Editing Theodoret (section)

===Letters===
Compared to the more than 500 letters known to [[Nicephorus Callistus]] in the fourteenth century, only about half that number had survived to the twentieth century. Three collections survive, though there is some overlap between them. 179 letters were edited by J Sirmond in the seventeenth century. To these, J. Sakkelion added another 47 letters he published from a manuscript he found at the [[Monastery of Saint John the Theologian|Monastery]] of [[Patmos]] in 1855.<ref>M. Monica Wagner, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1291050 "A Chapter in Byzantine Epistolography the Letters of Theodoret of Cyrus", ''Dumbarton Oaks Papers''], '''4''' (1948), p. 126</ref> 36 letters have been preserved in conciliar records. These letters provide glimpses of rural Christianity in northern Syria, as well as insight into episcopal relationships; hints of the development of Christological issues between the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon can be seen; there are letters of consolation and commendation; throughout there is revealed the generous and sensitive soul of a pastor.{{sfn|Louth|2004|p=350}}

An English translation of the surviving letters is part of the ''[[Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers]]'' (2 ser., iii. 250–348).<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Theodoret|volume=26|inline=1}}</ref>