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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
… my lord Aquilinus, against whom the inventors of the new heresy have turned the imperial power. It remains for you and your most holy colleagues to bring aid to the beleaguered Church and drive away the war that threatens it. Banish the impious faction that has been roused against the truth. Restore to the churches the …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
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 0.02
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
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
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
To Bishop Florentius, Truly the grace of our God and Savior has not yet abandoned the human race. He has left us a "seed" in your holiness, lest we become like Sodom and Gomorrah [Isaiah 1:9]. This seed keeps us from losing heart entirely and gives us reason to wait for the passing of this terrible storm. We have there …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Eusebius, Bishop of Persian Armenia, Whenever anything happens to the helmsman, the officer at the bow or the highest-ranking sailor takes his place -- not because he has appointed himself helmsman, but because he is looking out for the safety of the ship. In war, when the commander falls, the senior tribune assumes …
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
… 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
On the Death of Cyril of Alexandria, At last, and with difficulty, the villain has gone. The good and the gentle pass away all too soon; the wicked prolong their lives for years. The Giver of all good, I believe, removes the former before their time from the troubles of human life. He frees them like victors from their …
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
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 …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Abundius, Bishop of Como, My dear lord and very holy brother, Theodoret sends greetings in the Lord. I have learned that your piety faithfully preserves the true and apostolic faith, and I have thanked Almighty God that the truth which was in danger has been renewed and brought to light by your holiness. Long ago, a …
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 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 0.01
But He is also called "Jesus" and "Christ" according to His humanity. We do not divide the titles between two persons. We recognize one Son who is both God and man. But we maintain the properties of each nature: the Godhead is impassible, immutable, and infinite; the humanity is passible, mortal (before the resurrectio …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
Let him take his new doctrines to the shades below and preach to them all day and all night. We are not at all afraid that he will divide them by making public speeches against true religion and by attributing death to an immortal nature. He will be stoned not only by the ghosts versed in divine law, but also by Nimrod …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
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 …