Extracts from the Acts.
Session I.
(Continued).
(L. and C.,
Conc
., Tom. III.,
Col. 503
.)
[
No action is recorded in the Acts as having been
taken. A verbal report was made by certain who had seen Nestorius
during the past three days, that they were hopeless of any repentance
on his part. On the motion of Flavian, bishop of Philippi, a
number of passages from the Fathers were read; and after that some
selections from the writings of Nestorius. A letter from
Capreolus, Archbishop of Carthage, was next read, excusing his absence;
after the reading of the letter, which makes no direct reference to
Nestorius whatever, but prays the Synod to see to it that no novelties
be tolerated, the Acts proceed
. (
Col. 534
).]
Cyril, the bishop of the Church of Alexandria,
said: As this letter of the most reverend and pious Capreolus,
bishop of Carthage, which has been read, contains a most lucid
expression of opinion, let it be inserted in the Acts. For it
wishes that the ancient dogmas of the faith should be confirmed, and
that novelties, absurdly conceived and impiously brought forth, should
be reprobated and proscribed.
All the bishops at the same time cried out: These
are the sentiments (
φωναί
) of all of us, these are
the things we all say—the accomplishment of this is the desire of
us all.
[
Immediately follows the sentence of deposition and
the subscriptions. It seems almost certain that something has
dropped out here, most probably the whole discussion of Cyril’s
XII. Anathematisms
.]