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

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: "Heretic, anathematize Origen"; with nothing set before him except the demand on account of Isidore. For such fits of anger, just like dogs, give birth to blind deeds and words. Thus, blood-stained and without an answer, returning to their own monasteries, they kept to their proposed asceticism, having sharpened their nature by learning, through which salvation is acquired, caring less for his madness, because they were conscious of no evil in themselves. CHAPTER Ζʹ In addition to this, Theophilus, not resting, sends to the neighboring bishops, and convenes a synod against the monks; neither summoning them to make a defense, nor giving them a hearing, he excommunicates three men of prominence (fearing to inflict the punishment on the multitude all at once), alleging a corruption of dogmas. And those whom he had often honored above bishops as teachers on account of their life, their reason, and their age, these he was not ashamed to call sorcerers because of their relationship with Isidore. And after the excommunication, from the mountain itself he anoints five paltry men, who had never stood in an assembly of the elders of the desert—I hesitate to say, unworthy even of being doorkeepers; and one he ordains as bishop, assigning him to a small village, having no city (for he fearlessly worked innovations, calling himself another Moses), another a presbyter, and the three deacons, not being from the Egyptians, but from different places (for one was a Libyan, another an Alexandrian, another a Pharanite, and another a Paraleote). Therefore they also obeyed his worthless endeavor, holding what was unexpected as pledges from their homelands. and he prepares them to give libelli against those three 39 men, he himself having woven the words of the slander, with these men contributing only their signatures. After this, having taken the libelli from them in the church, he goes in to the Augustal prefect and deposits a petition against them from his own person—the archbishop of the Egyptian diocese—having woven in also the libelli of slander, and he requests that the men be thrown out of all Egypt with military assistance. And having received the soldier for appearance's sake, along with the order, he gathers a crowd of miscreants easily swayed by rewards, and he leaps upon the monasteries suddenly at night, having made the servants with him drunk with wine. And first, their brother Dioscorus, being the holy bishop of the mountain, he orders to be thrown from his throne, dragged by Ethiopian servants—and they perhaps still unbaptized—having taken his parish, which the city of Dioscorus had held since the coming of Christ. After this he plunders the mountain, giving the monks' small possessions as wages to the younger men. And having plundered the cells, he seeks those three men, whom they had let down into a well, placing a mat over the mouth; but not finding them, he sets their cells on fire with brushwood, burning up with them all the testament-bequeathed and precious books, and one child, as those who saw it said, and the symbols of the mysteries. Thus, having ceased from his irrational anger, he takes possession of Alexandria again, having given those holy men an opportunity for flight; who, immediately taking up their sheepskins, go out into Palestine, reaching Aelia; with whom went out, along with presbyters and deacons of the mountain, three hundred of the zealous monks, while the others were scattered to various places. Not bearing their independence, "the crooked" serpent in his course "serpent" again stirs up Theophilus against them; 40 who, boiling with rage, scratches out letters to the bishops of Palestine, saying: "You should not have received these men in your cities against my judgment; but since you were ignorant, I grant you pardon. For the future, therefore, take care not to receive these men in either an ecclesiastical or a private place." not only saying, but also imagining himself to be a god, in the

τῷ τραχήλῳ οἰ κείαις χερσί, καὶ πληγὰς ταῖς σιαγόσιν αὐτοῦ ἐμφορήσας, συνεσπασμένοις δακτύλοις αἱμάξας αὐτοῦ τὰς ῥῖνας, ἐπιψοφῶν 38 τῇ φωνῇ· "Αἱρετικέ, ἀναθεμάτισον Ὠριγένην"· μηδενὸς προ κειμένου πλὴν τῆς ἀξιώσεως ἕνεκεν Ἰσιδώρου. τοιοῦτον γὰρ οἱ θυμοί, καθάπερ οἱ κύνες, τυφλὰ τίκτουσι καὶ τὰ πράγματα καὶ τὰ ῥήματα. οὕτως οὖν αἱματόφυρτοι καὶ ἀναπόκριτοι ὑπο στρέψαντες εἰς τὰς μονὰς αὐτῶν, εἴχοντο τῆς προκειμένης ἀσκήσεως, τῇ μαθήσει τὴν φύσιν ὀξύναντες, δι' ὧν ἡ σωτηρία προσγίνεται, ἔλαττον φροντίσαντες τῆς τούτου μανίας, τῷ μηδὲν ἑαυτοὺς συνειδέναι κακόν. <ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΝ Ζʹ> Πρὸς τούτοις οὐκ ἠρεμήσας ὁ Θεόφιλος ἀποστέλλει πρὸς τοὺς ἐκ γειτόνων ἐπισκόπους, καὶ συγκροτεῖ κατὰ τῶν μοναχῶν συνέδριον· οὔτε δὲ καλέσας αὐτοὺς εἰς ἀπολογίαν, οὔτε μετα δοὺς λόγου, ἀποκηρύττει τρεῖς ἄνδρας τοὺς ἐπ' ἐξοχῆς (φοβηθεὶς ἀθρόως κατὰ τοῦ πλήθους ἐξενεγκεῖν τὴν τιμωρίαν), σχηματι σάμενος δογμάτων παραφθοράν. καὶ οὓς πολλάκις ὑπὲρ ἐπι σκόπων ἐτίμησεν ὡς διδασκάλους διὰ τὸν βίον, διὰ τὸν λόγον, διὰ τὸν χρόνον, τούτους οὐκ ᾐδέσθη γόητας ὀνομάζων διὰ τὴν πρὸς Ἰσίδωρον σχέσιν. καὶ μετὰ τὸ ἀποκηρῦξαι, ἐξ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ὄρους ἀλείφει ἀνθρωπάρια πέντε, ἃ μηδέποτε ἐν συλλόγῳ τῶν τῆς ἐρήμου γερόντων ἔστησαν-ὀκνῶ λέγειν ἀνάξια καὶ θυρωρίου· καὶ τὸν μὲν χειροτονεῖ ἐπίσκοπον, ἐγκατατάξας κωμυδρίῳ, πόλιν οὐκ ἔχων (ἀδεῶς γὰρ καὶ τὰς καινοτομίας εἰργάζετο, ἄλλον ἑαυτὸν Μωϋσέα ὀνομάζων), τὸν δὲ πρεσβύ τερον, τοὺς δὲ τρεῖς διακόνους, οὐκ ὄντας τῶν Αἰγυπτίων, ἀλλὰ διαφόρων τόπων (ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἦν Λίβυς, ὁ δὲ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, ὁ δὲ Φαρανίτης, ὁ δὲ Παραλεώτης). διὸ καὶ ὑπήκουσαν αὐτοῦ τῇ ματαιοπονίᾳ, τὸ ἀνέλπιστον ἔχοντες τῶν τῆς πατρίδος ἐνεχύρων. καὶ παρασκευάζει αὐτοὺς δοῦναι λιβέλλους κατὰ τῶν τριῶν 39 ἐκείνων, αὐτὸς ὑφάνας τοὺς λόγους τῆς συκοφαντίας, τούτων μόνον συνεισενεγκάντων τὸ ὑπογράψαι. μετὰ τοῦτο λαβὼν τοὺς λιβέλλους παρ' αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας, εἰσέρχεται πρὸς τὸν αὐγουστάλιον καὶ ἀποτίθεται κατ' αὐτῶν ἐντυχίαν ἐκ προσώπου οἰκείου ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς τῆς Αἰγυπτιακῆς διοικήσεως, συμ πλέξας καὶ τοὺς τῆς συκοφαντίας λιβέλλους, καὶ ἀξιοῖ στρα τιωτικῇ βοηθείᾳ ῥιφῆναι τοὺς ἄνδρας ἀπὸ πάσης Αἰγύπτου. λαβὼν δὲ σχήματι τὸν στρατιώτην, ἅμα τῷ προστάγματι, συναθροίζει πλῆθος πλημμελῶν εὐκόλως περὶ τὰς ἀξίας, καὶ ἐπισκιρτᾷ τοῖς μοναστηρίοις ἀθρόᾳ νυκτί, οἰνοφλυγήσας τοὺς παῖδας τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ. καὶ πρῶτον μὲν τὸν τούτων ἀδελφὸν ∆ιόσκορον, ἅγιον ἐπίσκοπον ὄντα τοῦ ὄρους, κελεύει τοῦ θρόνου ῥιφῆναι, συρέντα δι' οἰκετῶν Αἰθιόπων-καὶ αὐτῶν τάχα ἀκμὴν ἀφωτίστων, λαβὼν αὐτοῦ τὴν παροικίαν, ἣν ἀπὸ τῆς παρουσίας Χριστοῦ εἶχεν ἡ τοῦ ∆ιοσκόρου πόλις. μετὰ τοῦτο λαφυρα γωγεῖ τὸ ὄρος, μισθὸν τοῖς νεωτέροις τὰ μικρὰ πράγματα τῶν μοναχῶν διδούς. σκυλεύσας δὲ τὰς κέλλας ἐπιζητεῖ τοὺς τρεῖς ἐκείνους, οὓς κεχαλάκεισαν ἐν φρέατι, ψίαθον ἐπιθέντες τῷ στομίῳ· μὴ εὑρὼν δὲ αὐτοὺς ἐμπίπρησιν αὐτῶν φρυγάνοις τὰς κέλλας, συγκαύσας τὰς βίβλους πάσας ἐνδιαθέτους καὶ σπου δαίας, καὶ παιδίον ἕν, ὡς ἔφασαν οἱ ἑωρακότες, καὶ τὰ σύμβολα τῶν μυστηρίων. οὕτως οὖν λωφήσας τῆς ἀλόγου ὀργῆς κατα λαμβάνει πάλιν τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν, δοὺς χώραν φυγῆς τοῖς ἁγίοις ἐκείνοις· οἵτινες ἐξαυτῆς λαβόντες αὐτῶν τὰς μηλωτὰς ἐξέρχονται εἰς τὴν Παλαιστίνην, Αἰλίαν καταλαβόντες· οἷς συνεξῆλθον σὺν πρεσβυτέροις καὶ διακόνοις τοῦ ὄρους τρια κόσιοι τῶν μοναχῶν σπουδαίων, οἱ δ' ἕτεροι διαφόροις διεσπά ρησαν τόποις. τούτων μὴ φέρων τὴν ἰδιοπραγίαν "ὁ σκολιὸς" τὸν δρόμον "ὄφις" ἀνασείει πάλιν κατ' αὐτῶν τὸν Θεόφιλον· 40 ὃς ἀναβρασθεὶς ὑπὸ τῆς ὀργῆς χαράσσει γράμματα πρὸς τοὺς τῆς Παλαιστίνης ἐπισκόπους, λέγων· "Οὐκ ἔδει μὲν ὑμᾶς παρὰ γνώμην μου ἐν ταῖς πόλεσιν ὑποδέξασθαι τούτους· ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἠγνοήσατε, συγγνώμην ὑμῖν νέμω. τοῦ λοιποῦ τοίνυν φροντί σατε, μήτε εἰς ἐκκλησιαστικόν, μήτε εἰς ἰδιωτικὸν τούτους ὑπο δέξασθαι τόπον." οὐ μόνον λέγων, ἀλλὰ καὶ φανταζόμενος εἶναι θεός, τῇ