conseruo suo salutem. Graecus sermo Theodori est quondam episcopi oppidi Mampsisteni prouinciae Ciliciae. hunc ego pro facultate qua ualeo, in Latinum sermonem uerbum de uerbo transferre conatus sum, prauum eius de dispensatione dominica et a fide catholica alienum ac satis extorrem sensum, quo Nestorium Constantinopolitanae urbis quondam episcopum secum male decepit, Latinis uolens auribus insinuare cauendum modis omnibus, non sequendum; simul admonere uolens Iulianum ex episcopo oppidi Eclanensis, haereticum Pelagianum seu Caelestianum, hunc secutum esse Theodorum, ad quem peragratis terris et exarato mari atque Oriente lustrato cum sociis et participibus, sane syntaleporis suis magno nisu tamquam ad Christianorum dogmatum praedicatum magistrum tetendit, ut de haeresi Pelagiana seu Caelestiana, quam defendendam et sequendam suscepit, ab ipso confirmaretur atque inde uelut instructior octo contra fidem catholicam potius quam contra sanctae memoriae Augustinum uolumina illa, ut putat, prudentissima conderet. agnoscat igitur supra dictus Iulianus ex hac translatione, si legere non fastidierit, manente se apud memoratum Theodorum illa qua eum diximus mala fide secum Nestorium decepisse, etiam sibi magis suoque dogmati, de quo male turgidus et male sanus libros confecit, esse contrarium seque etiam post de Cilicia abscessum ab eo in episcoporum prouinciae suae conuentu anathemate esse damnatum. non itaque irascatur uel suscenseat nobis si eum cum Theodoro, cuius in libris suis infinitas laudes exequitur eiusque se niti auctoritate sententiœ in suo errore gloriatur, alienum a fide catholica esse iusteque damnatum detegimus conuincimus atque deflemus, quia magis deflendus est quam ullo odio persequendus. Nunc expositio prauae fidei Theodori supra scripti","t":"Marius Mercator, servant of Christ, to his fellow servant the reader, greeting. The Greek text is that of Theodore, formerly bishop of the town of Mopsuestia in the province of Cilicia. I have tried, as far as my ability allows, to translate it word for word into Latin, wishing to bring to Latin ears his perverse view of the Lord's dispensation, alien to the catholic faith and quite exiled from it, by which he wickedly deceived, along with himself, Nestorius, formerly bishop of the city of Constantinople: a view to be guarded against in every way, not followed. At the same time I wish to warn Julian, formerly bishop of the town of Eclanum, a Pelagian or Caelestian heretic, that he followed this Theodore. To him, after travelling over lands, ploughing the sea and touring the East with his associates and partners (his fellow sufferers, indeed), Julian made his way with great effort, as to an acclaimed teacher of Christian doctrine, to be confirmed by him in the Pelagian or Caelestian heresy that he had undertaken to defend and follow, and then, as though better instructed, to compose those eight volumes, most prudent as he thinks, against the catholic faith rather than against Augustine of holy memory. Let the said Julian, then, learn from this translation, if he does not disdain to read it, that Theodore, while Julian stayed with him, persisting in that bad faith by which, as we said, he deceived Nestorius along with himself, was even more opposed to Julian himself and to his doctrine (about which, wickedly swollen and unsound, he wrote books), and that after Julian had left Cilicia, Theodore condemned him with an anathema in a council of the bishops of his province. So let him not be angry or indignant with us if we expose, prove and lament that he, together with Theodore, whose endless praises he pursues in his books and on whose authority he boasts that he relies in his error, is alien to the catholic faith and justly condemned; for he is to be lamented rather than pursued with any hatred. Now follows the exposition of the perverse faith of the Theodore named above.","f":"Marius Mercator, <i>Praef.</i> 15 (ACO I.5 1.5:23; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/marius-mercator-praefationes/15)."},"marius-mercator-praefationes/18":{"o":"Item Marius Mercator seruus Christi lectori conseruo salutem. Samosateni Pauli atque Nestorii est ista non minus impia quam uana doctrina. Nestorius uerbum dei non ut Paulus sentit, qui non substantiuum, sed prolatiuum potentias dei efficax uerbum esse définit; confitetur tamen idem Nestorius in uerbo substantiuo filium, raro licet, argute tamen, quia non expresse ab aeternitate filium dicit uerbum esse, sed uerbum is tantum, quod in substantia patris manens, deus sit consubstantiuus, quem Graeci ΟΜΟΟΥΣΙΟΝ dicunt, filium uero illum esse et dici debere adserit qui ex Maria sit natus, atque ita diuidit aeternum a temporali, illi tamen deo et dei uerbo quae maiestatis sunt, huic uero alteri quae humanae infirmitatis sunt, deputans; propter indiuiduam autem atque inseparabilem conexionem dignum fuisse habitum nuncupatione filii dei, qui hoc ipsum pro meritis ex adoptione habeat, non ex natura. uerum cum ei a catholicis obicitur cur per hunc sensum duos Iesus Christos et duos filios sentiat, pro se ita respondet: ego, inquit unum Christum definió, qui a chrismate unctus sit dicendus, unum hunc ipsum esse filium dei, qui, ut superius dictum est, indiuisibili societate dei uerbo coniunctus est; non numquam sane propter hanc ipsam inseparabilem coniunctionem uel conexionem etiam uerbum illud isdem cognominibus connuncupari quae ab eius natura sunt penitus aliena; ex merito sane huius Iesu Christi singularis natiuitatis et inconparabilis uitae dignum fuisse habitum tamquam templum tota plenitudine diuinitatis ab hoc deo et dei uerbo inhabitari. in eo igitur Paulo coniungitur iniquo habitatorem et habitaculum pro meritis separat, diuidens quod unicuique eorum sit proprium, ex diuersitate naturae. quod quidem illis ambobus cum Ebione et Potino et Galata Marcello commune est. in id quod uero substantiate uerbum dei confitetur et esse ab aeterno cum patre deum adserit, a memoratis recte dissentit et fidei rectae coniungitur. sed quod iterum idem uerbum deum naturaliter dei patris non esse filium dicit, sed tantum uerbum, ut superius exposuimus, et nihilo minus diuidit merita uniuscuiusque substantiae, impietatis magnum crimen incurrit et hinc tamquam alienus et extorris ab ecclesiastica fide iure damnatus est.","t":"Likewise Marius Mercator, servant of Christ, to his fellow servant the reader, greeting. This doctrine of Paul of Samosata and of Nestorius is no less impious than empty. Nestorius does not think of the Word of God as Paul does, who defines the Word not as substantial but as uttered, the effective word of God's power. Yet the same Nestorius confesses the Son in the substantial Word, rarely, but cleverly: he does not say expressly that the Son is the Word from eternity, but that the Word is only that which, remaining in the Father's substance, is God consubstantial, whom the Greeks call homoousios; but he asserts that the Son is, and ought to be called, the one who was born of Mary. So he divides the eternal from the temporal, assigning to that God and Word of God what belongs to majesty and to this other what belongs to human weakness; and he says that, because of the undivided and inseparable connection, this other was held worthy of the name Son of God, having it by adoption for his merits, not by nature. But when catholics object to him, why by this view he holds two Jesus Christs and two sons, he answers for himself thus: “I,” he says, “define one Christ, who is to be called so from the chrism, as anointed; and this one himself to be one Son of God, who, as was said above, was joined to the Word of God in an indivisible fellowship. Sometimes, indeed, because of this very inseparable conjunction or connection, that Word too is called by the same names, which are wholly alien to his nature. And by the merit of the singular birth and incomparable life of this Jesus Christ, he was held worthy to be inhabited by this God and Word of God with the whole fullness of divinity, as a temple.” In this, then, he is joined to the wicked Paul: he separates the indweller and the dwelling according to merits, dividing what belongs to each of them by the difference of nature. This indeed is common to both of them with Ebion, Photinus and Marcellus the Galatian. But in confessing that the Word of God is substantial and asserting that he is God with the Father from eternity, he rightly disagrees with those named and is joined to the right faith. But because, again, he says that the same Word, God, is not by nature the Son of God the Father, but only the Word, as we have explained above, and nonetheless divides the merits of each substance, he incurs the great charge of impiety, and for this he has rightly been condemned as alien to and exiled from the faith of the church.","f":"Marius Mercator, <i>Praef.</i> 18 (ACO I.5 1.5:28; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/marius-mercator-praefationes/18)."},"marius-mercator-praefationes/19":{"o":"Item Marius Mercator seruus Christi lectori conseruo suo et paris in domino fidei salutem. Nestorii quondam episcopi Constantinopolitanae urbis nonnulla ad plebem blasphemiarum dicta uel scripta ex Graeco in Latinum sermonem, feruore catholicae fidei incitatus, curaui transferre a fidelibus linguae meae fratribus cognoscenda atque uitanda, in quibus uerbum de uerbo, in quantum fieri potuit, conatus sum translator exprimere, ne prius falsarius magis quam uerus postea probarer interpres. da igitur ueniam, pie lector, si aut minus oratio luculenta est aut uerborum ubicumque praesumptorum nouitas aurem forte perculerit. elegi obtrectatorum linguis magis exponi quam ueritate sensuum exprimenda, ubi est omne de falsitate periculum, longius aberrare. occupent igitur se ex hoc idem isti nostri disertuli ad singulas syllabas nostras scrutandas et uerba rimanda: non id curo nec magni pendo, securus quod mihi de hoc opere nullus falsarii nomen inponat. scio etiam ab istis exprobranda nobis esse aliqua dicta uitiosa, quae nobis uis seruandae Graecae proprietatis extorsit. dicat hinc de nobis quisque quod uolet, sentiat quod placet: ego sapientum iudicio fretus sum, quibus absque lenocinio fucoque uerborum et scholaribus nugis simplex ueritatis semper grata est pulchritudo. Nunc hie eius primus impietatis in ecclesia ad populum sermo est, in quo de incarnatione dominica male lapsus infeliciter conruit.","t":"Likewise Marius Mercator, servant of Christ, to his fellow servant the reader, of the same faith in the Lord, greeting. Moved by fervor for the catholic faith, I have taken care to translate from Greek into Latin some of the blasphemous sayings or writings of Nestorius, formerly bishop of the city of Constantinople, addressed to the people, so that the faithful brothers of my language may know and avoid them. In them I have tried as translator to render word for word, as far as possible, so that I might not be shown first to be a falsifier rather than afterwards a true interpreter. Forgive me, then, pious reader, if the style is not brilliant enough, or if the novelty of words adopted here and there should perhaps strike your ear. I chose to be exposed to the tongues of detractors rather than to stray far from the truth of the meaning to be expressed, where all the danger of falsehood lies. Let those eloquent little men of ours busy themselves with this, scrutinizing our syllables one by one and probing our words; I do not care, nor do I set much store by it, secure that no one will put the name of falsifier on me for this work. I know too that they will reproach us for some faulty expressions, which the need to keep the Greek idiom wrung from us. Let each say of us what he will, and think what he pleases: I rely on the judgment of the wise, to whom the simple beauty of truth, without the allurement and paint of words and the trifles of the schools, is always welcome. Now here is the first sermon of his impiety, given in church to the people, in which he slipped badly concerning the Lord's incarnation and fell unhappily.","f":"Marius Mercator, <i>Praef.</i> 19 (ACO I.5 1.5:28-29; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/marius-mercator-praefationes/19)."}}