History of Armenia, by Father Michael Chamich; from B. C. 2247 to ...

HISTORY OF ARMENIA, 247
meeting in Valarshapat, from which originated
six treatises, containing rules for the better
government of bishops, suffragans, priests, and
their cono^reiiations.
About this
period a general council was held a. D.431.
at Ephesus, to consider the heresy of Nestorius,
and at its conclusion the patriarchs present
wrote an epistle to the Armenians, containing
the proceedings of the meeting, which was
given to the six translators, who, as we have
before observed, were in Constantinople. By
them it was delivered to St. Isaac, together
with a copy of the Bible. He immediately
summoned a meeting at the city of Ashtishat,
where the decisions of the council of Ephesus
were approved, and the doctrines of Nestorius
and his partizans condemned. Some short
time after,
the fullowers of Nestorius began to
disseminate their heresies in Armenia, by the
books of Theodorus of Mopsuesta, and Diodorus
of Tarsus. St. Isaac, on obtaining information
of it, again summoned an assembly in
Ashtishat,
where these books were condemned
by an anathema, and directions sent to Constantinople
forbidding the introduction of similar
works into the kingdom.*
* See Hist. Book IT, c. 59.