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.

* István Pásztori-Kupán: Theodoret of Cyrus ’ s Double Treatise On the Trinity and On the Incarnation: The Antiochene Pathway to Chalcedon ( PhD thesis )

Theodoret of Cyrus: Commentary on the Prophets Vol 3: Commentary on the Twelve Prophets.

Allen also reasons that Evagrius built on Zachariah ’ s work because his was the only comprehensive historical account of events taking place from Theodoret of Cyrus ’ s time till his own era.

# Certain writings of Theodoret of Cyrus

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

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, bishop of Cyrrhus on the Euphrates in upper Syria in 423, suspecting Tatian of having been a heretic, sought out and found more than two hundred copies of the Diatessaron, which he " collected and put away, and introduced instead of them the Gospels of the four evangelists ".

* Theodoret of Cyrrhus, bishop and theologian ( approximate date )

* Theodoret of Cyrrhus, bishop and theologian

Irenaeus the friend of Nestorius, with the cooperation of Theodoret, became bishop of Tyre, in spite of the protests of Dioscorus, Cyril's successor, who now turned specially against Theodoret ; and, by preferring the charge that he taught two sons in Christ, he secured the order from the court confining Theodoret to Cyrrhus.

Theodoret was compelled to leave Cyrrhus and retire to his monastery at Apamea.

* Theodoret becomes bishop of Cyrrhus ( Syria ).

The " Three Chapters " were, one, both the person and writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia ( d. 428 ), two, the attacks on Cyril of Alexandria and the First Council of Ephesus written by Theodoret of Cyrrhus ( d. c. 466 ), and three, the attacks on Cyril and Ephesus by Ibas of Edessa ( d. 457 ).

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.

* CHESNUT, Glenn F. " Sozomen, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, and Evagrius Scholasticus: Other Successors and Continuators ," The First Christian Histories.

Domnus II, Patriarch of Antioch of the heavily religious Eastern Roman Empire, and a friend of the influential Saint Theodoret Bishop of Cyrrhus.

According to Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus, Simeon developed a zeal for Christianity at the age of 13, following a reading of the Beatitudes.

The story is found in the writings of Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus, Syria.

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 ".

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.

But Cyril refused to compromise and when he opened his attack ( 437 ) upon Diodorus of Tarsus and Theodore, John sided with them and Theodoret assumed the defense of the Antiochian party ( c. 439 ).

Socrates of Constantinople, also known as Socrates Scholasticus, not to be confused with the Classical Greek philosopher Socrates, was a Greek Christian church historian, a contemporary of Sozomen and Theodoret, who used his work ; he was born at Constantinople c. 380: the date of his death is unknown.

He here ( c. 29 ) relates the opinions of heretics to whom he himself gives no title, but whom his copyist Theodoret ( Haer.

* Thierry and Theodoret, tragedy ( c.

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.

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

* Thierry and Theodoret, tragedy ( c.

* Thierry and Theodoret, tragedy ( c.

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.

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.

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* Theodoret.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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