Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume II/Sozomen/Book I/Chapter 25
Chapter XXV.—The Emperor prepared a Public Table for the Synod, after inviting its Members to Constantinople, and honoring them with Gifts, he exhorted all to be of One Mind, and forwarded to Alexandria and every other place the Decrees of the Holy Synod.
At the very time that these decrees were passed by the council, the twentieth anniversary[1]
of the reign of Constantine was celebrated; for it was a Roman custom
to have a feast on the tenth year of every reign. The emperor,
therefore, thought it to be opportune, and invited the Synod to the
festival, and presented suitable gifts to them; and when they prepared
to return home, he called them all together, and exhorted them to be of
one mind about the faith and at peace among themselves, so that no
dissensions might henceforth creep in among them. After many other
similar exhortations, he concluded by commanding them to be diligent in
prayer, and always to supplicate God for himself, his children, and the
empire, and after he had thus addressed those who had come to
Nicæa, he bade them farewell. He wrote to the churches in every
city, in order that he might make plain to those who had not been
present, what had been rectified by the Synod; and especially to the
Church of Alexandria he wrote more than this; urging them to lay aside
all dissent, and to be harmonious in the faith issued by the Synod; for
this could be nothing else than the judgment of God, since it was
established by the Holy Spirit from the concurrence of so many and such
illustrious high priests, and approved after accurate inquiry and test
of all the doubtful points.
Footnotes
[edit]- ↑ This feast, called Vicennalia, is mentioned in Eus. V. C. iii. 15, 16.