Theodoret the Bishop

Theodoret, bishop of Cyrus (for the city founded by Cyrus, king of the Persians, keeps the name of its founder in Syria to this day), is said to have written many works. Those that have come to my knowledge are these: On the Incarnation of the Lord, and Against Eutyches the Presbyter and Dioscorus, Bishop of Alexandria, who deny that Christ had human flesh. These are strong works, by which he confirmed through reason and the testimony of Scripture that he had real flesh from his mother’s substance, which he took from his Virgin mother, just as he had true deity, which he received at birth by eternal generation from God the Father. There are also ten books of church history, which he wrote in imitation of Eusebius of Caesarea, beginning where Eusebius ends and extending to his own time, that is, from the Vicennalia of Constantine until the accession of the elder Leo, in whose reign he died. [a]