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A broader and more natural exposition concerning difference and quantity, and of the number that signifies them................................................................................................... 210

That he who does not say nature and hypostasis are the same, piously speaks of the union and the difference in Christ; believing the one to be according to hypostasis, and the other according to nature. ................................................................................................................................................. 212

That Severus, saying nature and hypostasis are the same, makes the union a confusion, and the difference a division; whereby he is shown, both expanding the account of the Trinity into a tetrad of persons; and cutting the mystery of the monad into a dyad of divinities; and blasphemously expelling Christ from all essential existence..... 212

A brief exposition with a correct defense of the true confession of the Fathers. ............................................................................................................................. 214

SCHOLIA. .......................................................................................................................... 215 16. Of the same, to the same. ................................................................................ 215 Of the same to Julian the Scholastic of Alexandria, concerning the

ecclesiastical dogma of the incarnation of the Lord............................................................ 217 18. Of the same, in the person of George the all-lauded prefect of Africa, to

nuns who had fallen away from the Catholic Church in Alexandria. ............................. 218 19. Of the same to Pyrrhus the most holy presbyter and abbot. ........... 220 20. Of the same to Marinus the monk. .................................................................... 223 21. Of the same to the most holy bishop of Cydonia.............................................. 225 22. Of the same to Auxentius..................................................................................... 226 23. Of the same to Stephen the presbyter.............................................................. 226 24. Of the same to Constantine the sakellarios................................................... 226 25. Of the same to Conon the presbyter and abbot...................................... 228 26. (616) Of the same to Thalassius the presbyter who asked, how some of the

kings among the gentiles, when the wrath of God lay upon their subject multitude, sacrificed their children and first-born, and the wrath ceased, as has been recorded by many of the ancients. .............................................................................................................................. 229

27. Of the same to John the cubicularius......................................................... 230 28. Of the same to Cyrisicius the bishop................................................................ 231 29. Of the same to the same..................................................................................... 231 30. Of the same to John the bishop. .................................................................... 232 31. Of the same to the same..................................................................................... 232 32. Of the same to Abba Polychronius. .................................................................. 233 33. Of the same to the same. .................................................................................... 233 34. Of the same to the same..................................................................................... 233 35. Of the same to the same. .................................................................................... 234 36. Of the same to the same. .................................................................................. 234 37. Of the same to the same. .................................................................................... 235 38. Of the same to the same. ................................................................................... 235 39. Of the same to the same. ................................................................................... 235 MAXIMI EPISTOLAE ALIQUOT p. 634 ....Error! Bookmark not defined. 40. Of the same to the same Thalassius, presbyter and abbot. ............. 236 41. Of the same to the same................................................................................... 236 42. Of the same to the same. ................................................................................... 236

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Κατασκευή πλατυτέρα τε καί φυσικωτέρα περί διαφορᾶς καί ποσότητος, καί τοῦ δηλοῦντος αὐτάς ἀριθμοῦ................................................................................................... 210

Ὅτι ὁ μή ταυτόν φύσιν λέγων καί ὑπόστασιν, εὐσεβῶς ἐπί Χριστοῦ λέγει τήν ἕνωσιν καί τήν διαφοράν· τήν μέν καθ' ὑπόστασιν εἶναι πιστεύων, τήν δέ κατά φύσιν. ................................................................................................................................................. 212

Ὅτι Σεύηρος, ταυτόν εἶναι λέγων φύσιν καί ὑπόστασιν, σύγχυσιν ποιεῖ τήν ἕνωσιν, καί διαίρεσιν τήν διαφοράν· καθ' ἥν δείκνυται, τόν τε τῆς Τριάδος εἰς τετράδα προσώπων διαστέλλων τόν λόγον· καί τό τῆς μονάδος εἰς θεοτήτων διάδα τέμνων μυστήριον· καί πάσης τόν Χριστόν βλασφήμως ἐκβάλλων οὐσιώδους ὑπάρξεως..... 212

Ἔκθεσις σύντομος μετά τῆς ὀρθῆς συνηγορίας τῆς ἀληθοῦς τῶν Πατέρων ὁμολογίας. ............................................................................................................................. 214

ΣΧΟΛΙΑ. .......................................................................................................................... 215 Ιστ΄. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ, πρός τόν αὐτόν. ................................................................................ 215 Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός Ἰουλιανόν Σχολαστικόν Ἀλεξανδρέα, περί τοῦ κατά τήν

σάρκωσιν τοῦ Κυρίου ἐκκλησιαστικοῦ δόγματος............................................................ 217 ΙΗ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ, ἐκ προσώπου Γεωργίου τοῦ πανευφήμου ἐπάρχου Ἀφρικῆς, πρός

ἀσκητρίας ἀποστάσας τῆς καθολικῆς Ἐκκλησίας ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ. ............................. 218 ΙΘ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός Πύῤῥον τόν ὁσιώτατον πρεσβύτερον καί ἡγούμενον. ........... 220 Κ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός Μαρίνον μονάζοντα. .................................................................... 223 ΚΑ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός ἁγιώτατον ἐπίσκοπον Κυδωνίας.............................................. 225 ΚΒ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός Αὐξέντιον..................................................................................... 226 ΚΓ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός Στέφανον πρεσβύτερον.............................................................. 226 Κ∆΄. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός Κωνσταντῖνον σακελλάριον................................................... 226 ΚΕ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός Κόνωνα πρεσβύτερον καί ἡγούμενον...................................... 228 Κστ´. (616) Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός Θαλάσσιον πρεσβύτερον ἐρωτήσαντα, πῶς ἔνιοι τῶν

ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι βασιλέων, ὑπέρ ὀργῆς θεηλάτου ἐπικειμένης τῷ ὑπηκόῳ πλήθει κατέθυον τέκνα καί πρεσγενεῖς, καί ἐπαύετο ἡ ὀργή, καθώς πολλοῖς τῶν ἀρχαίων ἱστόρηται. .............................................................................................................................. 229

ΚΖ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός Ἰωάννην κουβικουλάριον......................................................... 230 ΚΗ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός Κυρισίκιον ἐπίσκοπον................................................................ 231 ΚΘ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός τόν αὐτόν..................................................................................... 231 Λ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός Ἰωάννην ἐπίσκοπον. .................................................................... 232 ΛΑ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός τόν αὐτόν..................................................................................... 232 ΛΒ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός ἀββᾶν Πολυχρόνιον. .................................................................. 233 ΛΓ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός τόν αὐτόν. .................................................................................... 233 Λ∆´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός τόν αὐτόν..................................................................................... 233 ΛΕ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός τόν αὐτόν. .................................................................................... 234 Λστ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός τόν αὐτόν. .................................................................................. 234 ΛΖ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός τόν αὐτόν. .................................................................................... 235 ΛΗ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός τόν αὐτόν. ................................................................................... 235 ΛΘ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός τόν αὐτόν. ................................................................................... 235 ΜΑΧΙΜΙ EPISTOLAE ALIQUOT Σελ. 634 ....Σφάλμα! ∆εν έχει οριστεί σελιδοδείκτης. Μ΄.Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός τόν αὐτόν Θαλάσσιον πρεσβύτερον καί ἡγούμενον. ............. 236 ΜΑ´ Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός τόν αὐτόν................................................................................... 236 ΜΒ´Τοῦ αὐτοῦ πρός τόν αὐτόν. ................................................................................... 236