A Source Book for Ancient Church History - Mirrors

760 A Source Book for Ancient Church History[696]and share his absurd opinion; also Macedonius and those who,following him, are well styled foes of the Spirit. 334 We confessthat our lady, St. Mary, is properly and truly the Theotokos,because she bore, after the flesh, one of the Holy Trinity, to wit,Christ our God, as the Council of Ephesus has already defined,when it cast out of the Church the impious Nestorius with hisallies, because he introduced a personal [προσωπικὴν] duality [inChrist]. With the Fathers of this synod we confess the two naturesof Him who was incarnate for us of the immaculate Theotokosand ever-Virgin Mary, recognizing Him as perfect God andperfect man, as also the Council of Chalcedon hath promulgated,expelling from the divine Atrium as blasphemers, Eutychesand Dioscurus; and placing with them Severus, Peter, and anumber of others blaspheming in divers fashions. Moreover,with these we anathematize the fables of Origen, Evagrius, andDidymus, in accordance with the decision of the Fifth Councilheld at Constantinople. We affirm that in Christ there are twowills and operations according to the reality of each nature, asalso the Sixth Council held at Constantinople taught, casting outSergius, Honorius, Cyrus, Pyrrhus, Macarius, and those who areunwilling to be reverent and who agree with these.To make our confession short, we keep unchanged all theecclesiastical traditions handed down to us, written or unwritten,and of these one is the making of pictorial representations,agreeable to the history of the preaching of the Gospel, a traditionuseful in many respects, but especially in this, that so theincarnation of the Word of God is shown forth as real and notmerely fantastic, for these have mutual indications, and withoutdoubt have also mutual significations.We, therefore, following the royal pathway and the divinelyinspired authority of our holy Fathers and the traditions of theCatholic Church for, as we all know, the Holy Spirit dwells334 Pneumatomachians.