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This translation of a major document in patristic Christology, the first translation since the nineteenth century, is based upon the modern critical edition of Theodoret’s Greek text. Theodoret was the leading theologian of his time in the Antiochene tradition, and in the Eranistes (written in 447) he offers a lengthy exposition of his Christology, coupled with a refutation of the so-called...

Eranistes. Definitely. Orthodox. And God made this clear through the prophet; for he said, “I multiplied visions and became a likeness in the hands of prophets.”70 He did not say, “I was seen,” but “I became a likeness.” The likeness does not reveal the actual nature of the one who is seen. For the emperor’s image does not reveal the nature of the emperor himself, even if it preserves the emperor’s visible features. Eranistes. This is vague and unclear. Orthodox. The people who saw those revelations
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