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The leader of the Vandals, coming forward, was inspecting the prisoners, and he too sees Marcian sleeping, and an eagle from above him with outstretched wings making a shadow for him. He therefore took the vision as an omen that he was destined for kingship and summoning Marcian, he demanded of him that if he should become emperor, he not make war on the Vandals; and when he agreed, he released him from prison. Thus, then, long before, God had signified his reign to him; but then the things signified came to pass. And immediately 115 he summons the brothers who had entertained him and announced his rule to him, and he appoints Tatian prefect of the city, and to Julius he entrusted the rule of the Illyrians. And he was good to everyone. During these times Pulcheria erected the church of the Theotokos in Blachernae; and the fourth council took place, after Leo the pope of Rome and Anatolius the patriarch of New Rome had requested of the emperor Marcian that the matters concerning Dioscorus of Alexandria and Eutyches and all that they had dared against the most holy Flavian should not remain unexamined. It was therefore decided that a council should take place, and six hundred and thirty God-bearing fathers were gathered in the church of the holy martyr Euphemia in Chalcedon. And the leaders of these were Leo the pope of Rome and Anatolius of Constantinople and Juvenal of Jerusalem. The multitude of the fathers was gathered against Dioscorus and Eutyches, who were mythologizing that the Lord Jesus Christ wore flesh of a different substance to us and 116 that he existed in one nature, so that from this the passions were attached to the divinity. Whom the divine fathers deposed and anathematized, as they were unwilling to renounce their own false belief. And they received both Theodoret and Ibas, after they anathematized Nestorius and the articles which they themselves had published for the sake of strife, and they also ratified the previous three councils and strengthened the holy Creed, subjecting to anathema both those who introduce a duality of sons and those who dogmatize that the divinity is subject to passion and those who dare to think or even say there is a mixture and confusion of the two natures, or those who fabricate that there were two natures in Christ before the union, but one after the union, and those who fable that the form assumed by the Lord from us was heavenly or of some other substance. And they dogmatized that our Lord Jesus Christ is perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, and truly God and truly man, of a rational soul and body, of one substance with the Father according to the divinity, and of one substance with us according to the humanity and like us in all things, without sin, one and the same in two 117 natures, acknowledged unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably, the properties of each nature being preserved and concurring into one person and one hypostasis. When these things, therefore, had been decreed by all those God-borne fathers, with the pious emperor Marcian also present, Dioscorus by imperial command is sent into exile to Gangra; for Eutyches had already died miserably. And instead of Dioscorus, Proterius, a most holy and most orthodox man, was ordained bishop of Alexandria. And as the heretics of Eutyches and Dioscorus were going about the city and mocking the doctrines decreed by the council, saying that the council's authority derived from imperial power and not from the truth, and still trying to establish their own false belief, the patriarch Anatolius assembled both those who agreed with him and those who held opposing views, and said to his opponents, "Since you still hold to your own opinion and are not persuaded to believe rightly, but accuse us of accepting the dogma of Nestorius by proclaiming two natures in the Savior, each preserving its properties unconfused, let us, if it seems good, entrust the 118 judgment concerning this to God, and let your belief concerning the faith be written by you in a tome, and it will also be written by us

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ὁ τῶν Οὐανδήλων ἀρχηγὸς προκύψας ἐπεσκόπει τοὺς αἰχμαλώτους, καὶ ὁρᾷ κἀκεῖνος κοιμώμενον τὸν Μαρκιανόν, καὶ ἀετὸν ἄνωθεν αὐτοῦ διηρμέναις ταῖς πτέρυξι σκιὰν αὐτῷ ἐργαζόμενον. κἀκεῖνος τοίνυν εἰς βασιλείαν τείνειν τὸ ὅραμα οἰωνίσατο καὶ μεταπεμψάμενος τὸν Μαρκιανὸν ἀπῄτησεν αὐτόν, εἰ βασιλεύσειε, μὴ πολεμεῖν Οὐανδήλοις· τοῦ δὲ συνθεμένου ἀπέλυσεν αὐτὸν τῆς εἱρκτῆς. οὕτω μὲν οὖν πρὸ μακροῦ τὴν βασιλείαν αὐτῷ προεσήμαινεν ὁ θεός· τότε δ' εἰς ἔργον ἐκβεβήκασι τὰ προσημαινόμενα. καὶ αὐτίκα 115 μετακαλεῖται τοὺς ξενίσαντας αὐτὸν ἀδελφοὺς καὶ εὐαγγελισαμένους αὐτῷ τὴν ἀρχήν, καὶ τὸν μὲν Τατιανὸν ἔπαρχον τῆς πόλεως ἀναδείκνυσιν, Ἰουλίῳ δὲ τὴν τῶν Ἰλλυριῶν ἀρχὴν ἐνεχείρισε. γέγονε δὲ περὶ πάντας χρηστός. Κατὰ τοὺς χρόνους τούτους τὸν ἐν Βλαχέρναις ναὸν τῆς θεοτόκου ἡ Πουλχερία ἀνήγειρε· καὶ ἡ τετάρτη γέγονε σύνοδος, Λέοντος τοῦ πάπα Ῥώμης καὶ Ἀνατολίου τοῦ πατριάρχου τῆςνέας Ῥώμης αἰτησαμένων τὸν βασιλέα Μαρκιανὸν μὴ μεῖναι ἀζήτητα τὰ κατὰ τὸν Ἀλεξανδρείας ∆ιόσκορον καὶ τὸν Εὐτυχῆ καὶ ὅσα παρ' αὐτῶν εἰς τὸν ἱερώτατον ἐτολμήθη Φλαβιανόν. ὡρίσθη τοίνυν σύνοδον γενέσθαι, καὶ συνηθροίσθησαν εἰς τὸν ἐν Χαλκηδόνι ναὸν τῆς ἁγίας μάρτυρος Εὐφημίας θεοφόροι πατέρες ἑξακόσιοι καὶ τριάκοντα. ἐξῆρχον δὲ τούτων Λέων ὁ πάπας Ῥώμης καὶ ὁ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως Ἀνατόλιος καὶ Ἰουβενάλιος Ἱεροσολύμων. συνήθροιστο δὲ τὸ τῶν πατέρων πλῆθος κατὰ ∆ιοσκόρου καὶ Εὐτυχοῦς, ἑτεροούσιον ἡμῖν τὴν σάρκα τὸν κύριον Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν φορέσαι μυθολογούντων καὶ 116 μίαν φύσιν αὐτὸν ὑπάρχειν, ὡς ἐντεῦθεν τῇ θεότητι τὰ παθήματα προσαρμόττεσθαι. οὓς καθεῖλόν τε καὶ ἀνεθεμάτισαν οἱ θεῖοι πατέρες, τὴν ἑαυτῶν κακοδοξίαν παραιτήσασθαι μὴ θελήσαντας. ἐδέξαντο δὲ τόν τε Θεοδώρητον καὶ τὸν Ἴβαν, ἀναθεματίσαντας τὸν Νεστόριον καὶ ἅπερ αὐτοὶ ἐκδεδώκασι πρὸς ἔριν κεφάλαια, ἐκύρωσαν δὲ καὶ τὰς πρότερον τρεῖς συνόδους καὶ τὸ ἅγιον σύμβολον ἐπεκράτυναν, ἀναθέματι καθυπαγαγόντες τούς τε υἱῶν δυάδα εἰσάγοντας καὶ τοὺς παθητὴν δογματίζοντας τὴν θεότητα καὶ τοὺς κρᾶσιν καὶ σύγχυσιν ἐπὶ τῶν δύο φύσεων φρονεῖν ἢ καὶ λέγειν τολμῶντας, ἢ δύο μὲν εἶναι φύσεις πρὸ τῆς ἑνώσεως ἐπὶ Χριστοῦ, μίαν δὲ μετὰ τὴν ἕνωσιν ἀναπλάττοντας καὶ τοὺς οὐράνιον ἤ τινος ἑτέρας οὐσίας μυθεύοντας τὴν προσληφθεῖσαν ἐξ ἡμῶν τῷ κυρίῳ μορφήν. ἐδογμάτισαν δὲ τὸν κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν τέλειον ἐν θεότητι καὶ τέλειον ἐν ἀνθρωπότητι καὶ θεὸν ἀληθῶς καὶ ἄνθρωπον ἀληθῶς, ἐκ ψυχῆς λογικῆς καὶ σώματος, ὁμοούσιον τῷ πατρὶ κατὰ τὴν θεότητα, καὶ ἡμῖν ὁμοούσιον κατὰ τὴν ἀνθρωπότητα καὶ ὅμοιον κατὰ πάντα, χωρὶς ἁμαρτίας, ἕνα τὸν αὐτὸν ἐν δύο 117 φύσεσιν, ἀσυγχύτως, ἀτρέπτως, ἀδιαιρέτως, ἀχωρίστως γνωριζόμενον, σωζομένων τῶν ἰδιωμάτων φύσεως ἑκατέρας καὶ εἰς ἓν πρόσωπον συντρεχόντων καὶ μίαν ὑπόστασιν. Τούτων οὖν πᾶσι τοῖς θεοφορήτοις ἐκείνοις δεδογμένων πατράσι, παρόντος καὶ τοῦ εὐσεβοῦς βασιλέως Μαρκιανοῦ, ὁ ∆ιόσκορος προστάξει βασιλικῇ εἰς Γάγγραν ὑπερόριος στέλλεται· ὁ γὰρ Εὐτυχὴς προτέθνηκε δυστυχῶς. ἀντὶ δὲ ∆ιοσκόρου τῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος ἐχειροτονήθη Προτέριος, ἀνὴρ ἱερώτατος καὶ ὀρθοδοξότατος. Τῶν δὲ τοῦ Εὐτυχοῦς καὶ ∆ιοσκόρου τῶν αἱρεσιωτῶν ἀνὰ τὴν πόλιν στρεφομένων καὶ διαχλευαζόντων τὰ ὑπὸ τῆς συνόδου δογματισθέντα, κἀκ τῆς βασιλικῆς δυναστείας λεγόντων τὸ κράτος τῇ συνόδῳ περιεῖναι, καὶ οὐκ ἐκ τῆς ἀληθείας, καὶ τὴν οἰκείαν συνιστᾶν πειρωμένων ἔτι κακοδοξίαν, ὁ πατριάρχης Ἀνατόλιος ἐκκλησιάσας τούς τε αὐτῷ ὁμογνώμονας καὶ τοὺς ἀντιδοξοῦντας ἔφη πρὸς τοὺς ἐναντίους "ἐπεὶ ἔτι τῆς οἰκείας δόξης ἀντέχεσθε καὶ οὐ πείθεσθε μὴ δοξάζειν ὀρθῶς, ἀλλ' αἰτιᾶσθε ἡμᾶς ὡς τὸ Νεστορίου παραδεχομένους δόγμα, δύο φύσεις ἐπὶ τοῦ σωτῆρος κηρύττοντας, ἑκατέρας τηρούσης ἀσυγχύτους τὰς ἰδιότητας, ἐπιτρεπτέον, εἰ δοκεῖ, τῷ θεῷ τὴν περὶ 118 τούτου διάκρισιν, καὶ γραφήτω μὲν παρ' ὑμῶν ἐν τόμῳ τὸ ὑμέτερον περὶ τῆς πίστεως φρόνημα, γραφήσεται δὲ καὶ παρ' ἡμῶν