0' formed by mistaken analogy to penthkost.
0'
0' &c.
0'
0'
0' (Valesius).
87 Suspending, i.e., all violence during the period of festivity attending the observance of Easter.
88 Houses are often sealed by state and municipal officials in the East, even at the present time, when their contents are to be confiscated, or for any other reason an inventory is to be made by the authorities. The sealing consists in fastening and securing the locks and bolts and attaching the impression of the official seal to some sealing-wax which is put over them. In this case the object of the sealing was apparently the confiscation of the contents.
89 The modern El-Onah or El-Kharjeh, situated west of the Nile, seven days' journey from Thebes, contains several small streams, and abounds in vegetation, including palm-trees, orange and citron groves, olive orchards, &c. See Smith, Dict. of Geogr.
90 Sozomen (IV. 4) calls him Oueteraniwn; cf. also Zosimus, II. 44, on the way in which he was elevated and soon afterwards reduced.
91 See I. 1, and note on the name of Eusebius Pamphilus; cf. Smith and Cheetham, Dict. of Christ. Ant. Names.
92 Similar to the appearance mentioned in I. 2. See note on that passage.
93 A disciple of Marcellus (see ch. 18). See Hilar. de Synod. 61, Cave on Photinus.
94 The bishops here mentioned, according to Valesius, took part not in this council, but in another held at the same place nine years later, under the consuls Eusebius and Hypatius.
95 351 a.d. So also Sozomen, IV. 6.
96 The Ludi circenses, consisting of five games, leaping, wrestling, boxing, racing, and hurling,-called in Greek pentaqlon,-with scenic representations and spectacles of wild beasts at the amphitheatre; with these the consuls entertained the people at their entrance on the consulate. Alluded to by Tacitus (Ann. I. 2) and Juvenal (Sat. X. 1). Cf. Smith, Dict. of Greek and Rom. Antiq.
97 There were three councils held at Sirmium: one in 351, as already indicated in note 3, ch. 29; another in 357, in which Hosius and Potamius composed their blasphemy; and one in 359. It was in this last council that that creed was drawn up which was recited in Ariminum. The confusion of Socrates on this point has been alluded; to in the Introd.
98 Athan. de Synod. 27.
99 Eph. iii. 15.
100 Isa. xliv. 6.
101 John i. 14.
102 Gen. i. 26.
103 Gen. xix. 24: `Then the Lord ...rained brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
104 Athanasius reads epi Sodoma, not eiz swma. If this be the true reading, we should translate `came down to Sodom,
105 Ps. cix. 1 (LXX).
106 John xiv. 16, John xiv. 26.
107 1 Cor. xi. 3.
108 Paul of Samosata, see I. 36, note 3.
109 Athan. de Synod. 28, and Hilar. de Synod. calls this creed `The blasphemy composed at Sirmium by Hosius and Potamius.
110 John xx. 17.
111 Rom. iii. 29, Rom. iii. 30.
112 Of the same substance.
113 Of similar substance.
114 Isa. liii. 5.
115 John xiv. 28.
116 kaqolikon, `universally accepted.
117 Matt. xxviii. 19.
118 `Epiphamus relates that Photinus, after he had been condemned and deposed in the synod of Sirmium, went to Constantius, and requested that be might dispute concerning the faith before judges nominated by him; and that Constantius enjoined Basilius, bishop of Ancyra, to undertake a disputation with Photinus, and gave leave that Thalassiuss, Datianus, Cerealis, and Taurus should be arbiters
119 So in the Allat. ms., with the variant reading in other mss. Miltoseleukoj.
120 353 a.d.; but the date is given differently in Idatius' Fasti.
0' The word `ephectic
0' is derived from the verb epexw, `to hold back,
0' and was used by the philosophers to whom it is applied as a title because they claimed to hold back their judgment, being unable to reach a conclusion. Cf. also the name `skeptic,
0' from skeptomai. See Zeller, Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics, p. 525.
127 IV. 7.
128 So also Sozomen, IV. 9; but the number appears exorbitant. Valesius conjectures that the texts of Socrates and Sozomen are corrupted, and that we must read thirty instead of three hundred. The smaller number agrees exactly, with the list given in the epistle of this council to Eusebius of Vercellae; in this list thirty bishops are named as agreeing to the condemnation of Athanasius, Marcellus, and Photinus. Cf. Baronius, Annal. year 355.
129 Sozomen (IV. 9) agrees here also with Socrates; but Athanasius, in Epist. ad Solitar., and after him Baronius and Valesius, make Milan and not Alba, the metropolis of Italy, and Dionysius bishop of Milan, and not of Alba.