THEODORET, G.C. “The Church through the whole extent of the earth, is one; wherefore we pray for the holy and only Catholic and Apostolic Church. In the islands, and on the continent, are churches innumerable ; but they all constitute one body, united in the profession of the same belief."(2) Interp. in Psal. xlvii. T. 1. p. 580. Paris. 1642. To the Church of God that is at Corinth, &c. (1 Cor. 1.) What the Apostle here mentions, are the remedies of the evil; they serve to unite what was divided. He calls them One Church, and the Church of God, and adds, in Christ Jesus. He likewise calls them elect, and saints, and he joins them to those who had believed in every place; teaching, that not they only should think alike, but all who had received the doctrine of salvation, being one body in Jesus Christ." In 1 ep. ad Cor. c. 1. T. iii. p. 121.
ST. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA, G. C.-" This is the Faith of the Catholic and Apostolic Church, to which all bishops of the eastern and western world give their assent.” Ep. ad Nest. Conc. Gen. T. ii. p. 413.
SIXTUS III.[1] L. C.--" Wherefore, since faith, as the Apostle says, is one, let us believe what is taught; let us say what should be believed. There is no further room for
- ↑ He is best known as the author of the Ecclesiastical History, which begins, where Eusebius ends, in 322, and comes down to 428. Theodoret was Bishop of Cyrus, a city of Syria; was connected with many great men of the age, and with them was involved in various controversies. He found time, however, for study; for few men have written more, and this with so extensive a knowledge of all the subjects which he treats, scriptural, moral, and historical, that it has been said of him, he equally deserved the praise of an able interpreter of Scripture, a profound divine, an acute controvertist, a learned apologist, and an accurate and elegant historian. He died in an advanced age, about the year 457, if not much later.
