dzheremi
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This is interesting bec, a long time ago, I read a Catholic book saying that Eutyches was acquitted by the Second Council of Ephesus and Wikipedia says, "In 449, however, at the Second Council of Ephesus convened by Dioscorus of Alexandria who was under the impression that Eutyches had renounced Monophysitism, overawed by the presence of a large number of Egyptian monks, not only was Eutyches reinstated to his office, but Eusebius, Domnus and Flavian, his chief opponents, were deposed."
Eutyches was reinstated by the bishops present at Ephesus II upon their acceptance of the confession he gave there, which is preserved in various places, in which Eutyches correctly (albeit perhaps fraudulently, relative to his actual belief) stated that Christ is consubstantial with His mother. It was later, fairly soon after the council (if I recall correctly, Severus, referenced earlier, was born a few years before Eutyches died, so their lives actually technically overlap), that he was discovered to be preaching the same heresy which it was thought he had sufficiently renounced at Ephesus II. And so he was condemned in short order by the non-Chalcedonians. Ephesus III was held only 19 years after his death, so it must have been widely known in the intervening years that he had gone back to his heresy. The 500-700 bishops gathered there under the presiding bishop, HH Pope Timothy II of Alexandria (the immediate successor to the deposed and exiled Pope Dioscorus) did the right thing and condemned him by name, and all those who held to his confused and heretical teachings.
Yes, they got into anathematizing everyone alive and dead after Chalecedon and then started burning the condemned at the stake.
Hmm? When did the Chalcedonians start burning people? I didn't think that was a thing until the Protestant Reformation or thereabouts, with the Calvinists in Geneva. At any rate, that is horrifying, to put it relatively mildly. Lord have mercy.
Thank you very much the information.
You're welcome. I am interested to see more perspectives on this question, as things like this can shed a fair bit of light on how others view conciliar matters. Thanks for starting this very interesting thread, and getting it moved to a place where we can all share our views respectfully.
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