Letters.

 Letters.

 Letter II.

 Letter III.

 Letter IV.

 Letter V.

 Letter VI.

 Letter VII.

 Letter VIII.

 Letter IX.

 Letter X.

 Letter XI.

 Letter XII.

 Letter XIII.

 Letter XIV.

 Letter XV.

 Letter XVI.

 To All the Bishops of Sicily.

 Letter XVIII.

 Letter XIX.

 Letter XX.

 Letter XXI.

 The first from Flavian, Bp. of Constantinople to Pope Leo.

 Letter XXIII.

 Letter XXIV.

 Letter XXV.

 A Second One from Flavian to Leo.

 Letter XXVII.

 Letter XXVIII.

 Letter XXIX.

 Letter XXX.

 Letter XXXI.

 Letter XXXII.

 Letter XXXIII.

 Letter XXXIV.

 Letter XXXV.

 Letter XXXVI.

 To Theodosius Augustus.

 To Flavian, Bishop of Constantinople.

 Letter XXXIX.

 Letter XL.

 Letter XLI.

 Letter XLII.

 To Theodosius Augustus.

 Letter XLIV.

 Letter XLV.

 Letter XLVI.

 Letter XLVII.

 Letter XLVIII.

 Letter XLIX.

 Letter L.

 Letter LI.

 Letter LII.

 Letter LIII.

 Letter LIV.

 Letters LV. to LVIII.

 Letter LIX.

 Letter LX.

 Letter LXI.

 (Letters LXII., LXIII., LXIV., are the Emperor Theodosius’ answers (a) to Valentinian, (b) to Galla Placidia, and (c) to Licinia Eudoxia (assuring the

 Letter LXV.

 Letter LXVI.

 To Ravennius, Bishop of Arles.

 Letter LXVIII.

 Letter LXIX.

 Letter LXX.

 Letter LXXI.

 Letter LXXII.

 Letter LXXIII.

 Letter LXXIV.

 Letter LXXV.

 Letter LXXVI.

 Letter LXXVII.

 Letter LXXVIII.

 Letter LXXIX.

 Letter LXXX.

 Letter LXXXI.

 Letter LXXXII.

 Letter LXXXIII.

 Letter LXXXIV.

 Letter LXXXV.

 Letter LXXXVI.

 Letter LXXXVII.

 Letter LXXXVIII.

 Letter LXXXIX.

 Letter XC.

 Letter XCI.

 Letter XCII.

 Letter XCIII.

 Letter XCIV.

 Letter XCV.

 Letter XCVI.

 Letter XCVII.

 Letter XCVIII.

 Letter XCIX.

 Letter C.

 Letter CI.

 Letter CII.

 Letter CIII.

 Letter CIV.

 Letter CV.

 Letter CVI.

 Letter CVII.

 Letter CVIII.

 Letter CIX.

 Letter CX.

 Letter CXI.

 Letter CXII.

 Letter CXIII.

 Letter CXIV.

 Letter CXV.

 Letter CXVI.

 Letter CXVII.

 Letter CXVIII.

 Letter CXIX.

 Letter CXX.

 Letters CXXI. and CXXII.

 Letter CXXIII.

 Letter CXXIV.

 Letter CXXV.

 Letter CXXVI.

 Letter CXXVII.

 Letter CXXVIII.

 Letter CXXIX.

 Letter CXXX.

 Letter CXXXI.

 Letter CXXXII.

 Letter CXXXIII.

 Letter CXXXIV.

 Letter CXXXV.

 Letter CXXXVI.

 Letter CXXXVII.

 Letter CXXXVIII.

 Letter CXXXIX.

 Letter CXL.

 Letter CXLI.

 Letter CXLII.

 Letter CXLIII.

 Letter CXLIV.

 Letter CXLV.

 Letter CXLVI.

 Letter CXLVII.

 Letter CXLVIII.

 Letter CXLIX.

 Letter CL.

 Letter CLI.

 Letter CLII.

 Letter CLIII.

 Letter CLIV.

 Letter CLV.

 Letter CLVI.

 Letter CLVII.

 To the Catholic Bishops of Egypt Sojourning in Constantinople.

 Letter CLIX.

 Letter CLX.

 Letter CLXI.

 Letter CLXII.

 Letter CLXIII.

 To Leo Augustus.

 Letter CLXV.

 Letter CLXVI.

 To Rusticus, Bishop of Gallia Narbonensis, with the replies to his Questions on various points.

 Letter CLXVIII.

 Letter CLXIX.

 Letter CLXX.

 Letter CLXXI.

 Letter CLXXII.

 Letter CLXXIII.

Letter LXXXVIII.

To Paschasinus, Bishop of Lilybæum.

Leo, the bishop, to Paschasinus, bishop of Lilybæum.

I. He sends a copy of the Tome and still further explains the heterodoxy of Eutyches.

Although I doubt not all the sources of scandal are fully known to you, brother, which have arisen in the churches of the East about the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ, yet, lest anything might have chanced to escape your care, I have despatched for your attentive perusal and study our letter399 Sc. Letter XXVIII. (Tome)., which deals with this matter in the fullest way, which we sent to Flavian of holy memory, and which the universal Church has accepted; in order that, understanding how completely this whole blasphemous error has with God’s aid been destroyed, you yourself also in your love towards God may show the same spirit, and know that they are utterly to be abhorred, who, following the blasphemy and madness of Eutyches, have dared to say there are not two natures, i.e. perfect Godhead and perfect manhood, in our Lord, the only-begotten Son of God, who took upon Himself to restore mankind; and think they can deceive our wariness by saying they believe the one nature of the Word to be Incarnate, whereas the Word of God in the Godhead of the Father, and of Himself, and of the Holy Spirit has indeed one nature; but when He took on Him the reality of our flesh, our nature also was united to His unchangeable substance: for even Incarnation could not be spoken of, unless the Word took on Him the flesh. And this taking on of flesh forms so complete a union, that not only in the blessed Virgin’s child-bearing, but also in her conception, no division must be imagined between the Godhead and the life-endowed flesh400 Caro animata., since in the unity of person the Godhead and the manhood came together both in the conception and in the childbearing of the Virgin.

II. Eutyches might have been warned by the fate of former heretics.

A like blasphemy, therefore, is to be abhorred in Eutyches, as was once condemned and overthrown by the Fathers in former heretics: and their example ought to have benefited this foolish fellow, in putting him on his guard against that which he could not grasp by his own sense, lest he should render void the peerless mystery of our salvation by denying the reality of human flesh in our Lord Jesus Christ. For, if there is not in Him true and perfect human nature, there is no taking of us upon Him, and the whole of our belief and teaching according to his heresy is emptiness and lying. But because the Truth does not lie and the Godhead is not passible, there abides in God the Word both substances in one Person, and the Church confesses her Saviour in such a way as to acknowledge Him both impassible in Godhead and passible in flesh, as says the Apostle, “although He was crucified through (our) weakness, yet He lives by the power of God424424 2 Cor. xiii. 4..”

III. He sends quotations from the Fathers, and announces that the churches of the East have accepted the Tome.

And in order that you may be the fuller instructed in all things, beloved, I have sent you certain quotations from our holy Fathers, that you may clearly gather what they felt and what they preached to the churches about the mystery of the Lord’s Incarnation, which quotations our deputies produced at Constantinople also together with our epistle. And you must understand that the whole church of Constantinople, with all the monasteries and many bishops, have given their assent to it, and by their subscription have anathematized Nestorius and Eutyches with their dogmas. You must also understand that I have recently received the bishop of Constantinople’s letter, which states that the bishop of Antioch has sent instructions to all the bishops throughout his provinces, and gained their assent to my epistle, and their condemnation of Nestorius and Eutyches in like manner.

IV. He asks him to settle the discrepancy between the Alexandrine and the Roman calculation of Easter for 455, by consulting the proper authority.

This also we think necessary to enjoin upon your care that you should diligently inquire in those quarters where you are sure of information concerning that point in the reckoning of Easter, which we have found in the table401 His Laterculum Pashale is meant, in which he calculated Easter for 100 years from 375. A similar dispute had ocurred in 444, in which we have S. Cyril’s and Paschasinus’ Letters (II and III. of series) to Leo, but not Leo’s answers. of Theophilus, and which greatly exercises us, and that you should discuss with those who are learned in such calculations, as to the date, when the day of the Lord’s resurrection should be held four years hence. For, whereas the next Easter is to be held by God’s goodness on March 23rd, the year after on April 12th, the year after that on April 4th, Theophilus of holy memory has fixed April 24th to be observed in 455, which we find to be quite contrary to the rule of the Church; but in our Easter cycles402 The Latin Easter cycles were calculated for 84 years. as you know very well, Easter that year is set down to be kept on April 17th. And therefore, that all our doubts may be removed, we beg you carefully to discuss this point with the best authorities, that for the future we may avoid this kind of mistake. Dated June 24th in the consulship of the illustrious Adelfius (451).