ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ

♰ ܞ Patriarch of Antioch (512-538 AD)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

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[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

Glory be to our Lord Jesus Christ and His Good Father and the Holy Spirit, the life-giver, now and to all ages, Amen.

- Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

He broke the thorn of death and He gave us the tree of life, which is the holy Resurrection.

- Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

He indeed died by the flesh but He overcame death as being God and granted us victory forever.

- Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

For this is the Unique One who endured the passions in His body and rose from death by His Divinity, as it is written that You are also Yourself that Unique One and He is not two.

- Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

...What is worthy of the Divinity is worthy of the humanity. We say that this is Christ, the Unique One, who accepted by His own will for our sake the marvelous need and inferior condition as a sign for all.

- Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

For us, we confess One Christ in His holy sufferings, without sin. He is the beloved Son of the Father by the Holy Spirit, Equal Trinity. One nature, the Son suffered according to the mortal nature of the body.

- Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

...Through the power of the Cross we have been made worthy of all these [Sacraments] as well as, received knowledge of them all

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

Let us put away from the Word who has been incarnated all references to duality, phantom alteration, separation; for the mentioning of the ghost and the alteration was the madness of the impious Eutyches.

- Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

There is no separation after the Union. It cannot be stated two natures, or two Hypostases, or two Actions. Whoever says this is denying the Union by that duality.

- Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

The sorrow of the soul unto death and the piercing of His side by the soldier and the coming out of the blood and water from the spring of life after His death; the Word received all these passions in the flesh; which is not a phantom,

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

Intrinsically imperishable became one with the perishable, which is subject to the wounds of whips, to fatigue, to the exhaustion of walking along the road, to the weakness of the body under the weight of Cross and the dryness of the throat from thirst while He hung on the Cross

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

The immortal nature became One with that which is naturally mortal. And the One who maintains the whole creation and feeds all bodies became one with Him who suffers from hunger and thirst.

- Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

He is free and far from being a phantom and from any separation or confusion or transfer. The Divinity is not fruitless in the body and the body will not disappear in the Divinity. But each one of the natures is constant and invariable.

- Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

He manifested one unique victorious nature, trampling upon death. One Hypostasis, One Son of God, is our Lord Jesus Christ. He is Perfect, without any insufficiency or alteration.

- Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

Neither were the two natures confused to disappear by tasting death, but the one overcoming death and all its sufferings is united without confusion with that which death overcame.

- Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

And neither of the natures is serving the other as a servant, nor was it attached to it like a phantom or a ghost, but the two natures are firmly united without disappearance or separation

- Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

It is not by purity as a prophet, but the secret of the Word was incarnated from the Virgin Mary the God-Bearer and He made the two into one: perfect man acting in peace.

-Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

We believe that He is one Hypostasis and one nature, one act. Neither the Divinity transferred the humanity to Him nor the humanity usurped the Divinity for Himself as its own.

- Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

He is the same Unique One before the incarnation, and also the same One after the incarnation. One is our Lord Jesus Christ.

-Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)

[ܩܕܝܫܐ ܡܪܝ ܣܘܝܪܝܘܣ ܪܒܐ ܬܓܐ ܕܣܘܪܝܝܐ @SeverustheGreat]

He has those two births, one spiritual from the Father before all ages without sharing the bed of a female; and the other from the Virgin Saint Mary without sharing the bed of a male.

-Letter to Emperor Anastasius (Arabic)