Jouyx, Bishop of Sebastia, in the First Armenia,
said :—


Theodoret, who is infected with the same perni-
cious Doctrines as Nestorius, it is only right and
just should receive the same judicial sentence ; and,
seeing that he returns to the vomiting of his Blas-
phemy, or, rather, since he has never desisted from
it, it is fitting and proper, also, that he should be
discarded from the Honour of the Priesthood and be
interdicted all communion with Christians. He who
neither the teaching of the Fathers, nor the Divine
Scriptures, nor anything else of what has been di-
vinely spoken, has put to no better use, ought to
have been regarded as a man long since excommu-





* Or, “is known as one who is without love for the Catholic Faith.”
q Literally: Ex eo enim quod egrotavit.
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nicated and condemned. 1For, it is hateful that
those who have once allowed themselves to be
comprehended within the mesh (snare) of Blas-
phemy should assume, in old age, Orthodoxy of
Faith.
Basti, Bishop of Seleucia, said :—


Him who disputes the writings of the Very
Blessed Cyril, the late Archbishop of the Great
City of Alexandria, 1 reckon just as Impious and
condemned as a person who is opposed to the Holy
Gospel. I, therefore, follow your Piety in what is
above indited against Theodoret ; and all matters
that have been determined on I approve as just and
excellent ; and I adhere to the judgement of those
who have adjudged that he (Theodoret) be deposed
from the Honour of the Priesthood and (deprived)
of Communion in the Mysteries.
