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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 1

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… SECOND SERIES VOLUME XII Leo the Great, Gregory the Great T&T CLARK EDINBURGH WM. B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN THE LETTERS AND SERMONS OF LEO THE GREAT BISHOP OF ROME, Translated, with …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 131

Canon XXVII.

… East," and thus "Eastern bishops secretly felt that the cause of Constantinople was theirs" (Gore's Leo the Great, p. 120); but the gratification of Constantinople ambition was not the less, in a canonical sense …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 59

Letters CXXI. and CXXII.

… 44. [495] Viz., to human nature. [496] A reference to Letter XCVIII. (from the Synod of Chalcedon to Leo), chap. ii. shows that Dioscorus had threatened Leo with excommunication; excommunicationem meditatus est contra te qui …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 111

(Gallia Orthod., LIX.)

… Arendt (Leo the Great and his Times, § 270) says that this meant only that "he had, without permission of the Pope, taken the presidency there, and conducted the proceedings, for Leo himself had acknowledged the …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 224

Chapter LXX.

… that he showed a body from heaven. [2695] He died in the reign of Leo and Majorianus. [2693] Leo the Great, Bishop (Pope) 440, died 461. [2694] bishop: A 30 31 e have pontiff. [2695 …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 89

Canon III.

… In like manner the Popes Leo the Great and Gregory the Great pronounced against it; and though even Gratian adopted this canon in his collection the Roman critics added the following note: Canon hic ex …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 6

[58] Ep. LXXXVI.

… Theodoret was sentenced not merely to deposition from his see but to degradation from the priesthood and to excommunication, and his books were ordered to be burnt. [68] So the great council ended with the …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 9

[80] Epp. CXXXIX, CXL.

… It is at least certain that during this period he received a long and sympathetic letter from Leo, from which it is clear that the Roman bishop reposed great confidence in him. [92] It is …

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Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 10

[87] Ep. XCVII.

… CXXVI. [92] Leo. Ep. cxx., and Migne Theod. iv. 1193. Chagrined at the decision of the Council that Constantinople was to enjoy honorary precedence next after old Rome and practical equality and independence, in that …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 34

Letter XXXIX.

… Now, lest you should think we had omitted any opportunity of communicating with you, we have sent this note by our son Eupsychius, a man whom we hold in great honour and affection, asking you …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 15

Canon VII.

… Cyril of Alexandria shuddered at the impious design ("merito perhorrescens," Leo. u. s.), and wrote to Leo, then archdeacon of Rome, informing him of what Juvenal was undertaking, and begging that his unlawful attempts might …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 36

Letter XLIV.

… This, if intentional and not a slip, is, I suppose, Flavian, of whose death Leo was not yet apprized. [373] Both Quesnel and the Ball. agree that the Canon here quoted by Leo really belongs …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 22

Letter XX.

… and v.), of Nestorianizing, and that he thus had gained the approbation of Leo before his own unsoundness had been made known. Letter XXI. From Eutyches to Leo [213] . I. He states his account of …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 192

Epistle LXXVIII.

… To Leo, Bishop in Corsica. Gregory to Leo, &c. Our pastoral charge constrains us to come with anxious consideration to the succour of a church that is destitute of the control of a priest [1391 …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 49

Letter XCVI.

… From the Synod of Chalcedon to Leo. The great and holy and universal Synod, which by the grace of God and the sanction of our most pious and Christ-loving Emperors has been gathered together …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 64

Letter CXL.

… To Leo Augustus. Leo, the bishop, to Leo Augustus. I. There is no need to open the question of doctrine again now. Your clemency's letter, which was full of vigorous faith and of the …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 67

Letter CLX.

Leo the Bishop to Leo Augustus. I. The decrees of Chalcedon and Nicæa are identical and final. With much joy my mind exults in the Lord, and great is my cause for thankfulness, now that …

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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 93

Canon VII.

… As late as about the middle of the fifth century, Pope Leo I. spoke in a very depreciatory manner of these canons, especially of the third, which concerned the ecclesiastical rank of Constantinople, remarking that …

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Leo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 57

Letter CXVIII.

… If Leo's legates in any way exceeded their instructions, they did so ineffectually. Of course, if anything is alleged to have been done by those brethren whom I sent in my stead to the …

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