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A Source Book for Ancient Church History - Mirrors

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672 A <strong>Source</strong> <strong>Book</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Ancient</strong> <strong>Church</strong> <strong>History</strong>[614]as our incarnate Lord Jesus Christ delivered it to His disciples,who saw Him present and heard His discourses, and as the creedof the holy Fathers has delivered it, and all the holy and universalsynods and all the chorus of approved doctors of the Catholic<strong>Church</strong> teach. We there<strong>for</strong>e piously and orthodoxly followingthem and, making our profession according to their divinely inspiredteaching, believe in unison with it, and confess accordingto the holy Fathers that the Father and the Son and the HolyGhost are properly and truly a consubstantial Trinity in unity,and unity in Trinity; that is, in one God in three consubstantialsubsistencies or persons of equal glory and honor.And after many things of this kind that pertained to the confessionof the right faith, the holy synod also adds these things toits letter:We have received as holy and universal five synods of theblessed Fathers acceptable to God; that is, of the three hundredand eighteen assembled at Nicæa against the most impious Ariusand his tenets; and of the one hundred and fifty at Constantinopleagainst the madness of Macedonius and Eudoxius and theirtenets; and of the two hundred in the first Council of Ephesusagainst the most wicked Nestorius and his tenets; and of the sixhundred and thirty at Chalcedon against Eutyches and Nestoriusand their tenets; and again of those assembled in a fifth council atConstantinople [A. D. 553], in the time of the younger Justinian,against Theodore and the epistles of Theodoret and Ibas and theirtenets against Cyril.And a little after: Also we have received the synod 264 that washeld in the city of Rome in the time of the blessed Pope Martinin the eighth indiction, in the ninth year of the reign of the mostpious Constantine. 265 And we glorify our Lord Jesus Christ as264 A. D. 649, Against the Monotheletes, see Hefele, § 307; v. infra. § 108; seeHahn, § 181, <strong>for</strong> the Anathematism of the Council; Haddan and Stubbs, op.cit., III. 145-151.265 Constans II, also known as Constantine IV; see DCB.

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