mjmmk^ ';;^ f."^ m IV:' &^t^ &^.,; m -..'^: mi» i^ >»>-^l ■m-- # ^^ /". •->^. '^,^iW' ^w:^' ,^AAr\r\Af'f\r' 1 rn ■mnir^r^l ''^^^^■^ fcibrarjp of ^he t:heolo0ical ^eminarjp PRINCETON • NEW JERSEY ^^^ •a^D- V. 2 '^ 'r^;^^) ^/l/^'-^ .'^ ~ \/^^'' .^4?$^!*^:, ^ ^ ^N^^^ aA,>-u&lA t^f^ur^'f, yjfr^r/^ ^S^ -^ ^'''^ a^^ /, ^.^^ .^^^ ^^^' ^ ui^-rr/cc^^^ / ,V: ^. K(rv' /$S9. HISTORY OF ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY. VOL. II. A. D. 311-600. n'OV 10 1951 HISTORY CHEISTIAN CHITKCH, PHILIP ^CHAFF, D.D. .r p .VOL. iiX^. i y FROM COIs^STANTINE THE GREAT TO GREGORY THe' GREAT, A. D. 311-600. ^EW YORK : CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO., No. 654 BROADWAY. 1867. ■7 y ^^^f EsTKRED according to Act of Congress, in the year- 1866, by CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO., In tlie Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. John F. Trow & Co., PnlSTEBS, STERE0TTPEK8, AND ELECTROTYPERS, 50 Greene Ptioi;. ?\'r^w York. DEDICATED TO NORMAX WHITE, ESQ., IK TOKEN OF SINCERE ESTEEM AN© FRIENDSHIP, BY THE AUTHOR. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Princeton Theological Seminary Library http://www.archive.org/details/historyofchr02scha ><Afl^JP^ CC<t.i:( ^^r-ryr-f / PREFACE "With sincex'e thanks to God for continued health and strength, I ofter to the public a history of the eventful period of the Church from the beginning of the fourth century to the close of the sixth. This concludes my history of Axcient Cheistiaxity. It was intended at first to condense the third period into one volijHSe, but regard to symmetry made it necessary to divide it iixto two vol.uines of equal size lyith the first, which appeared several years agp. TMs accounts for th^'<5ontinuous paging of the second and third volumes'; In preparing this part of my Church History for the press, I have been deprived of the stimulus of an active professorship, and been much inter- rupted in consequence of other labors, a visit to Europe, and the loss of u part of the manuscript, which had to be rewritten. But, on the other hand, I have had the great advantage of constant and free access to several of the best libraries of the country. Especially am I indebted to the Astor Library, and the Union Theological Seminary Library of New York, which are provided with complete sets of the Greek and Latin fathers, and nearly all other important sources of the histoi-y of the first six centuries. I have used difi"erent editions of the fathers (generally the Benedictine), but these I have carefully indicated when they vary in the division of chap- ters and sections, or in the numbering of orations and epistles, as in the works of Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, Jerome, Augustine, and Leo. In ad- dition to the primary sources, I have constantly consulted the later histo- rians, German, French, and English. In the progress of the work I have been filled with growing admiration for the great scholars of the seventeenth and early part of the eighteenth