The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Scholasticus - Coptic ...

een canonically deposed by Proterius of sacred memory and a
complete Egyptian Synod, and by banishment they properly experienced
imperial punishment.
And further on:
After awaiting the migration from here to God of the former
emperor Marcian of pure estate, as if a free agent, being shamelessly
emboldened against him with blaspheming utterances, and
without embarrassment anathematizing the holy and ecumenical
Synod at Chalcedon, dragging along a popular mob of hired
rabble, campaigning against the sacred canons and the ecclesiastical
establishment and the common constitution and the laws,
he intruded himself upon the holy Church of God which had a
shepherd and teacher, the most holy Proterius who was at that
time our father and archbishop, and who was accomplishing the
accustomed rites and o¡ering up prayers to our universal
saviour Jesus Christ on behalf of [58] your pious reign and your
Christ-loving palace.
And after a little:
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY: BOOK II 87
And after scarcely a day had elapsed, when Proterius most
beloved of God was as normal staying in the bishop’s palace,
Timothy took with him the two bishops who had been lawfully
deposed, and clergy who had been similarly condemned to live in
exile, as we have said, as if indeed to receive ordination from the
two, 104 although no one whatsoever of the orthodox bishops in
the Egyptian diocese was present, as is normal for such ordinations
of the bishop of Alexandria; 105 he took possession, as he
Eutyches, and hence Apollinarius, who had argued that Christ, as perfect Deity, had not
been identical (homoousios, of the same substance) to humanity since the union of divinity
and humanity in Christ precluded the presence of a human soul. Timothy, however, anathematized
Eutyches and acted against those who advocated similar views, since he held that
the humanity of Christ was of the same substance as other human beings.
104 The translation follows Festugie' re (263 n. 73), who corrected dexa¤ menoB, the aorist
participle (which makes little sense, since Timothy has not yet been ordained bishop), to
dexo¤ menoB, the future denoting purpose.
105 The reference to two bishops is intended to increase the illegality of Timothy’s
appointment (cf. Theodore Lector 370). Only two Egyptian bishops could be found to
participate, and the requisite trinity had to be made up by an outsider, Peter the Iberian: cf.
n. 98 above.