64] Bafilifcus ufurped the Empire againft Zeno, this Timothy s calf_ out again, and the other reftored; and other B; hops changed accordingly in oppo- fition the Council of Calcedol/h And no fooner was Zero reftored, but` all was returned back again, and eA7uras poifoned himfelf to efcape worfè Yet did his Party make Peter Moggus their Bifhop; and the Emperour commanded .Anthináius to catt him out, and fet up 7 n.othy Salopb. again : But while the Emperours chofe who fhould have the Publick Authority and Temples, they left the people to joyn in the choice, and the Diffenters kept op their own Bifhops and Schifm. And thus the matter went on uncured : And very ordinarily it was the Pulcheria's, Teodora's, Euctoxia's,and fuch other women, the Empreflès, that by Hiftorians are faid to difj;ofè of thefè matters, and make fuch Patriarchs and Bifhops : And .thefè courfes ítiil increafèd Schifms : Of the 7oannites at Corßan- tit;ogle we fpake before. What a calamitous Schifin was that at Alexandria between the Par- ty that held Chrift's body incorruptible, called by the other the Pha ;;t (ia1æ ,. and thofè that held it corruptible called the coma pticohe, one part taking Gaianus for the Bifhop,and the other 'neodofa s; and the fecular power, betting up one, the Soldiers and the city fought it out. abundance on both fides being flair), and vet the Soldiers had the worft, and 7heophilus was forced away. In 7ftindans time When Paulus an Orthodox man was made Patriarch, he could not hold his feat without buch plots, as occafioned Rhoda' the Aridufiales to murder Pfaius the Deacon, which'
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