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Others again describe the life of the same man, of what sort of conduct he happened to be, in these words: "But where, having departed from the rule, he has gone over to counterfeit and spurious doctrines, there is no need to judge the actions of one who is outside, 7.30.7 nor that formerly being poor and a beggar, and having received no means either from his fathers nor having acquired it from a trade or any occupation, he has now come into excessive wealth from lawless deeds and sacrileges and from what he begs and extorts from the brethren, defrauding those who are wronged and promising to help them for a reward, but deceiving these too and profiting in vain from the readiness of those in difficulties to give in order to be rid of their troubles, considering piety a means of gain; 7.30.8 nor that he is high-minded and puffed up, assuming worldly dignities and wishing to be called ducenarius rather than bishop, and strutting through the marketplaces, and reading letters and dictating them as he walks in public, and attended by a bodyguard, some going before, some following, many in number, so that the faith is envied and hated because of his pomp and the arrogance of his heart; 7.30.9 nor the trickery in the ecclesiastical assemblies, which he contrives, hunting for glory and playing to the crowd and startling the souls of the more simple with such things, having prepared for himself a platform and a high throne, not as a disciple of Christ, and having and naming it a secretum, like the rulers of the world, and striking his thigh with his hand and stamping on the platform with his feet, and rebuking and insulting those who do not praise him nor, as in the theatres, wave their handkerchiefs, nor shout out and leap up in the same way as his partisans around him, both men and women, who listen in this disorderly fashion, but who listen reverently and in an orderly manner as in the house of God, and publicly and vulgarly insulting in his drunken rage the departed interpreters of the Word, and boasting about himself, as if he were not a bishop but a sophist and a charlatan; 7.30.10 and having stopped the psalms to our Lord Jesus Christ as being modern and the compositions of modern men, he prepares women to sing psalms to himself in the middle of the church on the great day of Pascha, which a man might shudder to hear; and he allows the bishops of the neighbouring districts and cities, and the presbyters, who flatter him, to speak in the same way in their sermons to the people; 7.30.11 For he does not wish to confess with us that the Son of God has come down from heaven—to anticipate something of what we are about to write—and this shall not be said in mere words, but is shown in many places from the memoranda we have sent, and not least where he says that Jesus Christ is from below; but those who sing psalms to him and praise him among the people say that their impious teacher is an angel come down from heaven, and he does not forbid these things, but the arrogant man is present even when they are said; 7.30.12 And as for his *syneisactoe* women, as the Antiochenes call them, and those of his presbyters and deacons, with whom he conceals this and their other incurable sins, being conscious of them and having convicted them, so that he might have them under his power, concerning the things in which he wrongs them by words and deeds, not daring to accuse him for fear for themselves, but he has even made them rich, for which he is loved and admired by those who covet such things—why should we write of these things? 7.30.13 But we know, beloved, that the bishop and all the clergy ought to be an example to the multitude of all good works, and we are not ignorant of how many have fallen, or have come under suspicion, by introducing women to live with them. So that even if one should grant that he does nothing licentious, yet he ought to have been on his guard against the suspicion that arises from such a practice, lest he should scandalize someone, or encourage others to imitate him. 7.30.14 For how could he rebuke or admonish another not to associate too much with a woman, guarding against a fall, as

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ἕτερα δ' αὖθις τὸν βίον τοῦ αὐτοῦ οἵας ἐτύγχανεν ἀγωγῆς, διαγράφουσιν ἐν τούτοις· «ὅπου δὲ ἀποστὰς τοῦ κανόνος, ἐπὶ κίβδηλα καὶ νόθα διδάγματα μετελήλυθεν, οὐδὲν δεῖ τοῦ ἔξω ὄντος τὰς πράξει κρίνειν, 7.30.7 οὐδ' ὅτι πρότερον πένης ὢν καὶ πτωχὸς καὶ μήτε παρὰ πατέρων παραλαβὼν μηδεμίαν εὐπορίαν μήτε ἐκ τέχνης ἤ τινος ἐπιτηδεύματος κτησάμενος, νῦν εἰς ὑπερβάλλοντα πλοῦτον ἐλήλακεν ἐξ ἀνομιῶν καὶ ἱεροσυλιῶν καὶ ὧν αἰτεῖ καὶ σείει τοὺς ἀδελφούς, καταβραβεύων τοὺς ἀδικουμένους καὶ ὑπισχνούμενος βοηθήσειν μισθοῦ, ψευδόμενος δὲ καὶ τούτους καὶ μάτην καρπούμενος τὴν τῶν ἐν πράγμασιν ὄντων ἑτοιμότητα πρὸς τὸ διδόναι ὑπὲρ ἀπαλλαγῆς τῶν ἐνοχλούντων, πορισμὸν ἡγούμενος τὴν θεοσέβειαν· 7.30.8 οὔτε ὡς ὑψηλὰ φρονεῖ καὶ ὑπερῆρται, κοσμικὰ ἀξιώματα ὑποδυόμενος καὶ δουκηνάριος μᾶλλον ἢ ἐπίσκοπος θέλων καλεῖσθαι καὶ σοβῶν κατὰ τὰς ἀγορὰς καὶ ἐπιστολὰς ἀναγινώσκων καὶ ὑπαγορεύων ἅμα βαδίζων δημοσίᾳ καὶ δορυφορούμενος, τῶν μὲν προπορευομένων, τῶν δ' ἐφεπομένων, πολλῶν τὸν ἀριθμόν, ὡς καὶ τὴν πίστιν φθονεῖσθαι καὶ μισεῖσθαι διὰ τὸν ὄγκον αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν ὑπερηφανίαν τῆς καρδίας· 7.30.9 οὔτε τὴν ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησιαστικαῖς συνόδοις τερατείαν, ἣν μηχανᾶται, δοξοκοπῶν καὶ φαντασιοκοπῶν καὶ τὰς τῶν ἀκεραιοτέρων ψυχὰς τοῖς τοιούτοις ἐκπλήττων, βῆμα μὲν καὶ θρόνον ὑψηλὸν ἑαυτῷ κατασκευάσμενος, οὐχ ὡς Χριστοῦ μαθητής, σήκρητόν τε, ὥσπερ οἱ τοῦ κόσμου ἄρχοντες, ἔχων τε καὶ ὀνομάζων, παίων τε τῇ χειρὶ τὸν μηρὸν καὶ τὸ βῆμα ἀράττων τοῖς ποσὶν καὶ τοῖς μὴ ἐπαινοῦσιν μηδὲ ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖς θεάτροις κατασείουσιν ταῖς ὀθόναις μηδ' ἐκβοῶσίν τε καὶ ἀναπηδῶσιν κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ τοῖς ἀμφ' αὐτὸν στασιώταις, ἀνδράσιν τε καὶ γυναίοις, ἀκόσμως οὕτως ἀκροωμένοις, τοῖς δ' οὖν ὡς ἐν οἴκῳ θεοῦ σεμνοπρεπῶς καὶ εὐτάκτως ἀκούουσιν ἐπιτιμῶν καὶ ἐνυβρίζων καὶ εἰς τοὺς ἀπελθόντας ἐκ τοῦ βίου τούτου παροινῶν ἐξηγητὰς τοῦ λόγου φορτικῶς ἐν τῷ κοινῷ καὶ μεγαλορημονῶν περὶ ἑαυτοῦ, καθάπερ οὐκ ἐπίσκοπος ἀλλὰ σοφιστὴς καὶ γόης· 7.30.10 ψαλμοὺς δὲ τοὺς μὲν εἰς τὸν κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν παύσας ὡς δὴ νεωτέρους καὶ νεωτέρων ἀνδρῶν συγγράμματα, εἰς ἑαυτὸν δὲ ἐν μέσῃ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ τοῦ πάσχα ἡμέρᾳ ψαλμῳδεῖν γυναῖκας παρασκευάζων, ὧν καὶ ἀκούσας ἄν τις φρίξειεν· οἷα καὶ τοὺς θωπεύοντας αὐτὸν ἐπισκόπους τῶν ὁμόρων ἀγρῶν τε καὶ πόλεων καὶ πρεσβυτέρους ἐν ταῖς πρὸς τὸν λαὸν ὁμιλίαις καθίησιν διαλέγεσθαι· 7.30.11 τὸν μὲν γὰρ υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ οὐ βούλεται συνομολογεῖν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ κατεληλυθέναι ἵνα τι προλαβόντες τῶν μελλόντων γραφήσεσθαι θῶμεν, καὶ τοῦτο οὐ λόγῳ ψιλῷ ῥηθήσεται, ἀλλ' ἐξ ὧν ἐπέμψαμεν ὑπομνημάτων δείκνυται πολλαχόθεν, οὐχ ἥκιστα δὲ ὅπου λέγει Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν κάτωθεν, οἱ δὲ εἰς αὐτὸν ψάλλοντες καὶ ἐγκωμιάζοντες ἐν τῷ λαῷ ἄγγελον τὸν ἀσεβῆ διδάσκαλον ἑαυτῶν ἐξ οὐρανοῦ κατεληλυθέναι λέγουσιν, καὶ ταῦτα οὐ κωλύει, ἀλλὰ καὶ λεγομένοις πάρεστιν ὁ ὑπερήφανος· 7.30.12 τὰς δὲ συνεισάκτους αὐτοῦ γυναῖκας, ὡς Ἀντιοχεῖς ὀνομάζουσιν, καὶ τῶν περὶ αὐτὸν πρεσβυτέρων καὶ διακόνων, οἷς καὶ τοῦτο καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἁμαρτήματα ἀνίατα ὄντα συγκρύπτει, συνειδὼς καὶ ἐλέγξας, ὅπως αὐτοὺς ὑπόχρεως ἔχῃ, περὶ ὧν λόγοις καὶ ἔργοις ἀδικεῖ, μὴ τολμῶντας κατηγορεῖν τῷ καθ' ἑαυτοὺς φόβῳ, ἀλλὰ καὶ πλουσίους ἀπέφηνεν, ἐφ' ᾧ πρὸς τῶν τὰ τοιαῦτα ζηλούντων φιλεῖται καὶ θαυμάζεται- τί ἂν ταῦτα γράφοιμεν; 7.30.13 ἐπιστάμεθα δέ, ἀγαπητοί, ὅτι τὸν ἐπίσκοπον καὶ τὸ ἱερατεῖον ἅπαν παράδειγμα εἶναι δεῖ τῷ πλήθει πάντων καλῶν ἔργων, καὶ οὐδὲ ἐκεῖνο ἀγνοοῦμεν ὅσοι ὑπὸ τοῦ συνεισάγειν ἑαυτοῖς γυναῖκας ἐξέπεσον, οἳ δ' ὑπωπτεύθησαν, ὥστ' εἰ καὶ δοίη τις αὐτῷ τὸ μηδὲν ἀσελγὲς ποιεῖν, ἀλλὰ τήν γε ὑπόνοιαν τὴν ἐκ τοῦ τοιούτου πράγματος φυομένην ἐχρῆν εὐλαβηθῆναι, μή τινα σκανδαλίσῃ, τοὺς δὲ καὶ μιμεῖσθαι προτρέψῃ. 7.30.14 πῶς γὰρ ἂν ἐπιπλήξειεν ἢ νουθετήσειεν ἕτερον μὴ συγκαταβαίνειν ἐπὶ πλέον εἰς ταὐτὸν γυναικί, μὴ ὀλίσθῃ, φυλαττόμενον, ὡς