NPNF2-14. The Seven Ecumenical Councils

The work intrusted to me of preparing this volume evidently can be
divided into two separate parts. The first, the collecting of the
material needed and the setting of it before the reader in the English
tongue; the other, the preparation of suitable introductions and notes
to the matter thus provided. Now in each of these departments two
courses were open to the editor: the one, to be original; the other,
to be a copyist. I need hardly say that of these the former offered
many temptations....