Extracts from
the Acts.
Session VI.
(Labbe and Cossart,
Concilia
, Tom. VII., col.
389.)
Leo
the most renowned secretary
said: The holy and blessed Synod know how at the last session we
examined divers sayings of the God-forsaken heretics, who had brought
charges against the holy and spotless Church of the Christians for the
setting up of the holy images. But to-day we have in our hands
the written blasphemy of those calumniators of the Christians, that is
to say, the absurd, and easily answered, and self-convicting definition
(
ὅρον
) of the
pseudosyllogus, in all respects agreeing with the impious opinion of
the God-hated heretics. But not only have we this, but also the
artful and most drastic refutation thereof, which the Holy Spirit had
supervised. For it was right that this definition should be made
a triumph by wise contradictions, and should be torn to pieces with
strong refutations. This also we submit so as to know your
pleasure with regard to it.
The holy Synod said: Let it be read.
John, the deacon and chancellor [of the most holy great
Church of Constantinople,
in Lat. only
] read.
[
John, the deacon, then read the orthodox refutation,
and Gregory, the bishop of Neocæsarea, the Definition of the Mock
Council, the one reading the heretical statement and the other the
orthodox answer
.]