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Book 6 Minor Writers
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Translator’s Biographical Notice.
[1311] Hist. Eccles., viii. 9 and 10.
[1312] [His diocese belonged to the region over which Alexandria had the primacy by the “ancient usages.”]
Fragments of the Epistle of Phileas to the People of Thmuis.
[1313] In Eusebius, Hist. Eccles., viii. 10.
[1315] χριστοφόροι. So Ignatius of Antioch was called θεοφόρος, God-bearer. [Vol. i. pp. 45, 49, this series.]
[1317] ξύλοις. What is meant, however, may be the instrument called by the Romans equuleus, a kind of rack in the shape of a horse, commonly used in taking the evidence of slaves.
[1318] μαγγάνοις τισί.
[1319] The text gives ἀμυντηρίοις ἐκόλαζον, for which Nicephorus reads ἀμυντηριοις τὰς κολάσεις. The ἀμυντηρια were probably the Latin ungulæ, an instrument of torture like claws. So Rufinus understands the phrase.
[1320] ἡγεμών. That is probably the Roman Præfectus Augustalis.
[1321] τῆς ἐπαράτου ἐλευθέρίας.
[1322] [It is impossible to accept modern theories of the inconsiderable number of the primitive martyrs, in view of the abounding evidences of a chronic and continuous persecution always evidenced by even these fragments of authentic history. See vol. iv. p. 125.]
[1325] Eusebius, after quoting these passages, adds:—“These are the words of a true philosopher, and one who was no less a lover of God than of wisdom, which, before the final sentence of his judge, and while he lay yet in prison, he addressed to the brethren in his church, at once to represent to them in what condition he was himself, and to exhort them to maintain steadfastly, even after his speedy death, their piety towards Christ.”—Tr.
The Beginning of the Epistle of the Bishops.
[1326] This epistle was first edited by Scipio Maffeius from an ancient Verona manuscript in the Osserv. Letter, vol. iii. pp. 11–17, where is given the Fragment of a History of the Meletian Schism. See Neander’s important remarks on this whole document, Church History, iii. p. 310 (Bohn).—Tr.
[1327] Zelo meliorum.
[1328] [Parishes = dioceses (so called now); but they were very small territorially, and every city had its “bishop.” See Bingham, book ix. cap. 2, and Euseb., book v. cap. 23. Comp. note 1, p. 106, supra.]
[1329] Bene nimis magna.
[1330] [The bishops of Alexandria are called popes to this day, and were so from the beginning. See vol. v. p. 154.]
[1331] [Peter succeeded Theonas as sixteenth bishop and primate of Alexandria. See vol. iv. p. 384; also Neale, Pat of Alex., i. p. 90.]
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