They further affirmed that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three hypostases—three distinct faces and three specific properties—yet within a single unity and a single being; that these three hypostases are one God, of one essence and one nature.
They also confirmed that the body of our Lord Christ was animated by a rational, intelligent soul.
He said: From the first council to this second council a period of 58 years had elapsed.
He continued: The patriarch of Alexandria authorized the patriarchs, bishops, and monks to eat meat in order to expose the Mananites, for the Mananites hold it unlawful to eat meat or any animal product whatsoever. Because most of the bishops of Egypt belonged to that sect, the Egyptian patriarchs and their bishop made a point of eating meat.
As for the patriarchs of Rome and Constantinople, along with their bishops and monks, they would not eat meat; instead they ate fish, treating it as a substitute for meat on the grounds that it, too, is an animal.
Saʿīd ibn al-Batrīq said: The concession to eat meat was never meant to allow its replacement with fish, for fish is not a slaughtered animal. Those who forbade meat yet put fish in its place were in error, whereas our Lord Christ had indeed eaten