ABSTRACT
This little tract was appended to Theodoret’s Letter 151 to the Eastern Monks written in the winter of 431-2 (see PG 83, 1433-40). As Marcel Richard has conclusively proved, the tract was composed much later, after the Eranistes. According to Richard, Theodoret wrote this tract shortly before the Latrocinium (449), during the period when his orthodoxy was repeatedly questioned by the increasingly strong Monophysite party.1 It is therefore possible that, after having been confined to his see by the imperial decision, Theodoret tries to summarise his answer to the main charge of teaching ‘two sons’, which Dioscorus and his band repeatedly brought against him.
