[651] Concil., viii, 885. The most determined propagandist was the monk Zooras. His life in John Eph., Com., p. 11. "What can I do with a truculent man, who fears no one?" said Justinian, when asked to restrain him.
[652] Concil., viii, 873 et seq.; Nov. xlii.
[653] John Eph., Com., p. 157 et seq. Ephraim, who had been Count of the East, and had been raised to the Patriarchate by a popular vote, was the great persecutor; ibid., pp. 204-207; cf. Evagrius, iv. 6.
[654] When Severus was banished from Antioch and Julian from Halicarnassus, on the accession of Justin, they fled to Alexandria, and there Julian began to inculcate the heresy that the body of Jesus was incorruptible. He was opposed by Severus, and shortly the Alexandrians were divided into two parties, the Corruptibles and Incorruptibles. The latter were in a great majority, and now constituted the Gaianites. Zachariah Myt., ix, 9-13; Liberatus, 19, 20.
[655] Ibid. The soldiers were beaten, but Narses "won by fire where iron could not," that is, he burnt them out.
[656] John Eph., Com., pp. 14, 114 et seq.; Victor Ton., an. 540, etc.
[657] John Eph. Com., pp. 11, 66, 154, etc. It was opposite Blachernae. She also had a refuge for proscribed Monophysites in the island of Chios; ibid. Zooras was at first head of the monastery at Sycae, but he ended his days at Dercos.
[658] Liberatus, 23; Procopius, Anec., 27.
[659] Liberatus, 23; Evagrius, iv, 38.
[660] Liberatus, 23.