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the bishop of Rome, having gathered a synod of bishops, anathematized the heresy of the Monothelites. Likewise also in Africa and Byzacium and Numidia and Mauritania, various bishops, having gathered together, anathematized the Monophysites. And when John of Rome fell asleep, Theodore was ordained pope in his place. But Pyrrhus, having reached Africa, was confronted by the most holy abba Maximus, venerable for his monastic achievements, and by the divinely-inspired hierarchs there, who, having refuted and persuaded him, sent him to Pope Theodore in Rome. And having delivered a document of orthodoxy to the pope, he was received by him. But having withdrawn from Rome and gone to Ravenna, like a dog he returned to his own vomit. When Pope Theodore learned this, having summoned the full body of the church and gone to the tomb of the chief of the apostles, having requested the divine chalice, and having added a drop from the life-giving blood of Christ to the ink, with his own hand he effected the deposition of Pyrrhus and those who communed with him. But when Pyrrhus reached Constantinople, and Paul died, the audacious heterodox installed Pyrrhus again on the throne of Constantinople. And when Pope Theodore died, the most holy Martin was ordained in Rome. And when Maximus arrived from Africa in Rome and incited Pope Martin to zeal, having gathered a synod of 150 bishops, they anathematized Sergius and Pyrrhus, Cyrus and Paul, and they clarified 332 and proclaimed the two wills and energies of Christ our God in the 9th year of the reign of Constans, grandson of Heraclius, in the 8th indiction. Who, upon learning this and being filled with anger, brought both the holy Martin and Maximus to Constantinople, and having tortured them, sent them into exile in Cherson and its regions; and he punished many of the western bishops. After the exile of Martin, Agatho was ordained pope of Rome, who, moved by zeal for God, himself also having gathered a holy synod, renounced the heresy of the Monothelites, clarifying the two wills and energies. And so, with the church being troubled at that time by both the emperors and the impious priests, the most desolate Amalek arose, striking us, the people of Christ, and the first terrible fall of the Roman army occurred, I mean the bloodshed at Gabitha and Yarmouk and Dathesmos; after which were the captures of the cities of Palestine and Caesarea and Jerusalem, then the Egyptian destruction, and in succession the captivity of the inland regions and islands and of all Romania, and the complete destruction of the Roman army and fleet in Phoenicia, and the devastation of all the Christian peoples and places, which did not cease until the persecutor of the church was wretchedly killed in Sicily. Years of the world 122. Years of the divine incarnation 622. Heraclius, emperor of the Romans, 31 years. 21. Muamed, leader of the Arabs, 9 years. 9. Sergius, bishop of Constantinople, 29 years. 22. Zacharias, bishop of Jerusalem, 22 years. 22. George, bishop of Alexandria, 14 years. 12. 333 In this year Muamed died, the leader and false prophet of the Saracens, having appointed Abubacharos, his kinsman, to his rule. And at the same time, the report of him came and all were afraid. But the deluded Hebrews at the beginning of his appearance thought him to be the Christ expected by them, so that even some of their leaders approached him and accepted his religion and abandoned that of Moses, who had seen God. Those who had done this were ten in number, and they remained with him until his slaughter. But seeing him eating camel meat, they knew that he was not the one they thought, and they were at a loss what to do, and fearing to abandon his religion, the wretches taught him lawless things against us Christians; and they remained with him. But I think it necessary to relate concerning his lineage; this man from one

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Ῥώμηςἐπίσκοπος, συναθροίσας σύνοδον ἐπισκόπων τὴν τῶν Μονοθελητῶν αἵρεσιν ἀνεθεμάτισεν. ὁμοίως καὶ ἐν Ἀφρικῇ καὶ Βυζακίῳ καὶ Νουμιδίᾳ καὶ Μαυριτανίᾳ διάφοροι ἐπίσκοποι συναθροισθέντες τοὺς Μονοφυσίτας ἀνεθεμάτισαν. Ἰωάννου δὲ τοῦ Ῥώμης κοιμηθέντος, Θεόδωρος χειροτονεῖται πάπας ἀντ' αὐτοῦ. Πύρρος δὲ τὴν Ἀφρικὴν καταλαβὼν συνοψίζεται τῷ ἁγιωτάτῳ ἀββᾷ Μαξίμῳ, τῷ αἰδεσίμῳ ἐν μοναχικοῖς κατορθώμασιν, καὶ τοῖς ἐκεῖσε ἐνθέοις ἱεράρχαις, οἵ τινες τοῦτον ἐλέγξαντες καὶ πείσαντες πρὸς τὸν πάπαν Θεόδωρον ἀπέστειλαν ἐν Ῥώμῃ. καὶ λίβελλον ὀρθοδοξίας ἐπιδεδωκὼς τῷ πάπᾳ ἐδέχθη ὑπ' αὐτοῦ. τῆς δὲ Ῥώμης ὑποχωρήσας καὶ ἐν Ῥαβέννῃ ἐλθὼν ὡς κύων ἐπὶ τὸ ἴδιον ἐξέραμα ἐπέστρεψεν. τοῦτο δὲ μαθὼν ὁ πάπας Θεόδωρος τὸ πλήρωμα τῆς ἐκκλησίας συγκαλέσας καὶ τὸν τάφον τοῦ κορυφαίου τῶν ἀποστόλων καταλαβών, αἰτήσας τὸ θεῖον ποτήριον, ἐκ τοῦ ζωοποιοῦ αἵματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ τῷ μέλανι ἐπιστάξας οἰκείᾳ χειρὶ τὴν καθαίρεσιν Πύρρου καὶ τῶν κοινωνούντων αὐτῷ ποιεῖται. Πύρρου δὲ τὴν Κωνσταντινούπολιν καταλαβόντος, καὶ Παύλου ἀποθανόντος, οἱ τολμηροὶ ἑτερόδοξοι τὸν Πύρρον πάλιν τῷ θρόνῳ Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐγκατέστησαν. Θεοδώρου δὲ τοῦ πάπα τελευτήσαντος, Μαρτῖνος ὁ ἁγιώτατος χειροτονεῖται ἐν Ῥώμῃ. καταλαβόντος δὲ καὶ Μαξίμου ἀπὸ Ἀφρικῆς ἐν Ῥώμῃ καὶ τὸν πάπαν Μαρτῖνον πρὸς ζῆλον ἐξάψαντος, σύνοδον ρνʹ ἐπισκόπων συναθροίσαντες Σέργιον καὶ Πύρρον, Κῦρον καὶ Παῦλον ἀνεθεμάτισαν, τὰς δὲ δύο θελήσεις καὶ ἐνεργείας Χριστοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν ἐτράνωσαν 332 καὶ ἐκήρυξαν τῷ θʹ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας Κώνσταντος, ἔγγονος Ἡρακλείου, ἰνδικτιῶνι ηʹ. ὅς τις μαθὼν καὶ θυμοῦ πλησθεὶς τόν τε ἅγιον Μαρτῖνον καὶ Μάξιμον ἐνέγκας ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει καὶ βασανίσας ἐξορίᾳ παρέπεμψεν ἐν Χερσῶνι καὶ τοῖς κλίμασιν· πολλοὺς δὲ καὶ τῶν ἑσπερίων ἐπισκόπους ἐτιμωρήσατο. μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἐξορίαν Μαρτίνου Ἀγάθων χειροτονεῖται πάπας Ῥώμης, ὅς τις κινηθεὶς ζήλῳ θεοῦ, σύνοδον ἱερὰν καὶ αὐτὸς συναθροίσας τὴν τῶν Μονοθελητῶν αἵρεσιν ἀπεκήρυξεν, τὰς δύο θελήσεις καὶ ἐνεργείας τρανώσας. οὕτω δὲ τῆς ἐκκλησίας τότε ὑπό τε τῶν βασιλέων καὶ τῶν δυσσεβῶν ἱερέων ταραττομένης, ἀνέστη ὁ ἐρημικώτατος Ἀμαλὴκ τύπτων ἡμᾶς τὸν λαὸν τοῦ Χριστοῦ, καὶ γίνεται πρώτη φοβερὰ πτῶσις τοῦ Ῥωμαϊκοῦ στρατοῦ, ἡ κατὰ τὸν Γαβιθᾶν λέγω καὶ Ἱερμουχὰν καὶ τὴν ∆άθεσμον αἱμοχυσία· μεθ' ἣν αἱ Παλαιστινῶν καὶ Καισαρέων καὶ Ἱεροσολύμων ἁλώσεις, εἶτα ὁ Αἰγύπτιος ὄλεθρος, καὶ καθεξῆς ἡ τῶν μεσογείων καὶ νήσων καὶ πάσης Ῥωμανίας αἰχμαλωσία, καὶ ἡ ἐν Φοίνικι παντελὴς τοῦ Ῥωμαϊκοῦ στρατοῦ τε καὶ στόλου ἀπώλεια, καὶ πάντων τῶν χριστιανικῶν λαῶν καὶ τόπων ἐρήμωσις, ἥτις οὐκ ἐπαύσατο, ἄχρις ἂν ὁ τῆς ἐκκλησίας διώκτης ἐν Σικελίᾳ κακῶς ἀνῃρέθη. Κόσμου ἔτη ρκβʹ. Τῆς θείας σαρκώσεως ἔτη χκβʹ. Ῥωμαίων βασιλεὺς Ἡράκλειος ἔτη λαʹ. καʹ. Ἀράβων ἀρχηγὸς Μουάμεδ ἔτη θʹ. θʹ. Κωνσταντ. ἐπίσκοπος Σέργιος ἔτη κθʹ. κβʹ. Ἱεροσολύμων ἐπίσκοπος Ζαχαρίας ἔτη κβʹ. κβʹ. Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος Γεώργιος ἔτη ιδʹ. ιβʹ. 333 Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει ἀπεβίω Μουάμεδ, ὁ τῶν Σαρακηνῶν ἀρχηγὸς καὶ ψευδοπροφήτης, προχειρισάμενος Ἀβουβάχαρον συγγενῆ αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν ἀρχὴν αὐτοῦ. καὶ τῷ αὐτῷ χρόνῳ ἦλθεν ἡ ἀκοὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ πάντες ἐφοβήθησαν. οἱ δὲ πεπλανημένοι Ἑβραῖοι ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆς παρουσίας αὐτοῦ ἐνόμισαν εἶναι αὐτὸν τὸν παρ' αὐτοῖς προσδοκώμενον Χριστόν, ὡς καί τινας τῶν προυχόντων αὐτῶν προσελθεῖν αὐτῷ καὶ δέξασθαι τὴν αὐτοῦ θρησκείαν καὶ ἀφῆσαι τὴν τοῦ θεόπτου Μωσέως. ἦσαν δὲ τὸν ἀριθμὸν δέκα οἱ τοῦτο πεποιηκότες, καὶ σὺν αὐτῷ διῆγον ἄχρι τῆς σφαγῆς αὐτοῦ. θεωρήσαντες δὲ αὐτὸν ἐσθίοντα ἀπὸ καμήλου ἔγνωσαν, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτός, ὃν ἐνόμισαν, καὶ ἠπόρουν τί πρᾶξαι, καὶ ἀφῆσαι αὐτοῦ τὴν θρησκείαν δειλιῶντες οἱ τάλανες ἐδίδασκον αὐτὸν ἀθέμιτα καθ' ἡμῶν τῶν Χριστιανῶν· καὶ διῆγον σὺν αὐτῷ. ἀναγκαῖον δὲ ἡγοῦμαι διηγήσασθαι περὶ τῆς τούτου γενεᾶς· οὗτος ἐκ μιᾶς