Chapter LXXXVII.
Servus Dei [2728] the bishop, wrote against those who say that Christ while living in this world did not see the Father with his eyes of flesh--But after his resurrection from the dead and his ascension into heaven when he had been translated into the glory of God the Father as in reward so to speak to him for his abnegation and a compensation for his martyrdom. In this work he showed both from his own argument and from the testimony of Sacred Scriptures that the Lord Jesus from his conception by the Holy Spirit and his birth of the Virgin through which true God in true man himself also man made God was born, always beheld with his eyes of flesh both the Father and the Holy Spirit through the special and complete union of God and man.
[2728] Bishop of "Tiburcisen" about 406-11.
Chapter LXXXVIII.
Victorius [2729] the Aquitanian, a careful [2730] reckoner, on invitation of St. Hilary bishop of Rome, composed a Paschal cycle with the most careful investigation following his four predecessors, that is Hippolytus, Eusebius, Theophilus and Prosper, and extended the series of years to the year five hundred and thirty-two, reckoning in such wise that in the year 533 the paschal festival should take place again on the same month and day and the same moon as on that first year when the Passion and resurrection of our Lord took place.
[2729] Wrote 457. 30 a read Victorinus.
[2730] careful T 25 30 31 a Fabr.; most diligent A Norimb?; Bern Norimb. et alt add of the Scriptures: of measures Her.
Chapter LXXXIX.
Theodoretus [2731] [2732] bishop of Cyrus (for the city founded by Cyrus king of the Persians preserves until the present day in Syria the name of its founder) is said to have written many works. Such as have come to my knowledge are the following: On the incarnation of the Lord, Against Eutyches the presbyter and Dioscorus bishop of Alexandria who deny that Christ had human flesh; strong works by which he confirmed through reason and the testimony of Scripture that He had real flesh from the maternal substance which he derived from His Virgin mother just as he had true deity which he received at birth by eternal generation from God the Father. There are ten books of the ecclesiastical history which he wrote in imitation of Eusebius of Cæsarea beginning where Eusebius ends and extending to his own time, that is from the Vicennalia of Constantine until the accession of the elder Leo in whose reign he died.
[2731] Theodoret born about 393, bishop of Cyrrhaus 423, wrote 450, died 457.
[2732] Theodoretus A a e; Theodoritus 31; Theodorus T 25 30.
Chapter XC.
Gennadius [2733] a Patriarch [2734] of the church of Constantinople, a man brilliant in speech and of strong genius, was so richly equipped by his reading of the ancients that he was able to expound the prophet Daniel entire commenting on every word.
He composed also many Homilies. He died while the elder Leo was Emperor.
[2733] Bishop (or "Pontiff") 458, died 471.
[2734] Patriarch (Pontiff) A T 30 31 e 21; bishop 25 a Fabr. Her.
Chapter XCI.
Theodulus, [2735] [2736] a presbyter in Coelesyria is said to have written many works, but the only one which has come to my hand, is the one which he composed On the harmony of divine Scripture, that is, the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, against the ancient heretics who on account of discrepancies in the injunctions of the ritual, say that the God of the Old Testament is different from the God of the New. In this work he shows it to have been by the dispensation of one and the same God, the author of both Scriptures, that one law should be given by Moses to those of old in a ritual of sacrifices and in judicial laws, and another to us through the presence of Christ in the holy mysteries and future promises, that they should not be considered different, but as dictated by one spirit and one author, since these things which if observed only according to the letter, would slay, if observed according to the spirit, would give life to the mind. This writer died three years since [2737] in the reign of Zeno.
[2735] Died 492 (C)--rather before 491.
[2736] Theodulus A T 31 a e; Theodorus 25 30 21.
[2737] three years since A T 30? 31 21; omit 25 a.