[17] Gibbon, iii. 52, note; Milman’s edition.
[18] Gibbon, iii. 53; for an account of the character of lawyers at this period see Amm. Marcellinus, lxxx. c. 4.
[19] As Socrates, book vi. chap. 3, has done.
[20] De Sacerdot. lib. i. c. 1.
[21] De Sacerdot. c. iii.
[22] See references in Bingham, vol. iii. b. xi. Wall, vol. ii.
[23] Basil: Exhort. ad Baptismum; Greg. Nazianz. Orat. 40 de Bapt.; Nyssen, de Bapt.; Chrysost. in Acta Apost. vol. ix. hom. i. in fine, and in Illumin. Catechesis, vol. ii. p. 223.
[24] Philostorgius, ii. 7; Socrates, i. 23; Theod. i. 21.
[25] Socr. i. 24; Theod. i. 22.
[26] Athanas. Hist. Arian. 20, 21; Theod. ii. 9, 10.