Dialogus de vita Joannis Chrysostomi

 honor, but he who is called by God. Thus 5 also Aaron, he says, did not glorify himself to become high priest. For although there were six hundred

 the flight of concord, most of us who are active and eager for it have become fugitives from the country, being unable to live safely and without trou

 he met with us, he did not share in words, nor in prayer, nor in communion but disembarking from the ship and running past the doors of the church, h

 to share in the suffering and to do everything, so as to stop these evils. For he put a stop to none of their lawlessness here, but even after this he

 and lamentations and fountains of tears in the marketplaces and the houses and in the desolate places and the whole part of the city was filled with

 you are exhorted to contribute zeal from yourselves. For thus you will gratify not only us, 16 but also the community of the churches, and you will re

 had fled on account of the threat contained in the imperial decree, that If anyone is not in communion with Theophilus and Arsakius and Porphyry, let

 of Bishop John of the Constantinopolitans and, as it seems, it has not been accomplished. Therefore, I wrote again through the bishops and presbyters

 savagery. This also the Savior God did, illuminating them with various revelations, so that also to Paul, the deacon of Saint Emilius, a most gentle

 He who speaks a lie is not of God, and again from David, Because the mouth of those who speak unjust things was stopped. For he who lies truly wro

 by his own choice, he was trained in the discourses for the ministry of the divine oracles. From there, being in the eighteenth year of his physical a

 of those who have believed in him will be bound. {THE DEACON} But where did they recognize the presence of the Savior? {THE BISHOP} When they cried ou

 of the rich, cutting away the abscesses of the soul, teaching them humility, to be of a humble mind towards other people, obeying the apostolic word,

 she gives one thousand gold pieces, having made him swear by the table of the Savior that he would buy clothes and clothe the poorer women of the Alex

 with his own hands on his neck, and after inflicting blows on his jaws, with clenched fingers he bloodied his nostrils, shouting 38 with a loud voice:

 by an excess of conceit. But those men, driven by great necessity because they were changing places from place to place, arrive at the camp, where Bis

 of the church, Dioscorus the bishop, who had grown old in the church but to the bishop John he writes: I think you are not ignorant of the decree of

 of John for unlawful offenses, he took advantage of their fickleness and persuades them to submit bills of accusation against John, promising them to

 Elijah was taken up did not Elisha prophesy? Paul was beheaded did he not leave behind Timothy, Titus, Apollos and ten thousand others? After these

 these of the council but if as accusers, set them up for the trial, so that I may know how I should contend, whether as against adversaries or as jud

 (for he is impetuous by nature, and rash and bold and exceedingly contentious—for there is nothing that appears to him by sight, <towards> which he do

 brother Acacius and Antiochus whom they put forward as canons of the orthodox, because We are of the faith of those who set them forth, and our doub

 reading the oracles, and others baptizing the catechumens, as was fitting because of Easter. These very things the corruptors of minds and deceivers o

 a proof of the diligence of teachers, unceasingly setting right the unconquerable quality of their resolve. Theodore said: {THE DEACON} You have spoke

 near him to the west), but in the western part, where the gate of the church is, the mule-team, on which he was accustomed to sit, having ordered it t

 of a hierophant, a man more silent than a fish and more idle than a frog (for there are times when even action speaks, especially when the good is don

 terrifying, just as bogeymen do children? Alas! Those who are clothed in worldly powers and ecclesiastical wealth with authority, with command even of

 on the one hand, that he ate alone but I did not wish you, most harmonious Theodore, to ask about the things of gluttonous infants. For being a man,

 he says, urging us to imitation Do not forget hospitality, he says, for by this some have entertained angels unawares. But the host must have the

 fell from blessing? was it not when he served his belly, deceived by the food? When did Saul fall from the kingdom? was it not when he ate the best of

 to eat bread and to put on a garment, all that you give me, I will tithe a tenth of it to you -he did not say, I will consume it at tables. That sp

 to give glory to God <in> persecutions. in the refutations of error, is there any mention of a table? But again to Titus, the bishop of Crete, let us

 they were seeking luxury. It was absurd to squander the food of the sick or the poor on the intemperance of the healthy. And what sort of law is this,

 from seeing evil. For many of the so-called bishops, wishing to cut off the reasonable hatred directed at them on account of their own ways and their

 First, that having melted down treasures he fashioned a silver object in the name of his son second, that having taken marbles from the entrance of t

 love of money is a source of evils. For he who took bribes against the innocent and thought to sell the distribution of the Holy Spirit for silver,

 Antoninus dies, with whom Eusebius had the lawsuit. Again a decree comes from Asia, this one from the clergy of the church of the Ephesians, and this

 to buy the priesthood. They say that the ravager and falsely-named patriarch of the Jews changes the rulers of the synagogue every year, or even more

 of those who deposed him and concluded the trial. <CHAPTER 19> {THE DEACON.} Forgive me, father, such things surpass drunkenness and madness and sport

 ambidextrous (for even his so-called left hand was better than the right hand of others) who at first, having served in letters, was found blameles

 slandering their life, waiting to have help from God. To these things Theodore, being astonished, said: {Ο ∆ΙΑΚ.} I see the facts as contrary to the n

 Or is it proper at all to cast out any disciple, much less a monk? 100 {THE DEACON} Because they provoked him or spoke ill of him. {THE BISHOP} And ou

 having led them back from vice to virtue, it will be clear that their persecutor deserves not to be persecuted, but to be pitied, as one who always ab

 having provoked the physician and enchanter of souls and removed his interpreter from the workshop of salvation, 105 they were handed over to the phys

 imitating him who, having found the one crushed by robbers, half-dead, on the way down to Jericho, placed him on his own beast of burden, having broug

 did he give? And when Optimus died in Constantinople, he closed his eyes with his own hands. In addition to these things, he also refreshed in no smal

 desiring to chasten the herd of men for their various desires towards the more austere part of life, he became his own judge and lawgiver, being stren

 toward the north, and each man's axe in his hand and one man in the midst of them, clothed in a full-length robe, and a sapphire belt on his loins a

 in many ways Who will boast that he has a pure heart? Or who will boldly claim to be pure from sin? but yet the blessed John did not know how to us

 happen to us anonymously and beneficially? sifting the reasons, not obeying him who said: Eat whatever is sold in the meat-market, asking no question

 two? {THE BISHOP} Especially if it is an unprofitable and charlatan crowd such as the one who said to Jesus: Teacher, I will follow you wherever you

 an intemperate old man, and an old man who loves learning above an unlearned younger man, and a poor layman above an educated lover of money, and a vi

 enjoying his disease nor raging with the same desires. For this is a fitting way of life for a teacher, not to linger with the crowds, but in quiet an

 having subjected his body to shameful tortures by the cruelty of judges, to the point of knocking out his teeth, as the story goes, 127 they confined

 knocking, they made the two-day journey into one, arriving late in the evening and departing in the dark of dawn, so that the stomach could not even k

 and that these things are done and are prolonged and are strong, and that the good are afflicted and plundered, brings me to shudder at his approachin

 Why shall I not be angry? looking upon me, marvel, and lay your hand upon your jaw. For if I remember, I am troubled, and pains take hold of my flesh.

 when reviled, we bless when persecuted, we endure when slandered, we entreat we have become as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all thi

 sleepless or troubled in sleep, he suspects plots even from his own family, not trusting even himself, distrusting everyone as liars. Being such a per

 each other, for which it was also fitting, having learned something, did you not decide to be quiet and remain still by yourselves even for the future

 to his father and to his mother, I have not seen you, and his brothers he did not acknowledge he guarded your oracles, and kept your covenant. He d

 foot-soldiers' machinations for the hindering of those who travel for the truth). How then do they dare to say: By God's economy John has been cast o

of Bishop John of the Constantinopolitans; and, as it seems, it has not been accomplished. Therefore, I wrote again through the bishops and presbyters, being very concerned for the peace of the church, through which also our empire is at peace, that you would deign to command the bishops of the East to assemble in Thessalonica. For the bishops of our West, having selected men uninclined to evil and falsehood, have sent five bishops, two presbyters, and one deacon of the greatest church of the Romans. Deign to care for them with all kinds of honors, so that, either being persuaded that Bishop John has been justly expelled, they may teach me to withdraw from his communion; or having convicted the bishops of the East of willful malice, they may turn you away from their communion. For what the Westerners think 22 about Bishop John, from all the letters written to me, I have subjoined two, equivalent to them all, the letter of the bishop of Rome and of Aquileia. But I beseech your Clemency before all things, deem it right that Theophilus of Alexandria be present even unwillingly, because of whom it is said that all the evils have chiefly occurred; so that the synod of the bishops who have come, being in no way hindered, may award the peace fitting for our times." <CHAPTER ∆ʹ> Therefore, the party of the holy bishop Aemilius of Beneventum and Cythegius and Gaudentius, along with the presbyters Valentinian and Boniface, having received the letters of the emperor Honorius and of Innocentius and of the Italian bishops, Chromatius of Aquileia and Venerius of Milan and the rest, and the memorandum of the whole synod of the West, were sent to Constantinople with public warrants along with the party of the bishops Cyriacus and Demetrius and Palladius and Eulysius. And the memorandum held that John should not enter into judgment, unless first both the church and communion be restored to him, so that, having no reason to postpone, he might enter the council of his own accord. Therefore, having gone to Constantinople, they returned after four months, relating Babylonian affairs; saying "We were detained while sailing past Greece towards Athens by a certain wretched chiliarch, who immediately attached a centurion to us, not permitting us to put in at Thessalonica;" for their purpose was to first deliver the letters there to Bishop Anysius. "Therefore, having put us," he says, "onto two ships, he sent us away. But when a violent south wind arose, 23 fasting for three <ἡμερῶν> we sailed through the Aegean sea and the straits, and on the third day at the twelfth hour we anchored before the city near the suburbs of Victor. In which place, having been detained by those who managed the harbors, we went backwards (but by whose command we did not know), and having been shut up in a coastal fortress of Thrace, called Athyra, and being tormented from there, the Romans in one small house, and the party of Cyriacus in different ones, so that we did not even have a servant for service. And when the letters were demanded, we did not give them, saying "How is it possible for us, being ambassadors, not to deliver the letters of the emperor and of the bishops to the emperor himself?" Since, therefore, we persisted in not giving them, first Patricius a notary came to us, then some others, finally there came a certain man in charge of a numerus, Valerianus by name, a Cappadocian, and having broken the thumb of Bishop Marianus, he took away the sealed letter of the emperor along with the other letters. Therefore, when the second day came, they sent to us, whether those of the emperor's court, or the party of Atticus, we do not know (for he was said to have leapt upon the throne of the church), offering us three thousand coins, asking that we be persuaded to enter into communion with Atticus, passing over in silence the case of John. Not being persuaded by them, we remained praying, so as to accomplish nothing peaceful, 24 even if we could reach our churches without danger, seeing such great

τοῦ ἐπισκόπου Ἰωάννου τῆς Κωνσταντινουπολιτῶν· καί, ὡς ἔοικεν, οὐκ ἤνυσται. ὅθεν πάλιν ἐπέστειλα διὰ τῶν ἐπι σκόπων καὶ πρεσβυτέρων, πάνυ φροντίζων τῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς εἰρήνης, δι' ἧς καὶ ἡ ἡμῶν εἰρηνεύεται βασιλεία, ἵνα καταξιώσῃς προστάξαι ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ συνελθεῖν τοὺς τῆς ἑῴας ἐπισκόπους. καὶ γὰρ οἱ τῆς ἡμετέρας ἑσπερίας ἐπίσκοποι, ἐκλεξάμενοι ἄνδρας ἀκλινεῖς πρὸς κακίαν καὶ ψεῦδος, ἀπεστάλκασιν ἐπισκόπους μὲν πέντε, πρεσβυτέρους δὲ δύο, διάκονον δὲ ἕνα τῆς μεγίστης ἐκκλησίας Ῥωμαίων. ὧν φροντίσαι παντοίαις τιμαῖς καταξίωσον, ἵν', ἢ μὲν πεισθέντες ὅτιπερ δικαίως ἐκβέβληται ὁ ἐπίσκοπος Ἰωάννης, διδάξωσί με ἀποστῆναι τῆς αὐτοῦ κοινωνίας· ἢ ἐλέγ ξαντες ἐθελοκακοῦντας τοὺς τῆς ἀνατολῆς ἐπισκόπους, ἀπο στρέψωσί σε τῆς αὐτῶν κοινωνίας. τίνα γάρ ἐστιν ἃ φρονοῦσιν 22 περὶ τοῦ ἐπισκόπου Ἰωάννου οἱ δυτικοί, ἐκ πασῶν τῶν ἐπιστολῶν τῶν πρός με γραφεισῶν ὑπέταξα δύο, ἰσοδυναμούσας ταῖς πάσαις, τὴν ἐπιστολὴν τοῦ Ῥώμης καὶ τοῦ Ἀκυληΐας. τοῦτο δὲ παρακαλῶ τὴν σὴν ἡμερότητα πρὸ πάντων, καὶ ἄκοντα τὸν Ἀλεξανδρείας Θεόφιλον παραστῆναι δικαίωσον, δι' ὃν μάλιστα λέγεται ἅπαντα τὰ κακὰ γεγενῆσθαι· ἵνα εἰς μηδὲν ἡ τῶν παραγενομένων ἐπι σκόπων ἐμποδισθεῖσα σύνοδος τὴν πρέπουσαν τοῖς καιροῖς ἡμῶν εἰρήνην βραβεύσῃ." <ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΝ ∆ʹ> Λαβόντες τοιγαροῦν οἱ περὶ τὸν ἅγιον ἐπίσκοπον Αἰμίλιον Βενεβεντοῦ καὶ Κυθήγιον καὶ Γαυδέντιον σὺν Οὐαλεντινιανῷ καὶ Βονιφατίῳ τοῖς πρεσβυτέροις τὰ γράμματα τοῦ τε βασιλέως Ὁνωρίου τοῦ τε Ἰννοκεντίου καὶ τῶν Ἰταλῶν ἐπισκόπων, Χρωματίου Ἀκυληΐας καὶ Βενερίου Μεδιολάνων καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν, καὶ ὑπομνηστικὸν τῆς συνόδου πάσης δύσεως, δημοσίοις συνθή μασιν ἀπεστάλησαν εἰς τὴν Κωνσταντινούπολιν σὺν τοῖς περὶ Κυριακὸν καὶ ∆ημήτριον καὶ Παλλάδιον καὶ Εὐλύσιον τοὺς ἐπισκόπους. εἶχεν δὲ τὸ ὑπομνηστικόν, μὴ δεῖν εἰσελθεῖν Ἰωάννην εἰς κρίσιν, ἐὰν μὴ πρότερον ἀποκατασταθῇ αὐτῷ ἥ τε ἐκκλησία καὶ ἡ κοινωνία, ἵν' εἰς μηδὲν ἔχων ὑπερτίθεσθαι, αὐθαίρετος εἰσέλθῃ εἰς τὸ συνέδριον. ἀπελθόντες οὖν εἰς τὴν Κωνσταντινού πολιν, ὑπέστρεψαν μετὰ τέσσαρας μῆνας, διηγούμενοι Βαβυλώνια πράγματα· ὅτι "Κατεσχέθημεν παραπλέοντες τὴν Ἑλλάδα Ἀθήναζε ὑπὸ χιλιάρχου τινὸς δυστήνου, ὃς ἐξαυτῆς συνέζευξεν ἡμῖν ἑκατοντάρχην ἕνα, μὴ συγχωρήσας ἡμῖν παραβαλεῖν τῇ Θεσσαλονίκῃ·" ἐκεῖ γὰρ αὐτῶν ἦν ὁ σκοπὸς πρῶτον ἀποδοῦναι τὰ γράμματα Ἀνυσίῳ τῷ ἐπισκόπῳ. "Ἐμβαλὼν οὖν ἡμᾶς," φησιν, "εἰς δύο πλοῖα ἐξέπεμψεν. ἐπιγενομένου δὲ βιαίου νότου, 23 ἄσιτοι διὰ τριῶν <ἡμερῶν> διαπλεύσαντες τὸ κατὰ τὸν Αἰγαίωνα πέλαγος καὶ τὰ στενά, δωδεκάτην ὥραν τῇ τρίτῃ ὡρμήσαμεν πρὸ τῆς πόλεως πλησίον τῶν Βίκτορος προαστείων. ἐν ᾧ κατασχε θέντες τόπῳ ὑπὸ τῶν τοὺς λιμένας πραττόντων, ἀπήλθομεν εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω (τίνος δὲ κελεύσαντος οὐκ ἔγνωμεν), καὶ συγκλεισθέντες εἰς φρούριον τῆς Θρᾴκης παραθαλάσσιον, Ἀθύραν καλούμενον, ἐκεῖθέν τε στρεβλωθέντες, οἱ μὲν Ῥωμαῖοι ἐν οἰκίσκῳ ἑνί, καὶ ἐν διαφόροις οἱ περὶ Κυριακόν, ὡς μηδὲ παῖδα ἔχειν εἰς ὑπηρεσίαν. καὶ ἀπαιτούμενοι τὰ γράμματα, οὐ δεδώκαμεν, εἰπόντες ὅτι "Πῶς οἷόν τέ ἐστι πρεσβευτὰς ἡμᾶς ὄντας μὴ αὐτῷ τῷ βασιλεῖ ἐπι δοῦναι τὰ τοῦ βασιλέως γράμματα καὶ τῶν ἐπισκόπων;" ὡς οὖν ἐμένομεν μὴ διδόντες, πρώτου ἐλθόντος Πατρικίου νοταρίου πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἔπειτά τινων ἑτέρων, τελευταῖον ἦλθέ τις ἀφηγούμενος ἑνὸς ἀριθμοῦ, Οὐαλεριανὸς ὀνόματι, Καππαδόκης, καὶ κλάσας τὸν ἀντίχειρα τοῦ ἐπισκόπου Μαριανοῦ, ἀφεῖλεν ἐσφραγισμένην τὴν ἐπιστολὴν τοῦ βασιλέως σὺν ταῖς λοιπαῖς ἐπιστολαῖς. ἐπιγενο μένης οὖν δευτέρας ἡμέρας, ἀπέστειλαν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, εἴτε οἱ τῆς τοῦ βασιλέως αὐλῆς, εἴτε οἱ περὶ Ἀττικόν, ἀγνοοῦμεν (αὐτὸς γὰρ ἐλέγετο ἐπιπεπηδηκέναι τῷ θρόνῳ τῆς ἐκκλησίας), ἐπιδιδόντες ἡμῖν νομίσματα τρισχίλια, ἀξιοῦντες πεισθέντας ἡμᾶς κοινωνῆσαι τῷ Ἀττικῷ, παρασιωπήσαντας τὴν Ἰωάννου δίκην. οἷς μὴ πεισθέντες, ἐμένομεν προσευχόμενοι, πρὸς τὸ μηδὲν εἰρηνικὸν ἀνύειν, 24 κἂν ἀκινδύνως καταλαβεῖν ἡμῶν τὰς ἐκκλησίας, τὴν τοσαύτην ὁρῶντες