A History of the Councils of the Church, Volume 3 (Biblia.com)

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This work is widely recognized as a classic of ecclesiastical history. Based directly on the primary sources, Charles Joseph von Hefele reconstructs the most significant Church gatherings from the council of Jerusalem, depicted in The Acts of the Apostles, to the Second Council of Nicaea in 787. This was the period of the undivided Church, when East and West were united and governed primarily...

said: “Whoever will not subscribe it can go (to Rome to the intended Synod).” So the bishops of Illyricum cried out: “Whoever opposes it is a Nestorian; these can go to Rome!” Again the commissioners explained: “Dioscurus has rejected the expression, ‘there are two natures in Christ,’ and, on the contrary, has accepted, ‘of two natures;’ Leo, on the other hand, says: ‘In Christ there are two natures united, ἀσυγχύτως͵ ἀτρέπτως, and ἀδιαιρέτως;’1 which will you follow, the most holy Leo or Dioscurus?”

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