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1892 (historical English edition; transcription printing date uncertain) | Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)

This letter may be dated in February 431. Celestine and Cyril had written to John of Antioch in relation to the condemnation of Nestorius by the western bishops at Rome in August 430. Theodoret was at Antioch on the arrival of these letters and hence additional probability is given to the theory that he wrote the reply referred to in the preceding note. Then came the publication of Cyril’s chapter or anathemas which Theodoret undertook to refute. Letter CL. is prefixed to his remarks on them.

Editorial footnote · Letters, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Letter 150, editorial note cite_note-1 · Original source

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CL. Letter of Theodoretus, Bishop of Cyrus, to Joannes, Bishop of Antioch.

1892 (historical English edition; transcription printing date uncertain) | Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)

The “old story” is a comparatively late addition to the myth of the marriage of Peleus.

Editorial footnote · Letters, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Letter 150, editorial note cite_note-2 · Original source

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I am yet more grieved that it should be in the name of true religion and with the dignity of a shepherd that he should give utterance to his heretical and blasphemous words, and renew that vain and impious teaching of Apollinarius which was long ago stamped out. Besides all this there is the fact that he not only supports these views but even dares to anathematize those who decline to participate in his blasphemies;—if he is really the author of these productions and they have not proceeded from some enemy of the truth who has composed them in his name and, as the old story has it, flung the apple of discord in the midst, and so fanned the flame on high.

1892 (historical English edition; transcription printing date uncertain) | Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)

The Refutation of the anathematisms of Cyril is to be found in Migne Pat. lxxvi. Col. 393. Vide also the prolegomena.

Editorial footnote · Letters, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Letter 150, editorial note cite_note-4 · Original source

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To this letter I have appended my counter arguments, that on reading them you may judge whether I have effectively destroyed the heretical propositions. Setting down each of the anathematisms by itself, I have annexed the counter statement that readers may easily understand, and that the refutation of the dogmas may be clear.

Date uncertain | Theodoret of Cyrus

To this letter I have appended my counter arguments, that on reading them you may judge whether I have effectively destroyed the heretical propositions. Setting down each of the anathematisms by itself, I have annexed the counter statement that readers may easily understand, and that the refutation of the dogmas may be clear.

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