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theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
But I will say no more about these men. The Lord's tribunal is near, where what is required is not stage performance but the reality of life. I beg your excellency to express my thanks to the Christ-loving emperor and the godly Augusta for making true religion the firm root of their pious empire. Implore their majestie …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
… her staunch orthodoxy], Since you adorn the empire with your piety and make the imperial purple shine brighter by your faith, I am emboldened to write to you -- setting aside my own insignificance, because you have always shown proper honor to the clergy. With these sentiments, I beg your majesty to show mercy to our u …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
Report of the Bishops of the East to the Emperor, On receiving your piety's letter we hoped that the Egyptian storm which has struck the churches of God would be driven away. But we have been disappointed. Those men have been made even more reckless by their madness. They have paid no attention to the sentence of depos …
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
… ntioch and disturbing the orthodox. I want you to know that in obedience to the imperial letter I have come to Cyrrhus. After six or seven days they sent the commander Euphronius with a letter requiring me to acknowledge in writing that the imperial order had been shown to me. I promised to remain in Cyrrhus and its su …
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 0.01
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
… 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
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
To Constantius, Prefect, If no pressing need compelled me to write to your greatness, I might rightly be accused of presumption -- of failing to measure myself or to recognize the weight of your office. But the last remnants of the city and district God has entrusted to my care are in danger of complete ruin, and certa …
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
I see where you stand, and to some extent I pardon your timidity. But the loving Lord has now removed all grounds for cowardice. He has exposed the fraudulent heresy and revealed the plain truth of the Gospels. I have heard that the man who shares your holiness's roof, when he learned that anathemas had been published …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
Festal greeting. We are in great distress -- for we are made of flesh, not stone. But the remembrance of the Lord's Epiphany [the feast celebrating Christ's baptism and manifestation to the world] has proved a powerful medicine. So at once I write, as the custom of the feast requires, and greet your magnificence with a …
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
Theodoret, Festal Letter. The feast of our salvation has once again dawned upon us, bringing with it the light that scatters the darkness of sin and the warmth that thaws the chill of despair. Even amid the troubles that beset us on every side, the celebration of the Lord's mighty works renews our strength and lifts ou …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To the Patrician Areobindas. In distributing wealth and poverty among human beings, the Creator and Governor of all renders no unjust judgment. He gives the poverty of the poor to the rich as an instrument of good — so that those who have wealth will have the means, and the occasion, to show kindness to mankind. This y …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Claudianus, The divine celebration [Easter or a major feast] has brought us its usual spiritual blessings, but the bitter fruits of sin have not allowed us to enjoy them with a glad heart. Sin has always produced the same harvest: in the beginning it brought forth thorns, thistles, sweat, toil, and pain. Now it shak …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
… isappointed. I have since written you two letters and received no reply. And by imperial decree I am now forbidden to travel beyond the borders of Cyrus. For this apparent punishment there is no cause — none at all — except that I convened an episcopal synod. No indictment was published. No accuser came forward. No def …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Andiberis, The reverend presbyter Peter is distinguished not only by his priestly rank but also by his skill as a physician. During his long residence with us he has won everyone over with his agreeable character. When he learned of my departure, he decided to leave Cyrrhus as well. I commend him to your excellency. …
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
… nst transgression, Numbers 25:7-8]. I was one of those condemned afterward. The imperial order had forbidden me to attend the council, and I was sentenced in my absence. Twenty-six years I have been a bishop. I have labored beyond counting. I have fought hard for the truth. I have freed tens of thousands of heretics fr …
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
I have authored more than thirty books -- against Arius and Eunomius, against Marcion, against Macedonius, against pagans and against Jews. I have interpreted the holy Scriptures, and anyone who wishes can easily verify that I have followed in the apostles' footsteps, proclaiming one Son, one Father, and one Holy Spiri …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Bishop Romulus, You have reminded me of the ancient story -- how the king of Syria, knowing the merciful reputation of the kings of Israel, assumed the posture of a suppliant and did not fail to obtain his petition [1 Kings 20:31-34]. But remember, my lord, the divine wrath that followed: God delivered Ahab to utter …
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 …