254 THE POPE NOT PRESIDENT IN SECOND SYNOD OF EPHESIS. warrant, and whereof we have a notable instance in the next general synod at Ephesus; for, In the second Ephesine synod (which in design was a general synod, lawfully convened, for a public cause of determining truth and settling peace in the church, but which by some miscarriages proved abortive), although the pope had his legates there, yet, by the emperor's order, Dioscorus, bishop of Alexandria, presided. " We," said Theodosius in his epistle to him, " do also commit to thy piety the authority and the pre-eminency of all things appertaining to the synod now assembled."' And in the synod of Chalcedon it is said of him that "he had received the authority of all affairs and of judg- ment."' And Pope Leo I., in his epistle to the emperor, says that Dioscorus "challenged to himself the principal place, ' 3 insinuating a complaint that Dioscorus should be preferred before him, although not openly contesting his right. The emperor had, indeed, some reason not to commit the presi- dency to Pope Leo, because he was looked upon as prejudiced in the cause, having declared in favour of Flavianus against Eutyches; whence Eutyches declinedhis legates' interessing [interfering] in the judgment of his cause, saying, " Theywere suspected by him, because they were entertained by Flavianus with great regard."' And Dio- scorus, being bishop of the next see, was taken for more indifferent [impartial], and otherwise a person (however afterward it proved) of much integrity and moderation. "He," says the emperor, " shone, by the grace of God, both in honesty of life and in orthodoxy of faith.' And Theodoret himself, before those differences arose, says of him that he was, by common fame, "reported a man adorned with many other kinds of virtue, and that especially he was celebrated for his moderation of mind."' It is true that the legates of Pope Leo took in dudgeon this pre- ferment of Dioscorus; and, if we may give credence to Liberatus, " would not sit down in the synod, because the presession [president- ship] was not given to their holy see."' And afterwards, in the synod Kai Ay (vvviv) zai 'IoúT.roç 'saiuzavras Tb9rov vrx"pmr Aiov2oç, Tor+ 7715 xpsoßuTipaç 'Pá11-", t9rrvzb9rov.Evagr. i. 10. 'A.l.lì xai Ta-l* iéxx4v a'ávT4v TGIV 41011461,74* Tñ vr+v vuvaAp4olaiva) ouváSa Ti7v ar,Asv2iav, zeal Tá orpoi2e7a THl oñ Ssavs<síra aapza,asv.-4n. dale., Act. i. p. 59. 2 Trsv iEovaíav 9rávT4v si>,"lpólç orpaYl.r.áT4* xal T-ais zpra's4ç.rbid, p. 160. 'Hs *caw xaAsrP2alxsr Alrívxopaç.Evag. i. 10. 3 Si is qui sibi locumprincipalem vindicabat, sacerdotalem moderationem cus- todire voluisset, &c.Leo L, Ep. xxv. xxvi., &c. 4 'T9ro9r2aí 1-m ysyóvavr, &e.Syn. Chale., Act. i. p. 80. 6Tñ 0'ñ áyr4vúvn áx%.alo9raúd" Slà Trl1, Tor+ esar+ vim 19r1 Ts T% 2ar+ ¡.Ì00 0s1-vÓT"Tr, xal Tñ ñpAa2áT?r 9río2sr.Theod., Ep. adDiosc. in Syn. Chale., Act. i. p. 59. 8 IIoT.T.o7ç fais, xai áñ..l.4ç dhow 1psT7lç zovpss7odar Trv orle ástyr4or5v"v t-xoap5araúz tjxro2a Si ä9rav2s, iíSovur Tó Tor+ rQpavñl-a2aç 1aiTprav.Theod., Ep. lx. T F.cclesice Romance diaconi, vices habentes P. Leonis assidere non passi sunt, eo quod non data fuerit prcesessio sanctce sedi eorum.Liber., cap. áii.
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