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of the Godhead; but in the act of mercy, that of the double energy concurs; and so I was sensible of two energies." Did I not similarly hear Cyril, the most holy teacher of Alexandria, "For we will not grant that there is one natural energy of God and creature."

0177 These, or certain of these, she decrees are not holy, nor approved mystagogues of the Church; but also declares their renowned confession concerning two wills and energies to be impious, and alien to Christian dogma. For she confirms our argument by saying these things. Likewise, that the saying of two energies scandalizes many, as it has not been said by any of the holy and approved mystagogues of the Church, but indeed that it follows from this to profess two wills that are contrary to each other; and hence that two are introduced who will contrary things; which is impious and alien to Christian dogma." Behold clearly, and with a bare head, as it is said, she defines that it is not of holy, nor of approved mystagogues of the Church, to profess two wills, and the energies corresponding in number to them; but rather of the impious, as being impious and alien, as she says, to Christian dogma; and introducing two who will contrary things (15Α_232> to those who preach these things. That is, the two wills, and the energies equal in number to them, of the Fathers moved by the Spirit, whom she has not leaped to follow, or to call these holy, or at all to profess these things according to them and with them, for the confirmation of the mystery of Christ our God in the flesh. But to whom and who were those concerning whom and to whom she said that the phrase of one energy was spoken, and that in this, as in all things, she follows to confess the one will of Christ our God, have been shown to be manifestly both the champions of confusion and the leaders of division.

For example, for it is not inappropriate for confirmation to survey again briefly, Apollinaris the impious, fighting against God thus: For Christ is one, moved by the divine will alone, inasmuch as we know His energy is one, and having no difference in willing. Polemon, the enemy of truth. "He has done all things by an immutable divine will; but not that one is divine, and the other deified, according to Gregory the Cappadocian." And, "He who speaks of two wills of Christ, according to those puffed up of old and now, either introduces two certain Christs for the one, or teaches that He is in conflict with Himself." Themistius the lawless, 'But let us consider the one will of Emmanuel as one, how it is moved in one way humanly, and in another way divinely;' and, 'I say there is one knowledge and one energy of Emmanuel, just as also there is one will.' Theodore the God-smitten, 'He showed that the will is one, the energy one, brought forth according to one and the same authority.' Nestorius the thrice-smitten, 'Wherefore also we see their will is one, and their energy and dominion.' Paul, who is also a Persian in opinion, 'The union is according to good pleasure, maintained by an identity of counsel and opinion;' and, 'The mystery of good pleasure is demonstrated by a single volition.' These indeed, the accursed and impious, she defines as holy Fathers. (15Α_234> These she knows as approved mystagogues of the Church, whom having followed in all things, and in this, and defining one will and energy of Christ our God, she both confuses and divides the account of the economy in like manner to them.

0180 How then, thinking the things of the opponents, has she supposed that she thinks otherwise, setting her votes interchangeably, and choosing and preferring what is not to what is? For indeed, with truth judging, not injustice, it is surely clear to everyone that he is in agreement and accord with them, not who says what they do not say, but who professes what they dogmatize. If indeed heterodoxy is disagreement, but agreement is

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θεότητος· περί δέ τήν ἐλεημοσύνην, συντρέχει τό τῆς διπλῆς ἐνεργείας· καί δύο λοιπόν ἐνεργειῶν ᾐσθόμην». Οὐ Κύριλλον ὁμοίως τόν Ἀλεξανδρείας ἱερώτατον καθηγητήν, "Οὐ γάρ μίαν δήπου εἶναι φυσικήν τήν ἐνέργειαν δώσομεν Θεοῦ καί ποιήματος».

0177 Τούτους, ἤ τινας τούτων, οὐχ ἁγίους, οὔτε μήν ἐγκρίτους εἶναι διαγορεύει τῆς Ἐκκλησίας μυσταγωγούς· ἀλλά καί τήν αὐτῶν περί τε θελήματων δύο καί ἐνεργειῶν περίδοξον ὁμολογίαν, δυσσεβῆ τυγχάνειν, καί ἀλλοτρίαν τοῦ Χριστιανικοῦ δόγματος ἀποφαίνεται. Πιστοῦται γάρ τάδε φάσκουσα τόν λόγον ἡμῖν. Ὡσαύτως δέ καί τήν τῶν δύο ἐνεργειῶν ῥῆσιν πολλούς σκανδαλίζειν, ὡς μήτε τινί τῶν ἁγίων καί ἐγκρίτων τῆς Ἐκκλησίας μυσταγωγῶν εἰρημένην, ἀλλά γάρ καί ἕπεσθαι αὐτῇ τό δύο πρεσβεύειν θελήματα ἐναντίως πρός ἄλληλα ἔχοντα· καί ἐντεῦθεν δύο, τούς τἀναντία θέλοντας εἰσάγεσθαι· ὅπερ δυσσεβές ὑπάρχει καί ἀλλότριον τοῦ Χριστιανικοῦ δόγματος" Ἰδού σαφῶς, καί γυμνῇ τῇ κεφαλῇ, τό δή λεγόμενον, οὐχ ἁγίων ὑπάρχειν, οὔτε μήν ἐγκρίτων ὁρίζεται τῆς Ἐκκλησίας μυσταγωγῶν, τό δύο πρεσβεύειν θελήματα, καί τάς κατ᾿ αὐτήν ἡγουμένας ἰσαρίθμους αὐτοῖς ἐνεργείας· δυσσεβῶν δέ μᾶλλον, ὡς δυσσεβές, καί ἀλλότριον, ᾗ φησι, τοῦ Χριστιανικοῦ δόγματος· καί δύο τούς τἀναντία (15Α_232> θέλοντας ἐπεισάγον τοῖς ταῦτα κηρύττουσιν. Ἤγουν τά δύο θελήματα, καί τάς ἰσαρίθμους αὐτοῖς ἐνεργείας πνευματοκινήτοις Πατράσιν, οἷς οὐδέ ἥλατο κατακολουθεῖν, ἤ ἁγίους τούτους ἀποκαλεῖν, ἤ ὅλως κατ' ἐκείνους σύν ἐκείνοις ταῦτα πρεσβεύειν, εἰς τήν τοῦ κατά σάρκα Χριστοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ μυστηρίου βεβαίωσιν. Ἀλλά τίσι καί τίνας τούς περί ὧνκαί οἷς ἔφησεν τήν τῆς μιᾶς ἐνεργείας εἰρῆσθαι φωνήν, καί ἀκολουθεῖν ἐν τούτῳ καθά καί ἐν πᾶσι πρός τό ἕν θέλημα Χριστοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ ὁμολογεῖν, οἵ τε περιφανῶς ὄντες διεδείχθησαν, οἵ τε τῆς συγχύσεως πρόμαχοι καί τῆς διαιρέσεως ἡγεμόνες.

Οἷον, οὐκ ἀπεικῶς γάρ εἰς πίστωσιν καί αὖθις ἐπιτόμως ἐπιδραμεῖν, Ἀπολινάριος ὁ δυσσεβής τάδε θεομαχῶν· Εἷς γάρ ὁ Χριστός, θεϊκῷ θελήματι μόνῳ κινούμενος, καθό καί μίαν οἴδαμεν αὐτοῦ τήν ἐνέργειαν, καί μηδεμίαν ἔχων ἐν τῷ θέλειν διαφοράν. Πολέμων ὁ τῆς ἀληθείας πολέμιος. "Ἀτρέπτῳ θελήματι θεϊκῷ πάντα πεποίηκεν· ἀλλ᾿ οὐ τό μέν, θεῖον· τό δέ, θεωθέν, κατά τόν Καππαδόκην Γρηγόριον». Καί, " Ὁ δύο θελήματα λέγων Χριστοῦ, κατά τούς πάλαι καί νῦν φυσωμένους, ἤ τόν ἕνα δύο τινάς εἰσάγει Χριστούς, ἤ τόν ἑαυτῷ διδάσκει μαχόμενον. Θεμίστιος ὁ ἀθέμιτος, Ἀλλ᾿ ἰσώμεθα τήν ὡς ἑνός μίαν θέλησιν τοῦ Ἐμμανουήλ, πῆ μέν, ἀνθρωπικῶς κινεῖσθαι, πῆ δέ, θεοπρεπῶς· καί, Μίαν φημί τοῦ Ἐμμανουήλ, τήν γνῶσιν καί τήν ἐνέργειαν, καθά καί τήν θέλησιν. Θεόδωρος ὁ θεόπληξ, Ἔδειξε μίαν εἶναι τήν θελησιν, μίαν τήν ἐνέργειαν, κατά μίαν καί τήν αὐτήν ἐξουσίαν προαγομένην. Νεστόριος ὁ πάμπληξ, ∆ιό καί μίαν αὐτῶν τήν θέλησιν, ἐνέργειάν τε καί δεσποτείαν ὁρῶμεν. Παῦλος ὁ καί τήν γνώμην Πέρσης, Κατ᾿ εὐδοκίαν ἡ ἕνωσις, βουλῆς καί γνώμης ταυτότητι κρατουμένη· καί, Τό τῆς εὐδοκίας μυστήριον μοναδικῆς βουλήσεως διαδείκνυται. Τούτους δή τούς ἐναγεῖς καί ἀλάστορας, Πατέρας ἁγίους ὁρίζεται. (15Α_234> Τούτοις ἐγκρίτους οἶδε τῆς Ἐκκλησίας μυσταγωγούς, οἶς ἐν πᾶσι, κἄν τούτῳ κατακολουθήσασα, καί μίαν Χριστοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ συνοριζομένη θέλησιν καί ἐνέργειαν, τόν τῆς οἰκονομίας ὁμοίως αὐτοῖς συγχεῖ τε καί διατέμνει λόγον.

0180 Πῶς οὖν, τά τῶν ἐναντίων φρονοῦσα, φρονεῖν ἑτέρως ὑπείληφεν, ἀναλλάξ τιθεμένη τάς ψήφους· καί τοῦ ὄντος τό μή ὅν αἱρουμένη τε καί προκρίνουσα. Καί γάρ ἀληθείας οὐκ ἀδικίας κρινούσης, παντί που σαφές, ὡς ἐκεῖνος ἐκείνοις ὑπάρχων σύμφωνος καί ὁμόλογος, οὐχ ὁ λέγων ἅ μή λέγουσιν, ἀλλ᾿ πρεσβεύων ἅ δογματίζουσιν. Εἴπερ ἀσυμφωνία μέν τό ἑτερόδοξον, συμφωνία δέ, τό