text: Part 3.
  
  Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, was drawn into the fight. Cyril had a sharp intellect but violent passions.  As a young man he participated in the railroading of John Chrysostom. He hated heretics, Jews, Platonists -- in 415 a Christian mob attacked Hypatia, the head of the Alexandrine Neo-Platonist school, and literally tore her to pieces. It can be argued that Cyril incited this mob, and he certainly fostered the atmosphere in which it occurred. Cyril kept his chief hatred for Nestorius. "As bishop of Alexandria he disliked Nestorius as bishop of Constantinople (that upstart see); as an Alexandrine theologian he disliked him as an Antiocene; and as Cyril he loathed him as Nestorius." (David Bell, A Cloud of Witnesses, p 108)
  
  Cyril said Nestorius destroyed the basis for salvation. He said that Nestorius did not call Mary “Mother of God” because he did not believe Jesus was God, which is untrue. Nestorius never denied Jesus’ divinity, he was emphasizing Jesus' humanity.