(3i6) ceeded on according toEpiphanies, was the fame with that of Noratn r ; which how it could be, ifhe himfelf had fallen in Perfecation, and Sacrificed, as Socrates re- lates, I cannot underftand. This Schifiíe of Bifhop kleletius alto it is thought meet to be judged, that we fhould give Countenance unto. All things are in like manner uncertain concerning Audits and his Followers, whom he mentions in the next place. The Man is reprefented by Epiphanies to have been a Good Man, ofanholy Life, foxnd in the Faith, full of Zeal and Love to the Truth. But finding many things =ifs in the Church, among the Clergy and Peo- ple, he freely reproved them, for Covetoufnefss, Luxury, and Diforders in Ecclefiaftical Affairs. Hereon he furred up the hatred ofmany again(t himfelf, as Chry- fiflome did for the fame caufe afterwards at Conflantino ple. Hereupon he was vexed, perfecuted and greatly abufed, all which he bare patiently and continued in the Difcharge of his Duty, as it fell out alto with Chryfo florae. Neverthelefs he abode firmly and tenacioufly in the Communion of the Church; but was at length call out, as farre as it appears by him, for the honeft dif- charge of his Duty ; whereon he gathered a great Party unto himfelf. But Theodoret and others, affirm him to have been the Author of the impious herelie ofthe Aithropomorphite, his principal followers being thofe cllonhs of Egypt which afterwards made fuch Tumults in defence ofthat foolifh Imagination; and that this was theCaufe whyhe was caft out of the Church, and fet up a Partyofthe fameOpinion with him, lib. 4. cap. io. Yea he allo afcribes unto him fame foolifh Opinions of the Manichees. What is our concernment in thofe things I cannot imagine. Euflathius
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