268 THE EMPEROR GAVE THE EFFECTUALCONFIRMATION. to custom, to confirm its definitions, in these very words: " To what we have determined set your seal, your royal ratification bywriting, and confirmation of them all, by your sacred edicts and holy consti- tutions, according to custom. "1 " We beg that, by your sacred signing of it, you would give force to what we have definedand subscribed. "' "We entreat the power of our lord, guided by God's wisdom, to confirm, for the greater strength and security of the orthodox faith, the copies of our determination, read in the hearing of your most serene majesty, and subscribed by us, that they may be delivered to the five patriarchal sees with your pious confirmation."' Accordingly he confirmed that synod by his edict: "All these things being thus ordered by this sixth holy and oecumenical synod, we decree that none whosoever trouble himself farther about this faith, or advance any new inventions about it."' Thus he told Pope Leo II. in his epistle to him: " This divine and venerable determination the holy synod has made; to which we also have subscribed, and confirmed itby our religious edicts, exhorting all our people, who have any love for Christ, to follow the faith there written."' Pope Leo tells his name-sake, Leo the emperor, " that he must always remember that the imperial power was given him, not only to rule the world, but more especially toprotect the church."' Thus, by long prescription, commencing with the first general synod, did the emperor enjoy this prerogative: and with good reason, he having an unquestionable warrant and obligation to promote thewelfare of the church, designed by those conventions; hebeing the guardian ofconcord among his subjects and protectorof their liberties, which might be nearly concerned in conciliar proceedings; the power of enacting laws being an incommunicablebranch of sovereign ma- jesty; he alone having power committed to him, able to enforce the Kai(moïf 9rap' ;vas, óprvBEïvr epayïóa 9rapáexou mñv v`¡awv iyypafcY ßavrxrxv i9rrzúpaarY, xai Ór& JEÌWY f'7aix744, acai mrav i3 ÉAOU; ELCEßaY SramgEaav mfjv maVmav 29fáYmav ßEßníWerY. Syn. VI. Act. xviii. p. 276. 2 A1mUt/posvOr& $Eíaç Lpablv L9raanl.cE(áeE[as mÓ xVpa; 9rapaGxÉapar mW 9lap/' AKA, ÉxPaYYAÉVmr iYVaroyáOáöpa. - Ibid,p.283. 3 AímoVlcEV mÓ SEÓeaq561, To; eeE a9rÓmo xpámof 9rpÓ 1cEíva m; Ópppp iou 9i4emE6.1 &aáxerár mE xai ßeßaívrv 1007L9r0U; ivaaaypápous ;pouf mcü &vayvavAívmot xam& aapauvíav moü yaxnvo- rámau 111amv xpámau; ;pou izóo0ñvar 404 9(EVmE sramprapxrr.aïf 9p41,04 1cEm& mhç Eúv:ßous ú1.4ab LarovnaErávsas.Ibid, p. 284. 4 Tolman, omf &crávmccav mÿg &yíaf maLmní unì oÌxouaEYrx;iç Ëxmní euvóe u e r nmuraÉr- mWY, SanClmllS, áa78 1.4naÉVa mav 9rnvmav ËmEpÓY m/ 9rEp) mryv 9ríamlv Épyáena0nr, ñ xarvÓmEpor ááYlaamof fosúpElaa ,anxavñaaeAmr, &c.Ibid,Edict. Const. p. 294. S ®sïoY S aEßáeparov ;pov &yín eLYpaS ißÓnaEY, G, auvUTEypáskapc5v, uni c ELOECWr ?714.2.4 móíxmav movmav éaExupávalEEV 917,o7pékevmes &9ravmn móv Qrxáxprvmov %lpemv xaòv mq ir aúmaïf fiyysypapcpcÉYn 9ríemEr aöYi9rEOAnr, &C.Ibid, pp. 298, 302. 6 Debes incunctanter advertere regiam potestatem tibi non solum ad mundi regimen, sed maxime ad ecclesim præsidium esse collatam, &c.Leo h7., Ep. lxxv.
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