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Rh Cyril. But he does not make pretentious claims for his person or hope for another turn of his fortune. He has no more interest in the world. For e.g. after having said that one might ask him why the bishops of the Antiochian party had given assent to his deposition he answers : Well you must ask him (meaning Cyril), apparently also those (meaning the Antiochians). ''If you want to learn anything else of me, then I will speak of what is now gradually coming to the knowledge of the whole world, not in order to find approbation or assistance among men—for earthly things have but little interest for me. I have died to the world and live for Him, to whom my life belongs;—but I will speak to those who took offence'' etc. He writes in exile in the deserts of Egypt and has no prospect but of death. As for me, so he concludes the treatise, ''I have borne the sufferings of my life and all that has befallen me in this world as the sufferings of a single day; and I have not changed all these years. And now I am already on the point to depart, and daily I pray to God to dismiss me—me whose eyes have seen his salvation. Farewell Desert, my friend, mine upbringer and my place of sojourning, and thou Exile, my mother, who after my death shalt keep my body until the resurrection comes in the time of God's pleasure! Amen.''

We knew previously that Nestorius had to endure