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| That having conferred the Dignity of Cæsars on his Three Sons at the Three Decennial Periods of his Reign, he dedicated the Church at Jerusalem.
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Chapter XL.—That having conferred the Dignity of Cæsars
on his Three Sons at the Three Decennial Periods of his Reign, he
dedicated the Church at Jerusalem.
By this
time the thirtieth year of his reign was completed. In the course of
this period, his three sons had been admitted at different times as his
colleagues in the empire. The first, Constantinus, who bore his
father’s name, obtained this distinction about the tenth year of
his reign. Constantius, the second son, so called from his grandfather,
was proclaimed Cæsar about the twentieth, while Constans, the
third, whose name expresses the firmness and stability of his
character, was advanced to the same dignity at the thirtieth
anniversary of his father’s reign.3337
| 3337 These are general dates; “about” the tenth, etc.,
would have been more exact. Compare Prolegomena, under
Life. | Having thus reared a threefold
offspring, a Trinity,3338
| 3338 [Γρι€δος
λόγῳ. Well may the old
English Translator remark on this, “An odd expression.” We
may go further, and denounce it as an instance of the senseless and
profane adulation to which our author, perhaps in the spirit of his
age, seems to have been but too much
inclined.—Bag.] | as it
were, of pious sons, and having received them severally at each
decennial period to a participation in his imperial authority, he
judged the festival of his Tricennalia to be a fit occasion for
thanksgiving to the Sovereign Lord of all, at the same time believing
that the dedication of the church which his zealous magnificence had
erected at Jerusalem might advantageously be performed.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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