8. Of EMESA. Among the prelates who, at the General Council of Ephesus, A. D. 431, united with Joannes or John, patriarch of Antioch, in supporting the cause of Nestorius, was Paulus or Paul, bishop of Emesa. When negotiations were in progress for a reconciliation between John and the Oriental bishops [JOANNES, No. 9] with Cyril of Alexandria [CYRILLUS, ST. of ALEXANDRIA], 351, Paulus was sent by John to Cyril, but the latter would by no means comply with the solicitations of John, until his messenger Paul had delivered some homilies before him and presented to him a confession of faith, in which the term θεοτόκος was applied to the Virgin Mary. and had joined in. anathematizing Nestorius. Having satisfied Cyril in these points, Paul concluded the negotiations ssuccessfully. The few facts known of the life of Paulus are given by Tillemont (Memoires, vol. xiv.), and by Christianus Lupus, in his Scholia et Notae ad tarior. PP. Epistolas, forming the second volume of the work cited below.
Paulus wrote:--1. Λίβελλος ἐιδοθεὶς (s. Λίβελλοι ἐπιδυθέντες) τῷ ἀρχιεπισκόπᾳ Κυρίλλῳ παρὰ Παύλου ἐπισκόπου Ἐμέσης τοῦ ἀποσταλέντος παρὰ Ἰωάννου Ἀντιοχείας ἐπισκόπου, Λιβελλυς θυεμ (s. Libelliquos) Paults Fpeiscopls Emtesenets Cyrillo Arcliepiscopo Alexandriae obtulit, a Joanne Antiocheno Episcopo missus. 2. Ὁμιλία παύλου ἐπισκόπου Ἐμίσης ... εἰς τὴν γέννησιν τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, καὶ ὅτι θεοτόκος ἡ ἁγία παρθένος Μαρία, καὶ ὅτι οὐ δύο υἱοὺς λέγομεν ἀλλʼ ἕνα υἱον καὶ Κύριον τὸν Χριστόν, κ. τ. λ., Homilia Pauli Episcopi Emiseni .....de Natiuitate Domini et Saluatoris nostri Jesu christi, et quod beata Virgo Maria sit Dei Genitrix, et quod non duos,sed unnm Filium et Dominum Christum dieamus, etc. 3. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ ὁμιλία.... εἰς τὴν ἐπανθρώπησιν τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν, κ. τ. λ., Ejusdem Pauli Homilia .... in Christi domini et Saluatoris nostri Natiritatem. These pieces are given in the Concilia, vol. iii. col. 1090. 1095, 10981, ed. Labbe. 4. Epistola Pauli Emeseni Episcopi ad Anutholium Magistrum Militiae,