Concerning the condemnation of Pelagius and Coelestius, and especially of Pelagius, both by the Roman pontiffs Innocent and Zosimus, and by the Fathers of Diospolis and Theodotus, bishop of Antioch. 1. All which above-written chapters, as has already been said above, that letter of Zosimus, bishop of blessed memory, which is called the 'Tractoria,' contains, by which Coelestius and Pelagius were condemned; which was sent both to Constantinople and throughout the whole world, and was confirmed by the subscriptions of the holy Fathers;
to which Julianus and the rest of his accomplices, refusing to subscribe, and unwilling to make themselves agreeable to those same Fathers, were deposed and degraded not only by imperial laws but also by sacerdotal statutes, and were driven out of all Italy: of whom very many, coming to their senses and corrected from the aforesaid error, returned as suppliants to the apostolic see, and being received, recovered their Churches. 2. The aforesaid Coelestius and Pelagius, indeed, are seen to have been condemned not then for the first time by Zosimus of holy memory, but by his predecessor of holy remembrance, Innocent, by whom also Julianus had been ordained, and who, after their condemnation, up to the death of the aforesaid Innocent
the bishop departed from life—remaining in his communion, and persevering in the same sincere opinion, and communicating with the condemner of the aforesaid, he himself too without doubt condemned Pelagius and Coelestius; and what he now desires, or of what he complains, we do not know. 3. Now, as to how they came to be condemned by Innocent of holy remembrance, such was the cause. After the devastation of the city of Rome, Pelagius was dwelling in Palestine. There were found by certain zealous bishops his books, in which many and various things were seen to be written against the Catholic faith. These were sent with letters into Africa to the Fathers and bishops, where, by three councils gathered together, the aforesaid books were read.
Thence, reports having been sent to Rome, the very books being likewise dispatched, the apostolic sentence of the one writing back to the aforesaid councils issued forth, which deprived those very same men, Coelestius and Pelagius, of ecclesiastical communion; copies of which writings we have in our hands. 4. Furthermore, while Pelagius was established at Jerusalem, he was accused before a synod, and at first indeed by evasion, cloaking himself with certain ambiguous professions, and pursuing doubtful matters, or answering, he is seen at that time to have eluded that hearing of the bishops. 5.
But afterward, being evidently apprehended, the accusers pressing on, by a later synod, over which Theodotus, bishop of Antioch, of holy memory, presided, and being exposed, he was driven out also by the holy and venerable men from the places of the Jerusalemites. This the writings of the same holy Theodotus, sent to the most reverend bishop of the city of Rome, and to Praylius of holy remembrance, bishop of Jerusalem, attest, copies of which we have in our hands as a document.