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| Constantine's Letter to Eusebius concerning Mambre.
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Chapter
LII.—Constantine’s Letter to
Eusebius concerning Mambre.
“Victor
Constantinus, Maximus Augustus, to Macarius, and the rest of the
bishops in Palestine.3286
| 3286 The writer of this history says the letter was addressed to him,
while it is really to Macarius. On this ground the Eusebian authorship
of the book has been challenged, but of course Eusebius is among
“the rest of the bishops.” |
“One benefit, and that of
no ordinary importance, has been conferred on us by my truly pious
mother-in-law,3287
| 3287 [Eutropia, mother of his empress
Fausta.—Bag.] | in that she
has made known to us by letter that abandoned folly of impious men
which has hitherto escaped detection by you: so that the criminal
conduct thus overlooked may now through our means obtain fitting
correction and remedy, necessary though tardy. For surely it is a grave
impiety indeed, that holy places should be defiled by the stain of
unhallowed impurities. What then is this, dearest brethren, which,
though it has eluded your sagacity, she of whom I speak was impelled by
a pious sense of duty to disclose?E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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