Theodoret of Cyrrhus→Minervius and Alexander|c. 440 AD|theodoret cyrrhus
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From: Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus
To: Alexander, Bishop of Hierapolis
Date: ~433 AD
Context: A brief but significant note in which Theodoret pledges never to communicate with anyone who condemns Nestorius's teaching, and asks Alexander to include this declaration in the joint letter being sent to Antioch.
To Alexander of Hierapolis,
I have already informed your holiness that if the teaching of the most holy and venerable bishop, my lord Nestorius, is condemned, I will not communicate with those who condemn it. If it pleases your holiness to include this in the letter being sent to Antioch, so be it. I beg you -- let there be no delay!
Letter 175
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To Alexander of Hierapolis.
I have already informed your holiness that if the doctrine of the very holy and venerable bishop, my lord Nestorius, is condemned, I will not communicate with those who do so. If it shall please your holiness to insert this in the letter which is being sent to Antioch so be it. Let there then, I beseech you, be no delay!
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From:Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus
To:Alexander, Bishop of Hierapolis
Date:~433 AD
Context:A brief but significant note in which Theodoret pledges never to communicate with anyone who condemns Nestorius's teaching, and asks Alexander to include this declaration in the joint letter being sent to Antioch.
To Alexander of Hierapolis,
I have already informed your holiness that if the teaching of the most holy and venerable bishop, my lord Nestorius, is condemned, I will not communicate with those who condemn it. If it pleases your holiness to include this in the letter being sent to Antioch, so be it. I beg you -- let there be no delay!
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.