to recall him from the abyss of impiety, but when they saw him contradicting and becoming more audacious against the orthodox faith, then they pronounced against him and anathematized him, all the bishops throughout the world.And having come to this point in my discourse, I would gladly ask those of our own who have uncritically accepted this innovation, out of simplicity of reasoning and not from malice of mind. For what reason, my brothers, having abandoned in this matter the orthodox teaching of the fathers, did you accept the innovation devised by the heretics? It was necessary to understand that it was not by following cleverly devised myths that our holy fathers handed down to us to sing this hymn, but from a most divine revelation, revealed not to one or two only, nor in some corner, but in the middle of the day, to all the Christ-loving people of the queen city of the Constantinopolitans, in the time of our holy and thrice-blessed father and bishop Proclus, most proven among teachers. And everything revealed to us from God out of divine grace is by all means complete and all-perfect for salvation, not in need of addition or subtraction from human reasonings, according to what is said in the God-inspired Scripture: "The word, which I command you today, you shall be very careful to do it; you shall not add to it, nor take away from it." For in reality to add anything to the divine oracles or to take away is precarious and dangerous; for we are not correctors of God, but subjects. And there are many things to say about this to our people and to show that it is the utmost ignor<e>ance to accept the innovation of the heretic, even if they do not hold the opinions of the heretic.Thus, therefore, Peter the Fuller, having been anathematized, as has been said, by all the bishops and with Zeno having fled from the empire on account of the rebellion of Basiliscus, went away as a fugitive to unknown places.

And when Zeno returned to his own empire, having sought out Peter the Fuller, he restored him as bishop of the Antiochenes, with the anathemas against him in no way having been lifted, and he banished the blessed patriarch Calendion to Oasis. The Fuller having taken back the throne by force, as one now desperate and having no hope, used his tyranny fearlessly, or rather, godlessly, murdering and confiscating and banishing all those not willing to have communion with his impiety. But these things I shall pass over, being many and requiring their own account, and I will proceed to the urgent matter, showing to all the immeasurable grace of the holy apostle Barnabas and how much care and concern he has for his own homeland. Not being satisfied, therefore, with the innumerable evils which the Fuller committed in the east, but he also laid his hands upon provinces in no way subject to him; for having once purchased with gold the compliance of the emperor and those around him, he despised even the law of God itself—and so he intended to mistreat in every way the God-loving and faith-loving and orthodox Cypriots, since, preserving their ancestral piety, they were not willing to have communion with his impiety, and he attempted to seize the most holy and free and apostolic throne of Cyprus, which was so from the beginning and from of old, and to make it subject to himself; and he makes a report to the ruler, full of falsehood, that, he says, the word of God sounded forth from Antioch in Cyprus and the church of Cyprus ought to be under the throne of Antioch, since it happens to be an apostolic and patriarchal throne; but it did not escape notice that the apostate was a heretic, falsifying the decrees made at Ephesus at the holy synod under Cyril. But the preacher of piety, the most holy among the apostles Barnabas, exposed his folly, becoming a helper of his homeland in its time of need. For the bishop of the Salaminians having been ordered to go to the

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ἀνακαλέσασθαι αὐτὸν ἐκ τοῦ βαράθρου τῆς ἀσεβείας, ὡς δὲ εἶδον αὐτὸν ἀντι λέγοντα καὶ μᾶλλον θρασυνόμενον κατὰ τῆς ὀρθοδόξου πίστεως, τότε ἀπεφήναντο κατ' αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀνεθεμάτισαν αὐτὸν πάντες οἱ κατὰ τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐπίσκοποι.Ἐνταῦθα δὲ γενόμενος τοῦ λόγου, ἡδέως ἂν ἐροίμην τοὺς ἐκ τῶν ἡμετέρων ἀβασανίστως παραδεξαμένους τὴν καινοτομίαν ταύτην, ἁπλότητι λογισμοῦ καὶ οὐ κακίᾳ γνώμης. Τίνος χάριν, ἀδελφοί μου, καταλιπόντες ἐν τούτῳ τῷ μέρει τὴν τῶν πατέρων ὀρθόδοξον διδασκαλίαν, τὴν ἐφευρεθεῖσαν ὑπὸ τῶν αἱρετικῶν καινοτομίαν κατεδέ ξασθε; Ἐχρῆν συνιέναι ὅτι οὐ σεσοφισμένοις μύθοις ἐξακολουθήσαντες, οἱ ἅγιοι ἡμῶν πατέρες παρέδωκαν ἡμῖν ἄδειν τοῦτον τὸν ὕμνον, ἀλλ' ἐξ ἀποκαλύψεως θειο τέρας οὐχ ἑνὶ καὶ δευτέρῳ μόνῳ ἀποκαλυφθείσης, οὐδὲ ἐν παραβύστῳ τινί, ἀλλ' ἡμέρας μέσης, παντὶ τῷ φιλο χρίστῳ λαῷ τῆς βασιλίδος Κωνσταντινουπολιτῶν, ἐπὶ τοῦ ὁσίου τρισμακαρίστου πατρὸς ἡμῶν καὶ ἐπισκόπου Πρό κλου, τοῦ ἐν διδασκάλοις δοκιμωτάτου. Πᾶν δὲ τὸ ἐκ θείας χάριτος θεόθεν ἡμῖν ἀποκαλυπτόμενον ἀνελλιπές ἐστι πάντως καὶ παντέλειον εἰς σωτηρίαν, μὴ ἐπιδεόμενον τῆς ἐξ ἀνθρωπίνων συλλογισμῶν προσθήκης ἢ ἀφαι ρέσεως κατὰ τὸ εἰρημένον τῇ θεοπνεύστῳ Γραφῇ· "Τὸ ῥῆμα, ὃ ἐγὼ ἐντέλλομαί σοι σήμερον, φύλαξαι σφόδρα τοῦ ποιῆσαι αὐτό, οὐ προσθήσεις ἐπ' αὐτῷ, οὐδὲ ἀφελεῖς ἀπ' αὐτοῦ." Τῷ ὄντι γὰρ προσθεῖναί τι τοῖς θείοις χρησμοῖς ἢ ἀφελεῖν ἐπισφαλὲς καὶ ἐπικίνδυνον· οὐ γὰρ ἐσμὲν διορθωταὶ τοῦ θεοῦ, ἀλλ' ὑποτακτῖται. Καὶ πολλά ἐστι περὶ τούτου εἰπεῖν πρὸς τοὺς ἡμετέρους καὶ δεῖξαι ὅτι ἰδιωτ<ε>ία ἐσχάτη ἐστὶ τὸ παραδέξασθαι τὴν καινοτομίαν τοῦ αἱρετικοῦ, κἂν μὴ φρονῶσι τὰ τοῦ αἱρετικοῦ.Οὕτως τοιγαροῦν ὁ Κναφεὺς Πέτρος ἀναθεματισθείς, ὡς εἴρηται, ὑπὸ πάντων τῶν ἐπισκόπων καὶ τοῦ Ζήνωνος φυγόντος ἐκ τῆς βασιλείας διὰ τὴν ἐπανάστασιν Βασιλίσκου, φυγὰς ᾤχετο εἰς ἀγνώστους τόπους.

Ὡς δὲ ἐπανῆλθεν ὁ Ζήνων εἰς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ βασιλείαν, Πέτρον μὲν τὸν Κναφέα ἀναζητήσας, ἀπεκατέστησε τῇ Ἀντιοχέων ἐπίσκοπον, τῶν ἐπ' αὐτῷ ἀναθεματισμῶν μηδαμῶς λυ θέντων, τὸν δὲ μακάριον Καλανδίωνα τὸν πατριάρχην εἰς Ὤασιν ἐξωστράκισε. Τοῦ Κναφέως βίᾳ ἀπολαβόντος τὸν θρόνον, ἅτε ἀπεγνωσμένος λοιπὸν καὶ μηδεμίαν ἐλπίδα ἔχων, ἀδεῶς μᾶλλον δὲ ἀθέως ἐχρήσατο τῇ τυραννίδι, φονεύων καὶ δημεύων καὶ φυγαδεύων πάντας τοὺς μὴ βουλομένους κοινωνεῖν αὐτοῦ τῇ ἀσεβείᾳ. Ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν παρήσω, πολλὰ ὄντα καὶ ἰδίας συγγραφῆς δεόμενα, βαδιοῦμαι δὲ πρὸς τὸ κατεπεῖγον, δεικνὺς πᾶσι τοῦ ἁγίου ἀποστόλου Βαρνάβα τὴν ἀμέτρητον χάριν καὶ ὅσην ἔχει περὶ τὴν ἰδίαν πατρίδα φροντίδα τε καὶ κηδεμονίαν. Μὴ ἀρκεσθεὶς τοιγαροῦν τοῖς ἀναριθμήτοις κακοῖς, οἷς ἐποίησε κατὰ τὴν ἀνατολὴν ὁ Κναφεύς, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπὶ τὰς οὐδαμόθεν αὐτῷ ὑποκειμένας ἐπαρχίας ἐπέ βαλε τὰς χεῖρας· χρυσίῳ γὰρ ἅπαξ ἐξαγοράσας τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ τῶν περὶ αὐτὸν τὴν εὐχέρειαν, καὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ τὸν νόμον περιεφρόνησε-καὶ γοῦν τοὺς φιλοθέους καὶ φιλοπίστους καὶ ὀρθοδόξους Κυπρίους παντοίως κακῶσαι διενοήθη, ἐπειδὴ προγονικὴν εὐσέβειαν φυλάττοντες, κοινωνῆσαι τῇ ἀσεβείᾳ αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἐβούλον το, καὶ τὸν ἐξαρχῆς καὶ ἄνωθεν ἁγιώτατον καὶ ἐλεύθερον καὶ ἀποστολικὸν θρόνον τῆς Κύπρου ἁρπάσαι καὶ ὑφ' ἑ αυτὸν ποιῆσαι ἐπεχείρησεν· καὶ ἀναφορὰν ποιεῖται πρὸς τὸν κρατοῦντα, ψευδηγορίας μεστήν, ὅτι φησὶν ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ ἀπὸ Ἀντιοχείας ἐν Κύπρῳ ἐξήχηται καὶ δεῖ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν Κύπρου ὑπὸ τὸν Ἀντιοχείας θρόνον εἶναι, ἐπειδὴ ἀποστολικὸς καὶ πατριαρχικὸς θρόνος τυγχάνει· ἀλλ' οὐκ ἔλαθεν ὁ ἀποστάτης αἱρετικὸς ὤν, τὰ ἐν Ἐφέσῳ ἐπὶ τῆς κατὰ Κύριλλον ἁγίας συνόδου ὁρισθέντα παραχαράσσων. Ἀλλ' ὁ κήρυξ τῆς εὐσεβείας, ὁ ἁγιώτατος ἐν ἀποστόλοις Βαρνάβας, ἤλεγξεν αὐτοῦ τὸ ἀνόητον, ἐν καιρῷ τῆς πατρίδος γενόμενος ἀντιλήπτωρ. Τοῦ γὰρ ἐπισκόπου τῆς Σαλαμινέων κελευσθέντος καταλαβεῖν τὴν

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