'I indeed,' he says, 'have neither ceased rebuking the things which they wrote, nor will I cease: but since it was fitting that contradictions also should be written down against them, having inspected the books of Theodore and Diodore, which they wrote not concerning the Incarnation of the Only-Begotten, but rather against the Incarnation, I set down some of their chapters, and in what way I could I contradicted them, declaring everywhere that their sect is full of abomination.' Two or three.] In the printed books, 'two or three,' with no sense at all, since indeed the numeral words cannot be referred to the chapters;
for it is certain that chapters far more than two or three were excerpted from Theodore's books, since indeed they are the very ones which, either in greater number in the fifth synod, or fewer by Mercator, are reported and are censured by Cyril. In his letter.] It was addressed to St. Cyril, and is found among his works in volume V, copied from book VIII of Facundus of Hermiane, most worthy of reading for history. Those entering the royal city.] What if those errors corrupted Eutyches himself? Someone might quite probably conjecture this. For from there the following may be easily understood, namely how, using the patronage of certain persons, they terrified the clerics with threats, etc.;
for that patronage was without doubt that of Chrysaphius, whom Eutyches had taken up from the sacred font on account of his reputation for sanctity, and who on account of the emperor's favor could do anything: add that the opinion of one nature was attributed to Cyril by the courtiers, who understood it but little, yet adhered to Cyril, as is clear from Cyril's memorandum to Eulogius. By his rescript.] These very words once, when I was writing notes on the second part of the works of Marius Mercator, imprudently led me astray, so that I believed that Cyril in his response to John of Antioch made mention of the creed written by Theodore, whereas in fact he does this only in his second letter to Acacius of Melitene.
These and other things brought it about that afterwards, repenting of my credulity, I more diligently inquired into the words and the Punic faith of Liberatus; he himself therefore, if by the name 'rescript' he understood one single letter by which Cyril replied to John, was slipping in memory; for Cyril pursued three matters in three letters, each in its own: the opinion concerning Theodore, in the letter to John; the judgment concerning the monks, in the letter to the Fathers of the monks, which is the exposition of the Council of Nicaea; the memory of the creed, in the letter to Acacius of Melitene. Concerning the creed presented to him in the council.] Marius Mercator alone refuted that creed in a special work, but we have set forth the history concerning its author, against Facundus and many others, in the notes to the latter part of M.
Mercator, from which (as also from other things), some person—whose name I think should be deliberately kept silent—profited for the worse, as much as he himself became puffed up. On account of the Tessarescaedecatitae.] In the common editions it was 'Tessera decadas factas,' etc. We have come, with history showing the way, to the true reading: for the creed in question was proposed by emissaries of two presbyters of Anastasius—who was a minister of Nestorian impiety against the Mother of God—to the Tessarescaedecatitae who were abjuring their heresy, to be subscribed. Read the sixth session of the Council of Ephesus. Cyril having died.] No small change of affairs took place, when three patriarchs in the East had departed this life. Cyril died in the year 444, John of Antioch in 441, Proclus in 447;
Dioscorus succeeded Cyril, Domnus succeeded John, Flavian succeeded Proclus. The heirs of Cyril.] Baronius bids that clerics be deterred by this example from squandering ecclesiastical goods upon their kinsmen, who, as happens, grow rich on the patrimony of the poor and live luxuriously upon Christ: woe to the wicked age! Ibas bishop of Edessa.] Concerning Ibas, whose case was one of the three famous Chapters, receive this. He was at Ephesus when the council was held, as he testifies in his letter to Maris: he was not yet bishop, for he makes mention of the bishop then holding the see of Edessa. He succeeded Rabbula either at the beginning of the year 436, or toward the end of the preceding year; for not before, since Rabbula in the year
435 was still alive, and was writing to the Armenians and to Cyril, after Theodore's excerpts had been scattered abroad; and not later, because in the year 436, toward the end, or at the beginning of the following year, Proclus in his letter to John mentions Ibas as bishop of Edessa. He received letters from Theodoret in the year 441, concerning Coelestiacus of Carthage. In the year 446, before Domnus of Antioch, successor of John, he was accused by four of his own clerics, not only of heresy, but also of ordinations made in disorderly fashion and of plundering the goods of the Church. With Domnus conniving, the emperor being appealed to, in the year 447, ordered that the trial be conducted at Tyre: it was begun at Tyre in the year 448, in the month of February, completed at Beirut in the same year in the month of September; the matter was settled amicably.
But since the clerics would not rest, he was again accused, in the Ephesine Robber-Council in the year 449, in the month of August, while he was absent, and was deposed. Toward the end of the year he received consoling letters from Theodoret, a sharer in the same lot. In the year 450, he offers petitions of complaint to the emperor Marcian. In the year 451, he is restored to his see by the Council of Chalcedon, in session 10. Of the Ascension], not of, that is, the resurrection or ascension from the tomb, nor likewise of the ascension into heaven, from Theodoret, letter 87.