“The followers of Eutyches, by confounding in his person those natures which they should distinguish (asserting that his human nature was absorbed in the divine, and objecting to any distinction between the two).
“Against these there have been four most famous councils:
“1. Nice against the Arians, A. D. 325.
“2. Constantinople against the Apollinarians, A. D. 381.
“3. Ephesus against the Nestorians, A. D. 431.
“4. Chalcedon against the Eutychians, A. D. 451.”
Upon the theme of the first of these great Ecumenical Councils, the present paper will be a compilation.
A momentous era has arrived in the history of the church and of the world. For the first time a Christian ruler has come to the throne of the Cæsars.
With his chosen standard of the cross, Constantine has subdued the opposing factions—in the Roman empire, and over his vast realm there goes the edict that sets the Christians free from Pagan tyranny and persecution.
The church has grown through three centuries of stern conflict with the error and darkness, the evils and wrongs of the world, to be a mighty power in the earth.