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98 approved by the council, and its creed, by treating the words and persona as identical, interpreted the terms  in the sense of a personal union. By this interpretation Cyril's epistola dogmatica, which contained this term, was made acceptable to western thought. But even Cyril's epistola synodica with its anathematisms, once so sharply attacked by the Antiochians, although it was not recognised, was spared criticism. And more, Dioscorus, Cyril's successor, who had been a more incautious upholder of the Alexandrian tradition than Cyril and who at the Robber-synod had declared the assertion of two natures after the union to be unlawful, although he was deeposed, was nevertheless not declared a heretic. On the other side also Theodoret, whom a decree of the Robber-synod had deposed, was present in Chalcedon. Pope Leo