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"Taken by itself the evidence of the Synaxarium is in no degree sufficient to be set against the usual story that Flavian died in August 449. There is, however, one consideration which lends a disturbing plausiblity to the view that the February date is right. We have already seen that probably ...

"one consideration which lends a disturbing plausiblity to the view that the February date is right.... Leo would never for one moment have thought of recognizing Anatolius as de jure bishop of Constantinople if Flavian had been alive.... they realized that his continued survival was an ...

.... Oh for crying out loud, are the decisions of an ecumenical council infallible or not? The Acts of Chalcedon state in it's own words that Ibas was accepted on the basis that his writings and his letter to Mari the Persian were orthodox. So what if it was three bishops who acquitted him? He ...

"Taken by itself the evidence of the Synaxarium is in no degree sufficient to be set against the usual story that Flavian died in August 449. There is, however, one consideration which lends a disturbing plausiblity to the view that the February date is right. We have already seen that probably ...

Sounds like the bishops at 553 were trying to cover for their little whoopsie at Chalcedon. If the letter was a forgery then why didn't Ibas say that the letter wasn't his at Chalcedon?


Or they didn't believe that was the letter of Ibas, which is what they actually said.
And that's the crux ...