Session V.
(Labbe and Cossart,
Concilia
, Tom. IV., col.
555.)
Paschasinus and Lucentius the most reverend bishops and
Boniface a presbyter, vicars of the Apostolic See of Rome, said:
If they do not agree to the letter of that apostolic and blessed man,
Pope Leo, give directions that we be given our letters of dismission,
and let a synod be held there [i.e. in the West].
[
A long debate then followed as to whether the decree
drawn up and presented should be accepted. This seems to have
been the mind of most of the bishops. At last the commissioners
proposed a committee of twenty-two to meet with them and report to the
council, and the Emperor imposed this with the threat that otherwise
they all should be sent home and a new council called in the
West. Even this did not make them yield
(col. 560.)]
The most reverend bishops cried out: Many years to
the Emperor! Either let the definition [i.e. the one presented at
this session] stand or we go. Many years to the Emperor!
Cecropius, the most reverend bishop of Sebastopol,
said: We ask that the definition be read again and that those who
dissent from it, and will not sign, may go about their business; for we
give our consent to these things which have been so beautifully
drafted, and make no criticisms.
The most blessed bishops of Illyria said: Let
those who contradict be made manifest. Those who contradict are
Nestorians. Those who contradict, let them go to Rome.
The most magnificent and most glorious judges
said: Dioscorus acknowledged that he accepted the expression
“of two natures,” but not that there were two
natures. But the most holy archbishop Leo says that there are two
natures in Christ unchangeably, inseparably, unconfusedly united in the
one only-begotten Son our Saviour. Which would you follow, the
most holy Leo or Dioscorus?
The most reverend bishops cried out: We believe as
Leo. Those who contradict are Eutychians. Leo hath rightly
expounded the faith.
The most magnificent and glorious judges said: Add
then to the definition, according to the judgment of our most holy
father Leo, that there are two natures in Christ united unchangeably,
inseparably, unconfusedly.
[
The Committee then sat in the oratory of the most
holy martyr Euphemis and afterwards reported a definition of faith
which while teaching the same doctrine was not the Tome of Leo
(col. 562).]