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Bp. of Cyzicus and since 434
CPG
list
37 homilies, without counting those of dubious authenticity (
CPG
5800–5836). A number of these have found their
way into the Syr. homiliaries, in particular of the Syr. Orth. tradition.
Three homilies were published by Chabot: Hom. 23 (‘On the dogma of the
incarnation’); Hom. 24 (‘On the Nativity’, edited in a different version by
Moss); and Hom. 25 (‘On St. Clement bp. of Ancyra’). Hom. 1 (‘On the Mother
of God’, delivered in Constantinople in 428 or 429, in the presence of
Nestorius) was edited by Lucchesi. Both Lebon and Brière edited Hom. 5 (‘On
the Virgin and Mother of God’), which in the Syr. version is expanded with a
homily by Atticus of Constantinople. Hom. 17 (‘On St. Stephen the first
martyr’) is in the Syriac version attributed to
Among Proclus’s correspondence, one letter in particular became very
influential: the letter that he wrote as patr., probably in 435, to the
Armenians, which is known as the ‘Tomos to the Armenians’ (
CPG
5897). Written shortly after the Council of Ephesus (431), it
contains a balanced, albeit somewhat vague, Christological exposition, which
was understood as a rejection of dyophysite Christology associated with the
names of
Proclus’s works were often used in later Christological treatises and
florilegia.