Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. THE SYNODS NOT RELATING TO MOXOTHELIT1SM BETWEEN THE YEARS 600 AND 680. Sec. 289. Synods between the Years 600 and 630. THE series of these Synods is opened by a Roman Synod under Gregory the Great, which took place, according to the reckoning of Pagi (ad ann. 601, n. 11 and 12), in the year 600, and certainly in October (not November, as Pagi assumed),1 and was occupied with the condemnation of the monk Andrew, and also with the matter of the Abbot Probus. That Greek monk Andrew belonged to the Aphthardocetae (sec. 208), and, in order to sustain his errors, had falsified several passages of the Fathers, as we know from Photius (Biblioth. Cod. 162). He was opposed especially by Archbishop Eusebius of Thessalonica (Photius gives, Ijc., extracts from his ten books against Andrew); the monk, however, also falsified a letter of this archbishop, so that it seemed to give a quite heterodox meaning. This is related by Gregory the Great in his letter to Eusebius, with the remark that the bearer of this letter, the lector Theodore, would give information, by word of mouth, on the other misdeeds of Andrew, and at the same time report what the Synod had decided respecting him.2 The second thing that we know of this Synod is that they communicated to the Abbot Probus of S. Andrew the permission requested by him, to leave by testament, in favour of his son, the property which he had left in the world, because he had been so suddenly 1 Cf. Note T of the Benedictines, at t. ii. p. 1299 of their edition of the works of Gregory the Great. s Gregor. Epist. lib. xi. Ep. 74, ed. Benedict . Former ed. ix. 69. 430 elected abbot from his lay position that he had no previous opportunity of clearing up this matter.1 A short time afterwards Gregory...
