This man became the abbot of a monastery in Constantinople; he was third "shield-bearer"[1] of the godless section[2] [established] in accordance with [the doctrines of] Manes and Apollinarius.[3] He said that the Christ was one thing in himself and God the Word was another,[4] not accepting to confess that the flesh of the Lord was of the same being and nature as us; and he refused to say that two [distinct] natures were preserved in Christ along with their union and conjunction. Not only that but he also fabricated certain monstrous and alien additional [ideas] saying that the body of the Lord was brought down out of heaven and, as through a pipe, the divine word of God ran from heaven through the virgin, putting this on in order to seem to have come out of a woman although not having been begotten. This argument [is] even more Manichaean and fantastic than the former. This man also, in his distorted heart, represented[5] Christ [to be] one nature.