Chapter XLIX

Read the treatise of Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, _Against the Blasphemies of Nestorius_, in five books. In these he preserves his characteristic style and curious phraseology. But he is clearer than in his letters to Hermeias[157] and his work _On Adoration in the Spirit_. The language is ornate and elaborate, forced into agreement with its peculiar form, which resembles prose poetry that despises metre.