[210] Gibbon, ch. xxxviii.: a sneer or two have been omitted. [211] Gibbon, ch. xxxix. [212] Ch. xxxviii. [213] See above, p. 141. [214] See Kurth, ii. 25-6. [215] See in the _Kirchen-lexicon_ of Card. Hergenroether the article on Gregory I., vol. v., p. 1079. [216] See Hefele, _Conciliengeschichte_, iii., p. 56; St. Gregory, ii., p. 1294; Mansi, x., p. 486. [217] S. Siricius, _Ep._ [218] P. 308. [219] Philippians iv. 3. [220] See St. Clement's epistle, sec. 59. "Receive our counsel and you shall not repent of it. For, as God liveth, and as the Lord Jesus Christ liveth, and the Holy Spirit, and the faith and the hope of the elect, he who performs in humility, with assiduous goodness, and without swerving, _the commands and injunctions of God_, he shall be enrolled and esteemed in the number of those saved through Jesus Christ, through whom be glory to Him for ever and ever. Amen. But if any disobey _what has been ordered by Him through us_, let them know that they will involve themselves in a fall, and no slight danger, but we shall be innocent of this sin." [221] Hurter's _Geschichte Papst Innocenz des Dritten_, i. 85-7. INDEX. _Acacius_, bishop of Constantinople, 471-489, 65; his conduct to the year 482, 66; induces Zeno to publish a formulary of doctrine, 70; deposed by Pope Felix, 75; rejects the Pope's sentence, 83; attempts superiority over the eastern patriarchates, 84-86; position taken up by him against the Pope, 84-91; dies after five years of excommunication in 489, defying the Pope, 83; his name erased from the diptychs, 168; summary of his conduct and aims, 174-6 _Agapetus_, Pope, his accession, 202; confirms all his old rights to the Primate of Carthage, 203; confirms Justinian's profession of faith, at the emperor's request, 204; goes to Constantinople, deposes Anthimus and consecrates Mennas patriarch, 205 _Agnostics_, generated by schismatics, 5 _Alexandria and Antioch_, fearful state of their patriarchates, 184; the vast difference between their patriarchs and the Primacy, 185 _Anastasius II._, Pope, 496-8, 120; his letter to the emperor asserts that as the imperial secular dignity is pre-eminent in the whole world, so the Principate of St. Peter's See in the whole Church, 120; both are divine delegations, 121; writes to Clovis upon his conversion, 122; anticipates the great results to follow from it, 123