Council,  Canon

 1   3    |      city which is called Mary Theotoke,[69] in the reign of Emperor
 2   3    |        respect to the flesh, a Theotoke (a Greek word meaning “she
 3   3    |     and truly to be called the Theotoke, on the ground that she
 4   3    |      to call the Holy Virgin a Theotoke, not as the origin of the
 5   3    |    here by the holy and virgin Theotoke Mary, the untarnished jewel
 6   4    |     out of Mary the Virgin and Theotoke, as respects humanity, the
 7   4    |  refuses to call Mary the Holy Theotoke and whoever divides the
 8   7”,78| honoring the puerperium of the Theotoke (just as it is the custom
 9   7”,78|  confess the Conception of the Theotoke to have been seedless and
10   7”,78| offering adoration to Mary the Theotoke, and say certain other things
11   8    |       intemerate Lady the holy Theotoke, and also of the precious
12   8”,23|    Virgin should be called the Theotoke, as in truth she is the
13   8”,23|         as in truth she is the Theotoke (because of the fact that
14   8”,23|       called the Virgin Mary a Theotoke even before this Third Council.
15   8”,23|       one to call the Virgin a Theotoke, in interpreting verse 33
16   8”,23|   Virgin came to be called the Theotoke. Cyril of Alexandria, in
17   8”,23|       the Great called Her the Theotoke, and Amman the Bishop of
18   8”,23|        the All-holy Virgin the Theotoke in writing to Alexander
19   8”,23|    birth of Christ, says: “The Theotoke never ceased being a virgin,
20   8”,23|      not consider Mary to be a Theotoke, he is destitute of divinity.”
21   8”,23|        have you known a Virgin Theotoke?” Eusebius, in his Life
22   8”,23|       gorgeously decorated the Theotoke’s birthplace” (i.e., Bethlehem).
23   8”,23|     out of the holy Virgin and Theotoke Mary.” St. Gregory Thaumaturgus (
24   8”,23|     following words: “The holy Theotoke, therefore, gave voice to
25   8”,23|    All-holy Virgin is called a Theotoke, according to the explanatory
26   8”,23|       The Virgin is called the Theotoke as having truly given birth
27   8”,23|    Holy Virgin is said to be a Theotoke in two ways. One of these
28   8”,23|        the view concerning the Theotoke, yet, in spite of all this
29   8”,23|   Apostles, and of that of the Theotoke), let them not place the
30   8”,23|      with the name of our Lady Theotoke; in regard to those enchanters
31   8”,23|        ought not to depict the Theotoke on the occasion of the feast
32   8”,23|        words “Epilochia of the Theotoke” (meaning the Puerperium
33   8”,23|      the words “Synaxis of the Theotoke.” For according to St. Gregory
34   8”,23|     call the childbirth of the Theotoke a locheia in Greek (for
35   8”,23|      volume) says for the Lady Theotoke to be painted rather as
36   8”,23|    however, all roundabout the Theotoke there be depicted also the
37   8”,23|     thou wise worshiper of the Theotoke.” (For this reason also
38   8”,23|  decreed. Likewise, as for the Theotoke Herself, we adore Her with
39   8”,23|     Christ, the picture of the Theotoke, and following these the
40   8”,23|        to the dormition of the Theotoke; and divine Maximus comments