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to educate men by the laws of moderation. Wherefore he did not think it unworthy to communicate with these also through a personal letter, and he urged them to hasten 3.58.3 toward the knowledge of the better. And here too he added deeds sister to his words, establishing among them also a very great house of prayer for the church, so that what had never been known by hearsay in all time might now for the first time be put into effect, and the city of the superstitious be deemed worthy of a church of God, of presbyters and deacons, and a bishop consecrated to the God over all preside over them there. 3.58.4 And the emperor, providing here too that more might come to the Word, provided ample resources for the assistance of the poor, and in this way urged them to hasten to the saving teaching, almost as if he himself had said something similar to the one who said: "6whether in pretense or in truth, let Christ be proclaimed."6 3.59.1 But while all were passing their lives in gladness over these things, and the church of God was being exalted everywhere in every way and among all nations, again the envy that lies in wait for good things smeared itself on the prosperity of so many blessings, hoping perhaps that the emperor himself would become different toward us, worn out by our disturbances and disorders. 3.59.2 And so, having lit a very great torch, it seized the church of the Antiochenes with tragic misfortunes, so that the whole city was nearly overturned from its foundations, as the peoples of the church were divided into two parts, and the populace of the city with their rulers and soldiers were stirred up in the manner of enemies, so that they were about to take up swords, if some visitation of God and the fear of the emperor 3.59.3 had not checked the impulses of the multitude, and again the emperor's forbearance, like a savior and physician of souls, brought the cures of words to those who were sick. He accordingly sent a most gentle embassy to the peoples, having dispatched the most faithful of the approved men with him who were honored with the dignity of counts, and he advised them by successive letters to be minded toward peace, and he taught them to act in a manner befitting piety, and he both persuaded and defended himself through what he wrote to them, 3.59.4 as he himself had heard about the cause of the sedition. And I would have included 3.59.5 these very letters of his, full of no ordinary instruction and benefit, at the present moment, if they did not bring slander upon the accused. Therefore I shall set these aside, having judged it not right to renew the memory of evils, and I will attach to my account only those which he wrote with cheerfulness for the reunion and peace of the others, through which he advised them by no means to desire to claim a foreign ruler, upon whom they had made peace, but by the rule of the church to choose that shepherd whom the common Savior of all would himself point out. And he writes the following things separately both to the people themselves and to the bishops. 3.60.1 Victor Constantinus, Maximus Augustus, to the people of the Antiochenes. How pleasing indeed to the intelligence and wisdom of the world is the concord from you, and I myself, brothers, have known you to love an immortal friendship, having been summoned by the law and the life and your endeavors. This then is truly to reap the good fruit rightly: to use a right and sound 3.60.2 mind. For what would be so fitting for you? I would not be surprised, therefore, if I were to say that the truth is for you a cause of salvation rather than of hatred. Among the brothers, therefore, whom one and the same disposition of a right and just journey promises to God to enroll in a pure and holy household, what could be more precious than to be in agreement with good fortune in all good things? Especially where the instruction from the law brings your purpose to a better correction, and we desire our judgment to be confirmed by good doctrines. 3.60.3 This perhaps appears wondrous to you, what ever the preface of my speech means. I will not indeed decline nor deny to state the reason. For I confess to have read the records, in which with splendid acclamations and testimonies, which you have brought forward for Eusebius, who is already bishop of the Caesareans, whom I myself of his learning and

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ἀνθρώπους νόμοις σωφροσύνης παιδεύειν. διὸ οὐκ ἀπηξίου καὶ τούτοις δι' οἰκείου προσομιλεῖν γράμματος, προὔτρεπέ τε σπεύ3.58.3 δειν ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ κρείττονος γνῶσιν. κἀνταῦθα δὲ τὰ ἔργα ἐπῆγε τοῖς λόγοις ἀδελφά, οἶκον εὐκτήριον ἐκκλησίας μέγιστον καὶ παρὰ τοῖσδε καταβαλλόμενος, ὡς τὸ μὴ ἐκ τοῦ παντός πω αἰῶνος ἀκοῇ γνωσθὲν νῦν τοῦτο πρῶτον ἔργου τυχεῖν, καὶ τὴν τῶν δεισιδαιμόνων πόλιν ἐκκλησίας θεοῦ πρεσβυτέρων τε καὶ διακόνων ἠξιῶσθαι τῷ τ' ἐπὶ πάντων θεῷ ἱερώμενον ἐπίσκοπον τῶν 3.58.4 τῇδε προκαθέζεσθαι. προνοῶν δὲ κἀνταῦθα βασιλεὺς ὅπως ἂν πλείους προσίοιεν τῷ λόγῳ, τὰ πρὸς ἐπικουρίαν τῶν πενήτων ἔκπλεα παρεῖχε, καὶ ταύτῃ προτρέπων ἐπὶ τὴν σωτήριον σπεύδειν διδασκαλίαν, μόνον οὐχὶ τῷ φάντι παραπλησίως εἰπὼν ἂν καὶ αὐτός· "6εἴτε προφάσει εἴτ' ἀληθείᾳ Χριστὸς καταγγελλέσθω."6 3.59.1 Ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἐπὶ τούτοις ἁπάντων ἐν θυμηδίαις τὴν ζωὴν διαγόντων τῆς τ' ἐκκλησίας τοῦ θεοῦ πανταχοῦ κατὰ πάντα τρόπον καὶ παρὰ πᾶσιν ἔθνεσιν ὑψουμένης, αὖθις ὁ τοῖς καλοῖς ἐφεδρεύων φθόνος ἐπηλείφετο τῇ τῶν τοσούτων ἀγαθῶν εὐπραγίᾳ, τάχα ποτὲ καὶ αὐτὸν ἀλλοῖον ἔσεσθαι βασιλέα περὶ ἡμᾶς ἀποκναίσαντα ταῖς ἡμετέραις ταραχαῖς τε καὶ ἀκοσμίαις ἐλπίσας. 3.59.2 μέγιστον δ' οὖν ἐξάψας πυρσὸν τὴν Ἀντιοχέων ἐκκλησίαν τραγικαῖς διελάμβανε συμφοραῖς, ὡς μικροῦ τὴν πᾶσαν ἐκ βάθρων ἀνατραπῆναι πόλιν, εἰς δύο μὲν τμήματα διαιρεθέντων τῶν τῆς ἐκκλησίας λαῶν, τοῦ δὲ κοινοῦ τῆς πόλεως αὐτοῖς ἄρχουσι καὶ στρατιωτικοῖς πολεμίων τρόπον ἀνακινηθέντων, ὡς καὶ ξιφῶν μέλλειν ἅπτεσθαι, εἰ μὴ θεοῦ τις ἐπισκοπὴ ὅ τε παρὰ βασιλέως 3.59.3 φόβος τὰς τοῦ πλήθους ἀνέστειλεν ὁρμάς, πάλιν θ' ἡ βασιλέως ἀνεξικακία δίκην σωτῆρος καὶ ψυχῶν ἰατροῦ τὰς διὰ λόγων θεραπείας προσῆγε τοῖς νενοσηκόσι. ∆ιεπρεσβεύετο δῆτα τοῖς λαοῖς ἡμερωτάτως, τῶν παρ' αὐτῷ δοκίμων καὶ τῇ τῶν κομήτων ἀξίᾳ τετιμημένων ἀνδρῶν τὸν πιστότατον ἐκπέμψας, φρονεῖν τε τὰ πρὸς εἰρήνην ἐπαλλήλοις παρῄνει γράμμασιν, ἐδίδασκέ τε πράττειν θεοσεβείᾳ πρεπόντως, ἔπειθέ τε καὶ ἀπελογεῖτο δι' ὧν πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἔγραφεν, 3.59.4 ὡς τοῦ τῆς στάσεως αἰτίου διακηκοὼς αὐτὸς εἴη. καὶ ταύτας δ' αὐτοῦ τὰς ἐπιστολὰς οὐ τῆς τυχούσης παιδεύσεώς τε καὶ ὠφελείας πλήρεις παρεθέμην 3.59.5 ἂν ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος, εἰ μὴ διαβολὴν ἐπῆγον τοῖς κατηγορουμένοις. διὸ ταύτας μὲν ἀναθήσομαι, κρίνας μὴ ἀνανεοῦσθαι κακῶν μνήμην, μόνας δὲ συνάψω τῷ λόγῳ ἃς ἐπὶ συναφείᾳ καὶ εἰρήνῃ τῶν ἄλλων εὐθυμούμενος συνέγραψε, δι' ὧν παρῄνει ἀλλοτρίου μὲν ἄρχοντος, ἐφ' ᾧ τὴν εἰρήνην πεποίηντο, μηδαμῶς ἐθέλειν μεταποιεῖσθαι, θεσμῷ δ' ἐκκλησίας τοῦτον αἱρεῖσθαι ποιμένα, ὃν αὐτὸς ἀναδείξειεν ὁ κοινὸς τῶν ὅλων σωτήρ. γράφει δὲ αὐτῷ τε τῷ λαῷ καὶ τοῖς ἐπισκόποις διαφόρως τὰ ὑποτεταγμένα. 3.60.1 Νικητὴς Κωνσταντῖνος Μέγιστος Σεβαστὸς τῷ λαῷ Ἀντιοχέων. Ὡς κεχαρισμένη γε τῇ τοῦ κόσμου συνέσει τε καὶ σοφίᾳ ἡ παρ' ὑμῶν ὁμόνοια, καὶ ἔγωγε ὑμᾶς, ἀδελφοί, ἀθάνατον φιλίαν φιλεῖν ἔγνωκα, προκληθεὶς τῷ τε νόμῳ καὶ τῷ βίῳ καὶ ταῖς σπουδαῖς ταῖς ὑμετέραις. τοῦτο οὖν ἐστιν ὡς ἀληθῶς ὀρθῶς τὰ καλὰ καρποῦσθαι τὸ ὀρθῇ τε καὶ ὑγιεῖ 3.60.2 κεχρῆσθαι διανοίᾳ. τί γὰρ ἂν οὕτως ὑμῖν ἁρμόσειεν; οὐκοῦν θαυμάσαιμι ἄν, εἰ τὴν ἀλήθειαν σωτηρίας μᾶλλον ὑμῖν ἢ μίσους αἰτίαν φήσαιμι. ἐν οὖν τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς, οὓς μία τε καὶ ἡ αὐτὴ διάθεσις ὀρθῆς καὶ δικαίας ὁδοιπορίας τῷ θεῷ κατεπαγγέλλεται εἰς ἁγνήν τε καὶ ὁσίαν ἑστίαν ἐγγράφειν, τί ἂν τιμιώτερον γένοιτο τοῦ μετ' εὐτυχίας τοῖς πάντων καλοῖς ὁμογνωμονεῖν; μάλιστα ὅπου τὴν πρόθεσιν ὑμῶν ἡ ἐκ τοῦ νόμου παίδευσις εἰς καλλίω διόρθωσιν φέρει, καὶ τὴν ἡμετέραν κρίσιν βεβαιοῦσθαι τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς ἐπιθυμοῦμεν δόγμασι. 3.60.3 Θαυμαστὸν τοῦτο ἴσως ὑμῖν καταφαίνεται, τί δή ποτε τὸ προοίμιόν μοι τοῦ λόγου βούλεται. οὐ δὴ παραιτήσομαι οὐδ' ἀρνήσομαι τὴν αἰτίαν εἰπεῖν. ὁμολογῶ γὰρ ἀνεγνωκέναι τὰ ὑπομνήματα, ἐν οἷς λαμπραῖς τ' εὐφημίαις τε καὶ μαρτυρίαις, αἷς εἰς Εὐσέβιον εἰσηνέγκασθε ἐπίσκοπον ἤδη Καισαρέων ὄντα, ὃν καὶ αὐτὸς παιδεύσεώς τε καὶ