Nestorius Follows Pelagius

You say, then, that Christ was born a mere man. But this is certainly what that wicked heresy of Pelagius claimed, as we clearly showed in the first book: that Christ was born a mere man. You add besides that Jesus Christ, the Lord of all, should be called Theodochos, a form that received God; that is, not God, but the receiver of God. So your view is that he is to be honored not for his own sake, because he is God, but because he receives God into himself. But clearly this too is what that heresy I spoke of before claimed: that Christ was to be worshiped not for his own sake, because he was God, but because by his good and devout actions he had won this, to have God dwelling in him. [a]

You see, then, that you are belching out the poison of Pelagianism and hissing with the very spirit of Pelagianism. So it comes about that you seem to have been judged already, rather than to be still awaiting judgment. For since your error is one and the same, you must be held to fall under the same condemnation. And that is not to mention for now that you compare the Lord to a statue of the emperor, and break out into such wicked and blasphemous impieties that in this madness of yours you seem to outdo even Pelagius himself, who outdid almost everyone else in impiety.