21.  What more need be said?  But how can I bear this holy war?  For there has been said to be a holy, as well as a Persian, war.99    A Holy War.  That against the Phocians to avenge their sacrilege at Delphi.  How shall I unite and join together the hostile occupants of sees, and hostile pastors, and the people broken up along with, and opposed to them, as if by some chasms caused by earthquakes between neighbouring and adjoining places; or as, in pestilential diseases, befalls servants and members of the family, when the sickness readily attacks in succession one after another; and besides the very quarters of the globe are affected by the spirit of faction, so that East and West are arrayed on opposite sides, and bid fair to be severed in opinion no less than in position.  How long are parties to be mine and yours, the old and the new, the more rational and the more spiritual, the more noble and the more ignoble, the more and the less numerous?  I am ashamed of my old age, when, after being saved by Christ, I am called by the name of others.

ΚΑʹ. Τί τἄλλα δεῖ λέγειν; Ἀλλὰ πῶς οἴσω τὸν ἱερὸν τοῦτον πόλεμον; Λεγέσθω γάρ τις καὶ πόλεμος ἱερὸς, ὥσπερ καὶ βαρβαρικός. Πῶς συνάψω, καὶ εἰς ἓν ἀγάγω τοὺς ἀντικαθεζομένους τούτους καὶ ἀντιποιμαίνοντας, καὶ τὸν συναπεῤῥωγότα τούτοις λαὸν καὶ ἀντίθετον: ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖς χάσμασι τῶν σεισμῶν, τὰ γειτονοῦντα καὶ πλησιάζοντα: ἢ ταῖς λοιμικαῖς νόσοις τοὺς θεραπευτὰς καὶ οἰκείους, ἄλλοις ἀπ' ἄλλων διαδιδομένης εὐκόλως τῆς ἀῤῥωστίας: οὐ μόνον δὲ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ τῆς οἰκουμένης τμήματα συμπεπονθότα τοῖς στασιάζουσιν, ὥστε καὶ εἰς ἀντίπαλον μοῖραν ἀποκριθῆναι τότε Ἑῷον καὶ τὸ Ἑσπέριον, καὶ κινδυνεύειν τῆς γνώμης οὐχ ἧττον ἢ τῶν περάτων ταῦτα γενέσθαι τμήματα; Μέχρι τίνος γὰρ ὁ ἐμὸς καὶ ὁ σὸς, καὶ ὁ παλαιὸς καὶ ὁ νέος, ὁ λογιώτερος ἢ ὁ πνευματικώτερος, ὁ εὐγενέστερος ἢ ὁ δυσγενέστερος, ὁ τῷ πλήθει πλουσιώτερος ἢ ὁ πενέστερος; Αἰσχύνομαι τὸ γῆρας, ἄλλων καλούμενος, ὑπὸ Χριστοῦ σεσωσμένος.