Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XIV/The Fourth Ecumenical Council/Extracts from the Acts 3

Extracts from the Acts.

Session II.&#160; (Continued).

(L. and C., Conc., Tom. IV., col. 343.)

And when these letters [i.e. Cyril&#8217;s letter to Nestorius &#922;&#945;&#964;&#945;&#966;&#955;&#965;&#945;&#961;&#959;&#8166;&#963;&#953; and his letter to John of Antioch &#917;&#8016;&#966;&#961;&#945;&#953;&#957;&#8051;&#963;&#952;&#969;&#963;&#945;&#957;] had been read, the most reverend bishops cried out:&#160; We all so believe:&#160; Pope Leo thus believes:&#160; anathema to him who divides and to him who confounds:&#160; this is the faith of Archbishop Leo:&#160; Leo thus believes:&#160; Leo and Anatolius so believe:&#160; we all thus believe.&#160; As Cyril so believe we, all of us:&#160; eternal be the memory of Cyril:&#160; as the epistles of Cyril teach such is our mind, such has been our faith:&#160; such is our faith:&#160; this is the mind of Archbishop Leo, so he believes, so he has written.

The most glorious judges and the great senate said:&#160; Let there be read also the epistle of the most worthy Leo, Archbishop of Old Rome, the Imperial City.

Beronician, the most devout clerk of the sacred consistory, read from a book handed him by A&#235;tius, Archdeacon of the holy Church of Constantinople, the encyclical or synodical letter of the most holy Leo, the Archbishop, written to Flavian, Archbishop of Constantinople.