ich Petavius seems
to be agitated in the vith book of his Dogmata Theologica]

[Footnote 40: Such as the rational Basnage (ad tom. i. Variar. Lection.
Canisine in Praefat. c. 2, p. 11--23) and La Croze, the universal
scholar, (Christianisme des Indes, tom. i. p. 16--20. De l'Ethiopie, p.
26, 27. The saur. Epist. p. 176, &c., 283, 285.) His free sentence is
confirmed by that of his friends Jablonski (Thesaur. Epist. tom. i. p.
193--201) and Mosheim, (idem. p. 304, Nestorium crimine caruisse est
et mea sententia;) and three more respectable judges will not easily
be found. Asseman, a learned and modest slave, can hardly discern
(Bibliothec. Orient. tom. iv. p. 190--224) the guilt and error of the
Nestorians.]

Yet neither the emperor nor the primate of the East were disposed to
obey the mandate of an Italian priest; and a synod of the Catholic, or
rather of the Greek church, was unanimously demanded as the sole remedy
that could appease or decide this ecclesiastical quarrel. [41] Ephesus,
on all sides accessible by sea and land, was chosen for the place, the
festival of Pentecost for the day, of the meeting; a writ of summons was
despatched to each metropolitan, and a guard was stationed to protect
and confine the fathers till they should settle the mysteries of heaven,
and the faith of the earth. Nestorius appeared not as a criminal, but
as a judge; he depended on the weight rather than the number of his
prelates, and his sturdy slaves from the baths of Zeuxippus were armed
for every service of injury or defence. But his adversary Cyril was more
powerful in the weapons both of the flesh and of the spirit. Disobedient
to the letter, or at least to the meaning, of the royal summons, he was
attended by fifty Egyptian bishops, who expected from their patriarch's
nod the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. He had contracted an intimate
alliance with Memnon, bishop of Ephesus. The despotic primate of Asia
disposed of the ready succors of thirty or forty episcopal votes: a
crowd of peasants, the slaves of the church, was poured into the city to
support with blows and clamors a metaphysical argument; and the people
zealously asserted the honor of the Virgin, whose body reposed within
the walls of Ephesus. [42] The fleet which had transported Cyril from
Alexandria was laden with the riches of Egypt; and he disembarked a
numerous body of mariners, slaves, and fanatics, enlisted with blind
obedience under the banner of St. Mark and the