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Chapter uncertain; original source section: Letter 144
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English translation and editorial credits: Blomfield Jackson.
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From the mention at the end of the letter of the epistle of Leo to Flavianus, Garnerius argues that it must be dated at the end of 449 or somewhat later. The epistle of Leo is dated on the 13th of June and could not have reached Theodoret in his detention at Cyrus till the autumn.
Editorial footnote · Letters, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Letter 144, editorial note cite_note-1 · Original source
CXLIV. To the Soldiers.
Cf. note on p. 303. Among martyred Dionysii were (i) one of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, (ii) one at Tripoli (iii) another at Corinth, (iv and v) and two at Cæsarea, in the persecution of Diocletian. Cosmas and Damianus are the famous semi-mythical physicians, the Silverless Martyrs. Vide p. 295.
Editorial footnote · Letters, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Letter 144, editorial note cite_note-9 · Original source
This is the unanimous teaching of the evangelists. But if your opponents urge that the angels said “Come see the place where the Lord lay” let the foolish folk learn that the divine Scripture says also about the victorious Stephen “And devout men carried Stephen to his burial.” And yet it was the body only which was deemed proper for burial, while the soul was not buried together with the body; nevertheless the body alone was spoken of by the common name. Similarly the blessed Jacob said to his sons “Bury me with my fathers.” He did not say “Bury my body.” Then he went on “There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.” He did not say “their bodies.” The names are common to bodies or souls, but nevertheless it is only the bodies which he called by the common names. In this manner too we constantly describe the shrines of the holy apostles, prophets and martyrs, one it may be of Dionysius, another of Julianus another of Cosmas. And yet we know that only fragmentary remains of bodies lie there, while the souls in diviner regions are at rest. Precisely the same custom is to be found in common use, for such an one, we say, died; and such an one lies in this place; although we know that the soul is immortal and does not share the tomb with the body. In this sense the angel said “Come see the place where the Lord lay” not because he shut the Godhead in the tomb, but because he spoke of the Lord’s body by the Lord’s name.
Damas. Epist. ad Paulinum.
Editorial footnote · Letters, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Letter 144, editorial note cite_note-11 · Original source
Let them hear too the words of the far-famed Damasus bishop of Rome, “If anyone allege that on the cross pain was undergone by the Godhead and not by the body with the soul, the form of the servant which He had taken in its completeness, let him be anathema.”
Leo Epist. ad Flavianum.
Editorial footnote · Letters, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Letter 144, editorial note cite_note-12 · Original source
And again “For He did not come to destroy His own nature but to save ours.”