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Rh on their conservatism, and eagerly maintain that they and they alone still hold the faith of the seven councils unchanged and entire. That and that alone is the faith of the Orthodox. "Our Church knows no developments," as a Russian archimandrite told Mr. Palmer. For all that, since the meaning of many decrees of the seven councils is a matter of discussion (Latins see in some of them quite plain acknowledgement of the Pope's primacy), and since there certainly are points which these councils have not explicitly defined (they say nothing about seven Sacraments, nor the Epiklesis, for instance), the Orthodox have been just as much obliged as every one else to draw up more modern forms declaring quite plainly how they understand the old faith and establishing their position in regard to later controversies. And this already involves development.

The symbolical documents of the Orthodox Church are these: 1. The Confession of Gennadios. This is Gennadios Scholarios, who was a determined enemy of the Florentine Union, and who became Patriarch of Constantinople in 1453 (p. 241). Sultan Mohammed II, who was well disposed towards him, asked for an account of the faith of his Church. In answer he drew up a "Confession of the true and genuine faith of Christians" in twenty paragraphs. It was translated into Turkish by Ahmed, Kadi of Berrhœa, and has been continually reprinted and edited since. Gennadios's Confession has traces of the Platonic