Saturday, September 24, 2016

With God as a leader we shall arrive at the measure of the right faith which the apostles of the truth have extended by means of the slender rope of the Sacred Scriptures. Confessing that the Lord Jesus Christ, the mediator of God and of men [1 Tim. 2:5], has performed divine (works) through the medium of the humanity naturally [gr. hypostatically] united to the Word of God, and that the same one performed human works, because flesh had been assumed ineffably and particularly by the full divinity [gr. in--] distinctly, unconfusedly, and unchangeably . . . so that truly it may be recognized that by a wonderful design [passible flesh] is united [to the Godhead] while the differences of both natures marvelously remain. . .:” (Denz. 251... Pope Honorius (625-638), [From the epistle (1) “Scripta fraternitatis vestrae” to Sergius, Patriarch of Constantinople in the year 634]. . . Denzinger seems to impute an orthodox understanding to Honorius’s teachings that Honorius admitted two wills as He had two natures; Pope John IV went on to defend Honorius as not being a Monothelite [an adherent to the heresy which acknowledged only Christ’s Divine Will but did not acknowledge that His human nature would likewise have a human will] advancing that Honorius only stressed one Will in the sense of a perfect harmony of His Divine and human wills. A portion of the Third Council of Constantinople condemned him as a heretic. Pope Leo II has been cited as taking a middle ground that [without accusing him of Monothelitism] was guilty of grave negligence, failing to stamp out heresy which responsibility was due to his office.)

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