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order, the responsibility lies with the consecrators <strong>and</strong> not with him who is forcibly compelled<br />

to undertake the ministry. We therefore petition you to reserve the hearing of the case for<br />

us in our own country, <strong>and</strong> not to compel us to travel beyond its borders, nor force us to a<br />

meeting with bishops with whom we have not yet come to agreement on ecclesiastical<br />

questions. 2913 I beg you also to be merciful to my own old age <strong>and</strong> ill health. You will learn<br />

by actual investigation, if it please God, that no canonical rule be it small or great was<br />

omitted in the appointment of the bishop. I pray that under your administration unity <strong>and</strong><br />

peace may be brought about with my brethren; but so long as this does not exist it is difficult<br />

for us even to meet, because many of our simpler brethren suffer from our mutual disputes.<br />

2913 From Letter ccxxxvii. it would appear that Demosthenes was now in Galatia, where he had summoned<br />

a heretical synod. <strong>The</strong> Ben. note quotes a law of Valens of the year 373 (Cod. <strong>The</strong>od. ix. tit. i. 10): Ultra provinciæ<br />

terminos accus<strong>and</strong>i licentia non progrediatur. Opertet enim illic criminum judicia agitari ubi facinus dicatur<br />

admissum. Peregrina autem judicia præsentibus legibus coercemus.<br />

To Demosthenes, as from the synod of bishops.<br />

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