100 A reminiscence of S. Luke i. 17.
1 Bingham, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, Book II. c. 10, x 2.
2 Cat. xii. 20. The wood had been cleared away about sixteen years before this Lecture was delivered.
4 Cat. iv. 10; x. 19: xiii. 4. Gregor. Nyss. Baptism of Christ, p. 520, in this Series:
"The wood of the Cross is of saving efficacy for all men, though it is, as I am informed, a piece of a poor tree, less valuable than most trees are."
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6 Eusebius, Vita Const. iii. 29 ff.
7 Cat. xii. 1, 33, 34. Compare iv. 24, note 8.
8 Herele, History of Councils, ii. 17; Sozom. H. E. ii. 25.
10 Robertson, Prolegomena to Athanasius, p. xxxix.
12 Apolog. contra Arian. § 57.
13 Cf. Athan. Hist. Arian.§ 25.
14 Introductory note to Cyril's Letter to Constantius, § x.
15 On the exact date of the Lectures, see below, ch. ix.
16 See more below on the office of "Catechist," ch. ii. § 2.
19 Socr. H. E. ii. 38; Soz. iv. 20. The Bishops of Palestine, except two or three, had received Athanasius most cordially a few years before (Athan. Hist. Arian. § 25).
22 Dict. chr. Biogr. "Cyrillus," p. 761: and for the Meletian Schism, see "Meletius," "Paulinus," "Vitalius."
24 Theodoret, lHist. Ecc. v. 9.
25 Epist. ad Constantium - Monitum, § 74.
31 History of the Christian Councils, Book I. Sec. ii. c.
36 There is much uncertainty and confusion in the names of the Bishops who succeeded Cyril on the three occasions of his being deposed. His successor in 357 is said by Jerome to have been a certain Eutychius, probably the same who was afterwards excommunicated at Seleucia (dict. Chr. Biogr. Eutychius 13). The subject is discussed at length by Touttée (Diss. I. vii.).
37 See the account of his remarkable career in the Dict. Chr. Biogr.