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And having taken it, he immediately showed him the same sayings were Nestorius's, and in which of his discourses they are found.

THEOD. God knows, brother, the patriarch gave me these usages; but behold, some you said were Apollinarius's; and others, Nestorius's.

And having brought forward the usage of Saint Cyril which says: One and cognate, and through both displaying activity,0149 he said:

THEOD. What do you say to these things? MAX. There are some who have shown it in truth to have been placed as an addition in the interpretation of the Gospel, which was made from 15Γ_032 this holy Father, by Timothy Aelurus. But let it be his, as you say. Let us therefore examine the meaning of the patristic sayings, and we will know the truth.

THEOD. I do not permit this to be done; for you must accept the plain sayings.

[MAX. Tell me the difference, I beseech you, between plain sayings and complex ones.

THEOD. So that you accept the saying as it is, and do not scrutinize its meaning.] MAX. Clearly you are introducing new laws, foreign to the Church, even concerning sayings.

If, according to you, one must not scrutinize the sayings of the Scriptures and of the Fathers, we cast out all of Scripture, the Old and the New. For we have heard David saying: Blessed are they that search his testimonies, they will seek him with their whole heart; as no one is able to seek God without scrutiny. And again: Give me understanding, and I will search thy law, and I will keep it with my whole heart; as scrutiny leads to the knowledge of the law, and knowledge with longing persuades the worthy to keep it in their heart, through the fulfillment of the holy commandments contained in it. And again: Thy testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul has searched them. And why does the proverbial word want us to scrutinize parables and riddles and dark sayings? And why does the Lord, speaking in parables, want the disciples to understand, teaching the meaning of the parables? And why, commanding, "Search the scriptures," as they testify about him? And what does Peter, the chief of the apostles, wish to teach, saying, "Concerning which salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently"? And what of Paul, the divine apostle, saying: "If our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing," "whose minds the god 15Γ_034 of this age has blinded," "lest the light of the knowledge of Christ should shine on them"? As it seems, you wish us to be likened to the Jews, who with plain sayings, as you say, that is, with the letter alone as if having buried their mind in some rubbish, fell away from the truth, having the veil on their hearts, so as not to understand the Lord Spirit, which is hidden in the letter, about which it says: "The letter kills, but the spirit gives life." Let my lord be assured, that I cannot bear to accept a saying without the meaning contained in it, lest I become a manifest Jew.

14. THEOD. And Theodosius, having heard this, said: We ought to speak of one hypostatic energy of Christ.

MAX. Let us consider the evil born from this, and let us flee this foreign saying; for it belongs only to polytheistic heretics.

For if we say the one energy of Christ is hypostatic, and the Son 0152 is not concurrent in hypostasis with the Father and the Spirit, it is clear that neither in the hypostatic

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Καί λαβών, εὐθέως ἔδειξεν αὐτῷ τάς αὐτάς φωνάς οὔσας Νεστορίου, καί ἐν ποίοις λόγοις αὐτοῦ κειμένας.

ΘΕΟ∆. Ὁ Θεός οἶδεν, ἀδελφέ, τάς χρήσεις ταύτας ὁ πατριάρχης μοι ἔδωκε· πλήν ἰδού, τάς μέν Ἀπολιναρίου εἶπας· τάς δέ, Νεστορίου.

Καί παραγαγών τήν τοῦ ἁγίου Κυρίλλου χρῆσιν τήν λέγουσαν· Μίαν τε καί συγγενῆ, καί δι' ἀμφοῖν ἐπιδεικνύς ἐνέργειαν,0149 εἶπε·

ΘΕΟ∆. Τί πρός ταῦτα λέγεις; ΜΑΞ. Εἰσί τινες δείξαντες αὐτήν κατ' ἀλήθειαν κατά προσθήκην τεθεῖσαν ἐν

τῇ ἑρμηνείᾳ τοῦ Εὐαγγελίου, τῇ γενομένῃ ἐκ 15Γ_032 τοῦ ἁγίου τούτου Πατρός, ὑπό Τιμοθέου τοῦ Ἐλούρου. Ἔστω δέ καθ' ὑμᾶς αὐτοῦ. Ἐξετάσωμεν τοίνυν τήν διάνοιαν τῶν πατρικῶν φωνῶν, καί γνωσόμεθα τήν ἀλήθειαν.

ΘΕΟ∆. Τοῦτο οὐ συγχωρῶ γενέσθαι· ἁπλᾶς γάρ τάς φωνάς ἀνάγκην ἔχεις δέξασθαι.

[ΜΑΞ. Εἰπέ μοι τήν διαφοράν, ἱκέσιος γενόμενος, τῶν ἁπλῶν φωνῶν πρός τάς ποικίλας.

ΘΕΟ∆. Ἵνα ὡς ἔστι τήν φωνήν δέξῃ, καί μή ἐρευνήσῃς τήν διάνοιαν αὐτῆς.] ΜΑΞ. Προφανῶς καινούς καί ξένους τῆς Ἐκκλησίας καί περί τῶν φωνῶν

εἰσάγετε θεσμούς. Εἰ καθ' ὑμᾶς οὐ δεῖ ἐρευνᾷν τάς φωνάς τῶν Γραφῶν καί τῶν Πατέρων, ἐκβάλλομεν πᾶσαν τήν Γραφήν τήν Παλαιάν καί τήν Καινήν. Ἠκούσαμεν γάρ λέγοντος τοῦ ∆αβίδ· Μακάριοι οἱ ἐξερευνῶντες τά μαρτύρια αὐτοῦ, ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ ἐκζητήσουσιν αὐτόν· ὡς μηδενός χωρίς ἐρεύνης δυναμένου ἐκζητῆσαι τόν Θεόν. Καί πάλιν· Συνέτισόν με, καί ἐξερευνήσω τόν νόμον σου, καί φυλάξω αὐτόν ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ μου· ὡς τῆς ἐρεύνης ἀγούσης ἐπί τήν γνῶσιν τοῦ νόμου, καί τῆς γνώσεως πόθῳ πειθούσης τούς ἀξίους ἐν καρδίᾳ αὐτῶν φυλάξαι, διά τῆς πληρώσεως τῶν ἐν αὐτῷ κειμένων ἁγίων ἐντολῶν. Καί πάλιν· Θαυμαστά τά μαρτύριά σου, διά τοῦτο ἐξηρευνήσεν αὐτά ἡ ψυχή μου. Τί δέ παραβολάς καί αἰνίγματα καί σκοτεινούς λόγους ἐρευνᾷν ἡμᾶς βούλεται ὁ παροιμιακός λόγος; Τί δέ ὁ Κύριος ἐν παραβολαῖς λαλῶν βούλεται νοεῖν τούς μαθητάς, διδάσκων τῶν παραβολῶν τήν διάνοιαν; Τί δέ προστάσσων, Ἐρευνᾶτε τάς Γραφάς, ὡς μαρτυρούσας περί αὐτοῦ; Τί δέ ὁ τῶν ἀποστόλων κορυφαῖος Πέτρος διδάσκειν βούλεται, Περί ἧς σωτηρίας ἐξεζήτησαν, καί ἐξηρεύνησαν προφῆται, λέγων; Τί δέ Παῦλος ὁ θεῖος ἀπόστολος, λέγων· Εἰ κεκαλυμμένον ἐστί τό Εὐαγγέλιον, ἀλλ' ἐν τοῖς ἀπολλυμένοις, ὧν ὁ Θεός 15Γ_034 τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου ἐτύφλωσε τούς ὀφθαλμούς τῆς διανοίας αὐτῶν, εἰς τό μή διαυγάσαι αὐτοῖς τόν φωτισμόν τῆς γνώσεως τοῦ Χριστοῦ; Ὡς ἔοικεν, ἐξομοιωθῆναι ἡμᾶς βούλεσθε τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις, οἵτινες ἁπλαῖς ταῖς φωναῖς, ὡς λέγετε, τουτέστι μόνῳ τῷ γράμματι ὥσπερ τινι φορυτῷ ἐγχώσαντες τόν νοῦν, ἐξέπεσαν τῆς ἀληθείας, τό κάλυμμα ἔχοντες ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις αὐτῶν, τοῦ μή νοῆσαι τό κύριον Πνεῦμα, τό ἐγκεκρυμμένον τῷ γράμματι, περί οὗ φησι· Τό μέν γράμμα ἀποκτένει· τό δέ πνεῦμα ζωοποιεῖ. Πληροφορηθῇ ὁ δεσπότης μου, ὅτι ἐγώ οὐκ ἀνέχομαι δέξασθαι φωνήν χωρίς τῆς ἐγκειμένης αὐτῇ διανοίας, ἵνα μή γένωμαι προφανής Ἰουδαῖος.

Ι∆'. ΘΕΟ∆. Τοῦτο δέ ἀκούσας Θεοδόσιος, εἶπεν· Μίαν ἐνέργειαν τοῦ Χριστοῦ

ὑποστατικήν ὀφείλομεν λέγειν. ΜΑΞ. Σκοπήσωμεν τό τικτόμενον ἐκ τούτου κακόν, καί φύγωμεν τήν ξένην

ταύτην φωνήν· μόνων γάρ αἱρετικῶν πολυθεούντων ἐστίν. Εἰ γάρ ὑποστατικήν λέγομεν τοῦ Χριστοῦ τήν μίαν ἐνέργειαν, οὐ 0152 συμβαίνει δέ κατά τήν ὑπόστασιν τῷ Πατρί καί Πνεύματι ὁ Υἱός, δῆλον ὅτι οὔτε κατά τήν ὑποστατικήν