The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Scholasticus - Coptic ...

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and to this I am unable to add anything; [77] for I am satis¢ed with this.’
And when those who had been sent on this business again urged the said
Dioscorus to come, he said in response: ‘What I have said, I have said;
to this I am unable to add anything. For I am satis¢ed with this.’ And
when those who had been sent on this business again urged Dioscorus
to come, he said the same in reply. And since the said Dioscorus had
again said the same, while those who had been sent on this business
persisted in their urging, Bishop Pascanius said that, although he had
now been summoned a third time, Dioscorus had not made an appearance
as he was stricken by conscience, and he enquired what treatment
he merited. 187 When the bishops responded to this that he had fallen
foul of the canons, Proterius, Bishop of Smyrna, said, ‘When the holy
Flavian was murdered there was nothing done in response to that’, and
those deputizing for Leo, the bishop of elder Rome, declared as follows,
word for word: 188
The a¡ronts of Dioscorus, the former bishop of the megalopolis
of the Alexandrians, against the order of the canons and the ecclesiastical
disposition have become manifest from the investigations
already made in the ¢rst session and from what has been
done today. For this man, to leave aside most matters, acting on
his own authority and contrary to the canons, accepted into communion
Eutyches, his fellow in doctrine who had been canonically
deposed by his very own bishop ^ by whom we mean our
father among the saints, Archbishop Flavian ^ before he had attended
the Synod in the Ephesian city with the bishops beloved
of God. But to the latter the apostolic see accorded pardon for
what had been done there by them that was not of their intention:
these men indeed have to the present continued [78] subservient
to the most holy archbishop Leo and the whole holy and ecumenical
Synod, for which reason he also received them into his communion
as fellows in faith. But this man has persisted even to the
present to be arrogant over those matters for which he ought to
lament and should have bowed his head to the ground. In addition
to this he did not even concede that the letter of the most
blessed Pope Leo be read out, the one written by him to Flavian,
187 ACO II.i.2, pp. 27:17^28:20.
188 Proterius’ interjection: ACO II.i.2, p. 28:1^4; declaration of Western representatives,
ACO II.i.2, pp. 28:24^29:20 (already quoted by Evagrius, pp. 45:21^47:12).