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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
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 0.02
… 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 0.02
… 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
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
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
… 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
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 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
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
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
… the great Meletius on the apostolic throne and then within days ejected him by imperial authority, Euzoius -- a man carrying the unmistakable plague of Arius -- was put forward in his place. Immediately the champions of apostolic doctrine broke away, and the division has continued ever since. When I look back at what …
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 — …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
… behind my back. Instead, they did the opposite: they confined me to Cyrrhus by imperial decree, compelled the "righteous judges" to condemn me without a trial, and delivered sentence against a man thirty-five days' journey away. No criminal charged with witchcraft, grave-robbing, murder, or adultery has ever been trea …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
… ndreas, Bishop of Samosata, The illustrious Aristolaus has sent a magistrianus [imperial courier] from Egypt with a letter from Cyril in which he anathematizes Arius, Eunomius, and Apollinaris, and all who claim that Christ's Godhead is capable of suffering and who teach the confusion and blending of the two natures. A …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
… — provoked by my open exposure of their heresy — have endeavored to deceive the imperial ears by calling me a heretic and falsely accusing me of dividing our one Lord Jesus Christ, the divine Word made flesh, into two sons. Their efforts did not succeed as they expected. A dispatch was then written to the most honorabl …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
… impious Chapters [Cyril's Twelve Anathemas] sent forth with their curses to the imperial city, and have confirmed them with their signatures.
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
But I will leave the judges alone for now. The Lord is at hand, "who judges the world with righteousness and the peoples with His truth" [Psalm 96:13], who demands an account not only of words and deeds but even of thoughts. Let me refute the false charge. What proof do they have that I teach two sons? Had I been a sil …
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 the Learned Eusebius. Those who spread this news imagined it would be deeply distasteful to me, and thought they could cause me pain by it. But by God's grace I welcomed it and await what comes with pleasure. Any trouble that is brought on me for the sake of the divine teachings is welcome to me. For if we truly tru …