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Epistle
II.
To the Clergy and People of Ravenna.
Gregory to the clergy and people of the Church of
Ravenna.
We have been informed that certain men, instigated
by the malignant spirit, have wished to corrupt your minds by false
speech with regard to the reputation of our brother and fellow-bishop
Marinianus1628
| 1628 See above, V. 48,
note 3. | ; saying that
this our brother venerates the holy synod of Chalcedon less than
becomes him1629
| 1629 The ground of this
charge against Marinianus was doubtless his acceptance of the
condemnation of the “Three Chapters” by the fifth council,
which condemnation, notwithstanding Rome’s approval of it, was
still objected to in many quarters as contravening the council of
Chalcedon. See I. 16, note 3; IV. 2, note 1; IV. 38, 39; XIV.
12. | . On this
head both he himself in person will satisfy you all of the integrity of
his faith, and we fully testify that, having been nursed from his
cradle in the bosom of the holy Universal Church, he has held the right
preaching of the faith with the attestation of his life. For he
venerates the holy Nicene synod in which Arius, the Constantinopolitan,
in which Macedonius, the first Ephesine, in which Nestorius, and the
holy Chalcedonian, in which Dioscorus and Eutyches were
condemned. And if any one presumes ever to speak anything against
the faith of these four synods and against the tome and definition of
pope Leo of holy memory, let him be anathema. Accordingly,
receiving the fullest satisfaction, love ye your pastor in entire
charity with a pure heart, that the intercession of the same your
pastor, poured out purely before God, may
avail to your profit.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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