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Chapter LXXIII.
Timotheus,2697
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when Proterius2699
| 2699 Proterius; 25 30 Fabr. Her. add the bishop. | had been put to death by the
Alexandrians, in response to popular clamour, willingly or unwillingly
allowed himself to be made bishop by a single bishop in the place of
him who had been put to death. And lest he, having been illegally
appointed, should be deservedly deposed at the will of the people who
had hated Proterius, he pronounced all the bishops of his vicinity to
be Nestorians, and boldly presuming to wash out the stain on his
conscience by hardihood, wrote a very persuasive book to the Emperor
Leo, which he attempted to fortify by testimonies of the Fathers, used
in a perverted sense, so far as to show, for the sake of deceiving the
emperor and establishing his heresy, that Leo of Rome, pontiff of the
city, and the synod of Chalcedon, and all the Western bishops were
fundamentally Nestorians. But by the grace of God, the enemy of the
church was refuted and overthrown at the Council of Chalcedon. He is
said to be living in exile, still an heresiarch, and it is most likely so. This
book of his for learning’s sake, I translated by request of the
brethren into Latin and prefixed a caveat.2700
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