19: after which,
pope Zozimus sent him letters of communion.[5]

Nestorius, a monk and priest of Antioch, was made bishop of
Constantinople in 428. The retiredness and severity of his life, joined
with a hypocritical exterior of virtue, a superficial learning, and a
fluency of words, gained him some reputation in the world. But being
full of self conceit, he neglected the study of the Fathers, was a man
of weak judgment, extremely vain, violent, and obstinate. This is the
character he bears in the history of those times, and which is given him
by Socrates, and also by Theodoret, whom he had formerly imposed upon by
his hypocrisy. Marius Mercator informs us, that he was no sooner placed
in the episcopal chair, but he began to persecute, with great fury, the
Arians, Macedonians, Manichees, and Quartodecimans, whom he banished out
of his diocese. But though he taught original sin, he is said to have
denied the necessity of grace; on which account he received to his
communion Celestius and Julian, who had been condemned by the popes
Innocent and Zozimus, and banished out of the West by the emperor
Honorius, for Pelagianism. Theodosius obliged them to leave
Constantinople, notwithstanding the protection of the bishop. Nestorius
and his mercenary priests broached also new errors from the pulpit,
teaching two distinct persons in Christ, that of God, and that of man,
only joined by a moral union, by which he said the Godhead dwelt in the
humanity merely as in its temple. Hence he denied the Incarnation, or
that God was made man: and said the Blessed Virgin ought not to be
styled the mother of God, but of the man who was Christ, whose humanity
was only the temple of the divinity, not a nature hypostatically assumed
by the divine Person; though at length convicted by the voice of
antiquity, he allowed her the empty title of mother of God, but
continued to deny the mystery. The people were shocked at these
novelties, and the priests, St. Proclus, Eusebius, afterwards bishop of
Dorylaeum, and others, separated themselves from his communion, after
having attempted in vain to reclaim him by remonstrances. His homilies,
wherever they appeared, gave great offence, and excited everywhere
clamors against the errors and blasphemies they contained. St. Cyril
having read them, sent him a mild expostulation ob the subject, but was
answered with haughtiness and contempt. Pope Celestine, being applied to
by both parties, examined his doctrine