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1 1 | the Holy City, whom the Council of Nice had ordered to be
2 1 | was need of an Ecumenical Council, the question being most
3 1 | the need of an Ecumenical Council. ~The Emperor, moved by
4 1 | still required, that of the Council; secondly, that these two
5 1 | that the judgment of the Council would be decisive and final.
6 1 | prepared themselves for the Council. Cyril does no more, though
7 1 | sentence of the universal Council is awaited; and the Emperor
8 1 | sentence of the most holy Council, no change should be made
9 1 | majesty of an universal Council. Wherefore, both Cyril obeyed
10 1 | authority of the universal Council was awaited. ~Having gone
11 1 | gone over what preceded the Council, we review the acts of the
12 1 | we review the acts of the Council itself, and begin with the
13 1 | to Ephesus, the universal Council began, Cyril being president,
14 1 | read, that an Ecumenical Council should be held, and all
15 1 | suspended until the holy Council should give its sentence.
16 1 | if it was the will of the Council merely that the Emperor
17 1 | intervention of a General Council's authority (the convocation
18 1 | left to the Emperor), the Council itself understood that all
19 1 | depended on the sentence of the Council. Wherefore, though the decree
20 1 | Nestorius was held by the Council itself to be a bishop, and
21 1 | other bishops in the holy Council; for this expression, "to
22 1 | whatever way, the Ecumenical Council, as he would then afterwards
23 1 | before the judgment of the Council. That letter, I mean, concerning
24 1 | accordance with that holy Council." ~And are there those who
25 1 | Cyril, the President of the Council; let them attend to what
26 1 | proposes for the inquiry of the Council; and though he were conscious
27 1 | for the sentence of the Council in these words-"whether
28 1 | Cyril, the chief of the Council, proposes for their consideration.
29 1 | Faith set forth by the holy Council of the Nicene Fathers, or
30 1 | the same proceeding of the Council of Ephesus, a judgment of
31 1 | Celestine to be present at the Council of Ephesus, with a special
32 1 | Apostolic See, and the whole Council of the West. So they come
33 1 | and appear at the holy Council, and here the second procedure
34 1 | This is the advantage of a Council; after whose sentence there
35 1 | request to be commanded by the Council, in which they recognise
36 1 | the Legates, sent to the Council on a special mission, should
37 1 | deliberation, in a General Council, and judgment passed upon
38 1 | Cyril proposes to the holy Council, "That the Legates, by their
39 1 | canonical agreement with the Council." To this question of Cyril
40 1 | this question of Cyril the Council thus answers, and decrees
41 1 | confirmation, spoken of by the Council, is clearly nothing else
42 1 | sends a letter to the holy Council of Ephesus, which he thus
43 1 | authority of an Ecumenical Council, viz., of the whole Catholic
44 1 | conclusion by the sentence of the Council; to a full and complete
45 1 | in that of an Ecumenical Council. And this was done in that
46 1 | And this was done in that Council in which it is admitted
47 1 | Christ,. At least the Holy Council gives credence to Philip
48 1 | seen all the Acts of the Council itself, which we have mentioned,
49 1 | with the decrees of the Council, and the judgment entered
50 2 | could personally attend the Council of Ephesus and accordingly
51 2 | bodyguard, the protector of the council, to sit in the room of the
52 2 | point of doctrine before the Council. ~
53 3,1| your holiness [i.e. the Council] to say whether rightly
54 3,2| formally approved at the Council of Ephesus. The matter is
55 3,2| received at the next General Council. i.e., of Chalcedon, only
56 3,2| by the Fifth Ecumenical Council because he wrote against
57 3,2| and approved by the third Council or no, provided, which is
58 3,2| been approved by some one council of ecumenical authority,
59 3,2| indeed the "Acta" of this council, but I cannot but agree
60 3,2| inconsistency to deny that the Council adopted the Anathemas. If
61 3,2| in the Fifth Ecumenical Council (collatio vj.) it is said: "
62 3,2| it is said: "The holy Council at Chalcedon approved this
63 3,2| approved by the Ephesine Council there can be no doubt, and
64 3,2| Acephali, the enemies of the Council of Chalcedon, made this
65 3,2| objection against that ~201 ~Council: "The [letter] of the Twelve
66 3,2| is inserted in the holy Council of Ephesus, and which you
67 3,2| part of the faith by the Council of Ephesus. Perhaps I may
68 3,2| of the Third Ecumenical Council, that of Ephesus." "The
69 3,4| It is plain that the Council of Ephesus which condemned
70 3,4| before the meeting of the Council of Ephesus); "After this,
71 3,4| Son which St. Cyril, the Council of Ephesus, and all succeeding,
72 5 | DECREE OF THE COUNCIL AGAINST NESTORIUS.~(Found
73 5 | Ffoulkes in his article on the Council of Ephesus in Smith and
74 5 | assembled together! Every council is holy on account of a
75 5 | its due; for in every such council the reverence which should
76 5 | paid to that most famous council of the Apostles of which
77 5 | be asked for by your holy council, except that ye may speak
78 6 | The first session of the Council of Ephesus had already taken
79 6 | threats to take part in his council. And in this way he and
80 6 | condemned by the Ecumenical Council of Ephesus for their heresy.
81 6 | further than this the Seventh Council by ratifying the Canons
82 6 | condemned together by the council of Ephesus, he that denied
83 6 | eight canons of the Ephesine council, to wit the six which are
84 6 | reading of the decree of this council and of the Nicene Creed,
85 6 | in the Acts of the ~232 ~council. From this it is clear that
86 6 | never seen the Acts of this council, or at least had never carefully
87 6,1| urged by the Greeks at the Council of Florence, (1) and often
88 6,1| that the prohibition of the Council of Ephesus to make, hold,
89 6,1| even a subsequent General Council, to add anything to the
90 6,1| prohibition was passed by the Council immediately after it had
91 6,1| framed, as presiding over the Council of Ephesus, as Archbishop
92 6,1| nay who presided over the Council which passed it. He, however,
93 6,1| 2. The fathers of the Council of Chalcedon, by their practice,
94 6,1| renewed the prohibition of the Council of Ephesus to "adduce any
95 6,1| Creeds should be read, the Council says, "This wise and saving
96 6,1| venture, etc." (as in the Council of Ephesus). ~The Council
97 6,1| Council of Ephesus). ~The Council of Chalcedon enlarged greatly
98 6,1| Julian acutely argued in the Council of Florence), any one would
99 6,1| was from being that of the Council of Chalcedon is evinced
100 6,1| interpretation of a canon of one council against the authority of
101 6,1| authority of another General Council which rejected that interpretation,
102 6,1| 4. The Fifth Ecumenical Council, the Second of Constantinople,
103 6,1| composed this creed! The First Council of Ephesus anathematized
104 6,1| n. 37.) ~In the Sixth Council also, no one objecting,
105 6,1| since the Greeks at the Council of Florence said, that these
106 6,1| in the VII Session of the Council, with the heading, "A decree
107 6,1| definitions of the most holy Council of Nice." ~This canon Photius
108 6,1| RELATION WHICH THE HOLY COUNCIL OF EPHESUS SENT TO POPE
109 6,1| DONE IN THAT HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL. ~The Holy Synod which by
110 6,1| off the assembling [of the council] after the appointed day
111 6,1| he refused to attend the Council, whether out of friendship
112 6,1| in his favour,--the Holy Council sat in the great church
113 6,1| was found missing from the council, thereupon the holy Synod
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