. c. 1--4,) the original
Acts, (Concil. tom. iii. p. 551--991, edit. Venice, 1728,) the Annals
of Baronius and Pagi, and the faithful collections of Tillemont, (Mem.
Eccles. tom. xiv p. 283--377.)]

[Footnote 42: The Christians of the four first centuries were ignorant
of the death and burial of Mary. The tradition of Ephesus is affirmed
by the synod, (Concil. tom. iii. p. 1102;) yet it has been superseded by
the claim of Jerusalem; and her empty sepulchre, as it was shown to
the pilgrims, produced the fable of her resurrection and assumption, in
which the Greek and Latin churches have piously acquiesced. See Baronius
(Annal. Eccles. A.D. 48, No. 6, &c.) and Tillemont, (Mem. Eccles. tom.
i. p. 467--477.)]

[Footnote 43: The Acts of Chalcedon (Concil. tom. iv. p. 1405, 1408)
exhibit a lively picture of the blind, obstinate servitude of the
bishops of Egypt to their patriarch.]

[Footnote 44: Civil or ecclesiastical business detained the bishops
at Antioch till the 18th of May. Ephesus was at the distance of thirty
days' journey; and ten days more may be fairly allowed for accidents and
repose. The march of Xenophon over the same ground enumerates above 260
parasangs or leagues; and this measure might be illustrated from ancient
and modern itineraries, if I knew how to compare the speed of an army,
a synod, and a caravan. John of Antioch is reluctantly acquitted by
Tillemont himself, (Mem. Eccles. tom. xiv. p. 386--389.)]

[Footnote 45: Evagrius, l. i. c. 7. The same imputation was urged by
Count Irenaeus, (tom. iii. p. 1249;) and the orthodox critics do not
find it an easy task to defend the purity of the Greek or Latin copies
of the Acts.]

On the fifth day, the triumph was clouded by the arrival and indignation
of the Eastern bishops. In a chamber of the inn, before he had wiped
the dust from his shoes, John of Antioch gave audience to Candidian, the
Imperial minister; who related his ineffectual efforts to prevent or to
annul the hasty violence of the Egyptian. With equal haste and violence,
the Oriental synod of fifty bishops degraded Cyril and Memnon from their
episcopal honors, condemned, in the twelve anathemas, the purest venom
of the Apollinarian heresy, and described the Alexandrian primate as a
monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church. [46] His
throne was distant and inaccessible; but they instantly resolved to
bestow on the flock of Ephesus the blessing of a faithful shepherd.
By the