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Aaius, and his Followers. Theodore. 601
This author is often quoted by Socrates, who took some
materials from him for his own work. Socrates does likewise
several times complain of his partiality, y in suppressing*
and concealing' divers things which did not make for the
lionour of his party. And the justness of those remarks
must, I think, be allowed by every one who reads them in
Socrates.
16. Says Jeroin :
' Theodore'^ bishop of Heraclea in
' Thrace, in the time of the emperor Constantius, published
' Commentaries upon Matthew and John, and upon the
* Apostle, and upon the Psalter, in a neat and elegant style,
' explaining chieHy the literal sense.'
Cave computes, that^ he was made bishop of Heraclea
about the year 334. Tillemont says that'' he was put in
that see some time before the year 334, but in what year is
uncertain. The time of his episcopate is collected from a
passage of' Theodoret. Athanasius expressly says that he"^
was promoted by the Arians. He was deposed by the
synod ofSardica in 347. He died, as some think, in'' 355,
others about the year*^ 358. Theodoret reckons him, with
Eusebius of Nicomedia, and Theognis of Nice, one& of the
prime adversaries of Athanasius. He nevertheless owns,
that'' he was a very learned man, and wrote a Commentary
upon the divine gospels.
Jerom has elsewhere plainly mentioned this bishop's'
Commentary upon the Psalms; and refers also, as it seems,
to his** Commentary upon the epistle to the Galatians.
It is supposed by' Cave, and Fabricius, that his Commentary
upon the Psalms is still extant entire. Tillemont
y Vid. 1. ii. c. 15. p. 92. et c. 17. p. 95. 1. iv. c. 22.
' Theodorui, Heracleae Thraciarum episcopus, elegantis apertique sennonis,
et magis historicae intelligentiae, edidit sub Constantio principe commenfanos
in Matthaeum et in Joannem, et in Apostolum, et in Psalterium. De V. I.
cap. 90. = Hist. Lit. T. i. p. 203.
'' Les Ariens, Art. 20.