A Source Book for Ancient Church History - Mirrors

726 A Source Book for Ancient Church History(c) Council of Rome, A. D. 649, Canons, Mansi, X, 1150. Cf.Denziger, nn. 254 ff.Condemnation of Monotheletism, the Ecthesis, and the Typos,by Martin I.Text of canons or anathematisms and abstract of proceedingsin Hefele, § 307.[665]Canon 18. If any one does not, according to the holy Fathers,and in company with us, reject and anathematize with mind andmouth all those whom as most wicked heretics the holy Catholicand Apostolic Church of God, that is, the five universal synodsand likewise all approved Fathers of the Church, rejects andanathematizes, with all their impious writings even to each point,that is, Sabellius, etc. … and justly with these, as like them and inequal error … Cyrus of Alexandria, Sergius of Constantinople,and his successors Pyrrhus and Paul, persisting in their pride, andall their impious writings, and those who to the end agreed withthem in their thought, or do so agree, that there is one will andone operation of the deity and manhood of Christ; and in additionto these the most impious Ecthesis, which, by the persuasion ofthe same Sergius, was put forth by the former Emperor Heracliusagainst the orthodox faith, defining, by way of adjustment, onewill in Christ our God, and one operation to be venerated; alsoall those things which were impiously written or done by them;and those who received it, or any of those things which werewritten or done for it; and along with these, furthermore, thewicked Typos, which, on the persuasion of the aforesaid Paul,was recently issued by our most serene prince Constans againstthe Catholic Church, inasmuch as it equally denies and excludesfrom discussion the two natural wills and operations, a divine anda human, which are piously taught by the holy Fathers to be inChrist, our God, and also our Saviour, and also the one will and