y did not pardon a man who then, by repentance, was perhaps a saint
in the eyes of God. At this discourse not a single person in the church
was able to refrain from tears, and all things seemed in a state of
tranquillity.[25] Some days after, Eutropius left the church, hoping to
escape privately out of the city, but was seized, and banished into
Cyprus.[26] He was recalled a few months after, and being impeached
{245} of high-treason was condemned and beheaded, chiefly at the
instigation of Gainas; in compliance with whose unjust demands the weak
emperor consented to the death of Aurelianus and Saturninus, two
principal lords of his court. But St. Chrysostom, by several journeys,
prevailed with the barbarian to content himself with their banishment,
which they underwent, but were soon after recalled. As unjust
concessions usually make rebels the more insolent, Gainas hereupon
obliged the emperor to declare him commander-in-chief of all his troops.
Yet even when his pride and power were at the highest, St. Chrysostom
refused him the use of any Catholic church in Constantinople for the
Arian worship. And when, some time after, he laid siege to that capital,
the saint went out to him, and by kind expostulations prevailed on him
to withhold his design and draw off his army. He was afterwards defeated
in passing the Hellespont; and fleeing through the country of the Huns,
was overthrown, and slain by them in 400.

This same year, 400, St. Chrysostom held a council of bishops in
Constantinople; one of whom had preferred a complaint against his
metropolitan Antoninus, the archbishop of Ephesus, which consisted of
several heads, but that chiefly insisted on was simony.[27] All our
saint's endeavors to discuss this affair being frustrated by the
distance of places, he found it necessary, at the solicitation of the
clergy and people of Ephesus, to go in person to that city, though the
severity of the winter season, and the ill state of health he was then
in, might be sufficient motives for retarding this journey. In this and
the neighboring cities several councils were held, in which the
archbishop of Ephesus and several other bishops in Asia, Lycia, and
Phrygia, were deposed for simony. Upon his return after Easter, in 401,
having been absent a hundred days, he preached the next morning,[28]
calling his people, in the transports of tender joy, his crown, his
glory, his paradise planted with flourishing trees; but if any bad
shru