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They next convened a tenth council (1) after the king died and his son ascended the throne. A party from the Sixth Council assembled and maintained that their previous gathering had been held in falsehood. The new king therefore brought together one hundred and thirty bishops; they confirmed the decree of the Sixth Council and cursed those it had cursed and all who had opposed it. They likewise ratified the resolutions of the first five councils, condemning with anathema those whom those councils had anathematized (2), and then they dispersed (3).

Thus these councils and great assemblies came to an end. They were the Christian scholars, the early authorities who transmitted the faith to later generations, and upon them all who came afterward rely.

Taken together, these ten celebrated councils comprised roughly fourteen thousand bishops, patriarchs, and monks—each declaring the others to be unbelievers and hurling curses at one another. Their religion, in essence, stood upon mutual anathema, each faction testifying against the rest; every one of them both cursing and accursed.