[98] Theodoret. Hist. Eccles. Lib. I. c. 7.

So also Rufinus (Hist. Eccles. Lib. X. c 4): “Fuit præterea in illo concilio et Paphnutius homo Dei, episcopus Ægypti partibus, confessor, etc.,” but he makes no allusion to the incident related by Socrates and Sozomen.

[99] Act. Concil. Nicæn. II. xxxii. (Harduin. I. 438).—Hist. Tripart. II. 13.—Chr. Lupi Opp. I. 239 (Venet. 1724).

[100] Epist. ad Dracontium.

[101]

Οὐπω τοσουτον ἐκμεμετρηκας βιον,

Ὁσος διηλθε θυσιων ἐμοι χρονος.

Baronius labors hard to break the force of this assertion, but his arguments seem to me successfully controverted by Calixtus. (De Conjug. Cleric. Ed. 1783, pp. 261-74.) The chapter devoted to this question by Zaccaria (Storia Polem. Lib. I. cap. vii.) is an example of desperate special pleading.

[102] Concil. Laodicens. can. xi.

[103] Romans, XVI. 1. The number of women alluded to by St. Paul in this chapter shows how active they were in disseminating the faith. Junia he dignities with the title of Apostle.