e supremacy of St. Peter. [75]
Before that period, the precarious truce of Constantinople and Egypt
had been violated by the zeal of the rival prelates. Macedonius, who was
suspected of the Nestorian heresy, asserted, in disgrace and exile, the
synod of Chalcedon, while the successor of Cyril would have purchased
its overthrow with a bribe of two thousand pounds of gold. [Footnote
72: The Henoticon is transcribed by Evagrius, (l. iii. c. 13,) and
translated by Liberatus, (Brev. c. 18.) Pagi (Critica, tom. ii. p. 411)
and (Bibliot. Orient. tom. i. p. 343) are satisfied that it is free from
heresy; but Petavius (Dogmat. Theolog. tom. v. l. i. c. 13, p. 40) most
unaccountably affirms Chalcedonensem ascivit. An adversary would prove
that he had never read the Henoticon.]

[Footnote 73: See Renaudot, (Hist. Patriarch. Alex. p. 123, 131, 145,
195, 247.) They were reconciled by the care of Mark I. (A.D. 799--819;)
he promoted their chiefs to the bishoprics of Athribis and Talba,
(perhaps Tava. See D'Anville, p. 82,) and supplied the sacraments, which
had failed for want of an episcopal ordination.]

[Footnote 74: De his quos baptizavit, quos ordinavit Acacius, majorum
traditione confectam et veram, praecipue religiosae solicitudini
congruam praebemus sine difficultate medicinam, (Galacius, in epist. i.
ad Euphemium, Concil. tom. v. 286.) The offer of a medicine proves the
disease, and numbers must have perished before the arrival of the Roman
physician. Tillemont himself (Mem. Eccles. tom. xvi. p. 372, 642, &c.)
is shocked at the proud, uncharitable temper of the popes; they are now
glad, says he, to invoke St. Flavian of Antioch, St. Elias of Jerusalem,
&c., to whom they refused communion whilst upon earth. But Cardinal
Baronius is firm and hard as the rock of St. Peter.]

[Footnote 75: Their names were erased from the diptych of the church: ex
venerabili diptycho, in quo piae memoriae transitum ad coelum habentium
episcoporum vocabula continentur, (Concil. tom. iv. p. 1846.) This
ecclesiastical record was therefore equivalent to the book of life.]

In the fever of the times, the sense, or rather the sound of a syllable,
was sufficient to disturb the peace of an empire. The Trisagion [76]
(thrice holy,) "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts!" is supposed,
by the Greeks, to be the identical hymn which the angels and cherubim
eternally repeat before the throne of God, and which, about the middle
of the fifth century, was mira