The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Scholasticus - Coptic ...

[11] Let the heavens rejoice and the earth exult; 44 for the interposed
wall of partition is broken 45 and the source of grief has
ceased, and the means of all discord has been destroyed, since
Christ the Saviour of all of us has adjudicated peace for His
Churches and the emperors who are most pious and pleasing to
God have summoned us to this. They, becoming most excellent
imitators of ancestral piety, preserve the correct faith safe and unshaken
in their own souls, while they make especial their concern
for the holy Churches, so that they may both have widespread
glory unto eternity and proclaim their own reign most famous.
To them too does the Lord of Powers himself distribute blessings
with a generous hand, and enable them to overcome their adversaries
while freely bestowing victory. For he would not lie who
says: ‘I live, says the Lord, because I shall glorify those who
glorify me.’ 46 Accordingly when my lord, my most pious brother
and fellow-minister Paul came to Alexandria, we were ¢lled with
gladness, and most naturally, since such a man was acting as mediator
and had chosen to engage in labours beyond his power, in
order to conquer the envy of the Devil and unite what was
divided, to remove the intervening snares and garland with
concord and peace the Churches on our side and on your side. 47
And further on:
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That the disunity within the Church has become completely
super£uous and without good cause, we are now fully satis¢ed
because my lord, the most pious Paul the bishop, has brought a
document which contains a faultless confession of faith and has
con¢rmed that it was drawn up [12] both by your holiness and by
the most pious bishops there. And the document was like this,
and was incorporated in this letter in these words: ‘Concerning
the Mother of God’, 48 and the rest. Having read these holy expressions
of yours and ¢nding that we ourselves hold such
thoughts too ^ for there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism 49 ^
44 Psalms 96.11.
45 Ephesians 2.14.
46 1 Samuel 2.30.
47 ACO I.i.4, pp. 15:24^16:11.
48 ACO I.i.4, pp. 16:21^17:1.
49 Ephesians 4.5.