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Updated: June 29, 2025
How hollow and fleeting seemed all 'spiritual sonships, 'spiritual daughterhoods, inventions of the changing fancy, the wayward will of man! Arsenius Pambo ay, Hypatia herself what were they to him now? Here was a real relationship .... A sister! What else was worth caring for upon earth? 'And she was at Athens when Pelagia was' he cried at last 'perhaps knew her let us go to Pelagia herself!
Before Athanasius, at the head of fifty Egyptian prelates, sailed from Alexandria, he had wisely secured the alliance of the Meletians; and Arsenius himself, his imaginary victim, and his secret friend, was privately concealed in his train.
Arsenius was in the right after all. Home to the desert. But first he would go himself, alone, and find Pelagia, and implore her to flee with him.
He felt angry with the old man for having broken his dream; he longed to believe that his complaints were only exaggerations of cynic peevishness, of selfish disappointment; and yet, had not Arsenius warned him? Had he not foretold, word for word, what the youth would find-what he had found? Then was Saint Paul's great idea an empty and an impossible dream? No!
But for me, my friend, though I doubt not that such things are, it is the day, and not the night, which brings revelations. 'How, then? 'Because by day I can see to read that book which is written, like the Law given on Sinai, upon tables of stone, by the finger of God Himself. Arsenius looked up at him inquiringly. Pambo smiled.
It was Arsenius. 'My son! my son! sobbed he, almost aloud. 'Slave, as well as son, if you will! whispered Philammon. 'One boon from the patriarch; and then home to the Laura for ever!
But where was Philammon all that week? For the first day or two of his imprisonment he had raved like some wild beast entrapped. His new-found purpose and energy, thus suddenly dammed back and checked, boiled up in frantic rage. He tore at the bars of his prison; he rolled himself, shrieking, on the floor. He called in vain on Hypatia, on Pelagia, on Arsenius on all but God.
"Then, behold my witness," said the Patriarch, signing to a priest who stood near the door. A man was brought in whose face and figure were hidden in a long cloak, which Athanasius drew slowly away. It was Arsenius himself who stood before them! "Here is one hand," continued the Patriarch, drawing it out from the cloak, "and here is the other. I presume that to no man God has given more.
The governor, urged on by despatches from the Emperor, which frequently arrived and were couched in pressing terms, ordered Psoes to be flogged, and he died under the torture. When the news of this reached the Emperor, at the earnest entreaty of Theodora, he expressed great indignation against Paul, Rhodon, and Arsenius, as if he had forgotten the orders he himself had given them.
On that occasion neither Justinian nor the Empress inflicted any punishment upon Arsenius, although he was the principal cause of all those troubles. They contented themselves with forbidding him to appear at court, in order to satisfy the continued complaints that were preferred against him by the Christians.
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