T II 



318 



T I 



*l\ 



. I!M-:I : 

 life. 



and after he hud di-rha.i; 

 thirty -five \ .MI- 



urcli, 



uiul ..> teal lur -linlii- 



faalh 



.1 of the docliiiie* "I lli' 



ihlic apoi' li the 



>1 him 



:lirir laith; niul this was thi 1 cause of his 



nned 



I'V ll: 



e w I 111 en 



cf In- come down tu i!-.: ollu'rs exist in 



Inundations, and of . there 



.iirmi'iitji. A treatise on the Mnj;i of t':< 

 sians, and his commentaries on tin nk of 



, 



ml the Sons: f Solomon unuieiitHry 



on the twelve- tfivati'r prophcl- 

 corih . under the title of Oti>iu(ii.r 



rot'f Ilpofijrac. A tat 



which eontaiu 1 i\en in Fahiieii 



the " ii-nlinncd ) 



Bibliotlu Theodorus of MopMiestia is 



still one of tin -iloirical authorities amoiiir the 



Syiinn Chn^'iaii-. 



:il~. '': note kK . Tiile- 



mont, Mentor. Kcrltt., \ol. xii. ; ( 

 vol. : 



Til KOI i or THKODOUITrs. a theo 



and vliuri-h historian, was horn about 3iW A.O. I' 

 broucht up under tlie eare of a pious mother, to whom he 

 acknowledges his obligations in his writings: and he had 

 lion from Theodore ol .M :::nl .John ( 'ln\ - 



in in a monastery, tu whieh he wa> :-ei\e 



'.ueation when noi (jiiile seven veins old, and where 

 he hail for hi* fellow-pUpilt Ne^inrins and .John. \vh 

 allenvaids pa' -.tantinople mul Antioeh. 



Theodoret heeanie a deaeon in the : Antioeh, 



and in the year 42it he w.. a i-ily 



in Sjiia. near the Kiiplnates. Ilisii inded with 



lonites and persons who held herelie.d ci[iinion 

 i; llieTiinity. Against the opinin: 



tie-i he directed his eil'oits with so much success, that, 

 tins; to his own statement, he baptized ten thousand 

 Mreiomi 



In t .1 Neatoriui * condemned hy the coun- 



cil of Epli' <!. \\ho-e dei great 



offence to many of the Oiieiiial '1 .;huut 



beinK avowed followers pi I to be 



not unfavourable to his o;)ii. 

 Theodoret. who was a personal friend of 



hose who iis-vmhicd afti ; ,eil of 



; up, and condemneil 



M-r eti'eef. ', pii- 



.h, the h 

 |>art\. i by which I'yiil ap ; 



'lint of doctrine, 

 while Joh 1 



\'> nh this aif' 1 



npp> .!i the 



to the l-'illileill!:: 



injustice. 



luiiiis. But when John, armt-d with in: 



partinn of Nestorii: 



to Mibmit. b'.ith pir ' 



and : hit own n ,iich it 



wan .! 



means in his power to indue 



nam 



Td, upon thei of lib ad. 



MI to inn. u.-cd. liul when, in the 



ui whom lie h.. 



iiuil when Cinl died, in . 



ll, 1-oiind to i 



the man and from the Chiistian >pnit with wlm 

 where sju ;i 



mi spume, 



lieeii ' ,iil would die with him. ; 



- doomed to In 1 



poiotment. 



and imp' 

 lou. The new bishop 



of enforcing upon the v, 



ihe Deitv in. 



ill the pel son of Chii.-t : and pi 

 the (i 



rimined to air 



altaek upon Ihe un : the 



which was beaded ! 

 -iip])oited by a ll 



iilOllks, wh. 



idible of whom v. 

 in favour of the Cviillihn i 

 alone was consistent with the - 

 Ihe \Vord became tlLsh,' and 01 





' in \ii". 



olitiin monks w. 

 jiaily in tii lose coiim 



with the a:;: u monks of Syria, and 



their great influence with the em) ll., 



whom they had induced Irom tl 



party of ("yril. Theodorel 



the contiOM r>\. lie win! 



efieciinu' a reconciliation between the t . In 



thi* attempt lie tailed ; and then. In 



trine of DioM-unis and his allies aa the 



ous heresies which denied the true In 



a book against them in the year -147, entitled 'The 

 Many-shaj -rijc, or ToXt'yiopfov)- 



li\ this title he meant to : ihe Kul\i- 



i.y < 'jril, i 



Kutyehes, nnd the monks. 

 sake i 



Ihe work . 



ntitled drptrroc. he treats of tl 

 divine 



aaifx*T"i: "'' the in ; 

 divine mid human) b> 

 thiid, airaSi'it, of the ini] "f the divine Di 



or dyinir. 

 mid ).. 



.iiv in his doelri 

 than a n-\i\.d - 



. Inarch of AUK 



re letter to Theodoret, mnkin^ : : largf. 



replied with jricat niilii: 



i consult for Hit 



nf the church lather than for the \iews of a | 

 This letter only the 

 milled monks publicly tounntln 

 church, while lie himself confirmed their anatli. 



; in chiircl' 



Pijiui. nt depuii- eliureh o: 



d Theodor< v. ith ihe 



.No immediate decision of I 



; v, it bin the limits nl In IK, n tii, 



I' bciiiv; : Mined 



id. 

 In the meantime tin and 



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