95. Compare Theodoret, Eccl. Hist. b. ii. ch. 31.
96. Compare Theodoret, Eccl. Hist. b. ii. ch. 29.
97. e0dhmhgo&rhse . This must be the correct reading here. The word e0dhmiou&rghse in the received text, is unintelligible.
98. The text here is far from being clearly ascertained : we have followed the emendations of Valesius, which are necessary and satisfactory.
99. These words are taken from those of St. Paul, 1 Cor. ix. 3.
100. The term oi0konomi/a , as Valesius remarks, is usually taken in a good sense. "Notandum, nunquam locum esse oeconomiae seu dispensationi nisi salva prorsus atque illibata permaneate fidei doctrina. His positis, Eulogius triplex distinguit genus oeconomiae ecclesiasticae. Primum consistit in rebus : secundum in nominibus ac verbis ; tertium in personis." Vales.
101. Valesius understands the word au0toi~j to refer to Eudoxius ; Lowth more correctly refers it to the clergy of Cyzicus, who were on anything but friendly terms with Eudoxius. See above, ch. 1.
102. Compare Theodoret, Eccl. Hist. b. ii. the last chapter.
103. sune/drion . This word does not signify the college of presbyters, but the assembly of the Egyptian bishops, who had been conyened by George at Alexandria.
104. to&mon . The epistle composed by the synod held at Constantinople. Compare Theodoret, Eccl. Hist. b. ii. ch. 28.
105. This is a manifest calumny of the Arian party against Athanasius. Compare Socrates, Eccl. Hist. b. iii. ch. 3, and Sozomen, Eccl. Hist. b. v. ch. 7.
106. For a further account of this image, see Eusebius, Eccl. Hist. b. vii. ch. 19, Rufinus, b. vii. ch. 14, and Sozomen, Eccl. Hist. b. v. ch. 21.
107. diakoniko&n . Better known as the Sacristy.
108. to_ 9Ellhniko&n . We have adopted this necessary emendation of Valesius for the old reading, tou_j e0kklhsiastikou&j .
109. Compare the statement of Josephus, de Bell. Jud. b. ii. ch. 13, and of Pliny, b. v. ch. 15.
110. This derivation of Paneas from Pan is not supported by any other writer, and rests on the mere imagination of Philostorgius.
111. With respect to the bones of St. John the Baptist, Philostorgius is supported in what he here says by Rufinus, b. xi. ch. 28, and Theodoret, Eccl. Hist. b. iii. ch. 7. As to the bones of Eliseus, we have no passages of other writers to adduce.
112. Comp. Ammianus Marcellinus, b. xxii. ch. 5; and Sozomen, Eccl. Hist. b. v. ch. 5.
113. There were two Libyas in Egypt, the one called Pentapolis, the other Libya Sicca. Paraetonium, the see of Serras, was in the latter district. That of Heliodorus was in the former.
114. By this term must be understood the formula of faith agreed upon at the synod of Ariminum. Compare Socrates, Eccl. Hist. b. iv. ch. 4; and Sozomen, Eccl. Hist. b. iv. ch. 18, compared with ch. 23. Lowth.
115. Concerning the episcopate of Aetius, there is a document, in the 31st epistle of the emperor Julian, which is addressed to him before he was actually promoted to the episcopate. It is uncertain of what see he was created bishop.
116. Compare Theodoret, Eccl. Hist. b. ii. ch. 28.
117. Compare Theodoret. Eccl. Hist. b. iii. ch. 16.
118. Concerning Babylas the martyr, see the Oration of St. Chrysostom in his praise, and compare Suidas in voce Babylas. Lowth.
119. In the year A. D. 362. The relics of St. Babylas were transferred from Antioch to Daphne, a place consecrated to the impure worship of Apollo and Diana. It is said that the oracle of Apollo thenceforth would give no answer to those who came to consult it, and that the indignities with which Julian treated the saint's remains arose from this cause. See below, chap. 12, and comp. Rufinus, Eccl. Hist. b. i. ch. 35, Theodoret, Eccl. Hist. b. iii. ch. 10, and Sozomen, Eccl. Hist. b. v. ch. 20.