But what especially strengthens us in our desire for union with you is the account of your reverences’ [The reference is to three Egyptian bishops who had been exiled to Palestine during the Apollinarian controversy, namely, Eulogius, Alexander and Harpocration.] zeal for orthodoxy—the fact that neither by a vast number of treatises nor by subtlety of sophisms was your firmness of heart overcome, but that you recognized those who were making innovations contrary to the teachings of the apostles and did not consent to cover over in silence the harm done by them. Truly, we have found great grief among all those who are clinging to the peace of the Lord because of the manifold innovations of Apollinaris of Laodicea, [He introduced the first of the christological heresies. He denied that Christ’s human nature possessed a rational human soul. He was c ...