Theodoret, who here copies Irenaeus, turns this into the plural number “ powers ,” and so Epiphanius represents Cerinthus as agreeing with Carpocrates in the doctrine that the world was made by angels.

Several of the early church fathers, including Irenaeus, Epiphanius, and Theodoret mentioned this group.

; Epiphanius, Panarion, 31 ( including the Letter to Flora ); Theodoret, Haer.

Epiphanius undertook the translations into Latin of the Greek church histories of Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen and Theodoret, written in the previous century.

Epiphanius was assigned the translation into Latin of the Greek church histories of Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen and Theodoret, written in the previous century.

Theodoret ( H. F. f. 13 ) merely paraphrases Irenaeus, with a few words from Epiphanius.

For example in the mid 350 ’ s the city of Jerusalem was hit with drastic food shortages at which point church historians Sozomen and Theodoret reported “ Cyril secretly sold sacramental ornaments of the church and a valuable holy robe, fashioned with gold thread that the emperor Constantine had once donated for the bishop to wear when he performed the rite of Baptism ”.

Most accounts of Cyril place him in better light like Theodoret of Cyrrhus who referred to Cyril as “ an earnest champion of the apostolic decrees of Nicaea and says nothing about Arian conspiracy to make him Maximus successor ”.

Theodoret likes to choose the best among various interpretations before him, preferably Theodore's, and supplements from his own.

His last major defender within the Roman Empire, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, finally agreed to anathematize him in 451 ( during the Council of Chalcedon ); from then on he had no defenders within the empire.

Theodoret called him an " apostolic " bishop.

The flame was fed by leading men who had been disciples of the Interpreter: by Theodoret, who regarded him as a " doctor of the universal church " ( H. E. v. 39 ); by Ibas of Edessa, who in 433 wrote his famous letter to Maris in praise of Theodore ; by John I of Antioch, who in 428 succeeded to the see of Antioch.

Saint Hippolytus ( c. 170-c. 236 AD ), the Father of the Church History Eusebius of Caesarea ( c. 263 – c. 339 AD ), and the Christian bishop Theodoret ( c. 393 – c. 457 AD ) regarded him as a father of Armenians.

Theodoret of Cyrus ( c. 393 – c. 457 ) wrote that Isaiah calls the king " morning star ", not as being the star, but as having had the illusion of being it.

The historians Sozomen and Theodoret did not included Eudocia in their history because they were written after Eudocia had fallen into disgrace.

His Historia Ecclesiastica, in eighteen books, brings the narrative down to 610 ; for the first four centuries the author is largely dependent on his predecessors, Eusebius, Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen, Theodoret and Evagrius, his additions showing very little critical faculty ; for the later period his labours, based on documents now no longer extant, to which he had free access, though he used them also with small discrimination, are much more valuable.

Theodoret ( died c. 457 ) in his Ecclesiastical History Chapter xvii gives what had become the standard version of the finding of the True Cross:

According to Theodoret, " She had part of the cross of our Saviour conveyed to the palace.

According to ancient historians Sozomen, Socrates, and Theodoret, Pulcheria had a deep dislike for Anthemius, the former guardian of Theodosius ; the reasons may have been his distaste for her immense power within the empire and her unwillingness to allow Anthemius to gain power amongst the imperial court.

Both Ibas and Theodoret had been deprived of their bishoprics by condemned heretics, and both were restored by the Council of Chalcedon upon anathematizing Nestorius.

When Helena, mother of Constantine the Great discovered the True Cross in Jerusalem, the legend was told by and repeated by Sozomen and Theodoret that the Holy Nails had been recovered too.

But they concluded that the text had a historical basis and " that the solution of most problems in the fact is to be found in that fact that the text of the Vita transmitted to us represents a revision of the sixth century, which borrowed from the church history of Theodoret of Cyrrhus of 444, e. g. for the Proemium and deleted in particular each mention of John II, Bishop of Jerusalem, replacing it with the name of Praylius, his successor as bishop of Jerusalem in the time of Porphyrius ".

To the same belong chapters xiii-xv, xvii, and brief parts of other chapters of the fragments which Jean Garnier ( Auctarium ) included under the title, Pentology of Theodoret on the Incarnation as well as three of the five fragments referred by Marius Mercator to the fifth book of some writing of Theodoret.

His mother having been childless for twelve years, his birth was promised by a hermit named Macedonius on the condition of his dedication to God, whence the name Theodoret (" gift of God ").

Theodoret shared in the petition of John I of Antioch to Nestorius to approve of the term theotokos (" mother of God "), and upon the request of John wrote against Cyril's anathemas.

The notices in Theodoret ( Haer.

42 ), and Theodoret ; also Augustine and ' Praedestinatus '; and in nearly all the legends on gems.

Theodoret charged Apollinaris with confounding the persons of the Godhead, and with giving into the heretical ways of Sabellius.

Theodoret.

* Theodoret.

In the following year, Theodoret of Cyrrhus assented to this formula as well.

The papal legates refused to attend the second session at which several more orthodox bishops were deposed, including Ibas of Edessa, Irenaeus of Tyre ( a close personal friend of Nestorius ), Domnus of Antioch, and Theodoret.

Paschasinus further ordered the reinstatement of Theodoret and that he be given a seat, but this move caused such an uproar among the council fathers, that Theodoret also sat in the nave, though he was given a vote in the proceedings, which began with a trial of Dioscorus.

Socrates Scholasticus ( born c. 380 ), in his Ecclesiastical History, gives a full description of the discovery ( that was repeated later by Sozomen and by Theodoret ) which emphasizes the role played in the excavations and construction by Helena ; just as the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ( also founded by Constantine and Helena ) commemorated the birth of Jesus, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre would commemorate his death and resurrection.

Beyond notices in his extant writings, the major sources are the 5th-century ecclesiastical historians Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodoret, and the 4th-century Christian author Jerome.

Theodoret charged Apollinaris with confounding the persons of the Godhead, and with giving into the heretical ways of Sabellius.

Making his apostolic succession even more immediate, Theodoret ( Dial.

i, 1 " and Theodoret ( 393-457 ) in " Interpret ad.

Theodoret of Cyrus or Cyrrhus (; c. 393 – c. 457 ) was an influential author, theologian, and Christian bishop of Cyrrhus, Syria ( 423-457 ).

Theodoret, supported only by the appeals of the intimate hermits, himself in personal danger, zealously guarded purity of the doctrine.

Theodoret stands out prominently in the christological controversies aroused by Cyril of Alexandria.

John, reconciled to Cyril by the emperor's order, sought to bring Theodoret to submission by entrenching upon his eparchy.