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| Of the Virtue and Age of the Two Hundred and Fifty Bishops.
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Chapter IX.—Of the Virtue and
Age of the Two Hundred and Fifty Bishops.
Of these ministers of God, some were distinguished by wisdom and
eloquence, others by the gravity of their lives, and by patient
fortitude of character, while others again united in themselves all
these graces.3245
| 3245 This is the way it is interpreted by Sozomen, 1, 17. The phrase,
which is literally “of middling character,” is translated
by Molz. and others as if it meant “mild” or
“modest,” as if it referred in some way to the doctrine of
the mean. | There were
among them men whose years demanded veneration: others were younger,
and in the prime of mental vigor; and some had but recently entered on
the course of their ministry. For the maintenance of all ample
provision was daily furnished by the emperor’s
command.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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