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120 Moreover, as regards the relation between Nestorius and the Sardicense another point, too, is to be discussed. I must go a roundabout way to show this. First, attention must be drawn to the fact that the Sardicense had a particular kinship with Marcellus. Like Marcell us, the Sardicense declares that the term, if used of Christ, is applied to him as to the new creature, i.e. as to the beginner of the new humanity. Like Marcellus, it understands the eternity of the Logos, not as Origen did as an eternal existence beside God the Father, but as the eternal existence in him up to the time when he issued from God. Like Marcellus, the Sardicense contends that God and his Logos have one. Like Marcellus, it identifies the and the Spirit of God ; and like Marcellus, it assumes, that from the historical Christ the Spirit of God proceeded and went over to the disciples. Like