Commentary on Revelation & Paul 23 part 1/2

From the eighteenth consulate of Theodosius the Younger, Victor, bishop of the Church of Tunnuna in Africa, continues the history where Prosper left off. In the consulate of Theodosius (for the eighteenth time) and Albinus (A.D. 444), a deacon received the episcopate of the Church of Antioch after John. In the consulate of Actius (for the third time) and Symmachus (A.D. 446). In the consulate of Callipius and Ardabur (A.D. 447), Eutyches, a presbyter and archimandrite of a certain monastery at Constantinople, appeared, who founded the heresy called by his name. For he asserted that our Lord Jesus Christ was born of Mary, ever-virgin mother, in such a way that he confessed nothing of human nature in Him.

When he was summoned to a synodal conference convened at Constantinople, over which the holy Flavian, bishop of that city, presided, since he refused to confess Christ in two natures after the nativity from the Virgin, and to confess Him to be substantial with us according to the flesh, he incurred condemnation together with his own error; and this condemnation the holy pontiff of Rome confirmed by apostolic authority. This took place under the patronage of the emperor Theodosius, with Leo of Rome, Dioscorus of Alexandria, the deacon of Antioch, Juvenal of Jerusalem, and Flavian of Constantinople as prelates of their sees. In the consulate of Posthumianus and Zeno (A.D. 448).

The second general synod is gathered at Ephesus, in which Dioscorus of Alexandria, usurping the primacy for himself by imperial favor, absolved Eutyches after his lawful condemnation, and condemned his detractors, the teachers of the two natures in Christ—Flavian of Constantinople, Eusebius of Dorylaeum, Theodoret of Cyrus, Ibas of Edessa, and the other prelates—by an impious authority, even the legates of the apostolic see contradicting him; and he swayed the whole synod to favor himself by the sedition of monks and by military violence. In the consulate of Asturius and Protogenes (A.D. 449).

Attila, king of the Huns, after he had been overcome in battle by the generals of the emperor Valentinian and put to flight, recovered his strength and pressed on toward Italy with intolerable force; and the calamities of this the Roman commonwealth lulled by making a wounding peace. But this Attila, when he had received the embassy of pope Leo, not only ceased from the devastation of the commonwealth, but, peace being granted, withdrew beyond the Danube. In the consulate of Valentinian (for the seventh time) and Avienus (A.D. 450). The emperor Theodosius died at Constantinople in the sixty-second year of his life. Chrysaphius, the emperor's chamberlain, having made ill use of his friendship with Eutyches, was killed; and Marcian, by the consent of the whole commonwealth, was made emperor, the forty-seventh of the Romans, and reigned five years and six months.

He, at the very outset of his reign, providing for the peace of the Churches, announced by imperial authority that a synod should be held at Chalcedon. Anatolius received the presidency of the Church of Constantinople after Flavian. In the consulate of Marcian Augustus, on the eighth of the Kalends of October (A.D. 451), with Leo of Rome, Dioscorus of Alexandria, Maximus of Antioch, Juvenal of Jerusalem, and Anatolius of Constantinople as prelates, a general synod of 632 bishops is gathered at Chalcedon, where the second synod of Ephesus—not to be called a synod at all—is repudiated. Eutyches, together with his patron Dioscorus, bishop of Alexandria, and with Nestorius, is condemned;

and the catholic prelates unjustly condemned by that same Dioscorus in the aforesaid second synod of Ephesus are absolved, and the faith of the holy Fathers who met at Nicaea, Constantinople, and the first Ephesus—the holy synods—is expounded. When these matters had thus been defined and confirmed by the subscriptions of the whole synod, and Eusebius of Dorylaeum, Theodoret of Cyrus, and Ibas of Edessa had been restored to their own Churches, and those whom the heretic Dioscorus had substituted for them had been driven out, all things pertaining to the state of the Church were arranged, and they received a ratified conclusion. In the consulate of Opilio and Vincomalus (A.D. 453). Dioscorus being relegated into exile at Gangra, Proterius received the presidency of the Church of Alexandria. At that time Attila died,

and while his sons fought over his kingdom, the Huns were laid waste, and thereafter diminished. In the consulate of Aetius and Studius (A.D. 454). Aetius the patrician, first struck by the hand of the emperor Valentinian within the palace, was killed by a cruel death by the swords of the bystanders; and Boethius the prefect was likewise slain. In the consulate of Valentinian (for the eighth time) and Anthemius (A.D. 455). The emperor Valentinian was slain at Rome in the Campus Martius by the treachery of the patrician Maximus and of Heraclius the chamberlain; and this same Maximus, from being consul and patrician, took upon himself the empire for seventy days. Thus the evil that had lain hidden came to light. Soon, not permitting the widowed Augusta of Valentinian to mourn the death of her husband, he took her in marriage.

But worse evils followed these, since he dreaded the coming of Genseric, king of the Vandals, and granted leave to all who wished to withdraw from the City; and before he could take the flight he was planning, he was killed, cut limb from limb, and cast into the river Tiber. In the consulate of Aetius and Studius, and under the prefects. On the third day after Maximus was slain, Genseric, king of the Vandals, entered the city of Rome and for fourteen days stripped it of all its wealth, and carried off from there the daughters and wife of Valentinian and many thousands of captives. But that he refrained from burning, torture, and the sword, the intercession of pope Leo brought about. Also on the seventy-fifth day of this captivity, Avitus, a man of complete simplicity, took up the empire in Gaul. In the consulate of John and Varanes.

(A.D. 456). The patrician Ricimer overcame Avitus, and sparing his innocence, made him bishop of the city of Placentia. In the consulate of Constantine and Rufus (A.D. 457). Marcian, emperor of the East, died at Constantinople, and in his place Leo was made emperor, the forty-eighth of the Romans. Leo reigned sixteen years. Alexandria and Egypt, languishing in the error of Dioscorus, did not receive the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon. The Dioscorian populace, raising a sedition at the instigation of Timothy surnamed the Weasel, killed Proterius, the prelate successor of Dioscorus and guardian of the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon, on the sixth of the Kalends of April (of the year 457), on the sixth weekday of the last week of the fasts, the day on which our Savior and Lord was crucified by the Jews.

For then the Lord's Pasch was celebrated on the fourth of the Kalends of April. Proterius thus being slain, the aforesaid Timothy, surnamed the Weasel, a detractor of the Council of Chalcedon, seized upon his episcopate and Church. In the consulate of Leo Augustus (A.D. 458). Majorian took up the empire at Rome. Timothy, the intruder of the Church of Alexandria, persecuted the defenders of the Council of Chalcedon. In the consulate of Patricius and Ricimer (A.D. 459). Juvenal, bishop of Jerusalem, is armed with letters of Leo, the prelate of Rome, against the error of Eutyches and Dioscorus. In the consulate of Magnus and Apollonius (A.D. 460). Timothy the bishop, murderer of the bishop Proterius, by the command of the emperor Leo is forcibly seized from the see of the Church of Alexandria and relegated into exile at Cherson;

and after five months another Timothy, surnamed Salofaciolus, a defender of the Council of Chalcedon, was ordained bishop in his place for that same Church of Alexandria. In the consulate of Dagalaifus and Severinus (A.D. 461). In the consulate of Leo Augustus (for the second time, A.D. 462) and Vivianus, vir clarissimus (A.D. 463). After Capreolus, Quodvultdeus Eugenius was ordained bishop of the Church of Carthage. In the consulate of Olybrius and Rusticus (A.D. 464). Genseric, king of the Vandals, after the slaughter of many provinces and the spoiling and killing of the Christian people in Africa, died in the fortieth year of his reign. After him his son Huneric reigned seven years and five months. To this Huneric his father Genseric gave in marriage the daughter of Valentinian, whom he had carried off as a captive from Rome.

In the consulate of Herminericus and Basiliscus (A.D. 465). Alexander received the episcopate of the Church of Antioch after Maximus. Anastasius presides over the Church of Jerusalem after Juvenal. In the consulate of Leo Augustus (for the third time, A.D. 466). Huneric, king of the Vandals, stirred up by Arian fury, persecuted the catholics throughout Africa more than his father: he takes away the churches of the Christians, and sends the catholic priests into exile. In the consulate of Pusaeus and John (A.D. 467). A sign appeared in the sky out of a cloud, like a spear, for ten days. Anthemius took up the empire at Rome. In the consulate of Leo (for the fourth time) and Anthemius (A.D. 468). Leo Augustus,

moved by the supplications of the Egyptians that a synod be held which should pass judgment on the acts of the Council of Chalcedon, in order to ascertain the faith of each, wrote separately to the prelates of the Churches, to each one apart; and he received from each their letters, agreeing as if from a single conference, that this could in no way be done, but that rather the acts of the Council of Chalcedon should remain more and more in their perpetuity. Those exist which are called in the Greek tongue. In the consulate of Zeno and Marcian (A.D. 469). Hilary received the episcopate of the Church of Rome after Leo. In the consulate of Jordanes and Severus (A.D. 470). Leo Augustus made Patricius, son of Aspar, a Caesar. In the consulate of Leo Augustus (for the fifth time) and Probinus (A.D. 471).

Aspar and his two sons, Patricius the Caesar and Ardaburius, were killed at Constantinople by the command of Leo Augustus. In the consulate of Leo (for the sixth time) and Probinus (A.D. 473). Leo Augustus made his grandson Leo, son of Zeno and of his own daughter's wife, a Caesar, and he reigns one year. After Hilary, Simplicius was ordained bishop of the Church of Rome, and after Simplicius, Felix. Gennadius succeeds Anatolius in the episcopate of the Church of Constantinople, and Acacius succeeds Gennadius. Martyrius is ordained bishop of the Church of Antioch after Alexander, and Julian after Martyrius. Martyrius is ordained bishop of the Church of Jerusalem after Anastasius. In these consulates Olybrius came to Rome and took the empire by the faction of the patrician Ricimer, while Anthemius was reigning.

When this became known, Anthemius, turned to flight, was slain; and after certain days Herculanus, son of Orestes, seizing the empire, was killed together with his father; and his nephew took over his kingdom. In the consulate of Leo the Younger Augustus (A.D. 474). Leo the Elder Augustus died at Constantinople. Zeno was crowned by Leo Augustus, his son, at the Seventh (Milestone), contrary to custom. Zeno, the forty-ninth of the Romans (A.D. 475), reigns seventeen years after the consulate of Leo the Younger Augustus. The emperor Zeno, seeking to kill Leo Augustus his own son and to seize his empire, his wife Ariadne Augusta offered up in his place another boy resembling him to death, and secretly tonsured that same Leo Augustus, and made him a cleric of a certain church of Constantinople.

This Leo lived until the time of the emperor Justinian. In the same consulate, Basiliscus with his son Marcus seized the empire at Constantinople in most tyrannical fashion. Zeno Augustus fled into Isauria, whence he had sprung, and Ariadne Augusta followed after him by a sea voyage amid the peril of winter. In these consulates the tyrant Basiliscus, having issued a law, commanded that the Council of Chalcedon be condemned, and that the second synod of Ephesus be absolved and received. Timothy the bishop, surnamed the Weasel, both successor and murderer of Proterius, returned from exile at Cherson; and having put to flight the other bishop Timothy, surnamed Salofaciolus, a defender of the Council of Chalcedon, he even invaded the Church of Alexandria. In the consulate of the tyrant Basiliscus and Armatus.

(A.D. 476). Zeno Augustus, in the twentieth month, an army having been given to him, returned from Isauria to Constantinople; he resumed the empire, and sent Basiliscus with his sons and wife into exile at Sasima in Cappadocia, where he wretchedly ended his life. Amid these things that were done, because no consul acceded (A.D. 477), and the tyrant Basiliscus had withdrawn from the consulate, Armatus remained consul for the present year. After the consulate of Armatus, vir clarissimus (A.D. 478), Timothy the Weasel, detractor of the Council of Chalcedon and murderer of the bishop Proterius, died; and another Timothy, Salofaciolus, defender of the Council of Chalcedon, resumed the presidency of the Church of Alexandria. Sallustius thus succeeds Martyrius as bishop of the Church of Jerusalem;

but Peter, surnamed Fullo, is ordained bishop of the Church of Antioch after Julian, who had succeeded Martyrius. In the consulate of Zeno Augustus (A.D. 479). Huneric, king of the Vandals, pressing a persecution too fiercely throughout all Africa, in Tubunae, Macri, Nippis, and other parts of the desert, relegated to harsher exiles not only the catholic priests and clerics of every order, but also monks and laity, about four thousand, and made confessors and martyrs, and cut out the tongues of the confessors. That these confessors, with their tongues cut out, spoke perfectly to the very end of their lives, the royal city bears witness, where their bodies lie. Then Laetus, bishop of the Church of Neptis, was crowned with martyrdom on the eighth of the Kalends

of October; and Eugenius, bishop of the Church of Carthage, after dread exiles in the desert, is held renowned for very many afflictions and punishments. This Huneric thus, amid innumerable slaughters of his impieties which he exercised against the catholics, in the eighth year of his reign, with all his inward parts poured out, like Arius his father, ended his life wretchedly. Gunthamund succeeds him. He reigned twelve years; he at once recalled our people from exile. After the consulate of Zeno (for the third time, A.D. 480), Timothy surnamed Salofaciolus, defender of the Council of Chalcedon, died; and in his place John Tabennesiota, a presbyter and steward, defender of the Council of Chalcedon, was ordained bishop of the Church of Alexandria.

But Peter, who while the bishop Timothy Salofaciolus was still living had been ordained by the heretics, casting him out by the command of the emperor Zeno, invaded the Church of Alexandria. He, immediately with the favor of the emperor Zeno, condemned the Council of Chalcedon from the pulpit before the people; he removed the names of Proterius and Salofaciolus from the ecclesiastical diptychs, and inscribed those of Dioscorus and of the Weasel who killed Proterius; and casting the body of the aforesaid Timothy Salofaciolus out of the church, he threw it in a desert place outside the city. In the consulate of Trocundes, vir clarissimus (A.D. 482).

The emperor Zeno, lulled to sleep by the cup of the Eutychian error, associating Acacius, bishop of Constantinople, with the condemners of the Council of Chalcedon—Peter of Alexandria and Peter of Antioch—through the Henoticon put forth by himself, is polluted by their communion, and with them withdraws from the catholic faith. After the consulate of Trocundes, vir clarissimus (A.D. 483), the tyrant Leontius, by the faction of the patrician Illus, seizes the empire in Isauria with tyranny. In the consulate of Theodoritus, vir clarissimus (A.D. 484). Felix, prelate of the Church of Rome, writes to the monks and clerics dwelling throughout the East, Egypt, and Bithynia, that they should shun Peter, bishop of Alexandria, detractor of the Council of Chalcedon, and his communicants as heretics. After the consulate of Theodoritus, vir clarissimus (A.D.

485). The Eastern bishops, except a few, being polluted by the communion and consent of Zeno through the Henoticon, renounce the Council of Chalcedon on behalf of Peter of Alexandria, Peter of Antioch, and Acacius of Constantinople. In the consulate of Longinus, vir clarissimus (A.D. 486). Acacius, bishop of Constantinople, admonished by the letters of Felix, prelate of the Church of Rome, that he abstain from communion and fellowship with the condemners of the Council of Chalcedon, consigns his legates to custody. After the consulate of Longinus, vir clarissimus (A.D. 487), Acacius of Constantinople, Peter of Alexandria, and Peter of Antioch, bishops enemies of the Council of Chalcedon, are condemned by Felix, prelate of the Roman Church, and by a synod held in Italy;

and this very condemnation of Acacius, legates being sent to Constantinople, is thrust upon him through the monks of the Acoemete monasteries of Bassian and Dius. After the consulate of Longinus (for the second time), vir clarissimus (A.D. 488), the body of the holy apostle Barnabas was found in Cyprus, along with the Gospel according to Matthew written by his own hand, by his own revelation. The tyrants Leontius and Patricius (Illus), captured by the betrayal of a fortress, perished by a most shameful death. Peter of Antioch dies under condemnation, and in his place he ordains Calendio. But the Eastern bishops, as if ignorant, consecrate John surnamed Codonatus bishop for that same Church; whom the heretic Peter succeeded. In the consulate of Eusebius, vir clarissimus (A.D. 489).

Acacius, bishop of Constantinople, dies under condemnation, and in his place Flavian is ordained bishop; and when he died in the third month of his promotion, Euphemius, guardian of the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon, succeeds in the episcopate. After the consulate of Longinus (for the third time), vir clarissimus (A.D. 490), Peter, the intruder of the Church of Alexandria, dies under condemnation; whose episcopate and error alike Anastasius took up. Calendio, bishop of Antioch, gathers the relics of his predecessor Eustochius, bishop and confessor, from Philippopolis of Macedonia, and brings them to Antioch with the highest honor. At this time Annianus cures the gouty by prayer above the river Euphrates; Auxentius puts demons to flight;

Daniel and Anastasius, Vindemiolus, Manasses, Severus, and others in various places of the desert shone forth with divers virtues and with foreknowledge. In the consulate of Olybrius, vir clarissimus (A.D. 491). The emperor Zeno died at Constantinople in the forty-second year of his life. Ariadne Augusta, widow of Zeno, designates as emperor Anastasius the Silentiary, an Illyrian, whose father was of Dyrrachium and mother an Arian. But since the faith—nay rather the perfidy—of Anastasius was already well known far and wide from his father, he was compelled, at the insistence of Euphemius, bishop of Constantinople, to promise in writing to do nothing sinister against the apostolic faith and the Council of Chalcedon. Bishop Euphemius received the written pledge and placed it in the archive of the church. Anastasius, the fiftieth of the Romans, reigns twenty-seven years.

He, taking up the empire, violently recovers his written pledge from bishop Euphemius, and rages atrociously against the bishops who were defenders of the Council of Chalcedon; among whom, upon the death of Peter, bishop of Antioch—who had been ordained by the heretics in the times of the emperor Zeno while Calendio, defender of the Council of Chalcedon, was still surviving—he changes the sentence for the worse, so that Calendio indeed is led from evils to worse, and Palladius is ordained in his place. In the consulate of Anastasius and Rufus (A.D. 492). Gelasius succeeds Felix in the Church of Rome, and Anastasius succeeds Gelasius. But the heretic Athanasius presided over the Church of Alexandria. Over the Church of Antioch also, Palladius was made bishop while Calendio was still surviving, and Sallustius over that of Jerusalem.

Euphemius, bishop of Constantinople, foreseeing the cunning of the emperor Anastasius, gathers a synod; he confirms the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon. In the consulate of Asterius and Praesidius (A.D. 494). John, bishop of Alexandria, coming from the Roman Church, entreats the emperor Anastasius to restore him to his throne for the sake of their ancient friendship. But when he does not obtain this because of his defense of the Council of Chalcedon, he returned stealthily to Rome whence he had come. In the consulate of Viator, vir clarissimus (A.D. 495). When the Isaurian war blazes up, the tyrants Athenodorus and Longinus are killed. Upon the death of Athanasius of Alexandria, John surnamed Hemula succeeds; and when he too dies, after a few days another John surnamed Nicetes succeeds as bishop. In the consulate of Paulus, vir

clarissimus (A.D. 496). The emperor Anastasius, holding a synod of heretics, confirms the Henoticon of Zeno, and deposes Euphemius, bishop of Constantinople, defender of the Council of Chalcedon; and sending him into exile at Euchaita, he makes Macedonius in his place. In the consulate of Anastasius Augustus (A.D. 497). Macedonius, bishop of Constantinople, holding a synod, condemns those who receive the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon, and those who defend the doctrines of Nestorius and Eutyches. Upon the death of Anastasius, bishop of Rome, Symmachus succeeds him, and from another party Laurentius is ordained, who, when he was unwilling to be content with the bishopric of the city of Nuceria, was cast out of the priestly assembly by a synod held at Rome.

Palladius of Antioch dies, and in his place Flavian is ordained bishop. John surnamed Nicetes still presided over the Church of Alexandria. But at Jerusalem, after Sallustius, Elias took up the presidency. Gunthamund, king of the Vandals, having died at Carthage, Thrasamund reigns twenty-seven years and four months. And he too, full of Arian madness, persecutes the catholics. He closes the churches of the catholics, and sends 120 bishops from all the African Church into exile in Sardinia. At that time Fulgentius, bishop of the city of Ruspe, shone forth in our doctrine. In the consulate of John the Scythian and Paulus (A.D. 498).

A certain Arian named Olympius, in the baths called those of Helena, in the royal city, blaspheming the holy and consubstantial Trinity, was invisibly drenched with three fiery darts, an angel ministering, in the pool of cold water, and ended his life impiously and at the same time prodigiously. In the consulate of Gibbus, vir clarissimus (A.D. 499). The emperor Anastasius gathered a synod at Constantinople with Flavian of Antioch and Philoxenus of Hierapolis as prelates, and persuaded them to pronounce anathema against Diodore of Tarsus, Theodore of Mopsuestia along with his writings, Theodoret of Cyrus, Ibas of Edessa, Andrew, Eucherius, Cyrus,

and John, bishops, and the others who preached two natures and two forms in Christ, and who do not confess that one of the Trinity was crucified—together with Leo, bishop of Rome, and his Tome, and the Council of Chalcedon—to pronounce anathema. In the consulate of Patricius and Hypatius (A.D. 500). A certain Barbas, a bishop of the Arian error, when he presumed to speak contrary to the rule concerning one to be baptized: 'Barbas baptizes thee in the name of the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit'—immediately the water with which he was about to baptize the man appeared nowhere; and the very vessel in which the water was, was shattered. Seeing this, he who was to be baptized ran at once to a catholic, and received baptism according to the rule. In the consulate of Avienus and Pompeius (A.D.

501). The emperor Anastasius seizes Macedonius, bishop of Constantinople, together with certain clerics unwilling to condemn the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon, from the church, and sends him into exile, and in his place makes Timothy the presbyter bishop; who immediately received into communion the condemners of the Council of Chalcedon. In the consulate of Avienus the Younger (A.D. 502). A vast earthquake occurred, with great flashings and hail, and a commotion of the whole heaven and earth. In the consulate of Cethegus, vir clarissimus (A.D. 504). Flavian, bishop of Antioch, by a late repentance deserts the emperor Anastasius, and, abandoning his throne, withdraws to the estate called Platanus.

In his place the emperor Anastasius substitutes Severus, an enemy of the Council of Chalcedon, and stirs up great scandals for the Church of the East. In the consulate of Theodorus, vir clarissimus (A.D. 505). Eugenius, bishop of Carthage, a confessor, dies. Julian, bishop of Bostra, and John, bishop of Palt, of their own accord withdraw from their own Churches, and others are substituted for them. In the consulate of Messalla, vir clarissimus (A.D. 506). At Constantinople, by the command of the emperor Anastasius, the holy Gospels, as though composed by unskilled evangelists, are censured and emended. In the consulate of Venantius and Celer (A.D. 508). Unclean spirits seize the peoples of Alexandria and of all Egypt alike, both small and great, free and slave, clerics and monks, except strangers;

and deprived of human speech, they began to bark like dogs all day and night; so that, bound with iron chains, they were afterwards dragged to the churches that they might recover their health. For they were devouring their own hands, and likewise all of them their arms as well. When these things were happening, an angel in the form of a man appeared to certain ones of the people, saying that this had befallen them because they had given anathema to the Council of Chalcedon, and thereafter threatening that they should presume nothing of the kind. In the consulate of Venantius the Younger, vir clarissimus. Cavades, king of the Persians, by the prayers of Christians captures the fortress of Zumdaber, full of very many treasures from the beginning of its foundation, given over to the guardianship of the lions of demons, and fortified with a watch, where no one had ever been able to enter;

and having entered, he took from it all the treasures. In the consulate of Importunus the Younger, vir clarissimus (A.D. 509). Elias, bishop of Jerusalem, defender of the Council of Chalcedon, being unwilling to receive into communion Severus of Antioch, an enemy of the apostolic faith, as the emperor Anastasius commanded, is thrust into exile at the fortress of Paraxenum; and in his place John, guardian of the cross, is ordained bishop, who immediately both received Severus of Antioch into communion and condemned the Council of Chalcedon. In the consulate of Boethius, vir clarissimus (A.D. 510).

Vitalian, son of Patriciolus, learning of the subversion of the catholic faith, the condemnation of the Council of Chalcedon, the removals of the orthodox bishops, and the successions of heretics, gathers a strong band of valiant men and rebels against the empire of Anastasius. In the consulate of Felix, vir clarissimus (A.D. 511). The count Vitalian, having engaged Patricius, nephew of the emperor Anastasius and master of the Roman soldiery, in battle, with sixty-seven of the Roman soldiery slain, captures him alive, and hands him over bound with bronze chains into the custody of an earthen cage, and afterwards tears him apart. In the consulate of Paulus and Muscianus (A.D. 512).

Alamundarus, king of the Saracens, having been baptized by the defenders of the Council of Chalcedon, when the Theopaschite bishops were sent to him with letters by Severus, bishop of Antioch, marvelously concluded and overcame their barbarous proposition, and showed God to be immortal. In the consulate of Probus, vir clarissimus (A.D. 513). By the command of the emperor Anastasius, Plato, prefect of the city, and Maximus, ascending the pulpit of the church of Saint Theodore, and newly appending to the hymn which the Greeks call the Trisagion, while they chant it through the forum of Constantine and proceed to the greater church, clouds suddenly emitted ash upon them instead of rain, and covered the whole city and province.