[386] Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. III. 5.
[387] Ibid. IV. 6.
[389] Euseb. Vita Constant. III. 26, 28.
[391] Histoire de l'État présent de Jer. ch. IV.
[393] Eutychius, Ann. Tom. II. pp. 421-423.
[394] So William of Tyre reports, Lib. I. c. 3, but Cedrenus attributes their destruction to Azis, father of Hakem. I am inclined to credit the former, because, according to historians, Azis shewed kindness to the Christians, having married a wife from among them, the sister of John, Patriarch of Jerusalem, (Dositheus' History of the Patriarchs of Jerusalem); while all agree in depicting Hakem as a savage bloodthirsty tyrant; so that it is in the highest degree improbable that (as some assert) he restored the churches destroyed by Azis. Cedrenus betrays his own mistake when he says that Azis burnt the patriarch and the church together, A.D. 968; whereas he did not ascend the throne till A.D. 975.