Rethinking Constantine by Smither Edward L

Author:Smither, Edward L. [Smither, Edward L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781630873851
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Published: 2014-02-14T08:00:00+00:00

199. Optatus, 1.23. Constantine agreed to send three bishops from Gaul to hear the case at Rome along with its bishop, Miltiades, and one Markus. Constantine also directed officials in Carthage to have Caecilian come with ten bishops supporting him and ten of the bishops opposing him to appear before this commission (Eusebius, HE 10.5.21–22). The anti-Caecilianist hope was to be shattered at Rome, however, in part because Constantine’s instructions to achieve resolution of the schism were not followed when the commission turned into a Synod of Rome. Barnes (Constantine and Eusebius, 57) notes, “in the event, however, the hearing was not an arbitration in the form prescribed by Constantine, but a Church council according to ecclesiastical precedent.” Cf. Stephenson, Constantine, 261.

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