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| How he wrote to the Egyptians, exhorting them to Peace.
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Chapter
XXIII.—How he wrote to the Egyptians,
exhorting them to Peace.
And now, when all else were at peace, among the Egyptians alone an
implacable contention still raged,3261
so as once
more to disturb the emperor’s tranquillity, though not to excite
his anger. For indeed he treated the contending parties with all
respect, as fathers, nay rather, as prophets of God; and again he
summoned them to his presence, and again patiently acted as mediator
between them, and honored them with gifts, and communicated also the
result of his arbitration by letter. He confirmed and sanctioned the
decrees of the council, and called on them to strive earnestly for
concord, and not to distract and rend the Church, but to keep before
them the thought of God’s judgment. And these injunctions the
emperor sent by a letter written with his own hand.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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