in ackowledg- ing the validity of the CathoKc baptism, Tychonius departed from the Donatists ; while he adhered to their views on disci pline and opposed the Catholic mixture of the church and the world. But neither he nor Augustine pursued this distinction to any clearer development. Both were involved, at bottom, in the confusion of Christianity with the church, and of the church with a particular outward organization. § 72. The Roman Schism of Dcmiasus and Ursinus. RurrNTJS : Hist. Eccl. ii. 10. Hieeontmus : Chron. ad ann. 366. Soceates : H. E. iv. 29 (all iu favor of Damasus). FAusxiNrs et Marcellinxts (two presbyters of Ursinus) : Libellus precum ad Imper. Theodos. in Bibl. Patr. Lugd. v. 637 (in favor of Ursinus). With these Chris- tian accounts of the Eoman schism may be compared the impartial statement of the heathen historian Ammiantts Maeoellinus, xxvii. c. 3, ad ann. 367. , The church schism between Damasus and Uksinus (or Uesicintjs) in Rome, had nothing to do with the question of discipline, but proceeded partly from the Arian controversy, partly from personal ambition.^ For such were the power and splendor of the court of the successor of the Galilean fisherman, sqq. (Opera, ed, Bened. torn. iii. p. 57 sqq.). Tychonius seems to have died be- fore the close of the fourth century. Comp. on him Tillemont, Memoires, tom. vi. p. 81 sq., and an article of A. Vogel, in Herzog's Real-Encyclopaedie, vol. xvi. p. 534-536. * " Corpus Domini bipartitum." This was the second of his rules for the true understanding of the Scriptures. * Augustine objects only to his mode of expression, De doctr. Christ, iii. 32 (tom. iii. 58): "Secunda [regula Tichonii] est de Bommi corpore bipartito ; non cnim revera Domini corpus est, quod cum illo non erit in seternum ; sed dicendum fuit de Domini corpore vero atque permixto, aut vero atque simulato, vel quid aliud; quia non solum in asternum, verum etiam nunc hypocritse non cum illo esse dicendi sunt, quamvis in ejus esse videantur ecclesia, unde poterat ista regula et sic appel- lari, ut dicerctur de permixta ecclesia." Comp. also Dr. Baur, K. G. vom 4-6 Jahrh., p. 224. ' Ammianus Marc, I. c, intimates the latter : "Damasus et Ursinus supra hu- manum modimi ad rapiendam episcopatus sedem ardentes scissis studiis asperrimo conflictabantur," etc. § 72. THE K0MA2T SCHISM. 371 even at that time, that the distinguished pagan senator, Prse- textatus, said to Pope Damasus : " Make me a hishop of Kome, and I will be a Christian to-morrow." ' The schism presents a mournful example of the violent character of the episcopal elections at Rome. These elections were as important events for the Romans as the elections of the emperors by the Prae- torian soldiers had formerly been. They enlisted and aroused all the passions of the clergy and the people. The schism originated in the deposition and banishment of the bishop Liberius, for his orthodoxy, and the election of the