EUTYCHIANS

Heretics in the fifth century, the followers of the error of Eutyches, who being a Constant i no pol it an abbot, and contending against Nestor i us, fell into a new heresy. He and his followers affirmed that Christ was one thing, the Word another; they denied the flesh of Christ to be like ours, but said he had a celestial body, which pa ed through the Virgin as through a channel; that there were two natures in Christ before the hypostatical union, but that, after it, there was but one, compounded of both; and thence concluded that the Divinity of Christ both suffered and died. Being condemned in a synod at Constantinople, he appealed to the emperor: after which, by the a istance of Dioscorus, bishop of Alexandria, he obtained a synod at Ephesus, called Latrocinium, or the a embly of thieves and robbers, wherein he got his heresy to be approved: however, in the fourth general council, under Marcian, A. D. 451, his errors were a second time condemned.