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body of Saint Paul the confessor. In his seventh year, Theodosius Augustus appointed Honorius, his son by Plakilla, as consul and prepared to make war against the tyrant Maximus. In the eighth year, in Palestine, in a village called Emmaus, a child was born, perfect from the navel and divided above, which had two chests, two heads, and each had its own senses. one ate and drank, but the other did not; one slept, and the other was awake. Sometimes they even played with each other, and both would cry, and they would strike each other. They lived for two years, and one died, and the other passed away after four days. In the ninth year of the reign of Theodosius the Great, the holy and ecumenical second synod of the 150 holy fathers took place in Constantinople, under Damasus, pope of Rome, which was led by Timothy of Alexandria, Meletius of Antioch, Cyril of Jerusalem and Gregory the Theologian, against Macedonius, who had become bishop of Constantinople, who while still alive blasphemed in the same way as Arius. Likewise, he also supposed the Holy Spirit not to be true God but also a creature. 1.555 After a short time had passed, the divine Gregory, having learned that some of those from Egypt 1.555 were envious of his teaching, delivered his farewell address and withdrew from the episcopal administration. And having departed to his estate in Cappadocia, after resting there a little and finding peace from the many disturbances and having come into a greater state of contemplation, he departed this life, an old man and full of days, filled with all the knowledge and contemplation of the spirit. The holy synod anathematizes Macedonius, and with him Sabellius the Libyan, who held one person in the holy trinity, and also Apollinarius the Laodicean, who said that the incarnate Word was a man, but that the Word sufficed for the soul instead of a mind. And it preached that the Holy Spirit is life-giving and consubstantial with the Father and the Son, having added to the holy creed concerning the Holy Spirit "the Lord, the giver of life," and what follows. Then Amphilochius the Great entreated the emperor to expel the Arians from all the cities. But he, considering the request too harsh, did not listen. And then the most wise Amphilochius was silent, but not long after, having entered the palace, he greeted the emperor as was fitting, but left his son standing with him unhonored in the royal manner. And the emperor, thinking Amphilochius had forgotten, ordered him to greet his son in the royal manner as well. But he said that the honor offered to him privately by him was sufficient. The emperor grew angry at him and said that 1.556 the dishonor of his son was his own. And Amphilochius cried out, "You see, O emperor, how you cannot bear the dishonor of your son? Believe then also that God abominates and turns away from those who blaspheme his son." Hearing this, the emperor was greatly amazed and immediately wrote a law forbidding the assemblies of the heretics. The beauty-hating demon, envying this good thing, contrived for something cruel and inhuman to happen. For while the emperor was making the journey from Constantinople to Rome, he came to Thessalonica along the way, and when his soldiers disturbed the city on account of billeting, the Thessalonians rioted, and they insulted the emperor and stoned some of his officials. The emperor, having learned these things and unable to bear the rush of his anger, entrusted the sentence of punishment to the prefect of that city; who, having received such authority, like an autonomous tyrant, unsheathed unjust swords against all, and killed the innocent with the guilty, seven thousand, or as some say, fifteen. When Ambrose the Great, bishop of Milan—this is a city of Italy—heard of this disaster, upon the emperor's arrival and his customary wish to enter the church, the saint met him outside the doors and forbade the

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σῶμα τοῦ ἁγίου Παύλου τοῦ ὁμολογητοῦ. Τῷ ζʹ ἔτει τούτου Θεοδόσιος ὁ Αὔγουστος Ὁνώριον υἱὸν αὐτοῦ τὸν ἐκ Πλακίλλης ὕπατον ἀνέδειξε καὶ πολεμεῖν τῷ τυράννῳ Μαξίμῳ ηὐτρέπισε. Τῷ ηʹ ἔτει ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ, ἐν κώμῃ Ἐμμαοῦς λεγομένῃ, παιδίον ἐγεννήθη τέλειον ἀπὸ ὀμφαλοῦ καὶ ἄνω διῃρημένον, ὃ εἶχε δύο στήθη, δύο κεφαλάς, καὶ ἕκαστον τὰς αἰσθήσεις εἶχε. τὸ ἓν ἤσθιε καὶ ἔπινε, τὸ δὲ ἕτερον οὐχί· τὸ ἓν ἐκάθευδε, καὶ τὸ ἕτερον ἐγρηγόρει. ἔστι δ' ὅτε καὶ συνέπαιζον πρὸς ἄλληλα, καὶ ἔκλαιον ἀμφότερα, καὶ ἔτυπτον ἄλληλα. ἔζησαν δὲ ἔτη δύο, καὶ τὸ μὲν ἓν ἀπέθανε, τὸ δὲ ἕτερον μετὰ τέσσαρας ἡμέρας ἐτελεύ τησεν. Τῷ ʹ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ μεγάλου Θεοδοσίου γέγονεν ἡ ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει ἁγία καὶ οἰκουμενικὴ δευτέρα σύνοδος τῶν ρνʹ ἁγίων πατέρων, ἐπὶ ∆αμάσου πάπα Ῥώμης, ἧς ἡγοῦντο Τι μόθεος Ἀλεξανδρείας, Μελέτιος Ἀντιοχείας, Κύριλλος Ἱεροσολύμων καὶ Γρηγόριος ὁ θεολόγος, κατὰ Μακεδονίου γεγονότος ἐπισκόπου Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, ὃς ἔτι περιὼν ὡσαύτως τῷ Ἀρείῳ ἐβλασφήμει. ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον μὴ εἶναι θεὸν ἀληθινὸν ἀλλὰ κτίσμα καὶ αὐτὸ ὑπελάμβανεν. ὀλίγου δὲ καιροῦ 1.555 παρῳχηκότος μαθὼν ὁ θεῖος Γρηγόριός τινας τῶν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου 1.555 τῷ λόγῳ αὐτοῦ φθονήσαντας, τὸν συντακτήριον ἐπιδειξάμενος λόγον τῆς ἐπισκοπικῆς διοικήσεως ὑπανεχώρησε. καὶ πρὸς τὸ ἐν Καππαδοκίᾳ κτῆμα αὐτοῦ ἀπελθών, μικρόν τι ἡσυχάσας ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ τῶν πολλῶν ἠρεμήσας θορύβων καὶ ἐν μείζονι γενόμενος θεω ρίᾳ τὸν βίον ὑπαλλάττει, πρεσβύτης καὶ πλήρης ἡμερῶν, τῶν τοῦ πνεύματος ἁπάσης γνώσεως καὶ θεωρίας ἔμπλεως. ἡ δὲ ἁγία σύνοδος Μακεδόνιον ἀναθεματίζει, σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ Σαβέλλιον τὸν Λίβυν ἓν πρόσωπον ἐπὶ τῆς ἁγίας τριάδος δοξάζοντα, ἔτι δὴ καὶ Ἀπολινάριον τὸν Λαοδικέα λέγοντα τὸν ἐνανθρωπήσαντα λόγον ἄνθρωπον εἶναι, ἀντὶ δὲ νοὸς τὸν λόγον ἀρκεῖν τῇ ψυχῇ. ἐκή ρυξε δὲ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον εἶναι ζῳοποιὸν καὶ ὁμοούσιον τῷ πα τρὶ καὶ τῷ υἱῷ, προστεθεικυῖα εἰς τὸ ἅγιον σύμβολον περὶ τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος τὸ κύριον, τὸ ζῳοποιὸν καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. Τότε ὁ μέγας Ἀμφιλόχιος ἐδυσώπει τὸν βασιλέα ἐξελαθῆναι τοὺς Ἀρειανοὺς ἐκ πασῶν τῶν πόλεων. ὁ δὲ ἀπηνεστέραν ὑπολα βὼν τὴν αἴτησιν οὐχ ὑπήκουσε. καὶ τότε μὲν ὁ σοφώτατος Ἀμφιλόχιος ἐσίγησε, μετ' οὐ πολὺ δὲ ἐντὸς τῶν βασιλείων γενόμενος τὸν μὲν βασιλέα ἠσπάσατο ὡς εἰκός, τὸν δὲ υἱὸν αὐτοῦ σὺν αὐτῷ ἑστῶτα βασιλικῶς ἀγέραστον κατέλιπε. καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς νομίσας ἐπιλησθῆναι τὸν Ἀμφιλόχιον ἀσπάσασθαι καὶ τὸν υἱὸν βασιλικῶς προσέταξεν. ὁ δὲ ἀποχρῆν ἔφη τὴν παρ' αὐτοῦ προσενεχθεῖσαν αὐτῷ ἰδιωτικῶς τιμήν. ὃν ὁ βασιλεὺς χαλεπήνας οἰκείαν ἔλεγεν 1.556 εἶναι τὴν τοῦ υἱοῦ ἀτιμίαν. καὶ ὁ Ἀμφιλόχιος ἐξεβόησεν "ὁρᾷς, ὦ βασιλεῦ, πῶς οὐ φέρεις τὴν τοῦ υἱοῦ ἀτιμίαν; πίστευσον οὖν καὶ τὸν θεὸν τοὺς τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ βλασφημοῦντας βδελύττεσθαί τε καὶ ἀποστρέφεσθαι." τοῦτο ἀκούσας ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ σφόδρα θαυμάσας νόμον ἔγραψεν εὐθὺς τὰς τῶν αἱρετικῶν συνάξεις κω λύοντα. τούτῳ τῷ ἀγαθῷ φθονήσας ὁ μισόκαλος δαίμων ὠμόν τι καὶ ἀπάνθρωπον παρεσκεύασε γενέσθαι. ἀπὸ γὰρ Κωνσταν τινουπόλεως ἐπὶ Ῥώμην ὁ βασιλεὺς τὴν ὁδοιπορίαν ποιούμενος ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ κατὰ πάροδον γέγονε, τῶν δὲ στρατιωτῶν αὐτοῦ ταραξάντων τὴν πόλιν διὰ μιτάτα ἐστασίασαν οἱ Θεσσαλονικεῖς, καὶ τὸν μὲν βασιλέα ὕβρισαν, τινὰς δὲ τῶν ἀρχόντων αὐτοῦ ἐλι θοβόλησαν. ὁ βασιλεὺς δὲ ταῦτα μαθὼν καὶ τὴν ῥύμην τοῦ θυ μοῦ μὴ ἐνεγκὼν τῷ ἐπάρχῳ τῆς πόλεως ἐκείνης τὴν ψῆφον τῆς τιμωρίας ἐπέτρεψεν· ὃς τὴν τοιαύτην ἐξουσίαν εἰληφὼς οἷα δὴ αὐτόνομος τύραννος ἄδικα ξίφη κατὰ πάντων ἐγύμνωσε, καὶ τοὺς ἀθώους μετὰ τῶν ὑπευθύνων κατέκτεινε χιλιάδας ἑπτά, ὡς δέ τινες, πεντεκαίδεκα. ταύτην τὴν συμφορὰν ὁ μέγας Ἀμβρόσιος ἀκηκοώς, Μεδιολάνων ἐπίσκοπος-πόλις δὲ τῆς Ἰταλίας αὕτη, εἰς ἣν ἀφικομένου τοῦ βασιλέως καὶ συνήθως εἰς τὸν ναὸν βουλη θέντος εἰσελθεῖν ἔξωθεν τῶν προθύρων συναντήσας ὁ ἅγιος ἐκώ λυσε τὴν