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XCI. To the Prefect
Eutrechius.1801
I well know, and need no words
to tell me, how your excellency regards me. Actions speak more clearly
than words, but I have been anxious for you to know the cause of the
accusation that is brought against me. For I am suffering under a most
extraordinary charge, being at one and the same time attacked as
unmarried, and as having been married twice.1802
| 1802 This appears to be merely a figurative description of the
inconsistency of the charges, for there was no question of
Theodoret’s being a “digamos.” |
If my present calumniators assert that I am falsifying the apostolic
doctrine, why in the world, instead of accusing me in my absence, do
they not attempt to convict me face to face? This fact alone is enough
to give utter refutation to their lies, for it is because they know
that I have innumerable witnesses to the apostolic character of my
doctrines that they have urged an undefended indictment against me.
Lawful judges must on the contrary keep one ear unbiassed for the
accused. If they give both to the pleadings of the opponents, and
deliver a sentence acceptable to them, I shall put up with the
injustice as bringing me nearer to the kingdom of heaven, and shall
await that impartial tribunal, where there is neither prosecutor, nor
counsel, nor witness, nor distinction in rank, but judgment of deeds
and words and righteous retribution. “For,” it is said,
“we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that every
one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath
done whether it be good or bad.”1803
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