Author: Ann-Sh?

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2012-07

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781458998934

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Then the two brethren said unto each other, ' Let us go to ' the Patriarch of Rome, and he will avenge us and will take ' vengeance on all these Bishops].' And having gone to the great Patriarch and Bishop of Rome, and made him to know their matter, and what the Bishop and Patriarch of Antioch] had said unto them, they said at length, 'We have come ' unto thee because thou art the head of them all.' Then the Bishop of Rome also said unto them, ' I also excommunicate ' you and excommunicateyeshallbe.'Then, not knowing what to do, they said to each other, 'All these men accept the ' persons each of the other, and each honoureth the other, ' because they are accustomed to assemble together at the ' Synods, but let us go to the holy man of God, Epiphanius, ' Bishop of Cyprus, because he is indeed a Bishop, and he ' doth not accept the person of any man.' Now when they drew nigh unto the city, it was revealed unto Epiphanius concerning them, and he sent a man] to meet them, and to say unto them, ' Ye shall not come into the city.' And when they came to themselves they repented, and said, ' In very ' truth we have sinned; with what can we justify ourselves? ' For, even supposing that the Bishop and the Patriarchs 'have excommunicated us in an unseemly manner, perad- ' venture this man is a prophet besides, for behold, God hath ' revealed unto him concerning us beforehand; let us then 'condemn ourselves in respect of everything which we have ' done.' Then when God, Who knoweth that which is in the hearts of men] saw that they had in very truth condemned '' themselves, He worked upon the mind of Epiphanius so that, of his own accord, he sent and brought them, and associated them in communion with him. And he also wrote concerning th...