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theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
First Petition of the Eastern Commissioners to the Emperor, It would have been much to be desired that the word of true religion should not be adulterated by absurd interpretations -- least of all by men who hold the priesthood and high office in the churches, who have been driven, we know not how, by ambition, lust fo …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
As usual, these inveterate mockers transgressed this law too. After hearing the letter they did not change their behavior. They held communion with the deposed, addressed them as bishops, and refused to allow the Chapters -- the source of all the turmoil -- to be examined. We do not understand how they can claim to be …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
We therefore beseech you -- by God who sees all things, by our Lord Jesus Christ who will judge all people in righteousness, by the Holy Spirit by whose grace you hold your empire, and by the elect angels who guard you and whom one day you will see standing by the awesome throne, ceaselessly offering to God that dread …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
Third Petition of the Eastern Commissioners to the Emperor, We never expected your piety's summons to produce this result. We were honorably convened -- as priests by a prince -- to ratify the faith of the holy Fathers. In obedience to our pious emperor, we came. On our arrival, we were no less faithful to the Church a …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
… our monks. I would come to you myself, but I am held back by the chains of the imperial order. Treat my messengers, I beg you, as a father treats his sons. Give them a kind and impartial hearing. Protect my old age, slandered and attacked though it is without cause. Above all, with all the power you have, defend the f …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
To Leo, Bishop of Rome, If Paul, the herald of truth, the trumpet of the Holy Spirit, hurried to the great Peter to bring back solutions for those at Antioch who were uncertain about living according to the law [Galatians 2:1-2], how much more should we -- insignificant and small as we are -- hasten to your apostolic s …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Dioscorus, Bishop of Alexandria [the patriarch of the most powerful see in the eastern church after Constantinople], Among the many virtues we hear adorn your holiness -- for the fame of your glory fills every ear and flies in every direction -- men unanimously single out your modesty for special praise. This is a v …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
… y men who are turning everything upside down, trampling on all church order and imperial law, and throwing everything into confusion in order to confirm the heresy proposed by Cyril of Alexandria. When we were first summoned to Ephesus to investigate the disputed question and confirm the apostolic faith laid down by th …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
… l the bishops and to introduce no innovation into the faith. In defiance of the imperial letter and the count's directives, they disregarded all proper procedure. As the prophet says: "They hatch vipers' eggs and weave spiders' webs; anyone who eats their eggs finds rottenness, and in it a viper" [Isaiah 59:5]. We cry …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Alexander, Bishop of Hierapolis, We have left no means untried -- courtesy, firmness, entreaty, eloquence -- before the most pious emperor and the distinguished assembly. We have testified before God who sees all things, and our Lord Jesus Christ who will judge the world in righteousness, and the Holy Spirit and His …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Domnus, Bishop of Antioch, When I read your letter I remembered the blessed Susannah, who saw the wicked elders threatening her and, knowing that the God of all was present, uttered her famous cry: "I am hemmed in on every side" [Daniel 13:22, in the Septuagint]. Yet she chose to fall into the trap of slander rather …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
Command me to come to you, and let me prove that my teaching follows in the footsteps of the apostles. I have in my possession writings from twenty years ago, from eighteen, fifteen, twelve years ago -- works against Arians and Eunomians, against Jews and pagans, against the Persian magi, on divine Providence, on theol …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
… eptember], we expect our most pious emperor to cross over to the Rufinianum [an imperial estate near Chalcedon], where he will hear the case. We beg your holiness to pray that the Lord Christ may help us confirm the faith of the holy Fathers and uproot these Chapters [Cyril's Twelve Anathemas] which have sprouted to th …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
Report of the Bishops of the East to the Emperor, In obedience to the command of your pious letter, we journeyed to the city of Ephesus. There we found the affairs of the Church in confusion, disturbed by internal warfare. The cause is that Cyril of Alexandria and Memnon of Ephesus have banded together, assembled a gre …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
For the sake of this faith we continue to struggle, despising alike all the joys and sorrows of mortal life, if only we may preserve untouched this inheritance of our fathers. For this reason we deposed Cyril and Memnon: the former as the prime mover of the heresy, the latter as his partner and accomplice in all that h …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
Report of the Council of the Eastern Bishops to the Emperor, Your piety, which shines forth for the good of the empire and the churches of God, commanded us to assemble at Ephesus to bring about peace and benefit for the Church, not to confuse and disturb it. Your majesty's orders plainly indicate your pious and peacef …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Nestorius, Your holiness is, I think, well aware that I take no pleasure in social distinction, nor in the advantages of this life, nor in reputation, nor am I drawn to other episcopal sees. If I had learned this lesson from no other source, the sheer remoteness of the city I am called to govern would be enough to t …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
[This entry is an editorial note. It records that the Eastern bishops sent a letter to the Governor and Scholasticus during the Council of Ephesus. The full text is not preserved in this collection.]
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
Even murderers, grave-robbers, and adulterers are not condemned by their judges until they have either confessed or been clearly convicted by testimony. Yet I, raised as I have been in the divine laws, was condemned at his pleasure while I was thirty-five days' journey away. Nor is this all. Just last year, when two me …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
I have set it against the teaching of the evangelists and apostles, exposed its monstrosity, and shown how far it diverges from divine truth by comparing it with the words of the Holy Spirit and demonstrating the jarring discord between them. Against the boldness of this anathematizing I will say only this: Paul, the c …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
And the blessed Cyril himself, in his letter to the blessed Acacius, plainly indicated their meaning in these words: "I have written this against his innovations, and when peace is made they will be made manifest." The very defense proves the accusation. I have sent you a copy of what he wrote at the time of the agreem …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To John, Bishop of Germanicia, I replied to your holiness's earlier letter as soon as I received it. As for the present state of affairs, it is impossible to entertain any good hope. I fear this is the beginning of the general apostasy. When we see that those who claim to lament what was done "by violence" at Ephesus s …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Alexander of Hierapolis, Your holiness should know that when I read the letter addressed to the emperor, I was deeply distressed. I know perfectly well that the writer of the letter, holding the same opinions as we do, has unwisely and impiously condemned a man who has never held or taught anything contrary to sound …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
Third Letter of the Eastern Commissioners from Chalcedon, To the very pious bishops now in Ephesus -- Johannes, Himerius, Paulus, Apringius, Theodoretus -- greetings. For the fifth time we have been granted an audience. We went into the matter of the heretical Chapters at length, and swore again and again to the empero …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
When charges of multiple adulteries and other crimes were brought against Candidian the Pisidian, the president of the council reportedly said: "If you are bringing charges on points of doctrine, we accept them. We have not come here to decide about adulteries." So Athenius and Athanasius, who had been expelled by the …