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Updated: June 21, 2025
It is a tale which they narrate in Poictesme, telling how love began between Perion of the Forest, who was a captain of mercenaries, and young Melicent, who was daughter to the great Dom Manuel, and sister to Count Emmerick of Poictesme. They tell also how Melicent and Perion were parted, because there was no remedy, and policy demanded she should wed King Theodoret.
Here we get the Diatessaron identified with the widely-spread and popular early Gospel of the Hebrews. Theodoret states that he took these books away, "and instead introduced the Gospels of the four Evangelists;" how strange an action in dealing with so useful a work as a harmony of the Gospels, to confiscate it entirely and call it an evil design!
And Theodoret, writing of the years about 423, says that many went to the Holy Land from the extreme West, Spaniards, and Britons, and the Galatae who dwelled between them.
Theodoret is quite resolved to make of me a candle which will light his way to heaven." "That is true," said Perion; "and I cannot permit that you be killed by anyone save me, as soon as I can afford to kill you." The two men talked together, leagued against entire Christendom. Demetrios had thirty sequins and Perion no money at all.
So wrote Theodoret in days when men had not yet intercalated into Holy Writ that line of an obscure modern hymn, which proclaims to man the good news that 'There is no repentance in the grave. Let that be as it may, Cyril has gone to his own place. What that place is in history is but too well known. What it is in the sight of Him unto whom all live for ever, is no concern of ours.
And when he asked a bystander what he would gain who did each of these things, the man propounded to him the solitary life, and pointed out to him the highest philosophy. This, Theodoret says, he heard from the saint's own tongue. His disciple Antony gives the story of his conversion somewhat differently. St. Now his father's name was Susocion, and he was brought up by his parents.
He, for his own share, had resolved to avoid all such 'rendezvousing of the Geese and Cranes, flocking together to throttle and tatter one another in that sad manner. Nor had St. Theodoret much opinion of the Council of Nice, except as a kind of miracle. 'Nothing good to be expected from Councils, says he, 'except when God is pleased to interpose, and destroy the machinery of the Devil."
And there is no reason why a change should have been made in its meaning in the present case. The second is, that History has handed down Phoebe as a woman eminent for her Gospel labours. "She was celebrated, says Theodoret, throughout the world; for not only the Greeks and the Romans, but the Barbarians, knew her likewise." St. Paul also greets Priscilla and Aquila.
"While life endures I pledge you faith and service, Perion. There is no need to speak of love." "There is no need," he answered. "Oh, does God think that I will live without you!" "I suppose they will give me to King Theodoret. The terrible old man has set my body as the only price that will buy him off from ravaging Poictesme, and he is stronger in the field than Emmerick.
In Syria, the divine and excellent Marcellus, as he is styled by Theodoret, a bishop animated with apostolic fervor, resolved to level with the ground the stately temples within the diocese of Apamea. His attack was resisted by the skill and solidity with which the temple of Jupiter had been constructed.
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