The Acts of the Council of Ephesus 431: Introduction, Translation, Notes, and Indexes

公元431年在以弗所举行的第三次大公会议的行为，为所有研究五世纪第一阶段基督论争论的研究提供了最重要的证据。他们的最终版本，正如今天所使用的，是由爱德华·施瓦茨在1923年至1929年制作的，形成了《大公会议学报》系列的第一部大部头。这本合集不仅包括记录会议事件和程序的文本，而且，通过包含额外的文本，甚至说明了这场争议的整个历史，这场争议爆发于称耶稣的母亲玛利亚为“上帝的承载者”是否正统的问题：开始于公元428年，为澄清这个问题而召开的议会，433年达成的联盟，以及争论的直接后果。然而，在收藏中，这些文件，包括近1800页的希腊语和拉丁语文本，并不是按时间顺序印刷的，而是分成不同的单独的集合，因为它们被保存在它们的文本传统中。该项目旨在制作施瓦茨收藏的所有文件的第一个现代翻译，并附有介绍和广泛的注释。按照设想，最后它们将以这样一种方式进行分组，即安理会本身的议事程序和围绕它的事件的顺序将立即对读者变得透明。评注不仅讨论神学问题，而且还讨论历史、知识和语言学问题。

The acts of the Third Ecumenical Council which was held in Ephesus in AD 431 offer the most important evidence for all studies dealing with the first stage of the Christological controversies in the fifth century. Their definitive edition, as it is used today, was produced by Eduard Schwartz in 1923-29 and forms the first tome of the series Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum (ACO). The collection not only includes texts documenting the events at and the proceedings of the Council proper, but, by the inclusion of additional texts, even illustrates the entire history of that controversy, which flared up over the question as to whether it was orthodox to call Mary, the Mother of Jesus, ‘God-bearer’: its beginnings in AD 428, the Council proper which was summoned for clarification of this problem, the union which was reached in 433, and the immediate aftermath of the controversy. Within the collection, however, the documents, which comprise almost 1.800 pages of Greek and Latin text, are not printed in chronological order, but are grouped into various individual collections, as they have been preserved by their textual tradition. This project aims at producing the first modern translation of all documents of Schwartz’ collection, accompanied by introductions and extensive notes. It is envisaged that in the end they will be grouped in such a way that the sequence of the proceedings of the Council itself and of the events surrounding it will immediately become transparent to the reader. The commentary will discuss not only theological, but also historical, intellectual, and philological problems.