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| The Conclusion of the Epistle of the Bishops.
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The
Conclusion of the Epistle of the Bishops.
After receiving and perusing this epistle, he
neither wrote any reply nor repaired to them in the prison, nor went to
the blessed Peter. But when all these bishops and presbyters and
deacons had suffered martyrdom in the prison at Alexandria, he at once
entered Alexandria. Now in that city there was a certain person,
by name Isidorus, turbulent in character, and possessed with the
ambition of being a teacher. And there was also a certain Arius,
who wore the habit of piety, and was in like manner possessed with the
ambition to be a teacher. And when they discovered the object of
Meletius’s passion1340
and what it was that he sought, hastening to him, and looking with an
evil eye on the episcopal authority of the blessed Peter, that the aim
and desire of Meletius might be made patent,1341
| 1341 Ut
cogniscatur concupiscentia Meletii. | they discovered to Meletius certain
presbyters, then in hiding, to whom the blessed Peter had given power
to act as parish-visitors. And Meletius recommending them to
improve the opportunity given them for rectifying their error,
suspended them for the time, and by his own authority ordained two
persons in their place,1342
| 1342 The
text is—Commendans ei occasionem Meletius, separavit eos,
&c.; on which see especially Neander, iii. p. 311 (Bohn). | namely, one in prison and another in the
mines. On learning these things the blessed Peter, with much
endurance, wrote to the people of Alexandria an epistle in the
following terms.1343
| 1343
This epistle is given elsewhere. [This volume, infra.] |
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