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404 12 A far truer account of these negotiations is given by Le Quien, Oriens Christianus, ii. 159,

13 On the contrary, the firmness of Alexander VII., in insisting on a full recognition of the Faith of Ephesus, is deserving of something very different from the cold sneer of Mosheim.

14 This is not exactly correct. , a man of bad character, and one of the principal introducers of the Nestorian heresy, who sat from 466 to 486, innovated on the more ancient customs, and permitted marriage to Bishops, and even to the Patriarch: and the innovation remained in force some little time.

15 Nevertheless, I fear that there is too much truth in Boré's account: though of course it would be denied by Nestorians.

16 New Sunday, in the Nestorian, as in the orthodox Eastern Church, is the First after Easter.

17 If this stratagem had been employed by a Jesuit, would it not have met with a severer censure?

18 Here, clearly, Rome was removing what the author himself allows to be a gross corruption, the hereditary Patriarchate: and it is scarcely fair to impute so low a motive to her missionaries.