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| How Constantine sent a Messenger and a Letter concerning Peace.
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Chapter LXIII.—How Constantine
sent a Messenger and a Letter concerning Peace.
As soon
as the emperor was informed of these facts, which he heard with much
sorrow of heart, considering them in the light of a calamity personally
affecting himself, he forthwith selected from the Christians in his
train one whom he well knew to be approved for the sobriety and
genuineness of his faith,3211
| 3211 [Hosius, bishop of Cordova.—Bag.] Hosius had already
been for some time a trusted adviser, having acted for Constantine also
in the Donatist matters. Compare on Hosius the full article of Morse in
Smith and Wace. | and who had
before this time distinguished himself by the boldness of his religious
profession, and sent him to negotiate peace3212
| 3212 By “acting as umpire.” | between the dissentient parties at
Alexandria. He also made him the bearer of a most needful and
appropriate letter to the original movers of the strife: and this
letter, as exhibiting a specimen of his watchful care over God’s
people, it may be well to introduce into this our narrative of his
life. Its purport was as follows.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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