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.Now that they have become familiar, theyvomit forth the foul teachings of Satan, which together with them wesubject to anathema as being foul and spurious and alien to the CatholicChurch.To Peter, the leader of the heresy of the Messalians or Lycopetrians,4 1 Tim.4.1 5.5 1 Tim.3.6.6 The confusion between Manichaeans, Messalians and Bogomils is widespread in thesources.It may reflect the use of archaic descriptions of heretics, but sometimes therePis also confusion in the doctrines attributed to more recent heresy.See [23] below.136 THE SYNODIKON OF ORTHODOXYPhoundatai or Bogomils, who called himself Christ and promised thathe would rise again from the dead, and for this reason was calledLycopetrus [wolf Peter], because when he was justly buried understones through his infinite sorceries and foul deeds, he promised hiswretched followers that he would rise again after three days: as theysurrounded his abominable remains, after three days he appeared therelike a wolf emerging from the heap of stones, anathema.7To Tychicus his fellow-initiate and disciple,8 who destroyed and misin-terpreted other holy scriptures, especially the whole of the gospel of StMatthew, misinterpreting all the sayings which concern God the Fatheras well as those about the Holy Spirit, applying them to his spiritualfather, and so perverted the glory of God to the leaders of his abomi-nable sect, anathema.9To Dadoes, Sabas, Adelphius, Hermas, Simeon and the rest whovomited forth the poison of such heresy and led astray the more rusticpeople, both men and women, and plunged them into the pit of destruc-tion, anathema.10To those who say of the holy and life-giving Trinity that is God theFather and the incarnate Word, the son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ,and the most Holy Spirit that there is some other trinity, or again asuperior power seated on the uppermost of the seven heavens, in accord-ance with their abominable apocryphal Vision of Isaiah , anathema.11To those who introduce other scriptures besides those uttered by theHoly Spirit and handed down to us by the holy fathers, anathema.To those who say that marriage in the Lord and eating meat as Godallows are abominable to God and therefore forbid them both,anathema.To those who reject the prayers and hymns which have been handeddown to us, first by the holy apostles and then in succession by the holy7 For Peter Lycopetrus and the various legends associated with him see EP [19] andnote 49.The charge that heretical leaders had falsely promised their own resurrectionis found made against Simon Magus in Hippolytus, Refutatio, VI.20.2 3.8 Presumably Sergius/Tychicus, for whom see Peter of Sicily [7], cc.132 73 and notethere.9 The heretical commentary on the gospel of St Matthew cited in EZ [25], cc.28 52does not fit this description.10 These five names are cited from earlier anti-Messalian material; see St John ofDamascus, De haeresibus (PG 94, col.735 B8).11 The Vision of Isaiah is available in translation in Wakefield and Evans, Heresies of theHigh Middle Ages, no.56 (pp.447 64).137 CHRISTIAN DUALIST HERESIESand blessed fathers and teachers of the Church, to those who reject andattack all these as vain repetitions, and in the beginning of their separa-tion from God, teach men only to use the Our Father with prostrationto the ground, without the sign of the Lord s cross on the face, on thepretext that this prayer was transmitted by our Lord Christ, but inreality to invoke their abominable father Satan (for it is for this reasonthat they reject the sign of the cross as well, and cannot bear to hear theancient final sentence12 transmitted by the inspired luminaries andteachers of the Church, to the glory of the holy and consubstantialTrinity, for Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, Father, Sonand Holy Spirit ); to those who think and teach thus and persist to theend in their perverse position, anathema.To those who detest gatherings in church and take their seats in privateplaces and there teach, on the excuse of quiet, but in reality so that theirabominable errors may remain unrecognized and unrefuted, so that inthis way they might pour out in a corner all the poison of their heresy tothose they have led into error, to all who persist in such error to the end,anathema.To those who attack the tradition of building churches to the glory ofGod, which has been handed down to us by the apostles, as works ofmen s hands, and similarly reject the venerable setting-up of the sacredand holy icons and their honour and veneration, to those wholly corruptand gangrenous ones, anathema [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.Now that they have become familiar, theyvomit forth the foul teachings of Satan, which together with them wesubject to anathema as being foul and spurious and alien to the CatholicChurch.To Peter, the leader of the heresy of the Messalians or Lycopetrians,4 1 Tim.4.1 5.5 1 Tim.3.6.6 The confusion between Manichaeans, Messalians and Bogomils is widespread in thesources.It may reflect the use of archaic descriptions of heretics, but sometimes therePis also confusion in the doctrines attributed to more recent heresy.See [23] below.136 THE SYNODIKON OF ORTHODOXYPhoundatai or Bogomils, who called himself Christ and promised thathe would rise again from the dead, and for this reason was calledLycopetrus [wolf Peter], because when he was justly buried understones through his infinite sorceries and foul deeds, he promised hiswretched followers that he would rise again after three days: as theysurrounded his abominable remains, after three days he appeared therelike a wolf emerging from the heap of stones, anathema.7To Tychicus his fellow-initiate and disciple,8 who destroyed and misin-terpreted other holy scriptures, especially the whole of the gospel of StMatthew, misinterpreting all the sayings which concern God the Fatheras well as those about the Holy Spirit, applying them to his spiritualfather, and so perverted the glory of God to the leaders of his abomi-nable sect, anathema.9To Dadoes, Sabas, Adelphius, Hermas, Simeon and the rest whovomited forth the poison of such heresy and led astray the more rusticpeople, both men and women, and plunged them into the pit of destruc-tion, anathema.10To those who say of the holy and life-giving Trinity that is God theFather and the incarnate Word, the son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ,and the most Holy Spirit that there is some other trinity, or again asuperior power seated on the uppermost of the seven heavens, in accord-ance with their abominable apocryphal Vision of Isaiah , anathema.11To those who introduce other scriptures besides those uttered by theHoly Spirit and handed down to us by the holy fathers, anathema.To those who say that marriage in the Lord and eating meat as Godallows are abominable to God and therefore forbid them both,anathema.To those who reject the prayers and hymns which have been handeddown to us, first by the holy apostles and then in succession by the holy7 For Peter Lycopetrus and the various legends associated with him see EP [19] andnote 49.The charge that heretical leaders had falsely promised their own resurrectionis found made against Simon Magus in Hippolytus, Refutatio, VI.20.2 3.8 Presumably Sergius/Tychicus, for whom see Peter of Sicily [7], cc.132 73 and notethere.9 The heretical commentary on the gospel of St Matthew cited in EZ [25], cc.28 52does not fit this description.10 These five names are cited from earlier anti-Messalian material; see St John ofDamascus, De haeresibus (PG 94, col.735 B8).11 The Vision of Isaiah is available in translation in Wakefield and Evans, Heresies of theHigh Middle Ages, no.56 (pp.447 64).137 CHRISTIAN DUALIST HERESIESand blessed fathers and teachers of the Church, to those who reject andattack all these as vain repetitions, and in the beginning of their separa-tion from God, teach men only to use the Our Father with prostrationto the ground, without the sign of the Lord s cross on the face, on thepretext that this prayer was transmitted by our Lord Christ, but inreality to invoke their abominable father Satan (for it is for this reasonthat they reject the sign of the cross as well, and cannot bear to hear theancient final sentence12 transmitted by the inspired luminaries andteachers of the Church, to the glory of the holy and consubstantialTrinity, for Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, Father, Sonand Holy Spirit ); to those who think and teach thus and persist to theend in their perverse position, anathema.To those who detest gatherings in church and take their seats in privateplaces and there teach, on the excuse of quiet, but in reality so that theirabominable errors may remain unrecognized and unrefuted, so that inthis way they might pour out in a corner all the poison of their heresy tothose they have led into error, to all who persist in such error to the end,anathema.To those who attack the tradition of building churches to the glory ofGod, which has been handed down to us by the apostles, as works ofmen s hands, and similarly reject the venerable setting-up of the sacredand holy icons and their honour and veneration, to those wholly corruptand gangrenous ones, anathema [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]