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Updated: June 29, 2025
From this a long and steep stair leads up to the chapel, cut deep in the rock, with an altar in it. Behind this is the Holy Sepulchre carved in the stone, in the seventeenth century by the hermit Arsenius. On the other side of the chapel a long stone stair leads again into the open air. Under this stair is a hole in the rock into which the hand can be thrust.
Arsenius was crucified by Liberius, in accordance with instructions from Theodora; his estate was confiscated by the Emperor, although he had no cause of complaint against him except his intimacy with Paul. Whether in this he acted justly or not, I cannot say; but I will afterwards state the reason why I have mentioned this affair.
'Come to me to-morrow, and she shall be well seen to. And mind look to it, if I make you not a deacon of the city when I promote Peter. The monk kissed his superior's hand and withdrew. Cyril turned to Arsenius, betrayed for once into geniality by his delight, and smiting his thigh
'And how long since she came from Athens? said Arsenius, after a pause. 'Who knows? 'Just after it was sacked by the barbarians, said the little porter, who, beginning to suspect a mystery, was peaking and peering like an excited parrot. 'The old dame brought her hither among a cargo of captive boys and girls. 'The time agrees.... Can this Miriam be found?
Arsenius still hung back, with eyes brimming with tears; but Philammon himself put an end to the parley. 'What is the meaning of all this? Are you, too, in a conspiracy against me? Speak, Arsenius! 'This is the meaning of it, blinded sinner! cried Peter.
'These are indeed the last days, said Arsenius at length, 'spoken of by the prophet, when many shall run to and fro. So Heraclian has actually sailed for Italy? 'His armament was met on the high seas by Alexandrian merchantmen, three weeks ago. 'And Orestes hardens his heart more and more? 'Ay, Pharaoh that he is; or rather, the heathen woman hardens it for him.
Tired and melancholy, his mind returned inward to prey on itself, and the last words of Arsenius rose again and again to his thoughts. 'Was his call of the spirit or of the flesh? How should he test that problem? He wished to seethe world that might be carnal. True; but, he wished to convert the world.... was not that spiritual?
The names of Pambo and Arsenius, however, seemed to pacify him at once; and the trembling youth was ushered into the presence of him who in reality, though not in name, sat on the throne of the Pharaohs.
Arsenius was too wise not to see well enough what all this flippancy meant; and too wise, also, not to know that Philammon's version was probably quite as near the truth as Peter's and Cyril's; but for reasons of his own, merely replied by an affectionate look, and a compliment to Philammon's growth. And yet you seem thin and pale, my boy. 'Study, said Philammon, 'study.
The synod of Tyre was conducted by Eusebius of Cæsarea, with more passion, and with less art, than his learning and experience might promise; his numerous faction repeated the names of homicide and tyrant; and their clamors were encouraged by the seeming patience of Athanasius, who expected the decisive moment to produce Arsenius alive and unhurt in the midst of the assembly.
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