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| Monks of Syria and Persia: Battheus, Eusebius, Barges, Halas, Abbo, Lazarus, Abdaleus, Zeno, Heliodorus, Eusebius of Carræ, Protogenes, and Aones.
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Chapter XXXIII.—Monks
of Syria and Persia: Battheus, Eusebius, Barges, Halas, Abbo, Lazarus,
Abdaleus, Zeno, Heliodorus, Eusebius of Carræ, Protogenes, and
Aones.
Let us pass thence to Syria and
Persia,1501
| 1501Again, presumably, from Syrian biographies.
Theodoret, H. E. iv. 28, has but one identical name; and the
same is true of his Historia Religiosa. Battheus, Halas, and
Heliodorus are repeated in the following chapter.
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the parts adjacent to Syria. We shall find that the monks of these
countries emulated those of Egypt in the practice of philosophy.
Battheus, Eusebius, Barges, Halas, Abbos, Lazarus, who attained the
episcopal dignity, Abdaleus, Zeno, and Heliodorus, flourished in
Nisibis, near the mountain called Sigoron. When they first entered upon
the philosophic career, they were denominated shepherds, because they
had no houses, ate neither bread nor meat, and drank no wine; but dwelt
constantly on the mountains, and passed their time in praising God by
prayers and hymns, according to the law of the Church. At the usual
hours of meals, they each took a sickle, and went to the mountain to
cut some grass on the mountains, as though they were flocks in pasture;
and this served for their repast. Such was their course of philosophy.
Eusebius voluntarily shut himself up in a cell to philosophize, near
Carræ.1502
Protogenes dwelt in the same locality, and ruled the church there after
Vitus who was then bishop. This is the celebrated Vitus of whom they
say that when the Emperor Constantine first saw him, he confessed that
God had frequently shown this man in appearances to him and enjoined
him to obey implicitly what he should say. Aones had a monastery in
Phadana; this was the spot where Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, on his
journey from Palestine, met the damsel whom he afterwards married, and
where he rolled away the stone, that her flock might drink of the water
of the well. It is said that Aones was the first who introduced the
life apart from all men, and the severe philosophy into Syria, just as
it was first introduced by Antony into Egypt.
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