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theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.02
The greatest of all graces is suffering for the Master -- the divine Apostle ranks it above even great miracles. In these blessings I glory, humble and insignificant as I am, having no other ground for boasting. I beg your excellency to express my thanks to the Christ-loving emperor and to the most pious Augusta, belov …
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
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 the Patrician Anatolius, Your greatness knows well how all the people of the East feel toward your magnificence -- as children feel toward a loving father. Why then have you shown coldness to those who love you, withdrawn your generous care, and driven everyone to tears by putting your own interests ahead of public …
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
To Lupicius, Even the enemies of the truth, I think, must be outraged at the injustice and illegality of the violence done to us. It stands to reason that those nurtured in the truth -- headed by your excellency -- should be even more distressed at this shocking turn of events. Those who grieve most deeply should show …
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 the Soldiers, Human nature is everywhere the same, but the pursuits of life are many and varied. Some choose a sailor's career, some a soldier's; some become athletes, some farmers; some follow one craft, others another. To pass over all other differences: some are zealous about divine things and get themselves well …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Anatolius the Patrician, I have warmly welcomed the rest that has come my way, and I am enjoying its pleasant fruits. Our Christ-loving emperor, having received the empire as the reward of his true piety, has offered as the firstfruits of his reign the calming of the storm-tossed churches, the triumph of the faith u …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To the Same. When people love deeply, I am not sure they can be impartial judges of those they love. Affection overrides justice. A father sees beauty in a homely son. A son overlooks his father's faults. A brother looks at his brother through the lens of feeling, not through the clear light of nature. I am afraid this …
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
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
But now that He who is being blasphemed has "rebuked the winds and the sea" [Matthew 8:26] and blessed the storm-tossed churches with calm, and the apostolic proclamation is preached everywhere by land and sea -- what room is there for such blasphemy? Not even those who recently inserted into church teaching the claim …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
To Flavianus, Bishop of Constantinople. The Creator and Governor of all the universe has made you a light to the world, and changed deep, moonless night into the brightness of noon. Just as the beacon fire beside the harbor mouth shows sailors in the darkness where the safe anchorage lies, so the bright ray of Your Hol …
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
To the Prefect Eutrechius, I have been greatly astonished that your lordship sent me no warning of the plots against me. Counteracting them would admittedly have been difficult for anyone who lacked the means to expose the plotters' lies. But simply giving information about what was happening required not so much power …
theodoret_cyrrhus · c. 440 · score 0.01
Theodoret to Firmus, Bishop of Caesarea. I had heard of Your Holiness's virtues long before this letter, and the reports filled me with admiration. Now that I have the pleasure of addressing you directly, I wish to express both my esteem and my earnest hope for your continued health and prosperity. The churches of the …
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
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
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 …