Quote from Letter to Theodelinda, queen of the Lombards. July 595
For we venerate the fur holy synods: the Nicene, in which Arius is condemned, the one at Cosntantinople, in which Macedonius was found guilty, the first one in Ephesus, in which Nestor and Dioscorus were found gulty and the Chalcedonian, in which Eutyches was condemned. Ans we also declare that anyone who disagrees with these four synods is an enemy of the true faith. And we condemn whomsoever they condemn, and whomsoever they absolve, we too absolve. We strike down under the imposition of anathema anyone who presumes to add or substract from the faith of those same four synods, but especially the Chalcedonian, over which some doubt has arisen in the minds of ignorant people.
Therefore, since you know this from my open declaration, it is right that you should no longer have any scrap of doubt about the Church of Saint Peter, the prince of the apostles. But persist in the true faith, and build your life firmly on the rock of the Church, that is on the confession of Saint Peter, the prince of the apostles.
Otherwise, all your tears and great deeds may go to waste, it they are found hostile to the true faith.
For we venerate the fur holy synods: the Nicene, in which Arius is condemned, the one at Cosntantinople, in which Macedonius was found guilty, the first one in Ephesus, in which Nestor and Dioscorus were found gulty and the Chalcedonian, in which Eutyches was condemned. Ans we also declare that anyone who disagrees with these four synods is an enemy of the true faith. And we condemn whomsoever they condemn, and whomsoever they absolve, we too absolve. We strike down under the imposition of anathema anyone who presumes to add or substract from the faith of those same four synods, but especially the Chalcedonian, over which some doubt has arisen in the minds of ignorant people.
Therefore, since you know this from my open declaration, it is right that you should no longer have any scrap of doubt about the Church of Saint Peter, the prince of the apostles. But persist in the true faith, and build your life firmly on the rock of the Church, that is on the confession of Saint Peter, the prince of the apostles.
Otherwise, all your tears and great deeds may go to waste, it they are found hostile to the true faith.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 378
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