Extracts from the Acts.
Session VIII.
(Labbe and Cossart,
Concilia
, Tom. VI., col.
730.)
[
The Emperor said
]
Let George, the most holy archbishop of this our
God-preserved city, and let Macarius, the venerable archbishop of
Antioch, and let the synod subject to them [i.e., their suffragans]
say, if they submit to the force (
εἰ
στοιχοῦσι τῇ
δυνάμει
) of the suggestions
sent by the most holy Agatho Pope of Old
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Rome and by his Synod.
[
The answer of George, with which all his bishops,
many of them, speaking one by one, agreed except Theodore of
Metilene
(
who handed in his assent at the end of the Tenth
Session
).]
I have diligently examined the whole force of the
suggestions sent to your most pious Fortitude, as well by Agatho, the
most holy Pope of Old
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Rome, as by his
synod, and I have scrutinized the works of the holy and approved
Fathers, which are laid up in my venerable patriarchate, and I have
found that all the testimonies of the holy and accepted Fathers, which
are contained in those suggestions agree with, and in no particular
differ from, the holy and accepted Fathers. Therefore I give my
submission to them and thus I profess and believe.
[
The answer of all the rest of the Bishops subject to
the See of Constantinople
. (
Col. 735
.)]
And we, most pious Lord, accepting the teaching of the
suggestion sent to your most gentle Fortitude by the most holy and
blessed Agatho, Pope of Old Rome, and of that other suggestion which
was adopted by the council subject to him, and following the sense
therein contained, so we are minded, so we profess, and so we believe
that in our one Lord Jesus Christ, our true God, there are two natures
unconfusedly, unchangeably, undividedly, and two natural wills and two
natural operations; and all who have taught, and who now say, that
there is but one will and one operation in the two natures of our one
Lord Jesus Christ our true God, we anathematize.
[
The Emperor’s demand to Macarius
.
(
Col. 739
.)]
Let Macarius, the Venerable Archbishop of Antioch, who
has now heard what has been said by this holy and Ecumenical Synod
[demanding the expression of his faith], answer what seemeth him
good.
[
The answer of Macarius
.]
I do not say that there are two wills or two operations
in the dispensation of the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, but
one will and one theandric operation.
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“Old”
omitted in Latin.
333
“Old”
omitted in Latin.