J/ THE POPE'S PRRESIDENCY NOT HELD ESSENTIAL 257 In the great contest about the privileges of the Constantinopolitan see,' they arbitrated and decided the matter, even against the sense and endeavours of the pope's legates, the whole synod concurring with them in these acclamations, " This is a right sentence ! we all say these things! these things please us all! things are duly ordered ! let the things ordered be held! "9 The pope's legates themselves avowed this authority in them [the commissioners] ; for, " If," said Paschasinus, in the case of the Egyptian bishops, " your authority command, and ye enjoin that somewhat of humanity be granted to them,"3 &c. And in another case, "If," said the bishops, "supplying the place of the apostolical see, your honours command, we have an informa- tion to suggest."' Neither is the presidency of these Roman legates expressed in the conciliar acts,' but they are barely said euvsXAsr "v, " to concur," and euvedpeúerv, " to sit together," with the other fathers; and, accordingly, though they sometimes talked high, yet it is not observable that they did much there. Their presidencywas nothing like that at Trent, and in other like papal synods. It may be noted that the emperor's deputies are always named in the first place, at the entranceof the acts [of the synod], before the pope's legates; so that they who directed the notaries were not popish. In effect, the emperor was president, though not as a judge of spiritual matters, yet as an orderer of the conciliar transactions; as the synod reports it to Leo: "The faithful emperors," said they, "presided (or governed it) for good order's sake.'' In the fifth general synod, Pope Vigilius, indeed, was moved to be present, and, in his way, to preside; but he, out of state or policy, declined it;' wherefore thepatriarchof Constantinople was the eccle- siastical president, as in the beginning of every collation appeared: whence clearly we may infer that the pope's presidency is no wise necessary to the being of a general council. In the sixthgeneral synod, the emperor in each act is expressly said to preside, in person or by his deputies,' although Pope Agatho had his legates there. xará ve9oarx6 ixupÓ,vap4E9 4.,ifov Syn. Chale. ad Leon., Ep. p. 475. 2 Oi Eúñ.aßierarar ivrioxoorar ißónoav, aümn Isaia v,Lñ00ç, rara wrivrtç .liy014E9, raûra waorv lepio'xu, wávrm aEávrmç imuwwAn, rá ruwmAsnra zpamçirm. Act. xvi. p. 464. 3 Ei wpoeramrEr f7 Vp4ErÉpa ilá,avoia, xa% r( worE abra; wapao26EVAävarlpJ.av9paw:aç ixóp4E1,01,, &o.Act. iv. p. 315. ç Oi .EÚ.laßioramar iwioxowar iwioxovrEç róv mówov rar, áwooro.trxor, Spóvoo Eiwo9 si wpoe- mÓ.:rrEr Ñ L(4ErÉpa rLEyaxElÓrnS, óx01.4E9 $raaoxaxiav úwaßalEïv.Act. xvi. p. 451. e Act. v., vii., viii. p. 366; Act. ix., xi., xiii., xiv.; Act. iii. p. 230. 8 BaoraE:ç ói wieg-ci wpóç Eúxoop4iav igñpxov.Relat. Syn., ad Leon. 473. 7 Ideo petimus prmsidente nobis vestra beatitudine, sub tranquillitate, et mansuetu- dine sacerdotali, sanctis propositis evangeiìis, communi tractatu, &c. Coll. i. p. 212, et in Const. Vigil. 8 npoxaAnp4i9GU Tar, EVefßEe1Óm0u ßXeri.lNf Kd9era9rÌ9oY, &C. VOL I. 1 7
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