174 HOW OFTEN WILL THE POPE BE IMPOSED UPON! tempers of the people, to the circumstances of things, to the civil state there, by persons acquainted with those particulars, than by strangers ignorant of them, and apt to mistake about them. How often will the pope be imposed upon ! as he was in the case of Basilides, of whomSt Cyprian says, " Going to Rome, he deceived our colleague Stephen, being placed at distance, and ignorant of the fact, and concealed truth, aspiring to be unjustly restored to the bishopric, from which he was justly removed;"' as he was in the case of Marcellus, who gulled Pope Julius by fair professions, as St Basil often complains;' as he wasin aiding that versatile and trouble- some bishop, Eustathius of Sebaste, to the recovery of his bishopric;' as he was in rejecting " the man of God, andmost admirable bishop, Meletius,"4 and admitting scandalous reports about him, which the same saint often resents, blaming sometimes the fallacious misin- formation, sometimes the wilful presumption, negligence, pride of the Roman church in the case;` as he was in the case of Pelagius and Celestius, who cajoled Pope Zosimus to acquit them, to condemn Eros and Lazarus their accusers, to reprove the African bishops for prosecuting them.° Howmany proceedings should we have like to that of Pope Zosi- mus I. concerning that scandalous priest, Apiarius, whom, [after] being for various crimes excommunicated by his bishop, that pope admitted to communion, and undertook to patronize, but was baffled in his enterprise.' This has been the sense of the Fathers in the case. St Cyprian, therefore, says, that " it was a general statute among Romam pergens Stephanum collegam nostrum longe positum, et gestas rei, actacitte veritatis ignarum fefellit; ut exambiret reponi se injuste in episcopatum, de quo fuerat juste depositus.Cypr., Ep. lxvii. 2 'Exciva ,ororrcr vüv, x rpómspor hv' Mecpxé).À , rpie /Air mile áar'Asrav aiimois rcsrayyixlav- mas graovsrxñsavmsç, &c.Basil., Ep. X. $ Bas., Ep. lxxiii., lxxiv. To; levApt:rou ,', esoü MO-Imlay ... 44 9avleaorámamar riexorav mñç adanerv-nç moü ea, ixxansiaç Msaimrov, Stc.Basil., Ep. cccxlix. 6 01 tai, yáp elroagor ravmsa.wç má ivmaüAa of aá xai aoxoüvmsç siaivar rPrxaysrxómspav pcma).or cia.nAsorspor aúmor; ilnyorwrar. Ibid. "Some are altogether ignorant of what is here done; others, that think theyknow them, declare them unto us more contentiously than truly." 'E),.úr,, ñpaxs a.grov mar -s 'ApsraFaavlmars esyxamaprApGSislar 404 .Ssoßrassm - rrays caaa.¢aú; ;11.4m ;" Ms.Xk,o, zed Ebeiß ar. Ep. cccxxi. ad Pet. Alex. "He grieved us when he said that our godly brethren, Meletius and Eusebius, were reckoned among the Arians." rioia ßa,ulus ;Val, mqs avmrxñç ópps' o, a1 móys dX,Mç 0ä4s ioaarv, oüms aaAür civizavmar; Bas., .Ep. x. " What help can we have from the pride of the Africans, whoneither know the truth nor endure to learn it ° P. Zos. I., Ep. iii. iv. T Deinde quod inter tantam hominum multitudinem adeo pauci sent episcopi, et amplce singulorum parochias, ut in subjectis plebibus curam episcopalis officii nulla- tenus exequi, aut rite administrare valeant.P. Greg. VII, Ep. ii. 73. " And then because in so great a multitude of people there are so few bishops, and every one's dio- cese very large, that they are in no wise able to execute or rightly perform the charge of the episcopal office among the people over whom they are set."
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