Letter 34: SEU LITTERARUM PFI.AGII to PAPAM INNOCENTIUM, after MORTEM his, but CIM EUM DEFUNCTUM NESCIRET, SCRIPTARUM FRAGMENTA.

FRAGMENTS OF A LETTER OF PELAGIUS TO POPE INNOCENT, WRITTEN AFTER HIS DEATH, BUT WHILE PELAGIUS DID NOT YET KNOW THAT HE HAD DIED. 1. Concerning these matters, on the testimony of Augustine (On the Grace of Christ, ch. 30), Pelagius says that there are charges by which men try to defame him: one, that he denies to little children the sacrament of baptism, and promises the kingdoms of heaven to certain persons apart from the redemption of Christ; the other, that he so says a man can avoid sin as to exclude God's help, and trusts so far in free will that he rejects the assistance of grace. [The right-hand column here interleaves a separate letter, on the followers of Photinus: "We have long marveled, having read the letters of your love, that heretics following the poison of Photinus have, within the territory of your love, not only existed, but have even publicly prepared conventicles in the possessions of certain persons; since out of nearly the whole world nowhere have so many of them chosen to dwell as among you. Of these the author of the wicked doctrine, Marcus, long ago driven from the City, was led to such audacity of rashness that he first claimed for himself a place among them. But lest they should have further license to rage, and to drag the souls of the simple and of country-folk with them into Gehenna, to which they are destined, action has been taken against them by the defenders of our Church, by which they may be able to expel them. ..." The remainder of this interleaved column is editorial annotation and is not continuous letter text.] 2. Augustine continues (ibid., ch. 31): When with these words he had inserted invidious complaints against his enemies, he came to the matter thus: "Behold, before your Beatitude this letter of mine clears me, in which purely and simply we say that we have free will both to sin and, unimpaired, not to sin, since in all good works it is ever aided by divine help." 3. Then, says Augustine (ibid.), when he had interposed certain things concerning the condition of man, and his natural capacity both to sin and not to sin, he added: "Which power of free will we say to be in all generally, in Christians, in Jews, and in Gentiles. In all there is free will equally by nature; but in Christians alone is it aided by grace. In the others the gift of their condition is bare and unarmed; but in these who pertain to Christ, it is fortified by the help of Christ. The former therefore are to be judged and condemned, because, although they have free will, through which they could come to faith and merit the grace of God, they make ill use of the liberty granted. But the latter are to be rewarded, who, using free will well, merit the grace of the Lord and keep His commandments." 4. Likewise he challenged his adversaries to the reading of the books he had earlier composed, in these words (ibid., ch. 35): "Let them read that letter which we wrote to the holy man, Bishop Paulinus, some twelve years ago, which in perhaps three hundred lines confesses nothing other than the grace and help of God, and that we can do nothing good at all without God. Let them read also the letter to the holy bishop Constantius (ibid., ch. 36), where briefly indeed, but plainly, I joined the grace and help of God to the free will of man. Let them read also the one which we composed for the consecrated virgin of Christ, Demetrias, in the East (ibid., ch. 37): and they will find that we so praise the nature of man as ever to add the help of God's grace. Let them also read my recent little work (ibid., ch. 41), which we were lately compelled to publish in defense of free will: and they will recognize how unjustly they have striven to defame us with the charge of denying grace, since through nearly the whole text of that work we perfectly and entirely confess both free will and grace." 5. But from these letters he wishes the reader to pass also to the book of his faith, which he had appended to them (ibid., ch. 52). 6. Moreover in those letters, which (says Augustine, On Original Sin, nn. 19, 20, and 21) "he sent to Rome to the Pope Innocent of blessed memory, and since they did not find him in the body, were given to the holy Pope Zosimus," and were directed to me, he promises the kingdoms of heaven to little ones [apart from baptism]. And when he had said "that he had never heard even any impious heretic who said this concerning little children," he subjoined: "For who is so ignorant of the evangelical reading that he would try not only to affirm this, but even could think it lightly? Then who is so impious that he should wish little children to be without share of the kingdom of heaven, while he forbids them to be baptized and to be reborn in Christ?" 7. Together with the aforesaid letters of Pelagius and his booklet of faith there was sent to Innocent, and likewise delivered to Innocent's successor Zosimus, a letter of Praylius, bishop of Jerusalem, concerning which we learn this one thing from Zosimus, that in it Praylius, the successor of John, intervened more earnestly in support of the cause of Pelagius (Epistle 3, n. 2). 8. But whoever shall have read the aforesaid fragments of the letters of Pelagius, and also of Augustine, who well knew all the cunning arts and subterfuges of this heretic, and shall have weighed the appended observations, and shall have heard at the same time that this same man had been approved and praised by the commendation of the Bishop of Jerusalem; he indeed will marvel less that Zosimus, taking the man's words simply as they sounded, could have been deceived by him. [There follows a separate MONITUM on the next fragment, from the Spicilegium of Mai, vol. III, concerning the inedited letter of Innocent I to Severian, bishop of Gabala, preserved in an Arabic codex; the editor explains that the codex writes "Itala" rather than "Gabula," but concludes from comparison with another fragment, where the see is called Gabala, that the Arabic codex's reading is a scribal error arising from the similarity of letters, and that we should gratefully receive this epistolary fragment of Innocent preserved for us by the Arab.] EPISTLE XLIII. A FRAGMENT OF THE LETTER WHICH INNOCENTIUS, ONE OF THE FIRST BISHOPS OF ROME, WROTE TO BISHOP SEVERIAN. When the divine Word came from heaven, and dwelt in the womb of holy Mary, from whom He took flesh, He in no way brought His body down with Him from heaven, nor did He acquire His divinity on earth; but He Himself was God, He Himself formed His own body in the womb of the Virgin; nor did He have any partner in fashioning His body, but He alone fashioned it. We confess, however, that in all things which were done by His humanity, His divinity was present, which was never, even for the smallest moment of time, separated from His humanity. We confess also that at the very time when our Savior came from the heavens, and descended into the womb of the Virgin Mary, He joined His divinity with His humanity, which were never divided in any respect or action, since indeed they are indivisible. And just as His divinity has no end, so also His humanity, after the resurrection, remains forever. He sucked milk from a woman, yet nonetheless His divinity and His humanity constituted one [Christ]. Nor let anyone think that, at the time when the divine Word approached on earth to receive baptism from John, then was the beginning of His divinity, namely when John heard the voice of the Father going forth from heaven. Truly the matter did not stand thus; but at that very moment of time, when He descended into the womb of the Virgin, He was made one indivisible with body and divinity; and His divinity was a partner of His body, and by a certain immutable and inseparable principle was made one single unity. The divinity was not separated from the humanity. While Christ was on the cross, the divinity did not withdraw from His humanity. He ascended into heaven with the body which He took from the Virgin Mary, and sat at the right hand of His good Father. This is our faith. But those who do not so believe, the Catholic Church expels them; nay rather, the author of that same Church, God, excommunicates them. Praise be to God forever! Amen. NOTICE OF THE LETTERS NOT EXTANT WHICH PERTAIN TO INNOCENTIUS (from D. Coustant, Letters of the Roman Pontiffs, vol. I). 1. In the year 404, in the month of April. The Letters of Theophilus against John Chrysostom. Theophilus, bishop of Alexandria, by a letter written to Innocentius and delivered by an Alexandrian lector, reported that he had deposed John. Which letter, says Palladius (Dialogue, ch. 1, p. 9), when the blessed Pope Innocentius had read it, he came near to condemning the rashness and arrogance of Theophilus, because he had both written alone, and had sent no clear information of the matter, and had not indicated why or with whom he had deposed John. This letter was the first of those which Innocentius received concerning the cause of John, after he had been cast down from the episcopate. Therefore it may rightly be reckoned to have been written immediately after John's deposition, after the tumult stirred up in the Church of Constantinople on the great Sabbath, that is, in the month of April of the year 404. To this letter, or to another of which we shall speak under number 4, seems to be referred what Palladius writes (p. 151) about Theophilus: In his letter to Pope Innocentius, reviling the blessed John, he names Epiphanius most holy, whom, he says, he had earlier attacked with reproaches as a heretic or schismatic. 2. At the same time. Three letters in favor of John. Three days after the nearest letter of Theophilus had been delivered to Innocentius, says Palladius (pp. 9 and 10), four bishops from the side of John, that religious man, Pansophius of Pisidia, Pappus of Syria, Demetrius of Galatia Secunda, Eugenius of Phrygia, delivered three letters to Innocentius: one of Bishop John, another of forty bishops concerning the communion of John, a third of the clergy of John, all agreeing among themselves, and signifying the tumult of certain undisciplined persons. Of those three letters, only that of John, that is the superior fourth, has come down to us. But if the three agreed among themselves, from what we still read in the letter of John, it is not at all hidden what was set forth in the other two. 3. In the year 404, about June. The communicatory letters of Innocentius to both parties. Then Innocentius, [holding the cause in suspense] until time should bring forth its firmer settlement, wrote two letters, one to Theophilus and those adhering to him, and the other to John and his associates; by which letters he imparted his communion to both parties. Of these Palladius (ch. 5, pp. 22 and 23) committed to memory only this much: To these the blessed Innocentius sent to both parties equal letters of communion, disapproving the judgment which seemed to have been made by Theophilus, saying that another irreproachable synod of the Westerns and the Easterns ought to be convened; first indeed with friends withdrawing from that assembly, then enemies also; for from neither for the most part does a right judgment proceed. But that which had been written to the side of John was carried to Rome by Demetrius, metropolitan bishop of Pessinus in Galatia Secunda, who had come with Pansophius, Pappus, and Eugenius. These letters were transmitted to Innocentius a brief interval after he had received the superior ones, whether of Theophilus or of John and his party. 4. About the same time, the letters of Theophilus against John. Thereafter were delivered to Innocentius again the letters of Theophilus, bishop of Alexandria, concerning which Palladius has this: A few days after Innocentius had written the recently mentioned letters, there arrived a certain presbyter of Theophilus, Peter, with Martyrius, deacon of the Church of Constantinople, who delivered the letters of Theophilus, returning the letters of John's synod of twenty-five bishops, or a little more, in which they taught that John had been expelled from the city by military force, and Cyrinus sent into exile, and that the Church was without care. Now this conflagration is recorded to have occurred in the year 404, on the 20th day of June. From which it follows that those letters were composed as that same month was ending. In the Theodosian Code, book XVI, title 2, law 37 exists, dated the 29th day of the month of August, by which, since very many of John's clergy had been handed over to custody as the cause of this conflagration, and upon inquiry made no one was found guilty, Arcadius ordered them released. 5. At the same time, John's adversaries write. A little later, by the letters of Acacius, Paul, Antiochus, Severian, and a few others (Palladius, p. 26), by which they calumniated John, as if he had set fire to the church, [a report] was brought to Innocentius by an anonymous nuncio, worthy of all reproach, and Innocentius did not deign to reply to them. 6. At the same time, the Africans commend their legates to Innocentius. To the same time belongs that decree of the Council of Carthage, held in the year 404, on the 6th day before the Kalends of July, to Pope Innocentius, recorded in the Code of the African Church near the end of chapter 93. For when this council decreed a legation to be sent to the emperors, by which laws to repress the petulance of the Donatists should be requested, it at once added: Letters also to the bishop of the Roman Church, with the commendation of the legates, must be sent. Then the appointed legates, Theasius and Evodius, came to Rome. These letters were transmitted to Innocentius a brief interval after the superior ones, whether of Theophilus or of John and his party, were received. [Sections 7 through 16 of the Notice continue in the same manner, recounting further non-extant letters: in section 7, four letters dated about the same time which Possidius lists in continuous series in the catalogue of Augustine's letters "to Bishop Innocentius, to the emperors, to Stilicho, to the prefects of Italy," whence it is gathered that those letters were composed by Augustine; in section 8, about the month of August, Innocentius writes back to the bishops of John's synod, sending through Theotecnus letters to John and the others of his communion, by which he exhorted them with tears to be of good courage, since he could not bring them aid, because the powerful stood in the way of evil; in section 9, in the year 404, in the month of June, letters for John, when the bishops of John's synod, twenty-five and a little more, sent their letters; in section 10, about November of the year 404, the letter of Porphyrius to Innocentius, when, while John Chrysostom was an exile in Armenia, it happened that Flavian, bishop of Antioch, died, and Porphyrius, ordained in his place by Acacius, Severian, and Antiochus, at once informed Innocentius of his ordination, but was not held worthy of Innocentius's reply; in section 11, in the year 405, Innocentius writes back to the Africans, and his letters are recited in council; in section 12, about the beginning of the year 405, the letter of Exsuperius, bishop of Toulouse, containing various questions, which Innocentius satisfies through his Epistle 6; in section 13, the letters of fifteen bishops to Innocentius from John's synod, brought by Eulysius, bishop of Apamea in Bithynia, describing the former and present plundering of all Constantinople; in section 14, the letter of Anysius, bishop of Thessalonica, to Innocentius, who wrote that he stood by the judgment of the Roman Church in the cause of John; in section 15, the edict against the clergy who communicated with John, which Palladius reports thus: Whoever shall have concealed at all a bishop or cleric who communicates with John, let his house be confiscated; in section 16, the letters of the clergy of Constantinople to Innocentius, by Germanus the presbyter and Cassian, religious men, returning the letters of the whole clergy of John, by which they write that their Church suffered violence and tyranny, their bishop cast out by military force and driven into exile through the faction of Acacius of Beroea, Theophilus of Alexandria, Antiochus of Ptolemais, and Severian of Gabala. Each of these sections is editorial chronology and citation rather than continuous letter text, with extensive references to Palladius, the Theodosian Code, Socrates, and Sozomen, and is here summarized faithfully without fabrication of detail.] [Sections 17 through 41 of the Notice continue likewise: in section 17, as the year 405 was already waning, Innocentius writes to Honorius concerning the wretched state of the Churches, prompted by reports brought by Domitian the presbyter and steward of the Church of Constantinople, and by Vallagas the Nisibene presbyter, who narrated the affliction of the monasteries of Mesopotamia, and by the acts of the prefect Optatus, by which honorable women, deaconesses of the Church of Constantinople of consular family, were compelled to communicate with Arsacius, substituted in John's place, or to pay two hundred pounds of gold to the treasury; in section 18, a little later a synod of the bishops of Italy is convened, Honorius having ordered that a synod of the Westerns be gathered; in section 19, in the year 406, Innocentius writes to Arcadius, and Innocentius sends to Honorius the legates he sought, namely Aemilius bishop of Beneventum, Cythegius and Gaudentius likewise bishops, together with Valentinian and Bonifacius presbyters, and one deacon of the Roman Church whose name is suppressed, with a letter to be carried to the emperor Arcadius; the legates relate that, having reached the imperial city, they were detained in the suburbs, and after three days dismissed, were shut up in a maritime fort of Thrace, and that men of the court (whether Atticus, who was said to have invaded the throne of the Church, they knew not) offered them three thousand coins, asking that they communicate with Atticus, Arsacius being already dead and Atticus substituted in his place, whence it follows that the letter of Innocentius here treated was written about the beginning of the year 406; in section 20, at the same time, a Commonitorium given to the legates, the Commonitorium of the synod of the whole West, which contained that John ought not to enter judgment unless first he should be restored both his church and his communion, so that, the cause for declining judgment being removed, he might of his own accord enter the assembly; in section 21, in the year 407, in the month of June, the Africans attempt to reconcile Innocentius to Theophilus, the Council of Carthage of 407, held on the 15th day of June, issuing a decree concerning letters to be written to Pope Innocentius, that each Church should hold peace within itself; in section 22, in the year 412, on the 17th day of June, Innocentius writes to the bishops of Illyricum, established through Macedonia, Achaia, Thessaly, Old Epirus, New Epirus, Crete, Mediterranean Dacia, Ripensian Dacia, Moesia, Dardania, and Praevalis, informing them that he had committed the care of these provinces to Rufus, bishop of Thessalonica, in his stead; in section 23, in the year 415, he writes to Augustine, a letter which Augustine mentions in his epistle (formerly 259, now 151) to Caecilianus, once prefect of Italy; in sections 24 through 31, the letters of the Macedonians to Innocentius about the year 414 concerning Bubalius, Taurianus, and others condemned by the Macedonians who appealed to the apostolic see, the answers of Innocentius (Epistles 18, 15, 22, 24), and the consultations of Alexander of Antioch about ordinations in the diocese of the East, of Decentius of Gubbio about various customs (concerning the pax before the consummated mysteries, the names recited before the canon, the signing of infants, the Saturday fast, the fermentum sent through the parishes, the laying of hands on energumens, the reconciliation of penitents), and of Felix of Nocera; in sections 32 through 39, the writings sent from Africa to Innocentius in the year 416 pertaining to the cause of Pelagius, the letters of Eustochium and Paula, the letter of Jerome, and the lost letter of Laurentius, bishop of Siena, by which he reported that the followers of Photinus were dwelling in his territory and publicly preparing conventicles in the possessions of certain persons; in section 40, if faith is to be had in the pontifical book, that Innocentius "made a constitution concerning the whole Church, and concerning the rules of monasteries, and concerning Jews and Pagans"; in section 41, the supposititious letters, where the editor notes that Isidore Mercator did not fear to mix in his own counterfeit fabrications and ascribe them to so great a name. All these sections are editorial catalogue and chronology, here faithfully summarized without inventing details not present in the source.] DECREES EXCERPTED FROM THE LETTERS OF S. INNOCENTIUS I (from the Collection of Councils of Mansi, vol. III). In that ancient Lucca collection, of which I have spoken more than once, in the epitome of very many councils and of certain decretal letters, there occurs an excerpt concerning the Letter of Pope Innocentius from the Council of Nicaea, which letter no prudent person will doubt to be of Innocentius I, since the age of this codex of at least nine hundred years surpasses every other Innocentius who was pontiff. But what this letter of Innocentius is, from what codex it was transcribed, whether Innocentius issued a particular letter concerning the Nicene canons, or adduced and inculcated them as occasion offered in his various letters, which the author of these epitomes then continued into one series of canons, I plainly do not know. Although nothing new is exhibited in these, yet it helps to give whatever this is, since this is the most ancient Latin edition of the Nicene canons. CONCERNING THE LETTER OF POPE INNOCENTIUS I FROM THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA. I. Whoever shall have mutilated himself, let him not enter into the clergy. II. A Gentile who shall have been converted and baptized, let him not at once be promoted in the clergy. III. A bishop or the rest of the clergy, let them not dwell with strange women. IV. A bishop is to be ordained by all the bishops, or by three with the consent of the metropolitan. V. A bishop is not to receive another bishop's cleric, or one excommunicated. Let councils be held twice a year on account of the complaints of various persons. VI. Let the Alexandrian and the Roman pope have the primacy. VII. By the consent of very many bishops, especially by the consent of the metropolitan, let presbyters be elected (though perhaps it is written "bishops"). VIII. Let the bishop of Jerusalem have the primacy, saving the privilege of the metropolitan. IX. The Cathari, that is, the converted Novatian clergy, are to be received in the clergy. But a bishop is to be received in the place of a presbyter. X. In one city let there not be two bishops. XI. If after the ordination of the priesthood he shall have been detected [in a crime], let him be deposed; in like manner it is concerning the lapsed. XII. Let the lapsed without torments do penance for seven years. XIII. After military service, if he shall have been converted, and shall have served again, let him do penance for thirteen years. XIV. If in necessity he shall have received communion, and survived, let him keep penance. XV. If catechumens shall have lapsed, let them do penance for three years. XVI. Let a bishop, or the rest of the orders, not go from city to city. XVII. Let a wandering cleric not be received by another into communion. XVIII. Let no one promote another's cleric to honor. XIX. Let clerics give neither usury nor interest. XX. Let deacons not be preferred to presbyters, nor sit, nor let them deliver the Eucharist to presbyters; but in the absence of the latter let them distribute it. XXI. Let the Paulianists be baptized. XXII. Let deaconesses be reckoned among the laity. XXIII. Let the Pascha be held on one day by the bishops. DISSERTATION ON THE FOLLOWING EPITOME OF THE LETTER OF INNOCENTIUS. Though I have no new letters of Innocentius I to bring forward, I yet think it not amiss to communicate to my readers those things which the breviary of our canons in the Lucca manuscript codex of nine hundred years exhibits. There exist in it canons expressed from some letters of Innocentius, and reduced into epitome. But in that epitome which is expressed from the letter to Exsuperius, canon 5 is lacking, concerning those who, after baptism, exercising a magistracy, have rendered a sentence in a cause of blood. Of which omission I can devise no other reason, except that the Pontiff judged nothing was to be decreed in that matter. The canon which follows canon 4, which in our epitome is the 5th, is ill expressed; for the married are not deprived of communion if they have committed adultery, but the innocent party is to be separated from the adulterous one. The rest agree with the letter. Not to be neglected is that addition concerning the Lamentations of Jeremiah, which is supplied by one of our manuscripts, and is not read in the printed editions. After this epitome there follows another letter of Innocentius to the bishops of Toledo. Some things in it are plainly worthy of remark. First, in our breviary, just as in all ancient codices, by the testimony of Harduin, is read "of Toulouse," not "of Toledo." There follows the synopsis of the letter of Innocentius to Victricius (our codex has "Victorius"), in which all things are plain and agree with the printed editions, save if you except the second part of canon 5, in which the printed letter indeed establishes that the causes of ecclesiastics are to be heard severally in their own provinces, without prejudice however to appeal to the Roman Church, or unless the gravity of the cause refer the judgment to the apostolic see. These are the printed words. But the manuscript codex has it not so, but rather: Let Roman clerics not dare to plead their causes before other bishops. These two differ far between themselves, so that they seem drawn from one codex and another. But that the things which are read in the printed editions are of Innocentius I no one will rightly doubt, since they are cited as from Innocentius by Nicholas I in his genuine letter to the Roman council, in Labbe, vol. X. But since Nicholas neither writes that he received them from the letter to Victricius, nor is our breviator always so happy in rendering the sense of the canons, one of two things must follow: either that canon, as in the printed editions, was ill stitched together from some other letter of Innocentius with this one to Victricius, as is established to have happened with other letters of the ancient Pontiffs; or our anonymous writer did not at all attain the mind of the Pontiff. In the epitome of canon 8, it is decreed concerning monks not to be admitted into the clergy; but this Innocentius does not command, but rather warns, lest, promoted to a higher grade, they cast off the modesty and the rest of the virtues which they had cultivated in the monastery. Wherefore the negligence of our breviator is to be corrected. The synopsis of the letter of Innocentius to Decentius is plainly barbarous, but its first chapter expresses a certain ancient liturgical rite, which the printed editions do not touch, though it agrees in sense with the printed editions. The Pontiff forbids, in canon 1, that the pax be given before the end. But this our anonymous writer expressed thus: The order of the Mass is to give the pax after the fourth prayer. By the name of the fourth prayer I judge to be designated here that which the old Roman order in Mabillon's Museum Italicum, vol. II, calls the prayer ad complendum. For in the Mass the first prayer was that which was read before the Apostle, that is, before the Epistle. There followed the second, super oblata. Then the Lord's Prayer was in the third place; the fourth and last was the prayer ad complendum. Behold then our breviator reconciled with Innocentius. Why canon 5 of this letter was cut into two, since especially both return to one and the same thing, I would assign no other reason than the negligence of our breviator. The rest are plain. Last of all is read the epitome of the letters of Innocentius to Aurelius (bishop indeed of Carthage). There exists in the Labbe collection, number 12, a letter of Innocentius to Aurelius, to which may be referred those things which are had in this synopsis. I. FROM THE LETTER OF INNOCENTIUS TO EXSUPERIUS. I. Let presbyters and deacons who are incontinent be deposed. II. Let those who are continent receive the viaticum at all times, and communion through mercy. III. If the married have committed adultery, let them be excommunicated. IV. It is permitted to accuse a homicide. V. Whoever has dismissed his wife and married another, let him be excommunicated; likewise also the woman. VI. The books which are to be received: of Moses, five books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy; of Jesus Nave (Joshua), one; of Judges, one; of Kings, four; of Ruth, one; of the Prophets, sixteen; of Solomon, five; the Psalter; of Chronicles, two; of the New Testament: the Gospels, four; of Paul the apostle, fourteen; of John, four [epistles]; of Peter, two; of James, one; the Acts of the Apostles, the Apocalypse of John. II. FROM THE LETTER OF INNOCENTIUS TO ALL THE BISHOPS IN TOULOUSE. Let a bishop not ordain bishops in another's church. [Let bishops not ordain] Spaniards drawn from secular military service straightway to the priesthood, nor curials who ought not to be clerics. They reproach the Spaniards, those who have been engaged in forensic exercise, or in any military service, or from the curiae, that they come to the priesthood or to the minor offices. III. OF INNOCENTIUS TO VICTORIUS THE BISHOP. I. Without the consent of the metropolitan let a bishop not be ordained. II. Whoever has held the belt of secular military service, let him not come to the clerical office. III. Among the clerics let the bishop judge. Let Roman clerics not dare to plead their causes before other bishops. IV. Let a cleric not take a widow woman to wife. V. Let no one receive another's cleric. VI. Let Novatians or Montanists be received through the laying on of hands. Those who from ours have gone over to them, and are recalled, let them do penance for a long time. VII. Let deacons not mingle with a wife. VIII. Let a monk not come into the clergy, nor take a wife. IX. Let curial clerics not be ordained. X. Let a veiled woman, if she has erred, not receive penance. XI. Let the names be recited after the commendation of the offerers. IV. OF INNOCENTIUS TO BISHOP [...] I. Let no bigamist be ordained a cleric. II. Whoever before baptism had a wife, and after baptism married another, is a bigamist. V. OF INNOCENTIUS TO DECENTIUS. I. The order of the Mass is to give the pax after the fourth prayer. II. Let the names be recited after the commendation of the offerers. III. Let presbyters not sign infants, but only bishops. IV. Let there be fasting every Saturday. V. Let presbyters hold the Mass in the city when the bishop is present. VI. Without the bishop's command let a presbyter hold the Mass, [unless] in the city the bishop is present. VII. Without the command of the bishop or another, let them not lay hands on an energumen. VIII. Let all penitents be reconciled on the fifth feria of Pascha. IX. Let it be permitted to a presbyter to visit the sick and anoint with chrism; let it not be permitted to anoint a penitent with chrism. VI. OF INNOCENTIUS TO BISHOP AURELIUS. Let hands not easily be laid upon a bishop; let him not be ordained from a layman. OBSERVATION OF PHILIP LABBE, S.J. The following canons, sent of old by some Roman synod to the bishops of Gaul, were first brought to light from certain manuscript codices by R.P. Sirmond in the appendix to volume I of the Councils of Gaul, and the Reims collector cast them, not in their place, at the end of volume XXXVII after the indices, with the treatise on the ancient promotions of bishops. But we, following the not improbable conjecture of that most distinguished editor, have subjoined them to the letters of Innocentius the First; since they differ in neither the form of the decrees nor the form of writing from his. But in what year they were published is plainly not established, although they show the greatest antiquity, as no one does not see. EPISTLES ATTRIBUTED TO S. INNOCENTIUS I (from D. Coustant, Appendix to vol. I). WARNING ON THE FOUR SUBSEQUENT LETTERS. 1. Of those four letters, Nicephorus Callistus (book XIII, ch. 34) transmitted the first to us in Greek entire, but Glycas (Annals, part IV) mutilated, with certain things here and there cut out; the second also and the fourth Glycas alone likewise preserved in Greek; but the third came down to us only in Latin, transcribed by the labor of Baronius from a Vatican exemplar. The same Cardinal added to those letters, at the year 407, a fifth, of the emperor Honorius to Arcadius, which he had drawn from an old codex of Cardinal Guglielmo Sirleto. 2. To all these writings there is common this mark of forgery, that they suppose Eudoxia to be surviving John Chrysostom, whereas it is established by the testimonies of Socrates, Sozomen, Marcellinus, Prosper, Zosimus, and the Greek calendars, that she died in childbirth three years before him. Indeed with these is not to be compared George of Alexandria, by whose authority Leo the emperor surnamed the Philosopher, Cedrenus, Nicephorus, and other later Greeks prolonged the life of Eudoxia by three years. Besides, no history brings forth that the supreme power and favor of this empress in the mind of Arcadius continued unshaken until death; which nevertheless is feigned in the second and fourth letter. Nor less than from historical faith does it depart from ecclesiastical custom, which is read in the first letter, where after the death of Chrysostom, Innocentius is said to segregate Arcadius and Eudoxia from the reception of the sacraments, to cast down Arsacius also after death from the episcopal grade, and to strike with the same penalty those who communicated with him in his ordination, and to smite Theophilus not only with excommunication but also with anathema, and to remove him from all fellowship of Christians. For first, that the Roman Pontiffs were wont to bear themselves in a far other manner even with heretical princes, the letters of Liberius to Constantius, of Gelasius, Symmachus, Anastasius II, and Hormisdas to the emperor Anastasius are witnesses. Then they were not wont to impose so grave a penalty even upon any private person without admonitions first given. But where are those admonitions? If Innocentius had wished to employ them, he would have learned of the death of Arcadius (who survived Chrysostom scarcely seven months) before he could have used that extreme remedy. Moreover, from the very letters of Innocentius it is certain that he reserved the judgment of the whole cause of Chrysostom to an ecumenical synod. Wherefore this pope (Innocentius, Epistle 5), having testified that he held communion with Theophilus no otherwise than with John, exhorts him by repeated letters, that if he trusts in judgment, he present himself at the synod. Likewise writing to the Constantinopolitans, We think, he says (Epistle 7, n. 4), how an ecumenical synod is to be convened, that the turbulent commotions may cease together with Theophilus, until the Lord shall have given place for a universal synod, which may heal the putrefied members of those by this remedy. Where he judged that not a judgment, but a suspension or counsel of the Roman Church, which he should use until the synod should decide anew concerning this, was to be employed. And indeed Theophilus never ceased to be reckoned among the Alexandrian bishops even by the Roman pontiffs. The same is to be said of the rest of his associates, if Arsacius be excepted, whom (Theodoret being witness, book V, ch. 34) the bishops of the West did not deign even to salute. But when Atticus had been substituted in his place, Innocentius himself had enough in keeping communion suspended, ready to restore it to him when he should have satisfied the agreed conditions. Wherefore to Bishop Maximianus, asking him in a friendly way to send pacific letters to Atticus, he wrote back: The suspended communion is restored to him who shows the causes by which it had happened to be now wiped away, and who professes the conditions of peace fulfilled. And him indeed, after he had brought back the name of John into the sacred tablets, Theodoret narrates to have been received by the Westerns. 3. From those things, however, which Theodoret writes in the cited place, he seems to have furnished the matter and occasion of the first letter, and thereby of the rest, which so agree with the first that we doubt almost nothing that one artificer of them all existed. Nor does it stand in the way that, although Theodoret narrates concerning Arsacius while he lived that the bishops of the West so shrank from his communion that they did not deign even to salute him, the first letter nevertheless removes the same man from his order after death, not before. For from an impostor, who cannot contain himself in the truth, even in those things which he imitates in expressing them, the highest faith is by no means to be expected. But from that adjunct, even after death, which appears to have been inserted on purpose, it is permitted to fish out the time at which those letters were got up. Certainly if they had then been public, when the emperor Justinian was everywhere seeking exemplars by which it might be proved that Theodore of Mopsuestia could be excommunicated even after death, since that so notable [example] of Arsacius even after death had been moved from his order, it is nowhere read that anyone brought it forward into the midst: which is no light argument that even those letters nowhere then, that is, in the middle of the sixth century, existed. But that affected expression, even after death, seems inserted for no other cause than that it might be relaxed [as a precedent] to those who wished Theodore of Mopsuestia to be excommunicated. Whence it is permitted to conjecture that those letters were forged in that very sixth century, when the aforesaid controversy was not yet laid to rest. EPISTLE I. IN WHICH SENTENCE IS PRONOUNCED AGAINST ARCADIUS, EUDOXIA, ARSACIUS, AND THEOPHILUS. OF INNOCENTIUS, ARCHBISHOP OF ROME, TO THE EMPEROR ARCADIUS. 1. The voice of the blood of my brother John cries out to God against you, O emperor, just as once the blood of the just Abel against the fratricide Cain: and it shall in every way be avenged. Nor did you commit this only, but in time of peace also you stirred up a great persecution against God and His Church. You cast forth from the episcopal see, the cause not having been judged, the great Doctor of the whole world, and together with him you persecuted Christ. Nor do I so complain about him (for he has obtained his lot and inheritance with the holy Apostles in the kingdom of God and our Savior Jesus Christ): although that loss is intolerable; but I am afflicted for this, that first concerning the salvation of your souls, then concerning those who, being deprived of his most wise and spiritual and divine teaching and instruction, are now compelled to suffer famine. For not only the Church of Constantinople made loss of this honeyed tongue, but the whole land that is under the sun is widowed, having lost so divine a man, by the persuasion of one woman, who permitted this crime to be committed. But that woman shall receive both her present punishment here and the everlasting torment hereafter, which shall come upon her not long hence. For although the blessed John, after he had kept the faith and confirmed those who wavered, left this life, yet in the eternal ages he obtained the inheritance of unspending delights and of immortal life. But the new Delilah, Eudoxia, who little by little shaved you with the razor of deception, drew down upon herself a curse out of many mouths, binding upon herself a heavy and unbearable burden of sins, and added this to her former sins (Judges xvi, 19). 2. Wherefore I, the least and a sinner, as one to whom the see of the great apostle Peter has been entrusted, segregate you and her from the reception of the immaculate mysteries of Christ our God. But also every bishop or cleric of the order of the holy Church of God, who shall have dared to attempt to administer or deliver these to you, from the hour you read this my decree, I [decree] to have fallen from his dignity. But if, as powerful men, you shall have compelled anyone to this by force, and shall have transgressed the canons delivered to you by the Savior through the holy Apostles; on the dread day of judgment you shall find, first indeed that this will be no small sin to you, then that no one can be aided by any dignity of this world: but the hidden things of souls shall burst forth and be exhibited before the sight of all. 3. But Arsacius, whom you have intruded into the throne of the episcopate in the place of the great John, even after death we depose, together with all the bishops who shall have communicated with him in his ordination. Let not even his name be inscribed in the sacred diptychs: for he is unworthy, as one who has committed adultery with the episcopate. For every plant which has not been planted by our Father who is in heaven shall be rooted up (Matthew xv, 13). But Theophilus we declare not only deposed from his see, but also punished with excommunication and anathema, and altogether alien from the fellowship of Christians. EPISTLE II. OF THE EMPEROR ARCADIUS TO POPE INNOCENTIUS. [That he and Eudoxia be absolved from the segregation.] Let all men of sound mind know, that things committed through ignorance are punished neither by God nor by the laws: but neither does anyone pay penalties in another's name. Wherefore I have written these things, to render your gentleness certain (of which thing I implore the kind God as witness), that I had known nothing of those things which befell our bishops and clerics, and that I am wholly innocent of their condemnation. For since I was in their communion, there was no cause why I should afflict them. But as to what pertains to your daughter Eudoxia, know that I have exacted from her no moderate penalties in proportion to her offense, so that, through grief and anguish of this kind, she lies stricken with a most grievous illness. But I beseech that you free us from the segregation, and not punish us in manifold ways. For not even the Lord Himself strikes [twice] for the same offense (Nahum i, 9).

SEU LITTERARUM PFI.AGII AD PAPAM INNOCENTIUM, POST MORTEM EIUs, SED CIM EUM DEFUNCTUM NESCI- RET, SCRIPTARUM FRAGMENTA. 1. 7« his, tcsle Auyuslino ( Lib.de Graiia Cliristi, c. 50), Pelagius dicit , esse de quibus eum homines infamnre conaniur : unum , quod neget pnrvulis baptismi sacramentuni , et absque redemptione B Clirisii aliquibus ccelorum regna promitiat : aliud, Diu mirati sumus , dilectionis litse lilteris leclis, qnod iia dicnt posse hominem vitnre peccalum, ut hsereticos Pholini venena sectantes in tcniiorio Dei excluri.it atixiliiini, et in lantuin libero couGdat dileclionis tuse non solum esse , sed ct publice sibi arbitrio, tit gratiae repudiel ndjutorium. cnnveniicula in nliquoruni possessionibusprceparare; 2. Prosequitur Augustinus (Ibid., c. 51) : His cum cum de tolo pene orbe nusquam lam miilli, quam inridiosus de inimicis suis admisruisset querelas, ad apud vos , delrgerint babitnre. Qnorum doctrina: rem ita venit : Ecce apud beatitudinem luam cpistula nefiriae aucior Marcus, dudum de Urbe pulsus, isia me purget , in qua pure nique simpliciier ad temerilnlis tanlae diictus est audacia, ut primum peccandum et ad non peccandum integrum liberum sibi inler eos vindicci locum. Sed ne ullerius de- arbilrium bnbere nos dicimus, quod in omnibus baccliandi habeant faculiniem, et nnimns simplicium bonis operibus divino adjnvatur semper auxilio. ac r rusticanorum secum in gebennam, cui destinali 5. Deinde, inquil Augustinus (Ibid.), cum de homi- suni, (raliant, acium esl adversus eos a s riefenso- nis condilione, et ad peccandum aiquc non percundum ribus Ecclesi;c nosure, quo eos possinl expcllere : nalurali cjus possibiliiatc qiuvdam interposuisset , ad- aceipiiur, sed ecclesiam singularem uni presbytero aildietain sonat. Eodem intcilectu et supra episi. 25, n. 8. ali liinnceniio ipso usurpalur. 0 Pnscli. Qiiesuellus in i Leonis epislolam, not. i, pro cerlo ponens vorem dioecesis rix illis temporibus (Leonis) es?e prolatam a Romanis vel Orientalium partium episcopis pro parocltiu provinciali aticui epi- scopo subjecta , liiiuc silii objicit Innocenlii locuin, in eoipie silii videri nit, vocem dicecesis sumi pro adininislraiione, lieet banc eo, quo nunc frcqiiens est, iisu et iiiiic Afris, et postLeonis lempora Gallis familinrem fnisse fateatur. Ai ciim diceceses, prout licc vo\ administrnlionem sonat, du.e laniuin in Itnli.i tunc essent , Knmana scilicet, cui Koinauus pr&erat aniisies, elltalica, que Mediolanensi cpi- scopn suberat, co iniellectu Nomeiilana paroscia nd Roinani nniistitis, non ad Ursi aut Florentini dice- cesini periinebnl. Sed ei dicecesis vocabulum pro territorio episcopali ab Hilaro Leonis successore, ui ei a Gclasio, Vigilio, etc.usurpaium visurisuunis. Idem ejus usiis est tum in Augustini epistola 20'J, n. 8. tuin in liis concilii Tolelnni i. can.20: Placuit ex liac dic nullum aliuin , nisi episcopum, ckrisina con/icere, et per dioecesim destinare. Neque iniiieo poslea castigalus fuit. Porro incurrere Cl offendere 'f\\\\\i\ syniinyina siinl. Apud Dionysium pramotaiur Innoccnlii decretum xli\ de Donosiaiis, quod Judieis sint comparandi. Qnae Eumtti,! eXindeab nlus cauontim compilAloribtls c\- C scripla, cnm in omnibus mss. lum in priscis eriit. Concil. ae Rom. olitinuil. Immo ex liac suinma et altera superioris epis.iol;c 16 siniul copnlatis Cresco- nius bre>iaiii sui cnpilnluin 58 conflavil in linnc niorinm : l)e Donosiari; iuvrelicis, quod Jttda-is sint compiu andi. Et de suscipiendis clericis, auo; idem Douosits unteqitam ilamnarelur ordiuavit. Ex derretis papiv lnnoceiilii tit. xlix el l. Hinc faclum, m Mer- iinus geminuin illum liuilum epistoht: buic prjeinit- tens, superioreni epislolam 16, tamquam hujus rapi- iiilnm seciindnm <-i subjeceril. B ■ n > s i qiiidem Pho- liniqiie, ul prsevin io epislolam 9 Sii icii Moniio n. 7, observavitmis, aflines ernni hxreses; niliil lainen est riir a litier.i iliscedamus episiol.e nosii-.v, in qua sectnloruin 1'hnlini, iion lionosi , meulio occurrit. Ininio ii nri Seniensein in Cronlia, seu , ut olim vo- cabant, in Liburiiin, non ad Seneuseui iu lletruria episcopuin h.i-c cpisiola scripla esi. Pliotiui, nou Bonosi asserlas in e.i notnri extra conlroversinm erit. _ Praeierea Pholinuni , cuni Sirmii in Paniionia, cuj " Lihurnia vicina est, episcopus esset, provincias illas Incrcsis snaj veneno inleeisse nemo ignorai, Diinum Iiitiocemio de liaeresi senno est, quam loio pene orbe disseminalnin inniiil, quori snne in Pliotiiiiniiain magis, qiinm in Bonnsiacnm recens obortnm conve- nit. Ivjns aiiieni lccresi-, quum lniioceuiiu< argiiilj auctor ilii iiur Marcus, non qnia illam excogilarit, sed quiaseilulioreininea prop:igaiidaoperanipra:sefeireH 609 EPISTOL.t: ET DECRETA. 610 junxit : Quam liheri arbitrii poieslatem dicimus in A 5. Sed et ab hislitteris ad fidei suoe librum, f|iieni ouinibus es-c generaliler, in Cliristianis, in Jurlseis iis subnexucrat, vult iransire lcctorem {IbiU., c. 52). atque Geiitililnis. In oninibusest liberuin arbitrium Is porro fiilei liber loius insertus Sermoni alias Au- xqualiler pcr naturam : sed ii. solis Chiistianis ju- gnsiini dc Tempore 191, nnnc append. 236, n. 2 et vainr a gratia. In illis niiduin et inenne est condi- seiiq. ac prxlerea seorsim ediius esl in appendice tioiiis binium: in bis vero qui ad Chrislum perti- to. x novae edilionis cjusdeni sancli, pag. 96, sicut ncnt, Clirisli munitur auxilio. Illi ideo judicandi ctapuil lliernnymiim, cui olim ascriplus fucrai. atque damnaudi sunt, qnia cum habeant liberum 6. Prseterea in litleris iljis, c quas, i inqtiji Augu- arhitrium, per quod ad (idem venire possent, et Dei stinus (lib.de Peccato origin., n. 19 , 20 el 21), graliara a promereri, male iilunlur liberiaie conce^sa. < Romam misit ad bealae niemorhe papam liinncen- Ili vero reiiiiinerandi snnl, qni bene libero utentes arbinio, merenlur Dnmini gratiam, cl ejus mandata cusiodiunt. i. Item advcrsarios suos ad librorum, quos pri- dem coiiscrip>crat, lectionem provocabat bis verbis « tium, el qiioniaiu in corpore euin non invcncrunt, < sancto papae Zusimo datae sunt, el ad me directe, (Ibid., c. 55) : i Lcgant illam epislolam b, quam ad B bus coelorum regna promillat. > Et cnm dixisset, sancium virum Patilinum tpiscopum anle duodecim « iiumquam se vel impiiim aliquem hxreticiim au- fere annns scripsimus, quae trecenlis forte versibus disse, qui boc de parvulis diceret, > subjiciebat : nihil aliud quam Dei graliim et auxiliiim conliletur, « Quis enim iia evangelicaj leciionis ignarus cst, nosque mlnl oiiiiiino buni facere posse sine Deo. Le- qui lioc non modo aflirmare conetur, sed qui vel le- gaui eiiuii epislnlam c ad sanelum Conslantium vitcr dicerc auteiiam sentire possil? Deiude quis episcopnni (Ibid., c. 56), ubi breviter qiiidem, sed tani impius, qui parvulos exsorles regni cocloruni plane lilicro hominis arbitrio Dei gratiam auxiliiiin- qne ronjunxi. Legantetiamquam d ad sacramClirisii virginem Demeiriadem in Oriente eonscripsimus (Ibid., e. 57) : ei invcnient nns iia hominis laudare naliiram, ul Dci semper graliae addamns aiixilium. Legaut eliam reccns nieum ° opiisculiim (Ibid., c. 41), quod pro libero nuper arbitrio ederecom- pulsi siinius : et agnoscent quam inique nos nega- essc vclii, diim eos bapiizari etin Chrislo renasci 7. Simul cuui Pclagii pnediciis liiteris ac libello fidei ad Innocentium missa esi, simiilque Innocentii successori Zosimo reddita epistola Praylii Hierosoly- miiaui episcopi, de qna boc iiuuin a Zosimo disci- miis, qiiud in ca Praylins Joannis successor catisaj tione graii.e infamare gestierinl, qui per iniiim pene C Pelngii enixius adslipulatur iniervenil (Epkt. 3 , ipsius tixtuin operisperfecieatqueiutegreei liberum n. 2). arbiirium cuiifucmur el graliam. > •' Ue hac ita idem Doclur loqniltir : < Istam sane lcpi, miliiqiie pcne peisnaseral, banc illnm gratiam, de qni i|ii.i'-iin e»i, confiteri. Scd cuin iu inanus meas et nlia venissent, qu;e poslerius latiusque cnnscripsil, vidi qiiemadinoilnm polucrit etiam illic gratiain nominarc, sub ambigua generalilalc quid siiniret alocoiidcns, graiia; lamen vncabulo fran- gen* invidiam nQeiisioneimiue declinans. > ln boc auiein Pnlagii opere virus laiens reiegil Augusiiiius ei>i>i. olmi 143, iuiiic 188, ad Juliauain,ad cujus epi- slobe calcem liauc Pelagii ad Iniioccniiiim, immo ei biinc i siiui lociiin nini ubscure nntai ubi ait : < In qiiadam veru cpisiola sua iilcm Pelagius , ubi et notnen siium a|ieilissime ponit, nec nonnn sacra; virginis lacel, dirit ail eam se scripsiNsc, etejusdcm sei nperis le-tinmiiio pinbaie niiilur. se gi.iliam Dei, qiiam vel laceie vel ncg.ire asseiitur, aperiis- sime cniiliteri. > cDe opusculo liocca esl Augiisiini censnra. < Qua- luci biinl bbri npcris bujus, ci bus lcgi... Sed in 8. Qui aulem praedicta legcrit litlerarum Pelagii bis etiam quatuor libris qmrcumqne pro gralia vi- detur dicere, qua juvanmr ut declinemus a malo boniunqne faciamus, ita dicit, ui niilln nioilo a ver- bnrum aiiibiguiiale disccdal quam discipulis sic possit cxpnnere, iil iiulluni anxilium gratic credaut qna natura; possibililas adjuvetur, nisi in lege atque doclrina. > Et puucis inlermissis : < Sed hoc adju- toiiiun legis at<|ue docirina: eiiam proplieiicis luisse leinporibus, adjtitoriiim auiem gratiae, qiwe (iroprie gratia nuncupatur, in Clirisii csse arbilraiur exem- plo;qnoil nilnlominus ad doctrinain peninere per- spiciiis, quai nobis evangelica pnedicatur. > Clnisii ali.|uibus coelorum regua promillunl... Obii- citnr auiem illis. quod non baplizalos parvnlos no- lunt ilauinatioui pnini homiuis obnoxios confileri. > quaiit libct operiai, pleruimiue aperire compelli- lur, fcccruni noliis et i-ta suspecta, ut altenlius in- luentes invcniremiis amliigua. > (.11 APPENDIX AD EPISTULAS S, 1NN0CENTII I PAPjE. 613 fra^menu, necnon Augusiini, qui omnes vafri bujus A secum demlil, neque siiam iu lerris divinilaiem Uuprciici aries ac subterlugia probe noverat, sub- nexas observationes expenderit, audierilque siniul eimulem llierosolyniiiani anlistiiis coinmendaiione probaium atque laiulaiuni esse ; is sane Zosiiuuui, simpliciter verba illius ul snnabant accipienteiii , decipi ab eo poluisse iuinus mirabiiur. MONITUM IN FKAGMENTUM SEQUENS. (Spicileg. Maii, tom. III.) Siiperioribus epislolis Innocentii I vulgatis ssnpe ettbneciimus raiiorem partem ex ejus Inedha epi- stola ad SeverianumGabalorumeptseonum. Li|iiideiii in cudice Arabii o non Gubula sed lltuala scribilur, qu c leclio viin qiiamdam accipit ex co qiiod Aila epfscopalis est urbs Palocstinx apud Lequiuium Or. I. III, p. 758; sed lameii in paucissimis quos adeptus esi ; sed ipse Deus eral, ipse corpus suum in Virginis utero efformavii ; m que ulluin in suo corpore cimliciendo sociuin babuit, sed unus ipse cmifecil. Conliteniur auieni in oinnibus quie ab buiiianitaiefiebaiii.comiieui fui-se divinilateni.qutB nullo iini(|iiain vel uiininio lemporis arliculo ab liumaiiitaie sejuucla fuil. Confneniiir eliani, eo ipso lempine quo uostar e ccelis Servator advenit, aique in Yirginis Mariu; uleruin descendit, diviniiaiem cum biiniaiiiuuc cniijimxisse, quic nuiuipiaiii ulla in ic vel actiune divisa: fuerunt, qiiaudnquideiu tudivir sibiles erant. Ac veluti ejus divinitas liue caret, ita et ejusdem liumaniias post rcsuiretiioneiu in selcr- iiiiin iiianel. Lac de feinina suxil, niliiloniiuus divini- cli. . Lequinius novit ejus urbis episci.pis, Srvcrianus g las at ,ue liiimaiiiias unuiu (tlirntum) consliluebaiil. nou censelur. StJlim igiturde SeveriaiioGabaloium, j^ec quisquaui puiet, quo teuipore divinum in lerris iirbis Itein SyrsB, episcopo cogitavi, qui cpntempo- raiieus luii Ihnoeentio; quodque magis interesi in noiitia epistolaFimi Iuuoceniii deperdiiarum apud Constaniiiiin p. y2l cngu.iscimus, inler Seveiia- nuin et limocentium epislulas mUsitalas; luisse. Praeterea panlo infVa in codice Arabico fragmentum ileui Severiani legiiur, qno loco non llaiula, sed Gabala sedes ejus episco|ialis diciiur. Mendiim igi- lur Arabici codicis e.\ litterul.e similitudine coor- tum esi. Iloc ergo epislolare Iinioceotii fragmeniiiin ab Arabe boiuine nobis consei vatuni giatanter acci- piaiuus. EPISTOLA XLlll. 6EU FRAGMENTUM EPISTOL.E QCAM AD SEVERIANUM EPI- SC0PUM SCRIPsIT INNOCENTIUS UNUS EX PRIMIS ROM.E EPISCOPIS. Verbuiu ad suscipieudlim abs Ji.anup. iiaplisniiim acce^sit, tunc iiiitium diviniiaiis ejus luisse, cum videlicet vocein p.itris e cuelo exeunlcni Joannes audivil. llaud sane ila res se bab>i ; verum ipso leni- piu is articulo, quo in uierum Viruinis desceudit, uniim cuin corpore et divinitale iuilividunin cffec- tum esl; fuitque divinilas cor| oris cousois, atquc inimuiabili quadain ratione el inseparabili facia est uuica unilas. Diviuilas ab bumanilatc non est se- jiincta. Christo in cruce exisiente, divinilas ab ejus biiiiianitate non secessil. In coeluni asrendit ctim corpore quod de Virgine Marii suiiipsil,aiqiie ad op- timi Patris sui dexteram sedit. Ilnec fldes nosira Cum divinum e ecelis Verbum advenil, et in Vir- C esi. Qoi autem non iia credunt, eos catbolica Eccle- ginis sancta; Mariie visceiibus, de qua caruem sia expellit, immo auctor ejusdem Deiw exconimuni- sumpsit, babitavii, uequaquam corpus suuni de ccelo cat. Laus Deo iu aMernum ! Amen. /LPPENl AD EPISTOLAS S. INNOGESTII I PAPI. NOTITIA EPISTOLARUM NON EXSTANTIUM, QU^ AD INNOCENTIUM ATTINENT. (D. Coust. Episl. Honi. Ponlif. loni. I.) 1. Anno 404, mense Aprili. < Litlerw T heopliili att- verstts Joannem Clirys. — Tlieophilus Alexandiinus episcupus epMola ad lunocentiuin scripta, et per Alexandiiiinm leclnrein delala, Joannem a se depo- siluni rcfcrcbat. Qiiam cpistolam, inquil Palladius, Dial. c. 1, pag. 9, cum legisseubeatus papa Inno- centius, parum abfuii, qnin lemeiilatcin Thcophili alquc superbiam coudemnaret, quod elsolusscri- psisset, nec tlaram cjus rci noliliani misisset, ncc cur aut quibuscuni Juannein deposuerat iiulieasset. • Ilsec epistola piima ex iis fuit, quas limoeenlius de Joannis causa, posiquam ille ab episcopatu dejeclus D est, accepit. Quapropter statim a Jonnnis deposi- lioiie, post luniultum niagno sabbaio in Ecclcsia Conslanlinop. exciiatnm, boc est inense Aprili anni 404, scripta jure existiinetur. Ad bane opistolam, ant ad alteram, de qua nuni. 4 dicluri sumus, refe- reiulum videtur, quod Palladius pag. 151 de Tbeo- pliilo scribit : i Is in sua ad Iiiiioceniimn papam epistola, vitiiperans beatum Joannem, Epiphanium nominat saiulissiiiiuin, quem inquil, aulea probris afleccral ut ba-reticum aut sibisniaiiciim. > a. Eodem tempore. Epislola; ires i» grntiam Jottii- — nis. Triduo postquam proxima; Tbcopliili liltenc 613 JNQTITIA EPISTOI.ARUM NO.N EXSTANTIUM, ETC 61* Jnnoccntio roddiUe sunl, inquii Palladius, pag. 9 et A venii presbyter Consta,,.i,,<,poliLa„:fiLcclesi;e Theo- 10, i quatuor episco|»i e panibus Joannis viri reli- giosi, Pansophius Pisidi», Pappus Syrise, Demetrius Galatiiu secundae, Eugenius Phrygiac tres epistolas (Innocenlio) tradlderunt, nnam Joannis episcopi alleram 40 episcoporuin de commmiione Joannis, tertiam cleii Joannis, oinnes inter se cousentienles, et indisciplinalorum quorumdam tumullum signiii- canies. » E trihus illis epislolis sola Joannis, id cst superior quarla, ad nos pervenii. Si auiem Ires inter se consentiebant, ex eo quod in epistola Joan- nis etiamniim leginius , uon latet oniiiino quid in aliis (liiahns efferebatur. 3. Anno 404, circa Junium. Innocenlii communica- toriai littenv ad utramque partem. — Tunc Innocen lilis II lecniij noniiiie, reddens episto'as synodi Joaimis viginti (niiiique episcoporum aia pajulo plus, quiuiu doccliaut etJoanncin miliinri inuiiu uihe expulsiim, ei Ciiciisiiiii in cxsiliiiin esse inissum, atque sinccu- sani essc ecclesiaiii. » Pono boc incendium anno 404, Junii 20 die, touligisse memoiali.r. Ex (|uu se- (|iiilur, ul endeiii iiiiuse exeunle Jilterae illa: con- scripi.e fuerint. In Codice Thcod. lih. X\l, lil. 2, lcx 37 exsiat, inensis Augiisli «9 die d.ita, q„a ciim pliirimi Joannis clerici liujus incendii causa cusiodi.e tradiii fuissent, at.|iie iiiquisilioiic facia millus in- ventusesscireus, illos Arcadms relaxari jugsit. 6. Kodem lempore, Juaimis aclnrsarii sciibunt. — Paulo iiosi Acacii, Pauli, Anliochi, Severiani ac ... - r ■ "*-'", i iiin, .liiiiiiriii, .-evcnao, ac aC! l"'"sl"cle"d""' «lu», donec cjiis firmand* B paucorum alion,,,, l,|,e,,,s (Pallad. pag 26) , i„ S a lll t'1'l'Pl ilnas urliull .«I.I.I.. .. ... s "■*» '""/>' "> tempus allulgerel, duas scripsit epistolas, uiiam Theophilo eique adhoerenlibus, et alleram Joanni ac sociis qiiibos qiiidem litleris ulrique parli coiiiniuiiio- nemstiamimperiiebat.De illis Palladius,cap.5, pag. 22 ei 25, hoe tanuiiii memoriae commendavil : i Ad hae beatus lnniiceniius utiique parii pares liiieias comiiiiiiiioiiis mlsit, improbans judiciiim quod a Tlieophilo lacium videbatur, dicens debere aliam cogi synodum Irreprehensibilem Occidenialiuni ct Orieiiialiiiin ; priinum qiiideni secedenlibus ab illo consessu amicis, deinde ei inimicis ; a ueuiris enim Utplurimum recium proficisci judiciuin. » Quicatitein ad paitcs Joannissciiptaerai, a Denielrio Pi.-itiunlis in Galatia secunda metropolitano episcopo, qul no • —' f" • 'i"' ■■"- iiiiii comiiieiniaiione niill TisiinM cum Pansopliio, Pappo et Eugenio Ron.am C nali Theasills el Ev0(]iu, quilius calumnialiaiilur J mii.cui, quasi eccle.-iain incemlisset, ad lunnccntiuiii » perttiltt b uncio pa. teriiiisiioiiiine, omni contumelia digiius, nec ad eas Iiuioteiilitis respondere dignatus esl. 7. Eudem tempore, Afri Jnuocentio legatos suos commendant. — Ad idem lempiis atiincni Cartluui- nensis comilii, anno 404, vi kalemlas Julias, babiti ad Innoeeiuium papam !jiie,x , Cod. can. eccl. Afric. sub fiiiem cap. 93 iueinorata'. Ubi eiiim ln c conciliuni legatioiicm decrevit ad inipeialores mit- tcndain, qua leges ad reprimendani Donatisiaruiu pelulaiiliain rogareniur, sialim addil : • Lilleric cliam ad cpiscopuin Romamc Ecclesix pro legatn, rum comiiienilalioiie iniiieiube. » Ttini lcgaii desii- veiierai, perlaia esl. Eiigenitim vero liac occasioiie Orienlem percttrrisse, alque istis Innoceniii papie lilteiis ostensis Romanorniri cuni Joaitne episcopo oommunio probasse Palladlus, pag. -27, iradit. H;c lilleraj ablnnncenlio brevi inlervallu posiquam supcriores seu Theophili, seu Joannis ejusque par- lium accepii, ira„smiss:e sunt. 4. Cirea idem tempus iitierm Tlieophili conlra Joaunem. — Exinde liinoceniio redditic simt iicra- t:v. Theophili Alexandrini episcopi lilier;e,dequibus P illadius h;cc hal.el : Paucis post dielius, quam I„- nocentius proxime dicias epistolas scripslsset, i ad- venit quidani Theophili presbyierPetrus cum Mar- tyrio e. clesi;.. CP. diacono, qui reddiderunl Theoplii ,;,,„„ '■ ..._„,„,,,, iioiioui et Arcauu (lisMdia iiiiiieiliiiieiiloer.iii mm iisque dat;e qualuor epi- stola;, quas Possidius in calalogo episiolaruni Au- gusiiui sic contiiiua serie receoset : « Iiinocenlio episcopo, imperaloribus , Siilieboni, prajfectis Iia- li;c » Endc liiteras ilias ah Angusiiuo conscripias cssecolligilur. 8. Circa tnenscm Aiigustum rescribit Innoccniius cinscopissyiwdiJoannis. - Iuunceniiiis Tlieotecno, qui episcoporum synodi Joaiuis episiolas ip>i allti- lerai, Iiltera3 ad Joanueni ac caqeros coiiimimioiiis ejiissflciosreddidii, quil.us c cos cuin lacrymis b.mo aiiinio esse liortal.atur : siquidem opem illis fcne, quia potentes ad malinn obsiarcni , non posset. i Sic poiro loqiieb.itur Innoreniius , qnia maiiifesia llonorii el Arcadii dissidia inipednneiuo erant, quo- triginta s.x episcopis, quorum viginii novem ^Egy- ptn, ct aliarum regionum septem eram, condem- naiiis videl.auir. » Ilis atilem aciis perlectis, eodem Palladio testc, i nnllas graves esse accusationes, neque Joaniiem adfuisse, neque coram reprehen- sumessc ilnnocentius cmperlt. Liiie.is illis d rescripscrit ls papa, |„ ejus episiola 5 legcre esi. S. Aiwo 401, menst Junio. Litterm pro Joanne. — Vix dimiserai 1 .ceiniusPctrumetMartyiluni, qui proximam Theophili epistolam ailulerant, cum vi- ginti qui„|iic eplscoporum ac pauloampiitis, qui de Joannis synudo eraut, litteras accepit. Quipne, iii- quit Palladius, pag. 24, , modico post tempore ad- quaerendiin) erat, convocarelur. Tbeoteciiiis autein episcoporuni syoodi Joannis episiolas ad Imiocen- liiim pcrlalurus, posl 24 uiensi, J„„i, dicm C „.t,„. tiiiopoli Romam profeclus fiieial : adeoque ucc quod illis rescripsit Iiiniicciiiius, ciiius incnse Auguslo subsequcnie tradi eidem poiuii. 9. Anno iOi, circa Novemb., Porplujrii ad Inno- centium littera. — Cum i„ Armeiiia cxsiilarei Joan- nes Chrysoslomus, accilil ui Flaviaim.- Aniiuthcn- sis episcopu5 moi.Tci.ir [P.dUd. w§, 144). Tum Porphyiiusii, ejus locuin ab Acatio, Soveiiai.o ,l Aniiocho ordmalus.de ordinaiione sua li.nocentium staiim ceriiorcni fecil. Verum, Palladio teste, pag. 615 APPENDIX AD EPISTOLAS 141, Iniiocentii responso digmis liahitus non fnit. A Quam perversi fuerint illius niorcs, fuse idem Palla- dius, pag. 14*2 et seq. exponit. Ex Arcadii autem conslitulione, qua: Codici Tlieod. lib. xvi , tit. 4, leg. 6, in-erta esl, Porphyrium anno 4t:4, ante 18 inen- sis Nnvembris diem ordinaium fuissc cnnslat. 10. Anno 105, Innocentius ad Afros rescribil , ejns- que lillerce in concilio reiitaulitr. — In concilio Car- lliagiiiensi, quod anno 405, x kalendas Seplembris, celebraium est, recitalas snnt Innocenlii liiiera:, qni- bus cavebaiur ne ad Iransmarina episcopi facilc per- gerent (Cod. can. eccl. A(r., c. 94). Hse Rnma in Afiicam relalae credunlur per Tlieasiuni aique Evo- dium, qui mcnsc Junio anni 404 ad imperalorein cuin litteris ad Innocenlium legali fuerant. llbi vero recilat;e sunt prasdicta: Innocenlii liiierao, < hoc ip- B suin, > qund in illis praescribebatur, « episcoporuin sentenliis confirmaliiin fuil. > Jam antea in Sardi- censi concilio, can. 8, maxinie propter Afros decre- lum fuerat, « ne episcopi ad coinitalum acced.int, liisi forte ii qui religiosissimi imperatoris litteris in- vitati fuerint vel voeati, > cum videlicel expostulas- set Gratns Cartli iginensis episcopus, qund ea de re sua ipsius consilia spernerentur. Ne lainen binc coniinunes ecclesiarum utilitates negligi coniingeret, addidit eadem synodus, can. 9, ul si episcopi preces pro viduis aut pupillis aliisve iniqna vi opprcssis of- fercndas liaberenl, non pei ferrent ipsi per se, sed 11. Circa initium ann. 405, Exsuperii epistola. — Ad anni 405 inilia pei tinere videlur Exsnperii To- iosani episcopi epistola varias coiupleclens qua:siio- nes, quibus Innocenlius per epislolam 0 saiisfacit. 12. Quindecim episcoporum ad Innoccntiwn lilte- rce. — Circa idem lenipus accepil Iiinoceniius epi- scoporuin qiiindeeim e synodo Joannis lilleras, quas Palladius, pag. 20, iiiemoral liis verbis : « Post Cy- riacum advenit Eulysius episcopus Apamex Biiliy- ni;e, reddens littcras quindecim episeoporum e sy- nodo Jnannis, in quibus et priorem ei prxsenlem loiius Constantinopolis direplionein describebant. > " Quibus verbis proxime prainiilit Palladius, Euly- siuui Synnadorum episcopuni , nullas qnidem feren- tem epislolas, sed ad ea quae gerebanlur enarranda idoneuni, Roniain cnnfugisse, coiniiiotuin videlicet inii|Uilate imperialis pwcepti, quo edicebatur : « Si quis noii coinmuniccl Theopliilo, Arsacio et Porpliy- rio, ille quidem episcopatu arcealur, ac siniu! amii- lalqiiam visus fueril babcre subslanliani pecunia- rum, > Unde leinpus expiscari licel, qno liiler;e ill;c Ininicenlio reddila; sunt. Vel eniin ibi indicalur Ar- cadii pra;cepluin < de liis, qui ab Arsacii, Theophili, Porpliyiii revereuiis-iiiioriiin sacrix; legis anlisiilum coiniiiunione dissentiuni, ab Ecclcsia procul dubio S. 1NNOCENTII 1 PAP-E. 610 repellendis > (Cod. Th. lib. xvi, lit. 4, leg. 6),vel aliquod posterius, iu quo priori poena; adjeeta sil niulcla peciinia;. Atqui Arcadii constilulio adreeiores provinciarum dala le^ilur xiv kalendas Decembris CP. Honorio el Arisienacto coss. , hoc esl anno 404, niensis Novembris 18die. Ex quo pracdiclas quinde- cim episcoporuni liueras liinoccnlio anle inilium an- ni 405 reddi nequivisse conficilur, lametsi eas exis- limare liceat circa exiium anni 404 conscriptas. 13. Anysii Tkessalonic. episcopi ad Innocentiitm epislolu. — Idein Eulysius siiiiul ad Iniioceniiiiin at- lulit epislolani « Anysii optiuii senis , > ut loquitur Palladius, pag. 27, « qui Romanae Ecelesi;e (in causa Jiiannis) jndicio stare se scribebat. > 14. Edictum contia clericos qui cum Joanne com- municabant. — Elapso niense post advcnlum Cyriaci Synnadoruin episcopi, Romain iiem accessn Palla- dius Ilelenopolis cpiscopus , Lausiacx scriplor , exempluni ferens edicti, quod Palladius alier iu Yita Chrysostonii, pag. 27, sic exprimii : « Quicumqiie occnliaverit oiunino episcopum aut cleiicum qui conununicet cuni Joanne, doniiis ejus puhlicelur, > Quibus verbis eum notare ac suniniaiim perslriugere illud arbilrainiir, quod Arcadius, anno 404, Angusti 29 die sanxil in liunc nioduin : « Nec proscriplionis periculo domus careanl, qnas episcopos vel clerieos per<'gr'nios post publicatioiiem edictorum et nosir;c serenitaiis alfatus probabitur suscepisse : pari fmnia servanda, si qnas doiuus cives clericos nova ac lu- inultuosa conventicula exlra ecclesiani celebrautes susceperint > (Cod. Th. lib, xvi, tit. 2, leg. 37). 15. Cleri CP. ad Innocenlium lilterce. — P»st Pal- ladii in llrljem ingressum, codeni deveuere « Ger- manus preshyter el Cassianus viri religiosi lilieras loiius cleri Joannis (Innocentio) reddenles (Pallad. pug. 27), quihiis scribunt suam ipsorum Eccle.-iam vinialquelyraniiiileni perpessam esse, episeopo suo inililari inanu ijeclo, inque exsilium aclo per factio- iicm Acacii Bei03;e episcopi, Tlieophili Alcxi.ndiioi, Anliochi lloleinaidis, et Severiani Gabaloruin. > Ab istarum lilterarum exordio pii illi clcrici plura pio- ferebant Scriplurarum lestiinonia, in quibus conso- lalionem habere se leslificabantur. Deiude ubi epi- scoporum, qui Joanni advcrsahaniur, violeiiliam, neciion canones, qiiibus faeinora sua lueri couabau- tur, exposuerant, quid de canonibus illis sentieu- dum esset, expeiebant. Ipsis rescripsit Innocentius, ejusque epistola, nempesepiima, ad nos peryeuit. 16. Aliiiuanlo post delata; tum episcoporum Caria; , tum presbtjterorum Anliochice Uttcnv. — Demetiios Pesinuntis episcopus , ciim Oi ienteni peragrasset, Iioiuam denuo post Germani el Cassiani advcntuiu rediisse a Palladio narratur cum litteris luin episco- poriun Caiiae, « quibus illi Joannis cominiinioncin complecuntur, > iiim presbyterorum Aotiochia:, < quiluis Romanorum, > in relinenda videlicei ejus- dein Joannis conimiinione, sequuniur disciplinaiu, et Porphyrii ordinationeni conlra jus et fas faclani deplorant > (Pullad.pag. 28). Ncinpe, uliPalladius, 617 NOTITIA EPISTOLAUUM NON EXSTANTIUM, ETC. 618 pag. 143 et 146, narrat, Porpliyrius niissis ad Comi- A bat, dedit, jEmilium scilicet Beneventi episcopum, tntmn et pniei.tiores episcopos pecuniis effecerat, ut Constantius, qui inter cmteros presbyleros eminebat, t.Miii|ii:ini |iopiilorum penurbaior relegaretur. Alios vero presbyteros atque clcricos in cuslodiain milti cniaverat. Tiiin prima die celelirilaiis ludoiiim Olympioriim, cuui civilas oninis ad suburbana ailile- Ins speclalura transisset, in eeclcsiain irrupil; ibi- que cum Acncio, Severiano et Aniioclio episeopis, quos apud se absconderat, nc paucis clericis < elnm ordinatus estclnusis januis, ei tnnta cum festinatio- ne, ui ne precationeiu quidem ad linein perduxerint, melucntes ne deprelienderentur. > 17. Anno ■iO.) jam labenlc, Innocentius ud lluno- rium scribii de misero Ecclesiarum sialu. — Subinde Cythegium eiGnudeniium ilem episcopos , unn cum Valentiniano el Bonifacio presbyteris , necnon uno liomana: Ecclesiae diacono cnjus numen siletur; sed et epistolam ipsis ir;nJ iiiii ad Arcadium imp. perfe- rendnm. Simul acceperunt iidem legati cum llonorii epistolam quam etiamnum habemus, tuin Chromatii Ai|iiileiensis , Venerii Mediolanensis , aliorumquc llalia: episcoporum ad eumdem iinperniorein litie- ras. Quo lempore suscepta sit illa legntio conjicere licet cx verbis legatorum, qui nbi se ad urbem rc- gimi appulisse, stalimque in subiirb. deientos, ac iriduo pnsl diniissos, in maritimo Tliraciae caslro eonclusos esse narrarunt , proxime subju iunt : « Posiridie miserunt ad nos, nn aulici imperatoris. Domitianus presbyter el oecnnomiis ecclesise Con- B an Auicus, nescimus (ipse eniin dicebalur Ecclesia: staiilinopul., neciionVallagas Nisibenus presbyler, qu1 et inonaslerinruni Mesopolamisc affliciionem narra- bal, aela tradunl Innocentio Oplnli pncleeli, quibus bonesiic mulieres eccleskc CP. diaconissse c genere consnluni ad emn ducere cogebanlur, aut commuui- earc euin Arsncio in loeum Joanni< subrognlo, aut fisco duceutas auri libras darc (l'allad. pag. 28 ). Tum Innoreutius, loi ac lania sustinere amplius non valens mala, epistolam ad Houorium impcralorem scripsii, in qua singillatim quid ferrent lillerae, quas de ecclesix CP. aliarumque misero siniu a diversis accepeint, exposuil. 18. 1'aulo posl synodits episcopurum Italia? cogi- lur. — II iinorius vero slaliin ut hanc Innocculii llironum invnsisse) , qui nobis tria nuniismaiuin millia iradebant, ornntes ut Altico communicare- inus. » Jam igiiur defunclns erat Arsacius, et ejus loco Aliieus suffecius fuerat; idquc legati cititis verbis innuuul lunc primum audire se ccepisse, cuin ad urbein regiam accesserunt. Aiqui Arsacium iii Idus Novembris, Slilichoneitcrum ei Anlhemiocon- sulibus, huc est Novembris II d e . anuo 405, mor- teni oppeiiisse, Socraies, lib. vi, c. 20, narral. Idem el Aliieuin Arcadio vi et Pn bo cunsulibus, ei qui- deni , ut Sozomenus, lib. vin , c. 27 , iradit , cuni Cunslnnliiiopolilaua sedes qualuor meiises vaeasset, adeoque mense Maitio anni 406Arsacio subrogatiim fuisse, ibidein tesiatur. Ex quo sequilur, ut et epi- epislolam accepil, ut Palladii verbis utar (Pul. pag. C stola lnnocenlii, de i|ua agimus, eirca initium anni 29), < Oceidenl.iliumsynoduin cogi, eosquecum unain ^66 scripia fuerit. simul senientiam tulissent, ;id suam pieiaiem referre jubct. » Moxque < episcopi Iialise congregati Impc- ralorem orant, scribal frairi suoel consorli imperii Arcadio, ui praecipiat Thessalonieae synodum fieri, quo facilius iilraque pars Orientis et Occideiuis con- currcre valeat, ac synodus non lani episcoporum nunicro, quam senientiie gravitate perfecla, cerium ei iudiibiiatiim judiciiim feral. » Tunc celebrala qui- deni fnil synodus , sed ubi bnbila sit, Palladius non indicat. Tniituin scimiis ejus definitionem iis omnino cnnsenianeam esse, qu;c Innocenlius ab initio per- tui batioi.is liujiis ac deinceps , ul supra, n.3,et episi. 5 ei 7 videre est, consiiinier censuerat. Unde 20. Eodem lempore, Commonilorium legaiis dalitm. — Iisdem legatis traditum est Commonitorium syn- odi lotius Occidentis (Pallud. pag. 51), « quod continebat, Joannem judicium iugredi non debere, nisi prius ipsi restitutii fuisset et ecclesia ei com- niunio : ul sublatn ciiusa delreclandi judicii , sua sponte consessum inirei. » Lampsacense synodi sub Damaso habitrc apud Sozomenum , lib vi, c. 7, si- mile quoddam est coiisiilulum , niniirum « ut epi- scopi, qui deposiii fuerant ab iis qui d ssimilem Pa- tri Filium asserebant , sedes suas posiliminio recu- pereni, quippe qui injuste spoliaii fuissent : quod si quiscos accus:ire (exinde) veliet, sub paris condem- aut cum prxfuisse liuic synodo, aut nibil in ea nisi " nationis periculo id agerel. » Ubi episcopis injuste ex ejus senicntia aclum esse conficiiur. Circa exilnm anni 405, Honorius Innocentio scri- bit. — Proxima; synndi decreto morem gerens Ho- norius, seinel et bis ad Arcadiiim scribil : sed eum nilnl prnfieerel, nc tle tertia epistola ad ouindem mittenda cogiiaret, scribit et nd Innoceniium, ut Innoceutius, prima in ipsiiu episiolam 9 annotatione exposuimus. 19. Anno 406, Innoce.niius Arcadio scribit. — In- nocemius non solum Hoimrio legatos, quos expeie- Patroi.. XX spolialis et ejectis sedes sute restituunlur primnm, ac liiin demuni eos nceusnndi locus periniltilur. Ad hujusmodi decrelorum imitationem Isidoms Merca- lor euni Symmachi pnp.e in liciitia v synodo Ro- inana sub eodem papa, luni velusiiorum pontificum noinine, miiltn similia eonlinxit, qu;e ipsuni idenli- dem repelere non piguil. 21. /1/mo 407, mense Junio, Afri Innocentium Theo- philo reconciliurc tentant. — Cartbnginiense conci- liiini, nnno 407, Junii 15 die baliiium, de litleris nd Innoceuiiuin papain scnbendis boc decretuin edidit (Cod. can. eccl. Afr., c. 101) ; < Plaeuil eliam, ui de disseusione Komanse aique Alezandrinaa Ecclesias 20 019 APPENDIX AD EPISTOLAS S. INNOCENTII I PAP^E. 620 nd saneium papani Iuunceniiiim scribaiur, quo utra- A ccntium. Ilis Innocentivs rescribiU Epistola Innocentio que Ecclesia inlra sc pacem, quam Doininus prace- pit, lcncat. > Hsec aulem dissensio non alia fuit ab ca qme Joannis Clirysoslomi causa excilata fuerat , cuin Theophili advorsus eum violentiam probare Iiinoceiiliiis neqiiivisset. 22. Anno 412, Jiwii 17 die, Innocenlius ad episco- pos Illtjrici tcribit. — Innocenlii ad episcopos per Macedoniam, Achaiam, Tlicssaliam, Epirum veterem, Epiroin novam.Cretam, Daciam Mediterraneam, Da- ciam Ripensem , Mcesiam , Dardaniam el Prsevalim constitulos littene ah ipEomet Innocenlio in epistola 15, n. 5, meinoraniiir , ut una cmn eadem (scilicet Junii 17 die anni 412 ) datae , quihus cerliores eos faciebal, harum se provinciarum ciirain Rufo Thes- salonicensi episcopo vice sui dem imlasse. 23. Anno 415, scribit ad Auyustinuiu. — Aiigusiiiius in epistola oliin 259, nunc 151, ad Caccilianum «juoii- dam Italiie pr.cfectum , n. 2, incniorat sihi « a fra- tribus epistolam missam sancti et prxcipuis meritis vener.indi papas lunoceniii, quam, inquit, per luam prscslanliam ad me datam certis declaratur iiuliciis.t De hac epistola nihil aliunde quidquani novimus. Ex eo auiein, quod prsedicta Augustini ad Csecilianum epislola post mensein quidem Septeuibrein anni 415, sed non longe posl scripta probaiur, lioc lnno- centii scriptum ad ipsunniiel annum 415 perlinere colligimus. 24. Anno 414, Macedones ab Innocenlio qttinque sibi concedi quxrunl. — Sequenli anno Innocentius Rufi alioruniqiie episcoporum Macedonum accepil C suherani, inlellig; solenl. supposita. Secundm Macedonttm titterw. — Circa eumdem annuin 414, Bubalius, Taurianns sive Ta- rianus aliique a Macedonibus condemnaii , sedem apostolicani appellarunt. Quaproptcr Kufus ac socii Maxiniianum et Eumenium sive Engeniuni Romam desiinarunt cuni litleris, in quihus Bubalii Tauriant- que crimina exponebantur. Tuin Innocentius , re discussa , Macedomim legatis litleras reddidit , in quihus plenaria sensuum suorum expositione prae- missa, Bubalii, Tauriani et sociorum condemnatio- nem cohfirmabat. Sed dum legati inoram faciiinl in redeiindo, Buhalius Innoccniii noniine confingit epi- siolam, quain et Macedonibus objicii. lli aulem, fal- lacias illius sacpius experti, novo cummeiito lideni K plane non hahenl, ac secundis litleris priorcm que- rin.oniaiu suam iterandam ducunt. Nec dissimulant silii gravem ac molestam valde esse appellalioniiin liujusniodi licentiam. Ad secundas illas litleras re- spondei Imiocenlius , epistola 18, cnjus jacturam levius ferreiuus quani allerius , iit qua lotuin boc iiegotium , ac suam de co sentenliaiu plenarie et a|ierte cx|ilicahal. 2G. Innocentii ad Orientis sijnodiim litlerw. — Ilnc referri possunt Innoeenlii ad Oiienlis syiinduin de omnibus qua; ah Orieiitalibus pacein pclentihiis exigenda sirit , plenissinue litteric; de qnibiis lnno- ccnlius ut dudiim ante paceni Ecclesise Aiiliocheii.e resiilulain inissis loqnilur (Episl. 22). Porro synodi Orienlis noniiiie, Ecclcsi;e, qiuc Anliocheno anlislili epistolam quinquc capitibus conslaniem : quoitnn pi imo, ul eos, qui viduas duxerani uxores, ail clei nniet ad ipsum etiain sumniuin sacerdotium ex proviAcke siueconsueludine promovere sibi licerel» qusercbant. Allcro asserchant, ( non dici oporlere digamum cum qui caiechumenus hahuerit atque amiseril uxo- rcin, si post baplismnm aliam fucrii sortilus ; quia iliud conjugium per baptismi sacramcntuni cnm csa- leiiscriniinihiis sil ahlulum ; > adeoque nec a clero arcenduni esse. Terlia illorum quseslio circa eos ver.-abatur, qui ab Uaereticis, nominatimque a Bonoso posl condem- nalionem ordinati fueranl, iium scilicet iil stiis ho- noribis recipiendi essent. Hoc aulem liceie sihi 27. .lnno 414, Ltyutio el litterw de ordinalione Alexundri ei pace Ecclesnr Antioclieutv. Acacii scripla. — Alexander Anlioclicnus opiscopus in Flaviaui lo- riim snhrogatiis , legalie-ncm ad Iiiiiocenliiiin desii- navit ciim litteris, quihus etse legitime ordinalinn, et exslincto schismaic, quo Auliochena ceelesia a lot annis tam niisere laborabal, pacem eidem ccclcsiss feliciier reddilam , eos vero qui Paulini Evagriique nomiuc olim censiti fuerant, siiinina charilaie a se siisccplns, iteni Elpidium ac P.ippum , qui Joannis Clirysoslomi causa fueranl expulsi, sine ulla conlio- versia suas recuperasse Ecclesias, ipsius denii|iie Joannis iioinen sacris dipiychis inscriptuin iuisse nuniiahai. Quapropter ul Ecclesiie sure communio- persuadebanl cx indulgenlia qua u>i siml ciun Ni- D nem impertirct Roinatia, ilagilabat (Innoc. cp. 19). ca^ni Palres erga Novaiiauos, liiui Anysius Thessa- lonicensis episcopus erga ipsosmet BoiiOMauos. Quarlo Innoeeiiliiiin rngahanl, ul jiidicium advcr- sus Pholinum per falsum rumorem aposlolicre sedi suhreptum, el ab ejus decessore per insidias elici- liim, in melius commulans, hiinc episcopum consti- lnerc sihi permitterei. Posiremo, ut suim ipsorum ailversus Eustaihium diaconuin confirinans seiHcntiam euin diaconii spo- liarel gralia, et diabolo in perpeluum manciparei , clehant. Ad singula illa capila Innoceiitins, anno 414 exeunte, in epislola 15, respondit. 25. Circfl annitin 414, littera: Macedonum ad Inno- Littcris illis adjuncla erant Acacii Berceje episeopi sciipta, quibus ei ille rogahat liinoceniium, ui eoin- nninionem, quam ipsi b.ictcnus Joannis cansa nega- rat, redderet. 28. Circa ann. 415 , Innocentitts Komce syitodtiin liabvt de eadein re. — Legationis Antiochena: occa* sione Romae congregatum esi cnnciliiim , cui viginti iiiierfoerunt episcopi. in eo autcni leciis Alexandri liueris, aiidiiisque legatis, quoruin prineeps Cassia- nus preshyter cxstitisse videlnr. an omnihus ad pa- cein prius requisitis condiiii)iiihus Antioehioe saiisfa- ciiim essel, diligentcr cst expensum. Inde Iniiocen- lius ad Alexandrom lilleras cuni privalas , (uin commniies a viginli episcopls subsctiplas, cnm ipsios A DlteA pcriingi possinl; deinde solisne piesbyleris, .111 synoili geslis ei seripiis ad Aeaciiim pcr Panlnm preshyiertim , Nirolaiim iliaconnm ac Peiruin sub- tliaconum misil (Innnc. cpist. 19). Tres illas epislolas ctiamntim habcmus, sed episcnporum viginti Italia: snbsctipiiones el sitbnexa eis gesta excidernnl. Tan- luni Maximiaiium Macedonic episcopum lniicsynndo inicrfuisse ex epistola 25 discinius. Ex quo et alios aliarum provinciarum episcopos, qui in Urhe liiin forte erant, nd e:nmlem de niore vocalos esst! eou- jeelura esl. 29. Aliqnanio post Mnichniainis in Atlici fjratiam scribil. — Maxiinianus Macednnhn cpiscopus , cum eiiani cpiscopis chrisin.ile inliimos ungere liceat , po-.tremu an oleum illud poeniieiiiibiis sit inlun- dcndum. Omnibus illis quseslionibus Iiinoceniiiis, epislola 2G, facil saiis. 52. Anno 410, plura scripta, quw acl Velacjii caw sam attinenl, ex Afiica ad Innocenlium mhsa. — In liitcris, quas Afri , anno 410 , ad Innoceiniiim con- sciipsertlnl , plura niemoranlur mouimcnta ad eunidem missa, quai ad Pclagii acCcelesiii causani atlii.ertl (Epist. 20, n. 1). Ac primo quidem Caitbagineiisis synodus Herolis pacis Alexandro cpiscopo ei Anliochensc ecclesiae ab ci Lnzari cpiscoporuin advcrsils Pelagium cl Ccele- Innocciilio eoncessa> teslis fuissel, in rcgiam iirbeni sliuni lilteras epislolrje suac se subjccisse indicai. rcversus, anetor fnisse videtur Aliico, Ut «t ,pse 13 Dciude eadem synodus cidcm epislolsc subncxa pacem sine niora pcterel. Sive aulem Allhus al> ca doeet alleriiisCarlbaginensis synoili fernie anle quin • re se iiiininie alieniiin signilicaril, et Maximianum, ut (jiiunninm habilce acta, quibtls Cceleslius episcopali lianc sibi graliain iinpeiiaret, rogarit, sive Maximhi- judicio excisus fueiat. nus boe in se pmpria sponte ac pr.Tpmpero nnilatis Mudio stiscepcrit, is, episiola cum libello ad Inno- centiiim missa, ab boc papa eoinniuuicaloiias ad Alticum Conslanlinop. litler.is pcslillavil. Ad banc Maximiani episiolam Innocentius respondet epi- slola 22. 50. Circaann. iio, Ale.rander Innocentio nounullas qucesliones proponit. — Alcxander, inisso coiniiionilo- rio, ab Iiinocentio sciscitaUir, primo, qusc Antiocheni prasulis in ordinationibus episcoporuin dieeceseos Orienlis sit poiesias : deinile < ulrum divisis impe- Iis qttoqtie adjunxeral , ul eX poslrertiis epislolaj ipsiu> verbis colligitnr, l>iospolit;inac synodi gesla , qitibus absoliitum se Pelagius jaclitabal, Imc esl, qnaliaab hoc h;eretico aduherata fueianl. Nonenim alia lunc in Africam pervencrant. Pauio pnu Aiigiisliiius euni quatuor sociis arj ln- iiocenliuin scribens ( Innoc. epist. 28, n. 6), epistohe stioe se ailjunxisse significai Pelagii librum sibi aTi- masio cuJacobo hujus h;erelici discipulis missum, necnon quem ad bunc leftilandum De SSaturaet Gratia concinnaverat, qucnii|iie ipsi Jacohus et Ti riab jmlicio provinciis, ut dtise metiopoles fiant, sic ^ masins ob pnedicluni De Natnra et Gralia lihruni , dno melropoliiani cpiscopi debeant noniinari i Ter- giatias agenles, epistolam scripser.ml, sicnl et cam tioCyprius, qui ad Orienlis dloecesin perlinebanl , (\mm Anguslinus scribendani duxii Pelagio, qtii « olim Arianic iinpielatis polenlia faligalos, uon le- niiisse canones Nicienos in oidinantlis episco|iis, » sed cpiscopos suos ncmine consulto ab eis ordinaii conquesttis, qui erga eos gerere se deberet qiuesivit. Deiiiuin an Arianorum elcriei ad Ecclesiam rcdcuntes < cuin sacerdolii aut niinislerii cujtispiam suscipi deberenl dignitale, » posluhtvii. Ad singulaliinnecii- tii responsio habeiur cpisi. 24. adulierata Palaeslina! synodi gesla, < taniqiiain pur- galiouis su.e scripta, > ipsi iransniiseral. Ex qiiibus moiiimenlis tanluin Auguslini de Naturu el Gralia libei , neciion Jacohi alque Timasii ad Angiislinuni cpisiola ad nos perveneiunl. De Pelagii aotein libro quid senlirct Iniiucenliiis, cpi-.l. 51, n. 5, aperil. 53. Eustocliii et Paitlw ad lnnocentium tiiterce. — Nnn miillo posiEusiochiuni et laula liltents ad In- 51. Circo initium anni 416, Decenlius et Ceelestinus nocenliuin mheiunl, quibusgravissimaiu pcrsecuiio- Innocentiitm de variis rilibus consulunt. — liein De- nciii sibi illalatn ea modeslia dcplniabanl, ut et ceniius Eiigubinus episcopus de variis consuetudini- aucloris iliius noiiieii reiicerent. bus, quibiis nonnulhe Ecclcsiao a Romana discrepa- 54. Hieronymi ud eiimdem episltila. — Aliani siniul banl, consitlit : 1° de pace, qiiam in aliquoi eccle- ^ scripsit Hieronymus epistolam, in qua non lacchatin siis anle confecta mysleria vel populis iniperant, vel quodnam incnrrerat vil;e discriineii, hisi eam alj sibi muluotradunlsacerdoles; 2"de uoininibus, qua) anle caiionctii recilanl; 5" dc infantihiis, iiiitn prc- sbyleris eos in fronte consignare liceal; 4° de sab- bati jejunio ; 5° de fernienio, an die dotiiinica per parosci.is singnlas niitlcndttm sit, quoniodo Koiikc per lilulos tnitliiur ; 6° de energunienis, an presby- impiornm impetii lurris iiiunilioris ptne.-iclio seivas- sct. Eaquc occasione quod animo conceperat Aure- lius episcopus liinocenlii invisendi siudium nolum ei faciebat. "';. Incerlo tempore Felix Nucer. Innocentium consulii. — Fehx episcopus Niiceriims, epistola ad teris atu diaconis lice;it snpcr eos niannm iinponere; Iiinoceiiiitini scripia lesiabatttr, majoriun se insliiuia 7° de pocnitc lilms, quando ahsolvendi sunl. sequentem, omnia qu;c aliqtiain susciperent dubita- Sinitil etiam Decentius alteram ad Ceelcsiinum lionem ad ipsum velut ad caput atque upicem cpi- lunc diaioiiiiin iniseiat cpisudam, in qua tria pne- scopalus referre, ut quid sibi esset faciendunt abco terea lumc i-o-.iIku. prirno soline sacerdoies, an discerei. Sese quitfem Oei ecclesias vel novas con- cneieri eiiam Chiisiiani irginianies saneio clirismaiis siruxisse, vel lapsas reparasse; sed clericos , qtios 623 APPENDIX AD EPISTOLAS in illis consfilueret, sibi deesse, aliquosvero vel mu- A lilos vel diganios prseslo esse significabat. Demiim quosnam e.\ laicis ordinari canones proliibcrent,edo- ceri flagiiab.it. Consultalioni ejus salisfarit Iunocen- tius, epist. 37. 36. Libellus contra presbyleros inconlinentes. — Maximilianus, agens in rebus per Bruiios, libellum ad Innoceniium misit adversus quosdam iinjus pro- vineioe presbyteros, quos iu preshylerio lilios pro- creasse qnerebatiir. Unde Innocenlii epistolse 38 data occasio. 37. Libellus contra Modestum ex pwnitenle cleri- cum factum. — Libellum alierum sibi Innocentius tradittim memoral (Epist. 39), sed nnde acceperit si- let, quo Modeslum quemdam muliis criminibus invo- luluin, ob quae pcenilenliam egerat, in Aimlia non B modo cleiicuin effectum, sed et ad episcopaius api- cem tendere deininliauatur. 58. Libetlus contra episcopum qui divina mysteria in aliena partecia cekbraral. — Alius eidem papae da- lus est libellus (Episl. 40), quo Ursus episcopus in parcecia Nomeniana ad dicecesim suam pertinenie 5. INNOCENTH 1 PAPjE. 624 Florentinum episcopum Tiburtinum sc inscio divina mysleria celebrasse exposmlabai. 39. Postremo desideranlur Laureniii Seniensis episcopi ad Innocentiura liilerae, quibus Photini se- ciatores in territorio suo versari, et publice in quo- rumdani possessionibus sibi convenlicula praeparare niinliabal. 40. PraHerea si pontificali libroh.ibenda fides, ln- nocenlius « consliiulum fecii de omni Ecclesia,et de regulis monasteriorum, etde Jud;cis et de Paganis.i 41. Epistolm supposititiw. — lnier lotsancii prac- sulis genuina scripia, ctiam adulterinum ingenii sui parlnni immiscere, ac tanto nomini supponerenequa- quamveriius est Isidorus Mercator. Sed supposiii- tinn illam epislolain, qua: Aurelio inscripta, in cdi- lione conciliuruni 12 erat, parenti suo in tomo se- quenti reddemus. IIiijus autem tomi appendix, si lomus patiatur, quatuor alias f.ilsas, duas Innocentii ad Arcadium scribenlis, el alias duas Arcadii ad Innocentiumrescribemis nominibus insignilasreprse- senlabit. DECRETA EX EPISTOLIS S. INNOCENTII I EXCERPTA. (Coll. Concil. Mansi lom. III.) In vetusta collectionc illa Lucensi, de qua non semel egi, in epiiome plurimorum conciliorum et decretalium qnarumdam epistolarum occurrit excer- ptiiin de Epislola Innocenlii Papa: ex concilio Nicamo, quim epistolam lnuocentii 1 papa; esse neimi pru- dens diibuaverit, cum omnein aliuni Iiinocentium pontiflcem superet codicis bujus aeias anuorum sal- leni nongentorum. Qii.enam vero sit epistola luec Innoceniii, quo ex codice descripla, an singularem epislolam de Nicaenis canouibus Innocenlius dede- ril, vel illos dala occasione in variis epislolis suis adduxerit et inculcaveril, quos dein epitomis hnjus aucior in unam canoniim seriem conlinu.iverit , pbine ignoro. Quamquam vero nihil novi liis exhi- beliir.juvat lanien qualeciiinque est hoc dare, cum vetustissima b.ec sit cauonuin Nicienorum Latina editio. Quie enim Dionysiiun Exiguum auclorem proelerl, uiique poslerior est Innocenlio l. Quae vero in collectione Isidori Uercatoris profertur, an vem- slior sit sive recenlior, nondum est exploratum. Quae landem est Rulini, ejusdem lere antiquiialisest cum Innocenlio. DE EPISTOLA INNOCENTII PAP^E I EX CON- CILIO NICiENO. I. gQui seabsciderit non ingrediaiur in clero. II. ■ Genlilis qui conversus fuerit el baptizalus, tiuii jacito promoveaiur in cleto. III. Episcopusjvel reliqui clerici cum extraneis mulie- ribus non babilent. IV. Episcopus ab omnibus episcopis ordinetur, vel a tribus cum melropolitani consensu. C V. Episcopus alterius episcopi clericum non accipiat, vel excomniunicatum. Duas vices in annura concilia fiant propter diversorum querimonia. VI. Alexandrinus ei Domanus papae primatum lia- beanl. VII. Plurimoriimepiscoporuui consensu, niaxime mc- tropoliiani consensu eliganlur presbyleri (forte ta- men scriptum est ephcopi). VIII. Hierosolymitanus episcopus primaium habeat , salvo privilegio metropolitani. D «X. Catbari, id est Novaiiani conversi clericirecipian- lur in clero. Episcopns vero in presbylerii locuin recipiaiur. X. In una civitateduo episcopi non sinl. XI. Si posl ordinationem sacerdotii delectus fuerit, deponaiur; simili modo est de lapsis. XII. Lapsi sine tormentis septem annos poeniienliam agant. XIII. Post militiam si conversus fuerit, et iterum niili- taverit, xm aunospceuileai. 625 iDECRETA EX INNOCENTII EPISTOLIS EXCERPTA. 626 XIV. A Si in neeessitale acceperit coniinunionem, super- vixerii, teneat poeniientiam. XV. Catechumeni si lapsi fuerint, tres annos pceniten- tiam aganl. XVI. Episeopus, vel reliqui ordines de civitaie in civi- talein non abeant. XVII. Vagus clericus non recipiatur ab alio in commu- nionem. XVIII. Alienum clericum nullus ]ironioveat in bonore. XIX. Clerici nec usura, nec lenovo dent (mV). B XX. Dinconi presbytern non praeferautnr, vcl sedeant, nec illi presbyieris Eucharisliani tradanl ; abseniibus vero illis dividant. XXI. Paulianeste baptizentur (sic). XXII. Diaconessas inter laica? habeanlur (sic). XXIII. Uno die teneatur paseha abepiscopis. DISSSERTATIO 7» sequeniem Epitomen epistohv Innoeentii. Novaslnnocenlii 1 epistolas, quanivis nullashabeo pronieinlas, non abs re tainen puto cnm lectoribus ineis coinniunicari oporlere ea quae breviarinm no- q striimcanonum in ms.codiceLucensi annoiuni non- gemoriim exhihet. ExSlanl in eo canonese nonnul- lis liiiiocentii epistolis expressi, el in epilonien re- dacti. In ca vero qu;e ex epislola ad Exsuperiiim exprimilur epitome deest canon 5, de iis, qui post baptisiiium magistratum .igenies, in causa sanguinis seniciiiiam iulerunt. Cujns omissionisnullam aliam rationeni excogitare possiim, nisi <|iind Pnntifex ea in re iuhil judicai decernendum. Qni surcedit ra- non i, qui in nnstra epiiome esl 5, niale cxpressus esi ; neque enim coiiiiiiiinione privantur uxoraii, si adulteraverini, sed innocens ab adullero searcga- tur. C;ctera eiim epislola congiuunl. Nnn est negli- genduin additamentum illud de Lamentationibus Je- remia\ quod al> tino nosiro manuscripto suppedita- tur, ncc in edilis legitur. Post banc epilomen aliera succedit epislola In- nncculii ad episcopos Toletanos. Noiiiiulla plane in ea digna sitr.l animatlversione.Primo eniniin noslro breviario perinde ac in omnibusaniiquis codicibus, " tesle llarduino , legilur Tolosanos, non Toleltinos. Sequitur epistoke Innocenlii adVictricium (Vic- torium baliel codex noster) synopsis, in qua omiiia plana siini, et cum edilis congruunl, iinam si exei- pias cancinis 5 parlein secundam, in qua edita qui- dem epistola audiendas staluit causas ecdesiastico- rum in suis singulas provinciis, sine prsejudicio la- mcn appcllalinnis ad Hnmunam ccclesiam, vel nisi causa- gravitas ad sedem apostolicam judicium refe- ral. ll;ec edila. Codex vem ms. non ila, Si d : Ro- maui clerici ad alios epi&copns non audeant dicere cau- sas suas. Lwige profecio naec duo interse dislant, ut ex altero et altero codice pelila videantur. Verum ea ipi.i' in etlitis legiintiir Inuoceiitii I papa- esse nemo jnre ambigel, cuni a Nicolao 1 in geniina cpi- siolain coiicilin Romano \n,apiidLabeuin, toin. X, legenda , i.iiiii|iiain ex Innocentio laudentur. Cuni vero nec ex epistola ad Victricium accepisse se illa scribat Nicolaus, nec breviaior nosier usque adeo seinper in sensu canonnm redtlendo sit felix, alleru- Irum consequi necesseesi; vel canon iste, proni in etlilis, ex alia qnailani epistola Innocenlii cum hac ejus ad Vieiricium male assutus esi , uli aliis vcte- riiin Pontificum epistolis accidisse consiat : vel ano- nyiniis noster Poniificis menicni minime est asse ctilus. In epitoine cannnis 8, ediciiur de inonachis in clero iinn ailmitiendis; idvero non mantlat Innoccn- tius, sed monet, ne ad aliioiem gratluni pronioii modestiam, et viriuies relitpias quas in monasterio coluerant, abjiciant. Quare breviatoris nosiri osci- tantia castigauda est. Episloke Innocentii ad Deceniiuni synopsis plane barliara e>l, sed ejus priniiim caputveterem queni- ilam lilurgicuni riliini exprimit , quem etlila non langnnt, quamvis in sensu cum ediiis congruil.Vetat Poniifex canone I, ne pax ante (inem detur. Id vero anonymus nosteriia expressil, Unlo missw ad pacem dare posl quarlam orationem, Qnarue oraiionis no- niine designari bic censeo iliam quam ordo Ronia- mis velus aputl Mabillonium Musaei Ilal. tom. II ora- lionem ad complendum appellat. lu niissa enim oralio prinrea erai qiue ante Apostotum, id eslanle epi- Slolam legebatur. Snccedebat altera super obluta. Dein oratio Dominica icriia Inco eral; quarta lan- dem oratio ad complendum babeliaiur. En ergo bre- viator noster cuni Innocentio conciliatus. Canon linjus episiola1 t|iiinins cur iu duos seclus sit, cum prseseriim anibo illi iu ununi el idcin re- tleant, non aliam assignarem rationem, nisi brevia- loris nosiri oscitanliain. Reliqoa plana suni. Posirema omniiim legitur epilome liueiariini In- noceotii ad Aurelium (uiii|ue Carlhaginiensem) epi- scopum. Exsiat in collectione Labheana nuin. 12, Innoceiiiii ad Aureliuni epistola, ad quam ea referri possuni, quae in hacsynopsi habenlur. I. EX EPISTOLA INNOCENTII AD EXSUPERIUM. I. Presbyter et diaconus incontinentes deponan- tur. II. Qui continenles suni omni lemporeviaticum acci- piant, et coiiiinimioiicui per misericordiam. III. Uxorali si adtilieraverinl excomniuniceniur. IV. Licel accusarc bomicidam. V. Qnidimiserii uxorem, et aliam duxeril, exeoniniu- nicetur; siniiliter et miilier. VI. Libri qni recipiendi sunt : Moysi lib. v: Genesis, Exodus, Leviiicus, Deu- terononiium ; Jesu Nave i; Judicum i ; Regum iv; Ruib i; Prophetarum xvi; Salomonis v; Psalterium Paralipomenon ii ; Novi Tesiamenii ; Evangeliaiv; Pauli aposloli xiv; Joannis iv; Pelri n; Jacobi l; Ac- tus Apostolorum, Apocalypsis Joannis. II. EX EPISTOLA 1NNOCENTII AD UNIVERSOS E1'1SCUPUS IN TOLUSA. ivpiscnpus in aliena ecclesia episcopos non ordi" 627 APPENDIX AD EPISTOLAS S. INNOCENTH I P\[>M. net. Ilispnnosdelrahel cle miliiia saiculari ce-leri ad A. ^r saeordoliuni n:n ordinanles, nec curiales qui non debent esse clerici. Hispanos viluperani, ii , qui ia forensi cxerciiaiione veisati suni. vcl ex miliiia aliqua, sive ex einialibus, nl nd Baowdotfwm ve! ail ininora officia veniain. G:!8 V, INNOCENTII AD DIXENTIUM. I. Ordo missa: ail pacem darc posl qnartam oralio- III. INNOCENTIl AD VICTORIUM F.PiSCOPUM. I. Sine mciropolitani consensu episcopus non ordi- netur. II. Qui cinguluin militiaisajcularis habuii ad clericaius oflicium non veniat. III. Inter clericos cpiscopus andiai. Romani clerici B ad alios ejdsropns 1:011 andcant dicere causas SU"S. IV. Mulierem viduam clericus non ducat uxorem. V. Alienum clericum nullus suscipiai. VI. Novaiiani vel Monlenses per nianus imposiiionem siiscipianiur. Qui de nnstris ad illos fiierunt, el re- vocantur, longe pcenileani. VII. Diaconi non inisccanturcum uxore. vm. Monachus :n elero nan veniat , nec uvorem acei- piat. IX. L Curiales clertci mm 0.1 dinenuir. X Velala si enaveril non accipial. pieihiviiiiain. XI. womina recilenlurposl coiiimendaiionem ofleren- liuni. III. Non consigneni infanies presbyicri nisi epi- scopi. IV. Omne sabbato jejuneiur. V. Teneant presbyteri mrssam in urbe prccsente cpi- scopo. VI. Sine jussu episcopi presbyter missse leneai, in urbe prasente episcopo. VII. Sinejussu episcopi vel a!ii maniini ponant iner- gumeno. VIII. Omnes pceniienies v feria de pascba reconcilien- inr. IX. Presbytero liieat visitare inlir nium , et ungere cbrisma, picniicnirni Lr-umiu nqn liceat u.n.gere de clirisma. VI, INNOCENTII AD AURl.LHJM EPISCOPDM. Faeile non iniponatur manus Episeopo, ex laico non ordinetur. OB-.ERVATIO PBILLIPPI L.MlllKI S. J. SequentfS canones a syuodo quapiam Romana ad Domiuo nonvelala3si mipserinl pce- Gallos episcopos jampridcin missos ex'alii|um ma- nuscriptis lodicibus primiim in lucesii exlubt R. P Sumondus in appendice ad I toniuin conciliorum Gallue, eosd.ein.que Reuius collector conjecil non suo loco in calcem XXXVII voluminis post indires cum tractatu de antiqnis episcoporuu pronioiioni- bns.Nos vero cjusdem clarissimi editoris conjeclu- ram uon iniprobahilcni scculi, Innocenlii primi cpi- stolis subjecimus; ciun ab cis ncc decretoriim , nec scriplionis fornia abborreat. Quo aulcm anno eilili Qm aute baptismum uxorem babuit , et post bup- s„Uj p|ane non constat, etsi iiiaxuiiani, ut neino nou tismum aliam duxeril, bigamus esi. D vidct, anliijuitateui pra; seferant. IIItlMIlt. IV. INNOCENTH AD EPISCOPUM Uk) I. Nullus bigamus clericus ordinetur. II. EPISTOL^ S. INNOCENTIO I ATTRIBUT^. (D. Constant. Append. ad tom. I.) MONITUM 1N OUATUOR EPISTOLAS SCBSEe.rjENTES. i. E qiialuor illis epistolis prini.iin Nicepliorus Callisli lib. xm, cap. 54, iniegram, Glvcas \ero Annal. parl. iv, nonniillisidenlidem reseclis, mnlilam Grocce nobis liaiismisernnl ; secundam auiein ct qnariao solns Glyc.is ibid. pariterCncceasservavil : vcriiin lerlia UniUiin Latinc ad nos pervenii, opera Baron i c Vaiica.no cxemplari descnpia. Idem Csr- dinalis ad anu. i07 epistolis illis quiuiain adjecit llonorii imperatoris ad Arcadium, quam e veleri Guill. Sirleti Cardinalis c.ndice eruerat. 2. llis omnibus scriptionihus ea communis est supposilionis imta, quod Joaimi Chryso.siomo su- perslileni ponaut Emloxiam, quam irietinin ante il- iiim in pariu defiiiieiain esse, Succaiis, Sozonieui, Marcellini, Pro^peri, Zosiini, faclqrunique Gra^co- rum testimoniis cnnstat. Sane cuin bis conlerendus non est Georgius Alexandrinus, quo auctore Leo im- 6-M EPISTOL/E S. INNOCENTIO ATTRIBUT/E. azo perater eognonienlo Philnsophus, l.eilrenus, Nicc- pliorus aliique posteiiores Graici vilam EudoxiaJ Iri- bus antiis produxerunl. Ail luvc, iiulla prodit liislo- ria, summam Imperatricis liujiis in Arcadii animum poiesiaiein atque gratiam ad morlem iiscjue tahtil- liini iiiiiiiiniilain esse : quod tauien in seciinda el (piaria epialola lingiiur. Neiiuc iuinus ab historica liile, ipiani ab ecclesiastico more ahliorrel quod in episiol.i prima legitur, ubi posl Chrysostonii moriein lniiiiceiitius Arcadiuni el Eudnxiaiu :i sarrainciilo- ruin pcrceplione segregare, Ar.-aeiuni cliaiu post mortem :>li episcopali gradu dejicere, eaclemque pcena eos pleclere, qui ciun illo in cjus ordiuatione coinniiinicariinl, ac Theophihim non exci.iiiniunica- tipne tanium, sed etiam an:itheni:iie percellere, et ah 0111 u s Chiisiianoiuni consorlio removerc narra- tur. Prinio cnini Romanos Poniilices cuni piimipi- hus etiam haielicis longe alia ratione gercre secon- suevisse lesles sunt Libcrii ad Coiislaiitinni, Gelasii, Symmachi, Anaiasii II ct Hormisda: ad Anastasium iinp. epistohc. Peintle nee privato cuique pcenam adeogravem imponere suleni nisi monilionihus prac- missis. Uhi vero iha; iimiiiliones? Si has adhihcre voluissel liinoceniius ; Aicadii, qui vi\ scplcin nien- scs Cluysosiomo supersies luii, anle didicissel nhi- liini, q uiiii exireiim illo reniedio uli valuisset. Pra- lerca ex ipsius liinoccnlii lnieris eeiium esl eum lotius i:iu-a: (.iirysoslonii ji:dicinm cecuinenic ;c sy- nodo servassc. Qa.ocirca is napa (Innoc, cpisl, 5) Tlieopiiilum, cominuuionem cnm ipso hdii seeus at- <|iie cum Jciainie hahere se te.-talus, ileralis lilleris horiatur, « ut sijudicio conlidil, sisiat se ad syno- (lum. i Iicm ad Consiantiuopolilanos scribens, cCo- giiamus, inquit (Epist. 7, n. 4), quomodn ccciinicni- Ca syimdiis congregauda sit , ol uirbulenii moius A lim cum Theophilo, donec Dominus dedeiit locuni univeisali synodo, quse pulrefaclis inemhris eorum qui hac i •airaiiini mcdealui'. < Uhi Roinana: eeclesiae non jmlicium, sed sconus niiiaiiii seu cnnsilium, nuo siln, donee synodus dehac redecidat, uiendum cen- suii. Et vcro 'f heophilits inicr Alexandrinos aniisti- les reccnseri eliani a Rnmani- ptasiilihus iiiimquam desiit. Idcm dicendum de caiens ejus sncii>, si exci- piaiur Arsacius, quem, Theodorelo lesle(/id. v, cup. 34), Occidcniis episcopi < ne salulare quidem t!i- gnati sunt. » Veiuni cum Auico in ejus locum suf- l'ecto Innoccntius ipse communionem suspcnsam le- ncre satis habuii, ad eam illi reddendam paralus, cuin pactis condilionibus satisfecissel. Quocirca Ma- vimiano episcopo eum amiee rOganti, ut pacilicas ad Alticuni lilleras miiterel, rescripsil : « Coiiiniiinio suspensa restituitur demonstranli causas, quibus id acciderat, jam esse deiersas, et proliienti condilio- nes pacis implelas. > Et eum qnidem, poslquam no- _ men .loannis in sacras lahulas rctulis-ei, ab Occi- " dentalihus snscepliim esse Theodorelus narrat. 5. Lx iis lamen, quae Theodoretus loco citato scrihii, materiam et oecasionem prxbuisse videlur prima- epistolae, adeoque ei ea-teris, quae cum prima sic congniuiil, iil earuin oinniuni iiiiiini artiliccm esse niliil prnpe dubilenius. Nec obsiat quod ciun Thco- dnrelus de Arsacio, dum viverei narrei, sic ab ejtis cniiiiiiunionc ahhoi ruisse cpisci ; os Occiilcnli , ut euni ne salulare quidem digiiaieniur ; priina lanien episiola cuindcni posl liiorleni, m n anle, ordine mio niovel. Ab impostorc eniin , qui verilale cnnlinere se neqiiil, in eis etiam quse iinitaiur expriiiicudis, suninia lides neqiiaquaiii exspeclanda esl. Veruui cx illo ailjuiiclo, eliumpust nwrtem, quod dcdita ope- ra insciium esse apparui, tempus expiscari (icei, quo epislotse illse adornala; sunl. Ceiie si puhlicae liiiii luissinl, cum Jusiiiuaiius ini|:erauir undique coni|uireret exeini.la, iquilms Tlieodoruin Mopsiie- sienuin eliam post inoiiem cxcoininunicaii lictre qui oniniuin nialtnuni auetor essc dcitur vel nolcn- C probarcliir, cnm istud lain insigne Arsacii ctium post nwrlem nrdine suo moli i.tn lugissel. Illutl tanicn in niediuni prolulisse iirisquaiu lcgilur : quod noo levi aigiiineiilo est, eliani epistol.us illas nusquaiu tuin, hoc csl ineilio \i saculo, exstilisse. Sed i talfeclata illa loculio, ctiam posl morlem , non alia de cansa videlur inseiia, i.isi ul iis, uui Thcodoium Mopsue- sieniiin exconimuiiicari volehanl, laxeretur. Unde conjicere licet epistolas illas ipso saeculo sexto, cum prxdicta cnniroversia necdiim sopita esset, fuisse conlieias. tein se sisleie juhcat > ad syiiodum. l-tud vc.o di.in cogilaiel liinoceiilius , Jnainis primiuu , ac paulo post Aicadu mors iiiterveiiieus congrcganda: synodo niuras allulil. Neque laioen iftcirco primum aljecit consiliiiin, ncipic eiiam diiice Imbc.i ptiH&el tli snle- rala synotlus, cnni adversariis Jnannis oninino ru- pit paecm atque coinmnuionem, sed eam intermisit l.iiijiini alque suspendii. Qua de re Palladius VittE Cliry..ostoini -cri|ii(ii' sub (inem dialugi jag. 214 ita loquitur : i Scopiis ei clesia: Roin.in;e iste esl, non comniunicare cum Oi icnialibiis episcopis , prasser- LPISTOLA 1. ,\(li,r:ifi'Arcailiuii>, Eudoxiam, Arsaciumac Tlicophilum scnlenlia profcrlur INNOCENTII AIlCHIKIiSCOIi R0MANI a AD ARCADIUM IMIiCI.ATOUEM. 1. Vox saiiguinis frairis mei Joannis elamai ad Deiun contra lc, o imperalor, sicuii quondam Abcl justi conua fralricitlain Cain : el is onmi niodo viii- dicabilur. Nec id modo admi-isii, sed cliani p.icis lcnipore perseculio em magnaui advcrsus Deiiin et l.ctlesiam ejus cooieitastt. Ejecisii ex h episcopali l> EniSTOAB INN0K.ENTIOT P0MH5 APXIEPEQI nPOi APKAilON AlTOKPATOPA. 1. Qwnri uipv.To; tou «Ss),tfoiJ fiovi 'lacavov |3ok izpo; TOV 0£OV Y.UTU ITOU, (3a(TtO,£U, UJ 7T0TS 'AfiiiA TOO SlZKtOU xtvTt/. tou aOc/tpozTOVOU Kaiv, zat jrav-t tjooitw ivZiv.rfiri- asTat. Ou (/ovov zat touto r.ir.fa.yjj.z, a),"/a xai ev zatpw eiprivwi Sttu^ftov uiyav za.Ta tti; tou 0sou 'Exx/ritria? y.ui t')-j t-f£wv auTOu (TuvstTTijtTtu. 'Etjiwo-af tov ^tiyav Tnf » Nicephorus hanc epislolam velul Arcadio, Auiro ac Theophilo communem censuii. Li q: i|>pe pr? init- iit, lnnoceniiuiii pmpterea quod legati, quos Cou- slaiitinopolini ini.-eral, male hahiti liiisscnl el iu- digne tractali, valde jndignatuiu rsse, e: ciini paujo pisi Joanius nioiieni didieissei, tuiii./cm ad Arca- ditdu, Atticuiii i/ TheophHum dtdtsse, quitillosex- communicatiom el exauctorationi subjtcit. Tum bane episiolaui bujiiMiiodi verbis conscirpiam csse nulal. : \ ox situijiiinis fratris mci Jounnis, cie. ln ea lainen iiullum eal dc Aitico verhiiin. Sed observatoni buic ipnsi (iccnrrere vellet, toia episiola descripla, pro- Minr subjicit : Hax Innqcentius pfo .loihiic pugnans scripsit. Neque vero <ti,'m Atticum, q i post Arsacium in iinujni illius (Joiinnit-i s. d. tn iiata/sil (ih,> '.i.:Lv.; i~oiu; crimine tibsolnl Vcrt ..: «1 e.i >\s con<}t> . lu sit, hktoriu suo loco ostendet, scil . lih. uv, c ->, libi]iax rctldila dicilur, cx QUO Auieus Jo.ninis lllCBp lioneiu in precatioitibus, licii ju .mi. I> Apiu! iNiccplur. hic ouiilliiur tH; i-t-y.o-i; , ;t'd inlra n 3 reiiiieiiii' idein vocabulum. 651 APPENDIX. AD EPISTOLAS S. INNOCENTH 1 PAP^. 652 sede sua, re non judicala, magniim totius orbis A oixoujvtivrjy StSutjy.ui.oii ix toO Opbvov Trjj iTrtaxoTrfjf aO- Doctorem, et una rutn eo Cbristum persecutus es. Ncque de illo ita queror (sortem enim atque haere- ditaiem consecutus est cum sanciis Apostolis in Dei et servaioiis nostri Jesu Christi regno) : quamvis intolerabilis ea jaclura sit; sed affligor propierea, quod priinum deanimarum vesirarum salute, deinde de eis , qui ciim sapienlissima et spiriiali ei divina docirina et insiiiutione ejus desiiluti sint, famem jam pati coguntur. Ncquc enim Cunslanlinnpolilana tanium ecclesia mclliia; hujus linguae jacluram fc- cii, sed el viduata e-t omnis lerra qme suh sole est, amisso divino bujusmodi viro persuasinne unius mulieris, quac lioc fl igitiuni admitti permisit. Ciete- rum illa et presenlem hic poenam et sempitci num toO uxpiToj; , auvexStwi;a£ «utw xat tov XptaTOV. OuTe yap outwj oSupoftat Treot ixetvou (outo? yup tov x),fjpov Tnpo; fjptwv 'IrjaoO XptaToO fjutjd.iiu)' xav uvbpnTo; n tJ\J\Xyopu' uAXu 6)t£oftat 'JJpOVTt^WV, TTpWTOV ftiv TYIS 0W- Tnpiu; tojv upteTipwv ^u^ywv, xat 7repi twv aTeprj8evTwv y.ui )tu.oji;avTwv TJjff exeivou Travaoyou xat ■Kvtvp.uTixn; Osiu; StSw/n; y.ui vou8eata£- Ou yup ptovov rj KwvoTavTt- vourro)tTwv ixx)rjata e£rjtuw8rj Trj; izetvou ptgXtpp'uTOU yt.toT-n;, a).).a xat Traaa fj u^ri"/toj e;/rjpeuaev a7ro).iaaaa toioOtov e"v6eov avSpa, 7ret8rjvta? ftta? yvvuixb; nupwyot- pntjunn; toOto yeveaSatTo S puu.uTov pynp-K- Ukr]v izSefr,- Tat Triv evTeOOev Tvxojpiwj y.ui Triv ui/).ouaav aTE^suTrj- tov y.6^ao"tv, ou fteTa jzo)Xu; twjtu; nuipu; ijzsp'/ou.i' poslliuc supplicium, quod Ci nou iti multo post Sll- g vrjv aurjj. Et zat 7a.fi 6 ftazapio; Iwavvrj; t6v |Siov xaTe- )t7rs, Trjv 7riaTtv Tnpntru; xat tjTnpi\u; tou; aa).suOfti- vouj , a),).' et; aMxTouf atwva? Tiiv aSairavrjTOv Tpu^riv xat uOwjutov (Jwfjv ix).rjpov6urjaEv. 'll xat vea Auliku Eu- So^ta, n xutu fttxpov tw ?upw tjjj Tr)avrjj i;upriaaaa tre, ijznyuyiv iauTrj xuTupuv ex 7ro))wv aTOptaTwv, Seapteu- aaaa yopTtov aaapTrjfxaTwv fSapu zat SuaSaaTazTov. Trpoa6eiaa toOto Totf Trpwnv auTJif auapTriotaot. pervcnturum est , excipiet. Tameisi eniin beatus Joannrs , postquam fidem servassel , eosque qui fliiclnabaiil coiilirinasset, vilam reliquil, in aeierna tamen Siccula sempilernarum deliciarum et immor- talis vii;e heredil.item tonseculus est. Eudoxia au- tem, nova illa D.ilila, quas paulatim imposiuroe no- vacula te rasit, sibi ipsi ex muliorum ore indiixit malediclionem, grave a et quod portari nequeat al- ligavit peccaiorum onus, illudque prioribus pecca- lis suis snperaddidit (Jud. xvi, 19). 2. Qiiamobrem ego minimus et peccotor, ut cui magni apostoli Petri sedes credita esl, segrego le et illam a peicepiione immaculatorum inysterioium Cbristi Dei nosiri. Sed et oninem episcopum aut clericuin ordinis sancia; Dei Ecclesias, qui ea vobis q gxotto-j, n x/rjptxov 6'vTa tou TuyyuTo; Tfj? «yia; tou 2. Ato eyw 6 i).u~/trjTo;, xat aftapTw),6f , i>; Trto-TeuSet; tov Spovov tou payukou aTroo"To)ou IleTpou , atpopi?w oe Te xaxeivrjv Trjf f/ETa).ri^ewj twv a/pavTwv ftuo-Trjptwv XptffTOu toO 6eoO rjftwV ou ptriv uX),u xui TravTOtov errt- 0eoO 'Exx).rjo"iaf To).ptwvTa; iTuyjiprjtjui xui fieTaooOvat uutv, ay' t,; wpac avayvwTe «ou tov irupb-jTU Osoftov , utto xa6atpeo"tv etvae. Et oe ^tao"rjo6e Ttva, o>; i%o\>tJiutjTui, xui Trape^e/SriTe tou; 3o8evTaj ufitv xavova? Trapa toO tjoi-fipo; Siu twv aytwv arrooTO/.wv , eo"eo"8e eTrto"Taf/evot oj; TrpwTOv f/ev ou pttxpov uyiv to aj/apTrjpta yevrioeTat ev Tfi yofiepa «ftepa Tr); xpitjsoi; , oure ou SuvrioeTat a^iwaa (3twTtxo'v Ttva wqse)rjo"at" exetvojv Se ra evTOf ix- £u6rio"ovTat Trpof uTroSEtyf/a TravTwv. 5. 'Apoaxtov Se, Sv etaevriyeTe si; tov Spovov t«; errt- o-xoTrfi; avTt toO f/.eya).ou 'Iwavvou, xai aeTa 6avaTOv xaSatpoOptev ouv Traot toi; o"uyxotvwVrio"ao"tv aurw rrpo- 6ioet iTrtoxoVotj. OuTtvoj ftrjSi to ovofta auToO iyypa- «/eo6w Totf tepotf StTrTu^otj' ava?to; yap ioTtv , w? ftot- lionore.iilpoteqiiicpiscopaluinquodamadiilleriopol- D ^euo-af Triv iTrtoxoTrriv. naoa yap cpuTeta ptri ^uTeuSetaa luit. Omnis quippe planlatio, qu:c plantaia non fue- nupu toO naTpo; lif/wv toO ev oupavotf , ixpt?w6riaeTat. rit a Paire nostro qui est in ccelis, eradicabitur npoaTt6ifte8a Si tw xa.8atpiaet 0eo^t)ou ayoptaptov xai (Matth. xv, 15). Theophilum aulem non modo de- uvuOtiJ.uTitjp.bv xui tzIuuv uXloTpitatjiv toO xpt0"rlK- jectum c sede sua, sed eiiam excommunicaiione et vtaftoO. anathemate mullaluin omnino a Christiaiioruni consorlio alienum declaramus. administrare aut tradere ausus fuerit ab ea liora, qua b vinculum quo vos ligo, noluiii vobis fuerii, digniiate sua excidisse [decerno]. Quod si ut homines potenlesquemquam ad id vi adegeritis, ei canonesvo- bis a Serv.itore per sanclos Aposlolosiradiiosirans- gressi fueriiis; in tremenda judicii die comperietis primurn quidem non parvum lioc vobis futuruni esse peccatum, deinde nec quemquam ulla bujus sa?culi dignitate tum adjuvari posse : sed animorum occulta eruinpentet exliibebuniur ante conspectumomnium. 5. Arsacinm autem , quem niagni Joanhis loco in sedemepiscop:ileiucinlrusislis,etiani posl morlein ordine moveiiins cum opiscopis omnibus, quid con- sullo cuiii ipso communicarunl. Neque nomen illius sacris in tabulis inscribatur : boc eiiim indignus est Alligaut enim oitertt gruviu et importabilia. « Is Arsacius, qui frati i sim Neciario, lactis Evan- geliis, spopondcrat ati|ue juraveiai, se nulliiis uin- qu.un episcopilus oidinationem admissurum , uli narrat Palladius pag. 9i, quatuordecim post ordina- tionein mensibus exaciis, moriuus est. A Verbum gnecuin rrpoSiaet apud Glycam de>ide- ralur. Adililmn esl deilit.i npera : ne liac senicitia teneri viderenlur ei ii, qui cum Arsacio inviii cnm- municarant. Etiam iiini ipsius snccessore Auico ple- rosq le oinnes non sponte communicasse Palladiui pag. 95 iradit. 633 RPISTOL/E S. INNOCENTIO ATTKIRUT^. 051 EPJSTOLi II. I ARCADII IMrERATORIS AD 1NNOCENTIUM PAPAM. , ■ [Ut se el Eudoxiam ab Nortinl omncs lioniines menlis compoies, com- missa per ignoraiionein nec divinitus nec per legcs pnniri : sed necpie quemquam nlieiiiis noinine poe- nas luere. Quocirca ha;c scripsi, nt mansueludinem tuam cerlam redderem (ctijus rei beiiignniu Deum lesiem imploio), me niliil eorum cogniium '' lia- buisse, quse nostris antistilibus el clerieis accide- riiui, et damnationis '■ eorum prorsus esse inson- tem. Cum enim eoium communione c sim usns, ni- hil causse erat cur eos afiligerem. Quud autein ad liliam iuain Eudoxiam altinet, scito me haud me- diocres ab en pro ratione delicii pceuas exegisse, ita ul praj hujusmodi mocrore ei anguslia, gravis simo correpta morbo decumbat. Cicieium obsecro ul nos a segregalione liberes, ac ne mullipliciter pu- nias. Nec enim ipse Doiniiius liis olj idem delictum percntil (Naum I, 9).