And if there be no believing bishop, let the clergy or the believing bishops, who from any cause happen to be in the country, fill the place in the love of God, even though those who repent are not subject to them in jurisdiction. "This same order and regulation Cyril and Dioscorus observed of one year's repentance for bishops, presbyters, and deacons; after which they should be established in their former rank.
"Pray for me that God may help me in this conflict; the Lord be with you. Amen!"
Such letters he wrote advising them how they should receive converts from the Proterian party.
And he became so celebrated, even with the people of India, that when their bishop died they, being of the same faith with him, sent a request to him that he would appoint a bishop for them.
But, indeed, the Alexandrians never ceased sending petitions and supplications to the king on his behalf, time after time, and stirring up popular tumult for him. For as soon as they heard of the death of Leo and the succession of Basiliscus, they sent a deputation of certain chosen monks, Paul the Sophist, and James, and Theopompus.
But the chief priests who held office from the Council of Chalcedon until the time of Basiliscus, and the encyclical |100 letters which he and Marcus, wrote, and up to the reign of Zeno, who became emperor, are as follows:—
Of Rome, Leo, and his successor Hilary.
Of Alexandria, Proterius, who was killed. And his successor was Timothy the Great, who was banished. And until he returned by means of the Encyclicals, they appointed another Timothy, called Salophaciolus.
In Constantinople, Anatolius, and his successor Gennadius, who was succeeded by Acacius.
In Ephesus, John, who took the place of Bassian; and Paul, who was banished, and who returned by means of the Encyclicals, but was banished again.
In Antioch, Domnus, and his successor was Maximus, and then Martyrius, who was driven out; and after him Julian, who was succeeded by Stephen; and then another Stephen, who was driven out; and Peter, who returned from banishment two or three times.
And in Jerusalem, Juvenalis, and Anastasius his successor.
Now King Leo the emperor died, and there arose after him Basiliscus, and Marcus, and Zeno, who had retired for a little time to the strongholds of Salmon; but he afterwards returned and became emperor, and Basiliscus and Marcus were driven out.
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[Note to the online edition: footnotes have been moved to the end. Footnotes concerned only with bits of Syriac and Greek have been omitted because of the time it would take to transcribe it.]
1. 1 Or, "being, so far as it goes, drawn from," etc. This maybe an intimation that our Syriac text is a compilation of extracts from the original Greek.
2. 2 Evag. ii. 8 ; Liberat. 15.
3. 4 I.e. Upper Egypt, see Evag.
4. 2 ... the name was taken to mean "Tomb of Osiris" (Brooks).
5. 3 Evag. ii. 8 ; Liberat. 15.
6. 2 Liberat. 15; Evag. ii. 9.
7. 1 Evag. ii. 10.
8. 1 Matt. xxviii. 19.
9. 2 Migne, Patr. Graec, vi. p. 274.
10. 4 Matt. xxii. 29.
11. 3 See bk. 7, ch. 10.
12. 5 Mansi, vol. vii. p. 539 ff.
13. 1 Leo, Ep. 156, ch. ii.
e. Upper Egypt, see Evag. 4. 2 ... the name was taken to mean "Tomb of Osiris" (Brooks). 5. 3 Evag. ii. 8 ; Liberat. 15. 6. 2 Liberat. 15; Evag. ii. 9. 7. 1 Evag. ii. 10. 8. 1 Matt. xxviii. 19. 9. 2 Migne, Patr. Graec, vi. p. 274. 10. 4 Matt. xxii. 29. 11. 3 See bk. 7, ch. 10. 12. 5 Mansi, vol. vii. p. 539 ff. 13. 1 Leo, Ep. 156, ch. ii.
14. 2 Evag. ii. 10.
15. 5 Evag. ii. 11.
16. 1 Mansi, vol. vii. p. 537.
17. 3 Prov. xviii. 3 (LXX).
18. 5 Liberat. 15 and 16.
19. 1 ... i.e. ... the province of Phoenice Maritima.
20. 2 Liberat. 16.
21. 3 Evag. ii. 11.
22. 1 Num. xx. 17; Prov. iv. 27.
23. 2 A free quotation from Eccles. vii. 16-18.
24. 4 Ps. cxlii. (Syr. cxli.) 3.
25. 8 John i. 42; Matt. xvi. 18.
26. 3 Heb. ii. 14-18.
27. 1 Orat. ii., contra Arian. 74.
28. 3 1 Cor. iii. 11, 12.
29. 4 De Incarn. Dei Verbi (Migne, Patr. Graec. vol. xxviii. p. 25).
30. 1 Athan. ad Epict. 8, 9.
31. 3 This is the best I can make of it, the text may be corrupt.
32. 4 Ibid. 7.
33. 1 Migne, Patr. Lat. vol. viii. p. 874.
34. 2 John xvii. 5.
35. 3 Migne, Patr. Lat, vol. viii. p. 929. 4 John i. 14.
36. 5 1 Cor. vi. 8.
37. 1 Migne, Patr. Graec. vol. x. p. 1128ff.
38. 4 Supplied from the Greek.
39. 5 Heb. xiii. 8. This quotation is not in the Greek.
40. 1 Phil. ii. 7.
41. 2 Luke xxiv. 36-43; John xx. 19-27.
42. 4 Migne, Patr: Graec. vol. x. p. 1117. Here Mich. has "OF THE SAME."
43. 5 This is only an attempt at translating the sentence; a comparison with the Greek shows that the text is corrupt.
44. 1 Migne, Patr. Graec, vol. xxix. pp. 673, 680, 681.
45. 2 Ibid. vol. xlv. p. 601.
46. 3 The source of this quotation we are not able to find.
47. 1 Not in any of the extant works of Pseudo-Julius.
48. 2 De Capt. Eutrop. 8. Here, and at the beginning of the next quotation, Mich. has "OF THE SAME," which must therefore have dropped out of our text (Brooks).
49. 3 Ibid. 11.
50. 4 This quotation does not occur in either of the extant sermons on the Nativity.
51. 1 Migne, Patr. Graec. vol. xxviii. p. 28.
52. 3.Gal. i. 8, 9.
53. 4 Sixth Paschal Letter, Migne, Patr. Grac. vol. lxv. p. 60.
54. 3 This and the latter part of the preceding are probably from the lost part of the fifth Paschal Letter.
55. 1 Heb. ii. 16.
56. 2 Migne, Patr. Graec. vol. lxxvi. p. 372. 3 The rest is not in the Greek. Mich. has "OF THE SAME," which must therefore have dropped out of our text (Brooks).
57. 1 Cyr. Ep. 46. 3.
58. 4 Mark v. 41.
59. 7 Pusey's Libr. of the Fathers (Cyr. 5 Tomes, p. 368); cf. Migne, Patr. Graec. 76, p. 1429, where, however, the extract begins after this sentence.
60. 8 John vi. 48.
61. 2 I John iv. 1-3; 2 John 7.
62. 3 2 John 10, 11.
Mich. has "OF THE SAME," which must therefore have dropped out of our text (Brooks). 57. 1 Cyr. Ep. 46. 3. 58. 4 Mark v. 41. 59. 7 Pusey's Libr. of the Fathers (Cyr. 5 Tomes, p. 368); cf. Migne, Patr. Graec. 76, p. 1429, where, however, the extract begins after this sentence. 60. 8 John vi. 48. 61. 2 I John iv. 1-3; 2 John 7. 62. 3 2 John 10, 11.
63. 4 Gal. i. 8.
64. 5 Tit. iii. 10, 11.
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