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104 school, although they had died in the peace of the church should be anathematised, as well as Nestorius.

This Cyrillian-Chalcedonian orthodoxy was supported by the emperor Justinian, and the fifth ecumenical council, held in Constantinople in 553, approved the emperor's church-policy and the doctrine which he had supported.

The condemnation of Theodore of Mopsuestia and of the anti-cyrillian writings of Theodoret and Ibas, sanctioned by this council, clearly manifested the fact that an Antiochian interpretation of the Chalcedonian definition no longer was allowed. And twice in the decision of the council an Antiochian interpretation of Chalcedonian formulas was expressly anathematised. Cyril, therefore, remained master of the field. Even