Antioch and the larger Egypt behind Alexandria
The fourth and last piece of advice that even a contemporary might have given Justinian and that he should have heeded was straightforward—to take...
Coming down through the Caucusus
For that boundary to remain hostile, armed, and simultaneously attractive and difficult (attractive to merchants, difficult for all) created and perpetuated exactly the weakness...
Christians to be a political force
Finally, there were matters emperors were incapable of understanding, or understood but rarely. Chief among them were religion and economics. No one—unless we make...
Hypostasis is counted as an indivisible unity
Nestorian: If Christ is not two hypostases as He is two natures, then one of His natures does not subsist and does not have...
Christ also subsists in His human nature
St. Emperor Justinian:
DIALOGUE WITH PAUL OF NISIBIS
Translated by Dr. Jeffrey Macdonald, 1998.
Extract of the Discussion which the Emperor Justinian had with Paul the Bishop...
Paul of Nisibis is further suggested
The doctrinal positions ascribed to Justinian in the Dialogue are largely consistent with those found in his other writings and can be derived from...
Constantine seized Dacius
Galerius reached for a scroll lying on a small table beside him and handed it to Constantine. “Here are your orders. They authorize you...
Euphrates with King Tiridates
He read carefully the scroll Constantine handed him, then rolled it up and tied it with the purple ribbon identifying it as an imperial...
With both Constantius
“Looking ahead to his seventeenth birthday, Augustus and the beginning of his military training.”
Galerius looked surprised. “How old is he now?”
“Nearly eleven, and well...
Comparison to the new officials
The Emperor was always very careful to choose for his agents men who were truly of all people the worst scoundrels; and he had...
