Answer to certain objections about the Anaphora of Mar NestoriusObjection 1° "In the submission of Holy Sacrament based on Mar Nestorius’ teachings, the followinganomaly is observed, which requires convincing responses from the hierarchy.”Answer:This anaphora (let us rather use the Syriac term for an eucharistic prayer, ‘Qudasa, sanctification’) isattributed to Mar Nestorius, but no serious historian or Syriac scholar will attribute it to him.Traditionally it was believed that both ‘Qudase’ were composed by Patriarch Aba (540-552), during or afterhis visit to the Church of Constantinople, using the structure and vocabulary of our first Sanctification,attributed to Mar Mari and Addai, and enriching this one by the the Byzantine anaphora of Saint JohnChrysostome and the one of Saint Basile. But scholars during the 19th and 20th centuries came with differenttheories. In my study, published in 2000, after examining all until then existing studies, I only concluded,mainly because of the biblical citations taken from the Peshita, that both qudase (AT and AN) were originallyredacted in Syriac.In his key address during the Syro Malabar websinar in November 2021, Prof. Dr. Sebastian Brock, basinghimself on the christological phraseology, used in the three qudase, induced that the core of the qudasa ofMar Addai and Mari reflects the language and theological phraseology of the 4th century, the period of MarEphrem, Mar Aphrahat and the Acts of Thomas, whereas the qudasa of mar Theodore reflects that of the 5thcentury, and the one of Mar Nestorius that of the end of the 6th or the beginning of the 7th century:He gave following examples:AM: “You, Christ, put on our humanity in order to give us life by Your Divinity (the theme of exchange andthe language of putting on our humanity”).AT: in one kusapa: “When You are going to be revealed at the end of time in the human being which Youtook from us”: what is new here is “to take our ‘bar nasa’, humanity”, characteristic of the 5th cen...
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