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theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
To Ibas, Bishop of Edessa [one of the major cities of Roman Mesopotamia, modern Urfa in southeastern Turkey], I believe it is part of God's providential care for our common salvation that he allows certain calamities to fall upon some people. For the chastened, such misfortunes become a healing remedy. For those alread …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
To Eustathius, Bishop of Aegae, The story of the noble Mary belongs in a tragedy. As she herself says, and as several others confirm, she is a daughter of the distinguished Eudaemon. In the catastrophe that has overtaken Libya [likely the Vandal conquest of North Africa], she has fallen from her father's free estate in …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
To the Monks of Euphratensis, Osrhoene, Syria, Phoenicia, and Cilicia, When I contemplate the state of the Church at this present crisis -- the tempest that has struck the holy ship, the furious blasts, the beating waves, the deep darkness of the night, and beyond all this the strife of the sailors, the struggle among …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
To Sophronius, Bishop of Constantina, Since I know, beloved of God, how generous and bountiful your right hand is, I am placing a precious opportunity within your reach. Men who hunger after worldly gain are annoyed at the sight of those who need financial help. But the generous are delighted -- because the riches they …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
I have entrusted this message to the reverend and godly presbyters Hypatius and Abramius, chorepiscopi [rural bishops], and Alypius, head of 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 im …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
To Anatolius the Patrician, Your excellency is fully aware of the acts of the "most righteous" judges at Ephesus. Their fame has spread to every land, and their "most just" verdict has reached the ends of the earth. What church has not felt this storm? One side inflicted the wrong; the other suffered it. But even those …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Claudianus, Sincere friendships are neither dissolved by distance nor weakened by time. Time does indeed inflict indignities on our bodies -- it strips them of the bloom of beauty and brings on old age. But friendship it only makes more beautiful, constantly kindling its fire to greater warmth and brightness. So alt …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
God knew perfectly well the wickedness of those men, yet He said, "I will go down and see" -- teaching us to wait for the proof of facts. But these judges never summoned me to trial. They never heard the sound of my voice. They refused to let me state my beliefs. They handed me over, like a victim for slaughter, to the …
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
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
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
Your recent writings, too, show your apostolic character. We have read what your holiness wrote concerning the incarnation of our God and Savior [Leo's famous "Tome"], and we marveled at the precision of your language. For both documents set forth both the everlasting Godhead of the Only-begotten, derived from the ever …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Claudianus the Antigrapharius. Although you have not yet met me in person, I believe your Excellency is already aware of the open slanders that have been published against me — for you have often heard me preaching in church, proclaiming the Lord Jesus and pointing out the distinct properties both of his Godhead and …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Eulalius, Bishop of Persian Armenia, I know that Satan has sought "to sift you as wheat" [Luke 22:31], and that the Lord has allowed it -- so that he might display the wheat, prove the gold, crown the athletes, and proclaim the victors' names. Nevertheless, I fear and tremble. Not for your sake -- you are noble cham …
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 Bishop Irenaeus. This kind of comparison is, I think, actually forbidden by the divine Apostle. Writing to the Romans, he says: "Therefore do not judge anything before the appointed time — until the Lord comes, who will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and lay bare the purposes of every heart. Then each per …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
Festal. Our loving Lord has allowed us — with the zeal of those who love Christ — to celebrate the holy feast of salvation and to enjoy the spiritual blessing that flows from it. Knowing your Piety's disposition toward us, we write to share this gladness with you. Those who hold others warmly in their hearts are always …
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
He remained what He was and became what He was not. In Christ we recognize two natures united without confusion in one Person -- the divine nature, which is impassible, and the human nature, which truly suffered. It was the body that was nailed to the cross. It was the body that was buried. It was the body that rose. T …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Eulogius the Oeconomus, We have heard from many quarters of your piety's efforts on behalf of true religion. It is therefore only right that you should readily support someone being slandered for the same cause, and refute the liars' accusations. You, revered sir, know what I believe and what I teach. No one has eve …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Lupicinus the Master. I have passed through the contests of my prime. I see the borders of old age ahead of me, and I had expected that age would bring me more honor, not less. Instead I find myself a target of slander and compelled to defend myself against accusations leveled in my absence. Under these circumstance …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To our most godly and holy fellow minister Rufus, Johannes, Himerius, Theodoret, and the rest send greetings in the Lord. True religion and the peace of the Church suffer greatly, we believe, from the absence of your holiness. Had you been present, you might have stopped the disturbances, resisted the violence, and fou …
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
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
Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrus, to Dioscorus, Archbishop of Alexandria. For those suffering under false accusation, the greatest comfort comes from the words of Scripture. When a man is wounded by the lying tongue of a calumniator and feels the sharp sting of that distress, he remembers the story of the admirable Joseph — …