On the arrival of the Syrian ecclesiastics, a meeting of protest was held by them.

A riot, with much bloodshed, ensued in the cathedral of St.John.Nestor was abandoned by the court, and eventually exiled to an Egyptian oasis.

His persecutors tormented him as long as he lived, by every means in their power, and at his death gave out that "his blasphemous tongue had been devoured by worms, and that from the heats of an Egyptian desert he had escaped only into the hotter torments of hell!" The overthrow and punishment of Nestor, however, by no means destroyed his opinions.

He and his followers, insisting on the plain inference of the last verse of the first chapter of St.Matthew, together with the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth verses of the thirteenth of the same gospel, could never be brought to an acknowledgment of the perpetual virginity of the new queen of heaven.

Their philosophical tendencies were soon indicated by their actions.