John Cassian brought the teaching of the Egyptian monks to the West: the twelve books of the Institutes on the monk's life and the eight principal faults, the twenty-four Conferences with the Abbots of Egypt, and his seven books On the Incarnation against Nestorius. Modern English from the Post-Nicene Fathers translation.
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Contents
On the Incarnation, Book 7
1A Prayer for Help Against the Serpent2Can a Mother Bear One Older Than Herself?3Must the Child Be of One Substance with the Mother?4His Almighty Power Shown in His Own Birth5Bees, Locusts and Basilisks6Christ Made Out to Be No More Than Adam7Heresy in the Cloak of Scripture8Worshipped with God but Not as God9His Coming Was Never Hidden10More Witnesses That God Would Come11The Devil Suspected That Christ Was God12Worse Than the Devil’s Doubt13The Devil’s Suspicion Lasted to the Cross14Without Father, Without Mother15Without Genealogy16Quoting Scripture Like the Devil17Christ’s Glory Is His Own18Revealed in the Flesh, Counted Righteous in the Spirit19Christ Made the Demons Fear Him20Power Given in His Own Name21The Spirit Descending at His Baptism22He Ascended by His Own Power23The King of Glory24The Witness of Hilary25The Witness of Ambrose26The Witness of Jerome27The Witness of Rufinus and Augustine28The Witness of Gregory of Nazianzus29The Witness of Athanasius30The Witness of John Chrysostom31An Appeal to the People of Constantinople