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Rh thought he could maintain on the ground of the Treatise of Heraclides that Nestorius was not a Nestorian but was perfectly orthodox. This thesis and the Treatise of Heraclides on which it is based are indeed both able to awaken our interest in Nestorius.

And still a third factor capable of arousing our interest besides my Nestoriana and the Treatise of Heraclides must be named. The French translator of the Treatise of Heraclides, F. Nau, has added to his translation four further almost new Nestoriana. He thinks he has discovered the original Greek text of three sermons of Nestorius on the story of the temptation, of which I knew only fragments from the first and third. I had grounds for supposing that more of these sermons existed in manuscripts of Chrysostomus, but I did not succeed in finding such material. The new discovery, I fear, is looked upon in a too optimistic manner by its editor. The new sermons certainly contain actual sections of homilies of Nestorius; but taken as a whole they do not seem to me to be of a really different kind from that Pseudo-Chrysostomus-homily from which I took the fragments of the sermons on the story of the temptation. Hence I cannot believe that the new sermons present the homilies of Nestorius on the temptation in an unaltered and complete form.