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.

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 ”.

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.

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.

The garrison commander was killed in the violence, so Theodosius ordered the Goths to kill all the spectators in the circus as retaliation ; Theodoret, a contemporary witness to these events, reports:

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

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

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.

Monoimus ( lived somewhere between 150-210 CE ) was an Arab gnostic ( Arabic name probably Mun ' im منعم ), who was known only from one account in Theodoret ( Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium i. 18 ) until a lost work of anti-heretical writings ( Refutation of All Heresies, book 8, chapter V ) by Hippolytus was found.

The relationship to the Gospel according to the Hebrews becomes more clear when Theodoret states that the Nazarenes made use of the Gospel of Peter, for we know by the testimony of the Fathers generally that the Nazarene Gospel was that commonly called the Gospel according to the Hebrews.

The two friends assembled their adherents outside the city walls for religious services ( according to Theodoret, it was in these meetings that the practice of antiphonal singing was first introduced in the services of the church ).

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.

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.

In 447 AD he consecrated Irenaeus to the see of Tyre ( Theodoret, Epistle 110 ); but emperor Theodosius II, commanded that the appointment should be annulled on the grounds that Irenaeus was both a digamus and a supporter of Nestorianism.

This version was repeated by Patriarch Eustathius of Antioch, Bishop Theodoret, and others.

About 380 ‑ 381 he was elevated to the See of Sebaste in Armenia and, without displaying any literary activity, took his stand beside his brothers Basil and Gregory in their fight against the Arian heresy ( Theodoret, " H. E.

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.

The attribution was accepted by Eusebius and appealed to by apologists like Theodoret.

The Church History of Theodoret, which begins with the rise of Arianism and closes with the death of Theodore in 429, falls far behind those of Socrates Scholasticus and Sozomen.

Saint Telemachus ( also Almachus or Tilemahos ) was a monk who, according to the Church historian Theodoret, tried to stop a gladiator fight in a Roman amphitheatre, and was stoned to death by the crowd.

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.

** Historia Ecclesiastica by Theodoret

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.

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.

cxiii ), assigned by A. Ehrhard to the work On the Holy and Life-giving Trinity and On the Incarnation of the Lord of Cyril of Alexandria, certainly belong to the Antiochian School and to Theodoret.

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.

* A monograph by István Pásztori-Kupán including so far untranslated works of Theodoret is available from Routledge.

The contemporary historians Sozomen and Theodoret were combined with Socrates in a sixth-century compilation, which has obscured their differences until recently, when their individual portrayals of the series of Christian emperors were distinguished one from another and contrasted by Hartmut Leppin, Von Constantin dem Großen zu Theodosius II ( Göttingen 1996 ).

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 ).

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.

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.

McGuckin points out that other representatives of the Antiochene tradition such as John of Antioch, Theodoret and Andrew of Samosata were able to recognize " the point of the argument for Christ's integrity " and concede the " ill-advised nature of Nestorius ' immoveability.

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.

Towards the close of 428 ( Theodoret, H. E.

The Biblical authors are, for Theodoret, merely the mouthpieces of the Holy Spirit, though they do not lose their individual peculiarities.

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.

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.

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

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 ".