. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. ST. AMBROSE REFUSING THE COMMUNION TO THEEMPEROR THEODOSIUS. HE NEW YOHK^^BLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILDEN FOUNDATIONS R FOURTH CENTURY. 99. THEODOSIUS THE GEEAT. v^itli all tlie rights and privileges, honours and orna-ment i, of the ancient capital of the world; so itsbishop, measuring his own dignity and rank by themagnificence of the new city, and its eminence as theresidence of the emperor, assumed an equal degree ofdignity w
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. ST. AMBROSE REFUSING THE COMMUNION TO THEEMPEROR THEODOSIUS. HE NEW YOHK^^BLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX ANDTILDEN FOUNDATIONS R FOURTH CENTURY. 99. THEODOSIUS THE GEEAT. v^itli all tlie rights and privileges, honours and orna-ment i, of the ancient capital of the world; so itsbishop, measuring his own dignity and rank by themagnificence of the new city, and its eminence as theresidence of the emperor, assumed an equal degree ofdignity with the bishop of Rome, and claimed a supe-riority over the rest of the episcopal order. Nor didthe emperors disapprove of these high pretensions ; asthey considered their own dignity as connected in acertain measure with that of the bishop of their impe-rial city. Accordingly, in a council held at Constan-tinople in 381, by the authority of Theodosius theGreat, the bishop of that city was, during the absenceof the bishop of Alexandria, and against the consentof the Roman prelate, placed, by the third canon ofthat council, in the first rank after the Bishop ofRome, and consequently above those of Alexandriaand Antioch. An incident in the reign of Theodosius the Greatillustrates the height to which
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