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DORYLEON (Ancient city) TURKEY
Eusebius of Dorylaeum, born at the end of the fifth century, began his public
life as a layman, and held an office about the imperial court of Constantinople,
which gave him the title of Agens in Rebus. One day, as Nestorius, then bishop
of Constantinople, was preaching against the propriety of applying the term Theotokos
to the Virgin Mary, and waits maintaining at once the eternal generation of the
divine Logos, and the human birth of the Man Jesus, a voice cried out, "No,
the Eternal Word Himself submitted to the second birth." scene of great confusion
followed, and an active opposition to the Nestorian doctrine began. There is little
doubt that the voice proceeded from Eusebius. On another occasion, he produced
in church an act of accusation against Nestorius, whom he denounced as reviving
the heresies of Paul of Samosata. (Leontius, contra, Nestorian. et Eutych. iii.)
The interest which he took in this controversy probably induced him to alter his
profession, and to enter into holy orders. He afterwards became bishop of Dorylaeum,
a town in Phrygia on the river Thymbrins (a feeder of the Sangarius), not far
from the Bithynian frontier. In this office he was among the first to defend against
Eutyches the doctrine of Christ's twofold nature, as he had already maintained
against Nestorius the unity of His person. He first privately admonished Eutyches
of his error; but, as he failed in convincing him, lie first denounced him at
a synod summoned by Flavius, bishop of Constantinople, and then proceeded to the
council which Theodosius had summoned to meet at Ephesus, to declare the Catholic
belief on the point mooted by Eutyches. The assembly met A. D. 449 under the presidency
of Dioscurus, bishop of Alexandria, a partizan of Eutyches. It was disgraced by
scenes of the greatest violence, which gained for it the title of sunodos leistrike,
and besides sanctioning the monophysite doctrine, it decreed the deposition of
Eusebius. But Leo the Great, bishop of Rome, interfered and prevailed upon Marcian,
the successor of Theodosius, to convene another general council to revise the
decrees of this disorderly assembly. It met at Chalcedon, A. D. 451, and Eusebius
presented a petition at it addressed to Marcian and his colleague Valentinian.
He was restored to his see, and the doctrine of Eutyches finally condemned. A
Contesltaio adverusus Nestorium by Eusebius is extant in a Latin translation amongst
the works of Marius Mercator, part ii. There are also a Libellsus adversns Eutycheten
Synodo Contantinopolitano oblatus (Concil. vol. iv.), Libellus adversus Dioscurum
Synodo Chalcedonensi oblatus, and Epistola ad Marcianum Imperatorem (ib. p. 95),
(Evagrius, Hist. Eccl. ii. 4; Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. i.; Neander, l. c. and vol.
ii.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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