Pastoral Rule, Dialogues & Letters 161 part 2/2

these I embrace with entire devotion, and guard with most complete approbation: because in them, as in a squared stone, the structure of the holy faith rises up; and of whatever life and action anyone may be, whoever does not hold their solidity, even if he is seen to be a stone, yet lies outside the building. The fifth council also I equally venerate, in which the letter said to be of Ibas, full of error, is reprobated. Theodore, separating the person of the Mediator of God and men into two subsistences, is convicted of having fallen into the perfidy of impiety. The writings also of Theodoret, by which the faith of blessed Cyril is reprehended, put forth by the daring of madness, are refuted. But all the persons whom the aforesaid venerable councils reject, I reject;

those whom they venerate, I embrace, because since they were established by universal consent, he destroys himself and not them, whoever presumes either to loose those whom they bind, or to bind those whom they loose. Whoever therefore holds another opinion, let him be anathema. But whoever holds the faith of the aforesaid synods, peace be to him from God the Father through Jesus Christ His Son, who lives and reigns with Him consubstantially, God in the unity of the Holy Spirit, through all ages of ages. Amen.