[563] Socrat. vi. 15. Sozom. viii. 15.
[564] Socrat. vi. 15. Sozom. viii. 16.
[565] Pallad. Dial. c. 2 (Epist. of Chrys. to Innocent), and c. 8.
[566] See Tillemont, vol. xi. ch. 71.
[567] Vide ante, Ch. XIII.
[568] So Palladius, c. 8, on the whole the most trustworthy authority. Photius, Biblioth. (c. 59), says there were forty-five.
[569] The language is not very clear in this passage, but such is, I conceive, the drift of it.—c. 8.
[570] This must have been a slight exaggeration, but the members do seem to have been mainly Egyptian.
[571] Pallad. Dial. c. 8.
[572] Phot. c. 59. Chrys. Ep. 125 ad Cyr., where he indignantly repels the charge:—“had he done so, might his name be blotted out from the roll of bishops;” but at the same time he deprecates the treatment of such an offence (had it been committed) with extreme severity: for had not our Lord Himself instituted that holy feast, and had not St. Paul baptized without previously fasting? Chrysostom shrinks in horror from the supposition of such a gross violation of ecclesiastical rule as the act in his case would have been, but refuses to place it on the same footing with the commission of a flagrant moral crime, or direct disobedience to any command of Christ. There are, however, some doubts whether this letter is genuine. See infra, p. 317, and note.