Christianisme d'Ethiopie et d'Armenie, p. 35,) who exclaims, perhaps
too hastily, "Quel pitoyable raisonnement!" Renaudot has touched (Hist.
Patriarch. Alex. p. 127--138) the Oriental accounts of Severus; and
his authentic creed may be found in the epistle of John the Jacobite
patriarch of Antioch, in the xth century, to his brother Mannas of
Alexandria, (Asseman. Bibliot. Orient. tom. ii. p. 132--141.)]

[Footnote 126: Epist. Archimandritarum et Monachorum Syriae Secundae ad
Papam Hormisdam, Concil. tom. v. p. 598--602. The courage of St. Sabas,
ut leo animosus, will justify the suspicion that the arms of these monks
were not always spiritual or defensive, (Baronius, A.D. 513, No. 7,
&c.)]

[Footnote 127: Assemanni (Bibliot. Orient. tom. ii. p. 10--46) and La
Croze (Christianisme d'Ethiopie, p. 36--40) will supply the history of
Xenaias, or Philoxenus, bishop of Mabug, or Hierapolis, in Syria. He was
a perfect master of the Syriac language, and the author or editor of a
version of the New Testament.]

[Footnote 128: The names and titles of fifty-four bishops who were
exiled by Justin, are preserved in the Chronicle of Dionysius,
(apud Asseman. tom. ii. p. 54.) Severus was personally summoned to
Constantinople--for his trial, says Liberatus (Brev. c. 19)--that his
tongue might be cut out, says Evagrius, (l. iv. c. iv.) The prudent
patriarch did not stay to examine the difference. This ecclesiastical
revolution is fixed by Pagi to the month of September of the year 518,
(Critica, tom. ii. p. 506.)]

[Footnote 129: The obscure history of James or Jacobus Baradaeus, or
Zanzalust may be gathered from Eutychius, (Annal. tom. ii. p. 144, 147,)
Renau dot, (Hist. Patriarch. Alex. p. 133,) and Assemannus, (Bibliot.
Orient. tom. i. p. 424, tom. ii. p. 62-69, 324--332, 414, tom. iii.
p. 385--388.) He seems to be unknown to the Greeks. The Jacobites
themselves had rather deduce their name and pedigree from St. James the
apostle.]

[Footnote 130: The account of his person and writings is perhaps the
most curious article in the Bibliotheca of Assemannus, (tom. ii.
p. 244--321, under the name of Gregorius Bar-Hebroeus.) La Croze
(Christianisme d'Ethiopie, p. 53--63) ridicules the prejudice of the
Spaniards against the Jewish blood which secretly defiles their church
and state.]

[Footnote 131: This excessive abstinence is censured by La Croze, (p.
352,) and even by the Syrian Assemannus, (tom. i. p. 226, tom. ii. p.
304, 305.