were not even worthy that one should write their names in this martyrology of saints, because they troubled God's church most of all, and misled all the people with their heretical speeches. And Theodosius, the great emperor, when he heard such folly every day, he became exceeding sorry in his mind; and he, weeping, bemoaned it in his thoughts, that ever in his time the Christian faith should fall away so miserably.
Some of the chief heretics said that men would never arise from death ; some of them said that the body, which alone is corrupted and turned to dust and sown widely, would never come together again, but the souls alone on Doomsday, without any body, would receive the joy of their resurrection. Thus they erred with their lying speech, and they utterly stopped up their minds' understanding, so that they could not think of any of the words which our Saviour Himself said in the gospel concerning the resurrection, "Amen amen, dico vobis, quia venit hora, quando mortui in monumentis audient vocem filii hominis, et vivent:" that is, in our speech, " Verily, verily I say unto you, that the time cometh when all the dead men shall hear in their graves the voice of the Son of Man, and they all shall revive,"
Such [are the] holy words and numberless others which are written in holy books, which God Almighty, in many ways, both by His prophets and by Himself, and concerning the resurrection of the martyrs, had spoken, and yet they had forgotten all these words; the heretics [only] held them in their memory privately, and lay in their heresy ; and the sweetness of God's words they turned to bitterness to themselves, who thus vexed God's people; and therefore for these things was Theodosius the Great exceedingly grieved, and for that sorrow he clothed his body with mean raiment, and was alone, without servants, in his inner chamber, and shut himself therein, and there mournfully demeaned himself before God, because he knew not what he ought to believe, since those most troubled him, and brought him into uncertainty, who should have been his counsellors. But Almighty God the Merciful, who with full mildheartedness receiveth every man who seeketh Him with full humility, when He saw the emperor's great lamentation, at
