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Rh Cyril says here : ''I received and read the petition you sent me, which, after having received my consent, is purposed for presentation to the Emperor. But since it contains various complaints against my brother there—or what shall I call him ?—I kept it back for the time, lest he should reproach you saying: you accused me as a heretic before the Emperor. But I composed another petition, in which I declined to be judged by him, pointing to his enmity and proposing that … the judgment be handed over to other officials. Read this petition and present it, if need be. And if you see that he continues to scheme against me and really tries to set all things against me, write it to me at once. Then I shall choose some wary and prudent men and send them as soon as possible. For, as it is written, I will not give sleep to mine eyes or slumber to mine eyelids till I have finished the fight for the salvation of all.''

Whoever knows this advice of Cyril to his agents cannot doubt that the accusations brought against Cyril played a prominent role in the beginnings of the Nestorian controversy, and will, therefore, put confidence in what Nestorius tells about this matter in his Treatise of Heraclides. The agents of Cyril, he narrates ,