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Chapter XXXVII.—Of Theodotus bishop of Antioch.
Theodosius restored the relics of the great luminary of the world to the city which deeply regretted his loss. These events however happened later.944944 This paragraph belongs more appropriately to the preceding chapter. The relics of Chrysostom were translated in 438.
Innocent the excellent bishop of
Rome 157was
succeeded by Bonifacius, Bonifacius by Zosimus and Zosimus by
Cælestinus.945945 The
accepted order is Innocent I. 402–417; Zosimus 417–418;
Boniface I. 418–422; Cælestinus 422–432.
The decision of Honorius
in favour of Bonifacius as against Eulalius, both elected by their
respective supporters on the death of Zosimus in 418, marks an
important point in the interference of temporal princes in the
appointments of bishops of Rome. cf. Robertson, i. 498.
At Jerusalem after the admirable John the charge of the church was committed to Praylius, a man worthy of his name.946946 Πραΰς = meek, gentle.
At Antioch after the divine
Alexander Theodotus, the pearl of purity, succeeded to the supremacy of
the church, a man of conspicuous meekness and of exact regularity of
life. By him the sect of Apollinarius was admitted to fellowship with
the rest of the sheep on the earnest request of its members to be
united with the flock. Many of them however continued marked by their
former unsoundness.947947 Apollinarians survived the condemnation of Apollinarius at
Constantinople in 381.
The unsoundness, i.e.
the denial of the rational soul, and so of the perfect manhood of the
Saviour, is discussed in Dial. I.
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