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of the one who became by nature the high priest of all for our salvation, Melchizedek was one type. But since you say that there is another king and priest according to the order of Melchizedek, dare to say the rest as well: "without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life." And consider the evil that arises from this; for such a one will be found to be another God incarnate, who, according to the order of Melchizedek, and not according to the order of Aaron, performs the sacred rites for our salvation.

5. But why should we go on at length? In the holy anaphora at the holy

table, after the high priests and deacons, and every sacerdotal order, the emperors are commemorated with the laity, when the deacon says: "And of the laymen who have fallen asleep in the faith, Constantine, Constans, and the rest." And so also he commemorates the living emperors, after all the consecrated. As he was saying these things, Menas cried out: "By saying these things you have torn the Church." And he said to him: "If the one who speaks the words of the holy Scriptures and of the holy Fathers tears the Church, what will the one who subverts the dogmas of the saints be shown to be doing to the Church, without which it is not even possible for there to be a Church?" And the sakellarios turned and said to the (120) men of the exarch with a shout: "Tell the exarch: 'Should you have let such a man live where you rule?'" And taking him outside, they brought in the disciple, and demanding that he speak against his master, as one who had troubled Pyrrhus, he answered the truth with a calm voice, that no one had honored Pyrrhus as he had honored him; and he was ordered to cry out. And since he did not consent to be estranged from the reverent voice befitting monks, he ordered him to be beaten by those present; and striking him with their fists, they left him half-dead. And having released them to the prisons, Menas came upon the old man, saying in the presence of the officials: "God has cast you down, and brought you here, that you might receive what you did to others, leading all astray into the doctrines of Origen." To whom the servant of God said in the presence of all: "Anathema to Origen and his doctrines, and to everyone who thinks like him." And the patrician Epiphanius said: "The charge brought against him by you, my lord abba Menas, is dissolved, so that even if he were an Origenist, since he has anathematized, he has freed himself from such a reproach." And I for one no longer accept such a thing being said about him. Each of them was led away to the place where he was being guarded.

6. And on the same day, about the same time of the lamp-lighting, Troilus the patrician, and

Sergius Eucratas, the one in charge of the imperial table, came to the servant of God, the old man, and having sat down, they bade him also to sit, and said to him: "Tell us, my lord abba, about the dispute concerning the doctrines that took place between you and Pyrrhus in Africa and Rome; and by what means you persuaded him to anathematize his own doctrine, and to agree with yours." And he recounted to them everything in order, as much as his memory preserved. And he said this: "I have no doctrine of my own, but the common doctrine of the Catholic Church. For I did not initiate any sort of expression, that it should be called my own doctrine." And after the narration they said to him: "Do you not have communion with the throne of Constantinople?" And he said: "I do not have communion." "For what reason do you not have communion?" they said. He answered: "Because they cast out the four holy councils through the nine chapters that were issued in Alexandria; and through the Ecthesis composed by Sergius in this city, and for this reason through the Typos recently set forth in the sixth indiction; and because what they dogmatized through the chapters, they condemned through the Ecthesis; and what

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ὅλων γενόμενου φύσει διά τήν ἡμῶν σωτηρίαν ἀρχιερέως, εἷς ὑπῆρχε τύπος ὁ Μελχισεδέκ. Ὡς δέ γε κατά τήν τάξιν Μελχισεδέκ ἕτερον εἶναι λέγεις βασιλέα καί ἱερέα, καί τά λοιπά τόλμησον εἰπεῖν, τό, ἀπάτωρ, ἀμήτωρ, ἀγενεαλόγητον, μήτε ἀρχήν ἡμερῶν, μήτε τέλος ζωῆς ἔχοντα. Καί σκόπει τό ἐκ τούτου ἀναφυόμενον κακόν· ἄλλος γάρ εὑρεθήσεται Θεός ὁ τοιοῦτος ἐνανθρωπήσας, κατά τήν τάξιν Μελχισεδέκ, ἀλλ' οὐ κατά τήν τάξιν Ἀαρών τήν ἡμῶν ἱερουργῶν σωτηρίαν.

Ε´. Πλήν, τί θέλομεν διά πολλῶν ἐλθεῖν; Εἰς τήν ἁγίαν ἀναφοράν ἐπί τῆς ἁγίας

τραπέζης, μετά τούς ἀρχιερέας καί διακόνους, καί παντός ἱερατικοῦ τάγματος, μετά τῶν λαϊκῶν οἱ βασιλεῖς μνημονεύονται, λέγοντος τοῦ διακόνου· Καί τῶν ἐν πίστει κεκοιμημένων λαϊκῶν, Κωνσταντίνου, Κώνσταντος, καί τούς λοιπούς. Οὕτω δέ καί τῶν ζώντων μνημονεύει βασιλέων, μετά τούς ἱερωμένους πάντας. Ταῦτα αὐτοῦ λέγοντος, κράζει ὁ Μηνᾶς· Ταῦτα λέγων ἔσχισας τήν Ἐκκλησίαν. Καί λέγει πρός αὐτόν· Εἰ ὁ λέγων τά τῶν ἁγίων Γραφῶν, καί τά τῶν ἁγίων Πατέρων σχίζει τήν Ἐκκλησίαν, ὁ ἀναιρῶν τά τῶν ἁγίων δόγματα, τί δειχθήσεται τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ ποιῶν, ὧν χωρίς, οὐδέ αὐτό τοῦτο, Ἐκκλησίαν εἶναι δυνατόν; Καί στραφείς ὁ σακελλάριος, εἶπε τοῖς (120) ἀνθρώποις τοῦ ἐξάρχου μετά κραυγῆς· Εἴπατε τῷ ἐξάρχῳ· Τοιοῦτον ἄνθρωπον ὤφειλες ἐᾶσαι ζῇν ὅπου ἄρχεις; Καί λαβόντες αὐτόν ἔξω, εἰσάγουσι τόν μαθητήν, καί ἀπαιτοῦντες αὐτόν κατειπεῖν τοῦ ἐπιστάτου, ὡς θλίψαντος Πύῤῥον, ἀπεκρίνατο ἠρεμαίᾳ τῇ φωνῇ τά τῆς ἀληθείας, ὅτι οὐδείς ἐτίμησε Πύῤῥον ὡς ἐτίμησε· καί κελεύεται κράξαι. Καί ἐπείπερ οὐ κατεδέξατο τῆς πρεπούσης μοναχοῖς εὐλαβοῦς φωνῆς ξενωθῆναι, κελεύει τυπῆναι αὐτόν ὑπό τῶν παρεστώτων· καί πυγμαῖς αὐτόν βαλόντες, ἡμιθανῆ αὐτόν πεποιήκασι. Καί ἀπολύσαντες αὐτούς εἰς τά δεσμωτήρια καταλαμβάνει τόν γέροντα ὁ Μηνᾶς, λέγων παρουσίᾳ τῶν ἀρχόντων· Ἔβαλέ σε ὁ Θεός, καί ἤγαγέ σε ὧδε, ἵνα ἀπολάβῃς, ὅσα εἰς ἄλλους ἐποίησας, πλανῶν πάντας εἰς τά Ὠριγένους δόγματα. Πρός ὅν εἶπεν ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ δοῦλος παρουσίᾳ πάντων· Ἀνάθεμα Ὠριγενεῖ καί τοῖς δόγμασιν αὐτοῦ, καί παντί σύμφρονι αὐτοῦ. Καί λέγει ὁ πατρικίος Ἐπιφάνιος· ἐλύθη, κῦρι ἀββᾶ Μηνᾶ, ὁ κατ' αὐτοῦ παρά σοῦ ἐπαγόμενος ψόφος, ἵνα καί εἰ ἦν Ὠριγενιστής, ἐπάν ἀνεθεμάτισε, τῆς τοιαύτης ἑαυτόν ἠλευθέρωσε μέμψεως. Ἐγώ δέ ὡς οὐκέτι τοιοῦτο περί αὐτοῦ λεγόμενον παραδέχομαι· Ἀπηνέχθη ἕκαστος αὐτῶν, ἐν ᾧ παρεφυλάττετο τόπῳ.

Στ΄ . Καί τῇ αὐτῇ ἡμέρᾳ περί τήν αὐτήν ἀφήν τοῦ λύχνου, Τρώϊλος ὁ πατρίκιος, καί

Σέργιος ὁ Εὐκρατᾶς, ὁ ἐπί τῆς τραπέζης τῆς βασιλικῆς, παρεγένοντο πρός τόν δοῦλον Θεοῦ τόν γέροντα, καί καθίσαντες, ἐκέλευσαν καί αὐτόν καθίσαι, καί εἶπον πρός αὐτόν· Εἰπέ ἡμῖν, κῦρι ἀββᾶ, τήν μεταξύ σοῦ καί Πύῤῥου γενομένην ἐν Ἀφρικῇ καίῬώμῃ περί τῶν δογμάτων κίνησιν· καί ποίοις αὐτόν ἔπεισας ἀναθεματίσαι τό δόγμα τό ἴδιον, καί τῶ σῷ συνθέσθαι. Καί ἀφηγήσατο αὐτοῖς πάντα καθεξῆς, ὅσα ἡ μνήμη ἀνέσωσε. Καί τοῦτο εἶπεν, ὅτι Ἐγώ δόγμα ἴδιον οὐκ ἔχω, ἀλλά τό κοινόν τῆς Ἐκκλησίας τῆς καθολικῆς. Οὐ γάρ ἐκίνησα φωνήν τήν οἱανοῦν, ἵνα ἴδιόν μου λέγηται δόγμα· καί μετά τήν ἀφήγησιν λέγουσιν αὐτῷ· Οὐ κοινωνεῖς τῷ θρόνῳ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως; Καί εἶπεν· Οὐ κοινωνῶ. ∆ιά ποίαν οὐ κοινωνεῖς αἰτίαν, εἶπον; Ἀπεκρίθη· Ὅτι τάς ἁγίας τέσσαρας συνόδους ἐξέβαλον διά τῶν ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ γενομένων ἐννέα κεφαλαίων· καί διά τῆς ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ πόλει γενομένης παρά Σεργίου ἐκθέσεως, καί διά τοῦτο προσεχῶς ἐπί τῆς ἕκτης ἰνδικτιῶνος ἐκτεθέντος τύπου· καί ὅτι ἅπερ ἐδογμάτισαν διά τῶν κεφαλαίων, διά τῆς ἐκθέσεως κατέκριναν· καί ἅπερ