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he assigned the reprimands to those who had in some way offended. But indeed, also seeming to have come to a greater piety, he tore down that pillar of the three patriarchs named Germanus, which stood on the right as one enters the Beautiful Gates, because of the later one, translated from Orestias, because he himself, having served as an ambassador, had cooperated in the peace with the Italians, and a royal icon-cloth, worked in gold thread in the form of a pointed veil, which he, as patriarch, had hung for the emperor Michael on the western side between the red columns, he set up, having transformed it to glorify the appearance of that new Constantine 615 to the Romans in the form of the all-glorious Constantine. And those things which had been preserved as a matter of form from the earlier days of honor of the patriarchate, were later changed, as if through a certain disregard of those who had repented, just as when a potsherd falls and turns over. And he, mixing divine rights into everything, attacked the many with impunity, appearing as a nearby scout for offenses, and every word to the emperor out of reverence came to nothing, and imprisonments and condemnations awaited those who had offended in some way. And the affairs of the universal church were reduced to little, with the patriarch of Alexandria having been exiled, and the patriarch of the City of God being alienated because of the monastery of the Hodegetria, which someone, it was hoped, might indeed also deposit, and Athanasius of Jerusalem also having been removed because of the rumors from there against him, which a certain Vroulas from among the Romans, and bishop of Caesarea Philippi, having approached the emperor and the patriarch himself and reported, was sent together with the ambassadors from the emperor and was eager to prove them; and they, having arrived in Jerusalem, drove out the patriarch, and contrary to the will of the emperor (for zeal alone drove the emperor to have the accusations investigated), they enthroned 616 Vroulas on the throne of Aelia, bearing also, as was said, the pollution of excommunication. And henceforth, with him also being suspended, only the reigning patriarch along with the one offering the sacrifice, with the patriarchs of Alexandria and the City of God already suspended, was commemorated in the sacred diptychs. And of the high priests, some were away, and he forced those who were present to go away. And the honored members of the clergy, whom he regarded with suspicion, he made inactive by taking away their stipends. And for those who had offended him in some way, the aversion from the emperor was inexorable, as he wished by all means to support him in matters of reverence. And many were given over to prisons so as to have neither any consolation nor indeed to be freed by any chance, so that some of the monks who had fled, since there was nowhere for them to take refuge, fled to the friaries across the water. The mistreatment proposed to the accusers, so that at least they might thus be saved. And this 617 was openly that of the father Diodorus, to harm some people deeply, whenever they mix in a divine right. But indeed it is not strange if something has happened outside of custom, but if not everything that happens is among the things hoped for before it even happens. Therefore, the emperor's reverence for the patriarch, and the concession in all matters from no small confidence, as it seemed, such that he also adorned him with the most splendid vestments along with very many votive offerings for the church, so that these things were believed to be of the greatest piety and love of beauty on the part of the emperor, and to obey readily whatever he might announce, and to meet him often on feast days wearing extraordinary vestments worth many talents, did not allow that man to be at rest, but opening courts daily he conducted the judgments, so as even to change ancient rules according to what seemed advantageous and 618 pious, and to appoint some in place of others, and for monks to 618 practice eating one meal a day on the ninth hour throughout the year, except, however, on Saturday and Sunday. Whence indeed it also happened that these three greater sins were consequently committed, in addition to the ancient rules of the fathers also being changed, I think, for the more negligent, secret eating and insatiability and, for those dining in the evening, more than is proper.

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