[325] xxi. 4.
[326] Hom. i. de Anna, vol. iv. c. 1, where he recapitulates the arguments which he had used in the Homilies on the Statues.
[327] Hom. de Anna, i. 1.
[328] Called κυριακὴ τῆς ἐπισωζομένης, this last word being the name of Ascension Day among the Cappadocians, possibly because Christ’s work on earth for man’s redemption was completed by his return into heaven. (Vide Leo Allatius, quoted in Suicer, Thesaur., sub verbo “Episozomene,” and Bingham, Antiq. b. xx. sect. 5.)
[329] Hom. de Stat. xix. 1, vol. ii.
[330] Euseb. de Vita Constant. lib. iv.
[331] Chrys. Hom. xl. in Juvent.
[332] Hom. de Cæmet. et Cruce, vol. ii. c. i. in Ascens. Christi, vol. ii., and de Sanct. Martyr. vol. ii. p. 705. The Sunday corresponding to the present Trinity Sunday was kept as a kind of All Saints’ Day. See Bingham, b. xx. c. 7, sect. 14.
[333] Aug. Hom. xxvi. Gelas. Decret. in Grabe, vol. i. The word “legend” is perhaps derived from these Acts of the Saints, which were to be read—“legenda.”
[334] Adv. Judæos viii. c. 7.