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St Photius the Great, tr. Freese, 1920; selections

31. Codex 31: Theodoret, Ecclesiastical History

Read the Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret.¹ Of all the writers mentioned his style is best suited for history. It is generally clear, dignified, and free from redundancies, although he sometimes employs metaphors that are too bold, almost insipid. He gives a fuller account of the proceedings of the second council² than other historians, who merely bestow a cursory notice upon them, as if they were unwilling to say much about it. However, even he does not give all the details. He begins his History with the heresy of Arius and goes down to the reign of Theodosius the Younger, and the death of Theodore,³ at the time when Sisinnius was bishop of Constantinople.

Notes

See Cod. 27.
The first council of Constantinople (381).
Of Mopsuestia (see Cod. 4.).