[205] De S. Babyla, c. 14-16.
[206] Hom. in Matt. vol. vii. p. 762.
[207] To the establishment of parochial divisions with separate pastors in Alexandria we have the direct testimony of Epiphanius, Hæres. 69; Arian. c. 1. In Rome, however, and Constantinople, though the churches were numerous, the clergy seem to have been more or less connected with the mother Church.—Vide Bingham, chap. viii. 5, book ix.
[208] μειρακίσκος εὐτελὴς καὶ ἀπεῤῥιμμένος—applied by rather a strong rhetorical licence to a man forty years old.
[209] μηδέπω πρότερον. This seems to prove that he had not preached during his diaconate.
[210] Ecclus. xv. 9.
[211] Hom. xi. in Act. Apost. in fine.
[212] Vol. ii. p. 515.
[213] C. 3.
[214] See the Monitum to these Homilies, vol. i. p. 699.