And once Tarasios and the distinguished delegates of the apostolic sees reached the abodes of their holy church and encouraged their flock with divinely judged preaching lessons, neither before, during, nor after the [Seventh Ecumenical] council did they bring forth an ill-judged accusation concerning the former heresy against members of the clergy or those presiding over a bishopric; nor did they excommunicate from the ecclesiastical pasture those ordained by heretics, but, following the dispensations of the synods and the Fathers, they embraced with open arms as brothers and fellow prelates those who had returned to the pious belief and deemed each worthy of his own see and office; and those who were in some way [spiritually] crippled and looked askance at [true] faith, but did later repudiate their sin and deny their former blameworthy opinion by writs and anathemas, they embraced with similar feelings and established [them] in their proper sees. Thus they preserved the ecumenical Church in a state of peace and waveless calm.
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