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Rh One will understand this better if a new line of thought is followed, which in Nestorius is clearly shown to us only by the Treatise of Heraclides. To Adam the Logos as his creator gave his image in all glory and honour, but Adam lost it for himself and for his descendants. Hence the Logos became man in order to efface the fault of the first man and to give back to his nature the original image. Only he could do it: apart from him there was nothing divine or honourable, and only in the manhood could this renovation take place. Nestorius gives in this connection a complete answer to the question: Cur deus homo ? and it is not