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Extracts from the Acts.
Session I.
(Labbe and Cossart, Concilia, Tom. VI., col. 609
et seqq.)
[After a history of the assembly of the Council, the
Acts begin with the Speech of the Papal Legates, as follows:]
Most benign lord, in accordance with the Sacra to our
most holy Pope325
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“our” omitted in the Latin. | from your
God-instructed majesty, we have been sent by him to the most holy
footsteps of your God-confirmed serenity, bearing with us his
suggestion (ἀναφορᾶς,
suggestione) as well as the other suggestion of his Synod
equally addressed to your divinely preserved Piety by the venerable
bishops subject to it, which also we offered to your God-crowned
Fortitude. Since, then, during the past forty-six years, more or
less, certain novelties in expression, contrary to the Orthodox faith,
have been introduced by those who were at several times bishops of
this, your royal and God-preserved city, to wit: Sergius, Paul,
Pyrrhus, and Peter, as also by Cyrus, at one time archbishop of the
city of Alexandria, as well also as by Theodore, who was bishop of a
city called Pharan, and by certain others their followers, and since
these things have in no small degree brought confusion into the Church
throughout the whole world, for they taught dogmatically that there was
but one will in the dispensation of the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus
Christ, one of the Holy Trinity, and one operation; and since many
times your servant, our apostolic see, has fought against this, and
then prayed against it, and by no means been able, even up to now, to
draw away from such a depraved opinion its advocates, we beseech your
God-crowned fortitude, that such as share these views of the most holy
church of Constantinople may tell us, what is the source of this
new-fangled language.
[Answer of the Monothelites made at the
Emperor’s bidding:]
We have brought out no new method of speech, but have
taught whatever we have received from the holy Ecumenical Synods, and
from the holy approved Fathers, as well as from the archbishops of this
imperial city, to wit: Sergius, Paul, Pyrrhus, and Peter, as also
from Honorius who was Pope of Old Rome, and from Cyrus who was Pope of
Alexandria, that is to say with reference to will and operation, and so
we have believed, and so we believe, so we preach; and further we are
ready to stand by, and defend this faith. E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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