Letter 24: Simplicius writes to Acacius urging him once more to act before the emperor in defense of the Chalcedonian decrees.
Pope Simplicius to Acacius, Bishop of Constantinople (October).
Simplicius writes to Acacius urging him once more to act before the emperor in defense of the Chalcedonian decrees. He expresses alarm at reports of renewed Monophysite activity in the Eastern churches and presses Acacius to ensure that no condemned person is readmitted to communion or restored to an episcopal see without the authority of the apostolic see.
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Latin / Greek Original
^i^Oci. Siniplicii papae ad Acacium CoustantinopolitAnum.
[/i Acacuis Petrum Mongum procul ah AlexandHna regione per imperatorem ,
amandari curet.
Simplicius episcopus Acacio episcopo Constan-
tinopolitano.
Proxime quidem dilectioni tuae, petentibus his, qui ad nos a
fratre et coepiscopo iiostro Timotlieo i^lexandrinae ecclesiae antistite
directi fuerant, commune gaudium litteris indicavi, et de fructu
piissimi operis, quod catholicus memoratae ecclesiae sacerdos est
restitutus, pariter nos gaudere memoravi; quod nunc quoque signi-
ficare properavimus , ut agnosceres gaudia silentium non amare,
Unde semper exsultans et orationum communium cupiens vota so-
ciari, hortor, frater carissime, ut rebus per clementissimuni et Chri-
stianissimum principem Deo auctore compositis diligentiae soUici-
tudo non desit; sed Petnis ab indebito sibi honore dejectus, in Ale-
xandrina regione non sinatur habitare, sed procul extra terminoe
patriae, sicut etiam nos poposcimus, frequenti eum postules sugge-
stione relegari, ne quos imperitorum*) pravitatis suae persuasione
seducat et a cathohcae tramite veritatis avertat. Quidquid autem
') G' et vulg. infirmiores. Legendum esse infirmioris, liquet ex superiori epi-
stola 11, ubi idem haereticua Alexiindriae aliquos modicae fidei inficere Bcribitur.
') h. e. nc quos simpliciorum, seu ut in proxima epistola legebamus ne qmoi
infirmioris fidei.
EPISTOLAE 12 — 14. 201
de religioBissiino irapetrabis Imperio, cura tuae dilectionis ad meam a. 478.
notitiam faciat pervenire, et nos actuum ' ad custodiam evangelicae
doctrinae pertinentium det esse consortes. Data XVI Calendas No-
Tembris Hlo viro clarissimo consule.
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