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we have decided that those things which these same churches formerly possessed, should be restored to their ownership. 10.5.17 Therefore, when your Devotion perceives 10.5.17 this command of ours to be a most clear order, hasten, whether they be gardens or houses or anything whatsoever that belonged to the ownership of these same churches, that all things be restored to them as quickly as possible, so that we may learn that you have rendered most careful obedience to this our command. Farewell, Anulinus, our most honored and beloved.” 10.5.18 COPY OF AN IMPERIAL LETTER BY WHICH HE COMMANDS A SYNOD OF BISHOPS TO BE HELD AT ROME FOR THE UNITY AND CONCORD OF THE CHURCHES “Constantine Augustus to Miltiades, bishop of the Romans, and to Marcus. Since several such documents have been sent to me from Anulinus, the most illustrious proconsul of Africa, in which it is stated that Caecilianus, the bishop of the city of Carthage, is being accused in many matters by some of his colleagues in Africa, and this seems to me a very serious thing that in these provinces, which divine Providence has spontaneously entrusted to my Devotion, and where there is a great multitude of people, a crowd should be found persisting in the worse course, as if dissenting and having differences among the bishops, 10.5.19 it has seemed good to me that Caecilianus himself, with ten bishops of those who seem to accuse him, and ten others whom he himself may consider necessary for his own case, should sail to Rome, so that there, in your presence, and also in the presence of Reticius and Maternus and Marinus, your colleagues, whom I have for this reason commanded to hasten to Rome, he may be able to be heard, as you may learn to be fitting for the most venerable law. 10.5.20 However, so that you may be able to have the fullest knowledge concerning all these matters, I have appended to my letter copies of the documents sent to me by Anulinus, and have sent them to your aforementioned colleagues; upon reading these, your Firmness will decide in what manner the aforesaid case should be most carefully investigated and justly concluded, since it does not escape your care that I pay such reverence to the legitimate catholic church, that I do not wish you to leave any schism or division in any place at all. May the divinity of the great God preserve you for many years, most honored.” 10.5.21 COPY OF AN IMPERIAL LETTER IN WHICH HE ORDERS A SECOND SYNOD TO BE HELD IN ORDER TO REMOVE ALL DISSENSION AMONG THE BISHOPS “Constantine Augustus to Chrestus, bishop of the Syracusans. Already before, when some evilly and perversely began to separate themselves from the worship of the holy and heavenly power and from the catholic faith, wishing to cut short such contentions of theirs, I had so arranged that, with certain bishops having been sent from Gaul, and also with those from Africa of the opposite party having been summoned, who were appropriately, urgently, and persistently contending, and with the bishop of Rome also being present, that which seemed to have been stirred up, might, by their presence, attain a right settlement with all careful examination. 10.5.22 But since, as it happens, some, forgetting both their own salvation and the reverence due to the most holy faith, do not even now cease to prolong their own enmities, being unwilling to agree with the judgment already rendered, and asserting that a few persons indeed expressed their own opinions and decisions, or even that, without all the things that ought to have been investigated first having been accurately examined, they hurried very quickly and sharply to render the judgment, and from all these things it has come to pass that even those very persons who ought to maintain brotherly and like-minded unanimity, are shamefully, or rather abominably, divided from one another, and to those

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προῃρήμεθα ταῦτα ἅπερ αἱ αὐταὶ ἐκκλησίαι πρότερον ἐσχήκεσαν, τῷ δικαίῳ αὐτῶν ἀποκατασταθῆναι. 10.5.17 ὁπότε τοίνυν συνορᾷ ἡ καθο10.5.17 σίωσις ἡ σὴ ταύτης ἡμῶν τῆς κελεύσεως σαφέστατον εἶναι τὸ πρόσ ταγμα, σπούδασον, εἴτε κῆποι εἴτε οἰκίαι εἶθ' ὁτιουνδήποτε τῷ δικαίῳ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐκκλησιῶν διέφερον, σύμπαντα αὐταῖς ἀποκατασταθῆναι ὡς τάχιστα, ὅπως τούτῳ ἡμῶν τῷ προστάγματι ἐπιμελεστάτην σε πειθάρχησιν παρεσχηκέναι καταμάθοιμεν. ἔρρωσο, Ἀνυλῖνε, τιμιώτατε καὶ ποθεινότατε ἡμῖν.» 10.5.18 ΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗΣ ∆Ι' ΗΣ ΣΥΝΟ∆ΟΝ ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΩΝ ΕΠΙ ΡΩΜΗΣ ΚΕΛΕΥΕΙ ΓΕΝΕΣΘΑΙ ΥΠΕΡ ΤΗΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΩΝ ΕΝΩΣΕΩΣ ΤΕ ΚΑΙ ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑΣ «Κωνσταντῖνος Σεβαστὸς Μιλτιάδῃ ἐπισκόπῳ Ῥωμαίων καὶ Μάρκῳ. ἐπειδὴ τοιοῦτοι χάρται παρὰ Ἀνυλίνου τοῦ λαμπροτάτου ἀνθυπάτου τῆς Ἀφρικῆς πρός με πλείους ἀπεστάλησαν, ἐν οἷς ἐμφέρεται Καικιλιανὸν τὸν ἐπίσκοπον τῆς Χαρταγενησίων πόλεως παρά τινων κολλήγων αὐτοῦ τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἀφρικὴν καθεστώτων ἐν πολλοῖς πράγμασιν εὐθύνεσθαι, καὶ τοῦτό μοι βαρὺ σφόδρα δοκεῖ τὸ ἐν ταύταις ταῖς ἐπαρχίαις, ἃς τῇ ἐμῇ καθοσιώσει αὐθαιρέτως ἡ θεία πρόνοια ἐνεχείρισεν κἀκεῖσε πολὺ πλῆθος λαοῦ, ὄχλον ἐπὶ τὸ φαυλότερον ἐπιμένοντα εὑρίσκεσθαι ὡς ἂν εἰ διχοστατοῦντα καὶ μεταξὺ ἐπισκόπους διαφορὰς ἔχειν, 10.5.19 ἔδοξέ μοι ἵν' αὐτὸς ὁ Καικιλιανὸς μετὰ δέκα ἐπισκόπων τῶν αὐτὸν εὐθύνειν δοκούντων καὶ δέκα ἑτέρων οὓς αὐτὸς τῇ ἑαυτοῦ δίκῃ ἀναγκαίους ὑπολάβοι, εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην πλῷ ἀπιέναι, ἵν' ἐκεῖσε ὑμῶν παρόντων, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ Ῥετικίου καὶ Ματέρνου καὶ Μαρίνου, τῶν κολλήγων ὑμῶν, οὓς τούτου ἕνεκεν εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην προσέταξα ἐπισπεῦσαι, δυνηθῇ ἀκουσθῆναι, ὡς ἂν καταμάθοιτε τῷ σεβασμιωτάτῳ νόμῳ ἁρμόττειν. 10.5.20 ἵνα μέντοι καὶ περὶ πάντων αὐτῶν τούτων πληρεστάτην δυνηθῆτε ἔχειν γνῶσιν, τὰ ἀντίτυπα τῶν ἐγγράφων τῶν πρός με παρὰ Ἀνυλίνου ἀποσταλέντων γράμμασιν ἐμοῖς ὑποτάξας, πρὸς τοὺς προειρημένους κολλήγας ὑμῶν ἐξέπεμψα· οἷς ἐντυχοῦσα ἡ ὑμετέρα στερρότης δοκιμάσει ὅντινα χρὴ τρόπον τὴν προειρημένην δίκην ἐπιμελέστατα διευκρινῆσαι καὶ κατὰ τὸ δίκαιον τερματίσαι, ὁπότε μηδὲ τὴν ὑμετέραν ἐπιμέλειαν λανθάνει τοσαύτην με αἰδῶ τῇ ἐνθέσμῳ καθολικῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἀπονέμειν, ὡς μηδὲν καθόλου σχίσμα ἢ διχοστασίαν ἔν τινι τόπῳ βούλεσθαί με ὑμᾶς καταλιπεῖν. ἡ θειότης ὑμᾶς τοῦ μεγάλου θεοῦ διαφυλάξει πολλοῖς ἔτεσι, τιμιώτατε.» 10.5.21 ΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗΣ ∆Ι' ΗΣ ΠΡΟΣΤΑΤΤΕΙ ∆ΕΥΤΕΡΑΝ ΓΕΝΕΣΘΑΙ ΣΥΝΟ∆ΟΝ ΥΠΕΡ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΣΑΝ ΤΩΝ ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΩΝ ΠΕΡΙΕΛΕΙΝ ∆ΙΧΟΣΤΑΣΙΑΝ «Κωνσταντῖνος Σεβαστὸς Χρήστῳ ἐπισκόπῳ Συρακουσίων. ἤδη μὲν πρότερον, ὅτε φαύλως καὶ ἐνδιαστρόφως τινὲς περὶ τῆς θρῃσκείας τῆς ἁγίας καὶ ἐπουρανίου δυνάμεως καὶ τῆς αἱρέσεως τῆς καθολικῆς ἀποδιίστασθαι ἤρξαντο, ἐπιτέμνεσθαι βουληθεὶς τὰς τοιαύτας αὐτῶν φιλονεικίας, οὕτω διατετυπώκειν ὥστε ἀποσταλέντων ἀπὸ τῆς Γαλλίας τινῶν ἐπισκόπων, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τούτων κληθέντων ἀπὸ τῆς Ἀφρικῆς τῶν ἐξ ἐναντίας μοίρας καταλλήλως, ἐνστατικῶς καὶ ἐπιμόνως διαγωνιζομένων παρόντος τε καὶ τοῦ τῆς Ῥώμης ἐπισκόπου, τοῦτο ὅπερ ἐδόκει κεκινῆσθαι, δυνηθῇ ὑπὸ τῆς παρουσίας αὐτῶν μετὰ πάσης ἐπιμελοῦς διακρίσεως κατορθώσεως τυχεῖν. 10.5.22 ἀλλ' ἐπειδή, ὡς συμβαίνει, ἐπιλαθόμενοί τινες καὶ τῆς σωτηρίας τῆς ἰδίας καὶ τοῦ σεβάσματος τοῦ ὀφειλομένου τῇ ἁγιωτάτῃ αἱρέσει, ἔτι καὶ νῦν τὰς ἰδίας ἔχθρας παρατείνειν οὐ παύονται, μὴ βουλόμενοι τῇ ἤδη ἐξενεχθείσῃ κρίσει συντίθεσθαι καὶ διοριζόμενοι ὅτι δὴ ἄρα ὀλίγοι τινὲς τὰς γνώμας καὶ τὰς ἀποφάσεις ἑαυτῶν ἐξήνεγκαν ἢ καὶ μὴ πρότερον ἁπάντων τῶν ὀφειλόντων ζητηθῆναι ἀκριβῶς ἐξετασθέντων πρὸς τὸ τὴν κρίσιν ἐξενέγκαι πάνυ ταχέως καὶ ὀξέως ἔσπευσαν, ἔκ τε τούτων ἁπάντων ἐκεῖνα συμβαίνει γενέσθαι, τὸ καὶ τούτους αὐτοὺς ἀδελφικὴν καὶ ὁμόφρονα ὀφείλοντας ἔχειν ὁμοψυχίαν αἰσχρῶς, μᾶλλον δὲ μυσερῶς ἀλλήλων ἀποδιεστάναι καὶ τοῖς