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722 A Source Book for Ancient Church Historyand conclusions to the Pope to be approved. Along with themwas an express condemnation of Honorius. Leo II (682-683),Agatho's successor, approved the council with special mentionof Honorius as condemned for his heresy.(a) Cyrus of Alexandria, Formula of Union, A. D. 633, Hahn, §232.The author of this formula, known also as Cyrus of Phasis,under which name he was condemned at Constantinople, A.D. 680, attempted to win over the Monophysites in Alexandriaand met with great success on account of his formula of union.The first five anathemas, the form in which the formula iscomposed, are clearly based upon the first four councils. Thesixth is slightly different; and the seventh, the most important,is clearly tending toward Monotheletism. The document is tobe found in the proceedings of the Sixth General Council inMansi, and also in Hardouin. For a synopsis, see Hefele, §293, who is most valuable for the whole controversy.[662]6. If any one does not confess the one Christ, the one Son,to be of two natures, that is, divinity and humanity, one naturebecome flesh 288 of God the Word, according to the holy Cyril,unmixed, unchanged, unchangeable, that is to say, one synthetichypostasis, who is the same, our Lord Jesus Christ, being one ofthe holy homoousian Triad, let such an one be anathema.7. If any one, saying that our one Lord Jesus Christ is to beregarded in two natures, does not confess that He is one of theHoly Triad, God the Word, eternally begotten of the Father, inthe last times of the world made flesh and born of our all-holyand spotless lady, the Theotokos and ever-virgin Mary; but is288 Note that this is not “the one nature of the Word of God become flesh,” theformula most commonly employed by Cyril, and to be distinguished from this,though Cyril sometimes appears to use the two contrary to his own distinction.