discuss. Chalcedon has settled the question; Timothy is a heretic and a bloodthirsty rebel; he must be turned out.[1] Pope Leo answers strongly to the same effect; he wants no more synods about Monophysism, he insists that Timothy can never be acknowledged lawful Patriarch of the see which he has iniquitously seized.[2] Then Anatolius died (July 3, 458), and was succeeded by Gennadius I (458-471), a learned and accomplished person,[3] firmly devoted to the faith of Chalcedon. Gennadius and the uncompromising answers of the Pope and bishops persuaded the Emperor to give up his idea of a new synod. Instead, he took a stronger line and banished Timothy the Cat. It was not till early in 460 that the Imperial garrison again obtained enough power in Egypt to carry out this sentence. Then the Cat was brought to Constantinople and sent into exile in the Chersonesus. He ought to have been put to death for a rebel and a murderer. Another Timothy, called Salophakiolos,[4] a Catholic, was made Patriarch of Alexandria. He was kind to the Monophysites, perhaps too ready to compromise with them. They are reported by Liberatus to have said to him: "If we do not communicate with you, yet we love you."[5]
Meanwhile, there was as much trouble in Palestine.[6] Juvenal of Jerusalem was one of Dioscor's chief supporters at the Robber-Synod. At Chalcedon he expressed great regret for this, rehabilitated himself, signed the Chalcedonian decree, and in return at last secured the Patriarchate for himself and his successors.[7] But when he came home he found a great part of his newly
4 Σαλοφακίολος = Wobble-hat (σάλος and φακιόλιον). These people have curious nicknames. This one is apparently a term of reproach implying weakness of character and general vacillation.
- ↑ Some of these letters are in Mansi, vii. 537-627.
- ↑ Ep. 162 (P.L. liv. 1143-1146).
- ↑ "Gennadius, Pontiff of the Constantinopolitan Church, a man of polished speech and acute mind, was so well versed in the writings of the ancients that he made a literal commentary on the whole of the prophet Daniel. He also composed many homilies. He died while the elder Leo held the empire." Gennadius of Marseilles: de Viribus illustribus, 89 (ed. Bernoulli in Krüger's Sammlung, xi., Freiburg and Leipzig, 1895, p. 92).
- ↑ 4
- ↑ Breviarium caus. Nest. et Eutych. 16 (P.L. lxviii. 1020).
- ↑ Since Chalcedon made Jerusalem a Patriarchate (Orth. Eastern Church, p. 27) we may count Palestine (under Jerusalem) separate from Syria (under Antioch).
- ↑ Op. cit. pp. 26-27.
