The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Scholasticus - Coptic ...

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Synod was convened at Ephesus, although John of Antioch and Theodoret
were late.
4. How Nestorius was deposed by the Synod, even though the
bishop of Antioch was not present.
5. That when John of Antioch came after ¢ve days, he deposed Cyril
of Alexandria and Memnon of Ephesus; these the Synod again absolved,
after deposing John and his followers. And how Cyril and John were
brought together by Theodosius the emperor, while still con¢rming the
deposition of Nestorius.
6. Concerning Paul of Emesa’s journey to Alexandria, and Cyril’s
praise by means of a letter.
7. What the impious Nestorius wrote about himself, what he had
su¡ered, and that after his tongue had ¢nally been consumed by worms
he terminated his life at Oasis.
[2] 8. That after Nestorius came Maximianus, and after him Proclus,
then Flavian.
9. Concerning the ill-omened Eutyches and how he was deposed by
Flavian of Constantinople, and concerning the Second Robber Synod
at Ephesus.
10. All that the senseless Synod at Ephesus accomplished through
Dioscorus and Chrysaphius.
11. Defence by the author of the disputes among us, and mockery of
pagan follies.
12. How Emperor Theodosius drove out the heresy of Nestorius.
13. Concerning S. Symeon the Stylite.
14. Concerning the star which often appeared in the colonnade
surrounding the column of the holy Symeon, which the writer and
others had seen, and concerning the saint’s head itself.
15. Concerning S. Isidore of Pelusium and Synesius, Bishop of
Cyrene.
16. How Ignatius the Theophorus was transported from Rome and
buried in Antioch by Theodosius.
17. Concerning Attila, King of the Scythians and how he overthrew
the East and the West; and concerning the strange earthquake which
occurred and the other fearful signs in heaven.
18. Concerning the buildings at Antioch and those who constructed
these.
19. Concerning the various Italian and Persian wars which occurred
under Theodosius.