CCVI. Corollary I

COROLLARY I.

Nearly all the canons which Martin I issued¹ in the Lateran Synod celebrated against the Monothelites are conceived in these words: εἴ τις οὐχ ὁμολογεῖ κατὰ τοὺς ἁγίους πατέρας, if anyone does not profess this or that according to the holy Fathers; εἴη κατάκριτος, let him be condemned. Certainly nothing is more evident or more forceful than this formula for persuading anyone that the consensus of the Fathers contains the rule of faith, and that no one can dissent from those things which the Fathers have taught with one mouth and confirmed with one voice without wandering astray from revealed truth. Now throughout the whole preceding treatment we applied ourselves wholly to this: 1) that we should investigate the faith and unanimous judgment of the Fathers—

—2) report it when investigated and discovered; and 3) set forth no less candidly than clearly what was connected and joined with it. Therefore it can be lawful for no one to dissent from those things which we have thus far established by so great a weight of authority.