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全基督教理事会的行为为所有研究提供了最重要的证据，这些研究涉及到公元5世纪基督学争议的第一阶段。它们的最终版本，就像今天使用的那样，是由爱德华·施瓦茨在1923-29年制作的，形成了系列丛书的第一本大部头。该收藏不仅包括文本记录的事件和安理会本身的议事程序，但通过包括额外的文本，甚至说明了整个争议的历史，这是爆发的问题，它是东正教称耶稣的母亲玛利亚，‘上帝的承载’：它的开始在公元428年，安理会本身是为澄清这个问题而召集的，该联盟达成在433年，并立即争议的后果。然而，在该文集内，这些文件包括近1.800页的希腊文和拉丁文文本，没有按时间顺序印刷，而是分成各种单独的文集，因为它们被它们的文本传统所保存。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。据设想，最终将以这样一种方式将它们组合在一起，即安理会本身的议事顺序及其周围事件对读者而言将立即变得透明。评论不仅将讨论神学问题，而且还将讨论历史、知识和语言问题。

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.