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was given to Sergius, and his friend Xenaias died a fugitive in Paphlagonia.[1] Fifty-four Monophysite bishops were participators with them in exile,[2] and the prisons of Constantinople were filled with the ecclesiastics of the eastern Church. Under the protection of their empress, however, and by the labours of Jacobus Baradæus, from whom the sect afterwards took the name of Jacobites, the doctrine of the one nature was spread over the eastern and southern provinces of the Byzantine empire.
- ↑ Xenaias or Philoxenus, bishop of Mabug, was celebrated for his wisdom and learning. Asseman. tom. ii. p. 10. Yet he was accused by his enemies of being inclined to Manicheism. (p. 19.) But we need not wonder at this, for we know that the Melchites censured Eutychianism itself as Manicheism and worse—Μανιχαιος οὑτος ὁ λογος και πεφαντασμενος πολλῳ μαλλον εκεινου. Suidas in Ευτυχης. Philoxenus was ordained bishop of Hieropolis by Petrus Gnapheus. Theophanes, Chronograph. p. 115.
- ↑ Amongst the Monophysite bishops under Severus we find mention of those of Apamea, Laodicea, Aleppo or Berrhæa, Seleucia, Kennesrin, Amida, Damascus, Abila, Jabrudi, Tadmor or Palmyra, Hurini, Cyrus, Germanicia, Edessa, Haran, Ammiria, Perrhi, Rhesænæ, Circesium, Callinicus, Sura, Tela, Dara, Arsamosata, Anazarba, Hegari, Mopsuestia, Epiphania, Irenopolis, Alexandria Minor, Colonia, Therma, Sebaste, &c. who were banished by Justinian. Assem. tom. ii. Diss. de Monophys.
letters are preserved in the same collection, (pp. 44, 55, 68, &c.) A poem of George of Pisidia against Severus is published amongst his works, p. 171.
