Read the treatise of John Philoponus (or rather Mataeoponus)
_Against the Holy Fourth Oecumenical Council_.[192] The style is
characteristic of him. He shamelessly attempts to prove that the
council favoured the heresy of Nestorius, and declares that it
acquiesced in his excommunication, because it imagined it was doing
no harm to the man[193] by ratifying his doctrine, which Nestorius
himself, on whom the condemnation fell, fondly cherished and
regarded as the most important thing of all; wherein he indulges in
fabrications and outrageous statements, on a par with his mental
capacity and the unsteadiness of his opinions. The audacious and
idle assertions which he makes against the council, a comedy in four
parts, are in no way deserving of credit or even sensible.
In the same volume read a treatise by another John, a Nestorian,
_Against the same Holy Fourth Council_. The author is John of
Aegae,[194] an impious person, but his diction has beauty and charm,
and is brilliant and perspicuous.