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actis, in Pontificio archivo custoditis," there appear no more than 200 signatures of cardinals, patriarchs, archbishops and bishops, present; and nineteen of persons representing themselves as proxies for thirtyfour others. This is the utmost strength of a synod which dared to anathematize the Catholic Church from its foundation, and to set up a new communion; and of these about two-thirds were from Italy (TT), the rest, with very few exceptions, from France and Spain: and the most flagrant of all the outrages which were there perpetrated, were the work of cabals varying from forty to sixty.-Conc. xiv. 725-938.

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TABLE OF COUNCILS.

Constantinople, A.D. 754.

NOTE (A), PAGE 77.

Εποίησε γὰρ ὁ τοιοῦτος εἰκόνα, ὀνομάσας αὐτὴν Χριστόν. Καὶ ἔστι τὸ, Χριστὸς, ὄνομα, Θεὸς καὶ ἄνθρωπος· λοιπὸν, καὶ εἰκὼν Θεοῦ καὶ ἀνθρώπου. καὶ λοιπὸν ἢ συμπεριέγραψε κατὰ τὸ δοκοῦν τῇ αὐτοῦ ματαιότητι τὸ ἀπερίγραφον τῆς θεότητος τῇ περιγραφῇ τῆς κτιστῆς σαρκὸς, ἢ συνέχεε τὴν ἀσύγχυτον ἕνωσιν ἐκείνην, τῷ τῆς συγχύσεως ανομήματι περιπεσών, δύο βλασφημίας ἐκ τούτου τῇ θεότητι προσάψας διὰ τῆς περιγραφῆς τε καὶ συγχύσεως.—Conc. vii. 436.

Σκοπητέον γὰρ καὶ ἐν τούτῳ, ὅτι εἰ κατὰ τοὺς ὀρθοδόξους πατέρας, ἅμα σὰρξ, ἅμα Θεοῦ λόγου σαρξ, μηδέποτε μερισμοῦ ἔννοιαν δεχομένη, ἀλλ' ὅλη ὅλως τῇ θείᾳ φύσει προσληφθεῖσα, καὶ ὁλοκλήρως θεωθεῖσα, πῶς διχασθήσεται, ἢ ἰδιοστατηθήσεται παρὰ τῶν ἀσεβῶς τοῦτο δρᾷν ἐπιχειρούντων ; ὅπου γὰρ ψυχὴ Χριστοῦ, ἐκεῖ καὶ ἡ θεότης· καὶ ὅπου σῶμα Χριστοῦ, ἐκεῖ καὶ ἡ θεότης.—Ibid. 440, 441.

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συναχθήσεται οὖν τοῖς τοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰκόνα γράφειν οἰομένοις ἢ τὸ θεῖον περιγραπτὸν καὶ τῇ σαρκὶ συγχυθὲν, ἢ τὸ σῶμα τοῦ Χριστ τοῦ ἀθέωτον καὶ διῃρημένον, κ. τ. λ. Ibid. 444.

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NOTE (B), PAGE 78.

ὁ δὲ τολμῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ παρόντος κατασκευάσαι εἰκόνα, ἢ προσκυνῆσαι, ἢ στῆσαι ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ ἢ ἐν ἰδιωτικῷ οἴκῳ, ἢ κρύψαι, εἰ μὲν ἐπίσκοπος ἢ πρεσβύτερος ἢ διάκονος εἶεν, καθαιρείσθω.—Ibid. 508.

NOTE (c), PAGE 78.

Εἴ τις οὐχ ὁμολογεῖ τὴν ἀειπαρθένον Μαρίαν κυρίως καὶ ἀληθῶς Θεοτόκον, ὑπερτέραν τε εἶναι πάσης ὁρατῆς καὶ ἀοράτου κτίσεως, καὶ μετὰ εἰλικρινούς πίστεως τὰς αὐτῆς οὐκ ἐξαιτεῖται πρεσβείας, ὡς παῤῥησίαν ἐχούσης πρὸς τὸν ἐξ αὐτῆς τεχθέντα Θεὸν ἡμῶν, ἀνάθεμα. -Ibid. 524.

Εἴ τις

NOTE (D), PAGE 78.

τὰς τούτων οὐκ ἐξαιτεῖται προσευχὰς, ὡς παῤῥησίαν ἐχόντων ὑπὲρ τοῦ κόσμου πρεσβεύειν, κατὰ τὴν ἐκκλησιαστικὴν παράδοσιν, ἀνάθεμα.—Ibid. 528.

NOTE (E), PAGE 7.

Εὐφρανθήτωσαν . . . . οἱ τὴν ἀληθῆ τοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰκόνα εἰλικρινεστάτῃ ψυχῇ ποιοῦντες . . . ἣν αὐτὸς ὁ ἱεροτελεστὴς καὶ Θεὸς, τὸ ἡμῶν ἐξ ἡμῶν ὁλικῶς ἀναλαβόμενος φύραμα, κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦ ἑκουσίου πάθους εἰς τύπον καὶ ἀνάμνησιν ἐναργεστάτην τοῖς αὐτοῦ μύσταις παραδέδωκε.—Ibid. 445.

Nice, II. A. D. 787.

NOTE (F), PAGe 79.

Ut Constantinopoli conveniretur constitutum fuerat, et reipsa observatum.-Not. Sever, Bin. Conc. vii. 651.

NOTE (G), PAGE 79.

Ita Sacrosancta Synodus oecumenica Constantinopoli turbata, Nicææ fuit habita, &c.-Ibid. ibid.

Note (H), page 79.

Legati sedis Apostolicæ primo loco sedentes.-Ibid. ibid.

Note (1), page 79.

Carolus Rex Francorum misit Synodalem librum ad Britanniam, sibi a Constantinopoli directum, in quo libro (heu! prô dolor!) multa inconvenientia et veræ fidei contraria reperiebantur: maxime quod pene omnium Orientalium doctorum, non minus quam trecentorum, vel eo amplius, Episcoporum, unanimi assertione confirmatum fuerit, imagines adorari debere, quod omnino Ecclesia Dei execratur. Contra quod scripsit Albinus Epistolam ex authoritate divinarum Scripturarum mirabiliter affirmatam, illamque cum eodem libro, ex persona episcoporum ac principum nostrorum, Regi Francorum attulit.-Roger Hoveden, Annal. p. 1. ann. 792. Cited by Collier, Eccles. Hist. i. 139, and Bull, Corruptions of the Church of Rome, in vol. ii. p. 279, of his works.

NOTE (K), PAGE 79.

Sanctorum patrum Episcoporum, et virorum venerabilium, . . qui in Germaniæ, Galliæ, Aquitaniæ, et Britanniæ partibus, &c. Epist. Car. Mag. ad Elipandum. Conc. vii. 1049. Episcopis universi regni Francorum, Italiæ, Galliæ, ac Germaniæ, præsente Carolo Magno Rege, atque Hadriani Papæ legatis, &c.-Conc. vii. 1013.

NOTE (L), PAGE 79.

Canon 2.-Allata est in medium quæstio de nova Græcorum Synodo, quam de adorandis imaginibus Constantinopoli fecerunt, in qua scriptum habebatur, ut qui imaginibus Sanctorum, ita ut deifica Trinitati, servitium aut adorationem non impenderent, anathema judicarentur. Qui supra sanctissimi Patres nostri omnimodis adorationem et servitutem renuentes contempserunt, atque consentientes condemnaverunt.-Conc. vii. 1057.

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Anno Domini DCCXCIII. Carolo in Franconofurt Pascha celebrante, Synodus Episcoporum magna collecta est ex omnibus regni provinciis legati quoque Hadriani Papæ in ejus vice affuerunt. In hac Synodo hæresis cujusdam Episcopi, Felicis nomine, damnata est. Synodus etiam, quæ ante paucos annos in Constantinopoli congregata, sub Hirene et Constantino filio ejus, septima et universalis ab ipsis appellata est, ut nec septima nec aliquid diceretur, quasi supervacua ab omnibus abdicata est. Abbas Uspergensis, in his Chronicle, p. 176, cited by Bull, Works, ii. 277.

NOTE (M), PAGE 79.

Quo Iconoclastæ hæretici Nicænam II. Synodum condemnarunt.-Conc. vii. 1299.

NOTE (N), PAGE 79.

Conventus Parisiensis de Imaginibus.-Conc. vii. 1542.

NOTE (0), PAGE 80.

αὐτὸ σῶμα καὶ αὐτὸ αἷμα.—Conc. vii. 449.

NOTE (P), PAGE 80.

Καὶ βασίλειος

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ὁ τὴν ὑφ ̓ ἥλιον τὴν λείαν βάσιν τῶν ὀρθῶς ἐκδιδάξας δογμάτων . . . . ὁ δὲ . . . . ἐν τῇ εὐχῇ τῆς θείας ἀναφορᾶς ὧδέ πως λέγει.--Ibid. ibid.

NOTE (Q), PAGE 80.

On the Liturgy ascribed to St. Basil, in use at Constantinople at this day, I would observe, 1st, that the terms rational and unbloody sacrifice (τὴν λογικὴν ταύτην καὶ ἀναίμακτον θυσίαν) are applied to the elements of bread and water when placed on the altar, before the prayer of consecration by invocation of the

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