To Andrew the Monk, on the Writings from Egypt

“God is faithful, who will not let you be tried beyond what you are able, but with the trial will also make a way of escape, so that you may be able to bear it.” He also exposes falsehood: though the assertion of falsehood still finds approval, it has now been refuted, and the power of the truth has been shown. For look: there are those who by their impious reasoning had confused the natures of our Savior Christ, dared to preach one nature, and for that reason insulted the most holy and venerable Nestorius, God’s high priest. Now, their mouths held, as the prophet says, with bit and bridle, and turned from wrong to right, they have learned the truth once again, adopting the statement of the man who has borne the brunt of the battle for the truth. For instead of one nature they now confess two, and they anathematize all who preach mixture and confusion. They worship the Godhead of Christ, which cannot suffer; they attribute suffering to the flesh; they distinguish between the terms of the Gospels, ascribing the lofty and divine ones to the Godhead and the lowly ones to the manhood. Such are the writings that have now been brought from Egypt. [a]