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  Messalians
The "Asceticus", "that filthy book of this heresy", as it is called in the public acts of the Third General Council (431), was condemned at Ephesus, after it had already been condemned by a Council of Constantinople in 426 and by the local council at which Amphilochius of Side presided.
Lampetius, one of the leaders after the middle of the fifth century was a priest, having been ordained by Alypius of Cæsarea.
In Armenia in the middle of the fifth century strict decrees were issued against them, and they were especially accused of immorality; so that their very name in Armenian became the equivalent for "filthy".
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  ALYPIUS OF ANTIOCH - LoveToKnow Article on ALYPIUS OF ANTIOCH   (Site not responding. Last check: )
ALYPIUS, a Greek writer on music whose works, with those of six others, were collected and published with a commentary and explanatory notes (Antiquae Musicae Auctores Septem, Amstel., 1652), by Mark Meibomius (1630-1711).
ALYPIUS or ANTIOCH, a geographer of the 4th century, who was sent by the emperor Julian into Britain as first prefect, and was afterwards commissioned to rebuild the temple of Jerusalem.
Among the letters of Julian are two (29 and 30) addressed to Alypius; one inviting him to Rome, the other thanking him for a geographical treatise, which no longer exists.
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 Dom Touttee
The ground of the accusation was, that, in time of a great famine at Jerusalem, he had sold some of the Church plate, and precious stuffs, to relieve the wants of the poor.
Cyril, not looking upon the members of the council as qualified judges, appealed to higher powers,[10] but yielding to violence withdrew to Antioch, and thence removed to Tarsus, where he was honorably entertained by the bishop Sylvanus, and had in great respect, notwithstanding the sentence of Acacius and his council against him.
This is also recorded by the Christian authors, who, besides the earthquake and fiery eruption, mention storms, tempests, and whirlwinds, lightning, crosses impressed on the bodies and garments of the assistants, and a flaming cross in the heavens, surrounded with a luminous circle.
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 Julian the Apostate - The Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Orthodox or Catholic Church retells a story concerning two of his bodyguards, who were Christians, that when Julian came to Antioch he gave orders to sprinkle all the food in the marketplace and the water wells with blood from idol worship.
Julian thought to rebuild at an extravagant expense the proud Temple once at Jerusalem, and committed this task to Alypius of Antioch.
Alypius set vigorously to work, and was seconded by the governor of the province; when fearful balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, continued their attacks, till the workmen, after repeated scorchings, could, approach no more: and he gave up the attempt.
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 Newman Reader - Essays on Miracles - II-5-7
Alypius, an intimate friend of Julian, was set over the work; the Jews aided him with a vast collection of materials and of workmen.
Alypius therefore set himself vigorously to the work, and was seconded by the governor of the province; when fearful balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, continued their attacks, till the workmen, after repeated scorchings, could approach no more; and thus, the fierce element obstinately repelling them, he gave over his attempt." {338}
Julian, too, seems awkwardly to allude to it in a fragment of a letter or oration, which Warburton has pointed out, and which is so curious an evidence of his defeat and its extraordinary circumstances that it may be fitly introduced in this place.
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 Ammianus Marcellinus, Roman History. London: Bohn (1862) Book 23. pp.316-345.
But though Alypius applied himself vigorously to the work, and though the governor of the province co-operated with him, fearful balls of fire burst forth with continual eruptions close to the foundations, burning several of the workmen and making the spot altogether inaccessible.
But he, being about to quit Antioch, appointed a citizen of Heliopolis, named Alexander, a man of turbulent and ferocious character, to govern Syria, saying that he indeed had not deserved such a post, but that the Antiochians, being covetous and insolent, required a judge of that kind.
For he said that he had determined, after his campaign was over, to return by a shorter road to Tarsus in Cilicia, to winter there: and that he had written to Memorius, the governor of the city, to prepare everything that he might require in that city.
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 GraciousCall.org - HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH*   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The spectators at his sacrifices came not from devotion, but from curiosity, and grieved the devout emperor by their rounds of applause, as if he were simply a theatrical actor of religion.
When he endeavored to restore the oracle of Apollo Daphneus in the famous cypress grove at Antioch, and arranged for a magnificent procession, with libation, dances, and incense, he found in the temple one solitary old priest, and this priest ominously offered in sacrifice_a goose.
He appropriated considerable sums to this object from the public treasury, intrusted his accomplished minister Alypius with the supervision of the building, and promised, if he should return victorious from the Persian war, to honor with his own presence the solemnities of reconsecration and the restoration of the Mosaic sacrificial worship.
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 JULIAN THE APOSTATE FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Many of Julian's actions sought to harass and undermine the ability of Christians to organize in resistance to the re-establishment of pagan acceptance in the empire.
Julian thought to rebuild at an extravagant expense the proud Temple once at Jerusalem, and committed this task to Alypius_of_Antioch.
The failure to rebuild the Temple has been ascribed to an earthquake, common in the region, and to the Jews' ambivalence about the project.
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 Alypius of Antioch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alypius of Antioch was a geographer of the mid 4th century who was sent by the emperor Julian into Britain as vicarius.
He ruled during a difficult period and he was probably considered suitable for the post because he came from the far east of the empire had no associations with the west.
He may have had to deal with the insurrection of the usurper named 'Carausius II.'
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 Upto11.net - Wikipedia Article for Julian the Apostate
According to Socrates Scholasticus, Julian believed himself to be Alexander the Great in another body via transmigration of souls, as taught by Plato and Pythagoras (Book III, Chapter XXI of his writings).
The Orthodox Church retells the story concerning two of his bodyguards, who were Christians, that when Julian came to Antioch he gave orders to sprinkle all the food in the marketplace and the water wells with blood from idol-worship.
The failure to rebuild the Temple has also been ascribed to an earthquake, common in the region, and to the Jews' ambivalence about the project.
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 The Rebuilding of the Temple
But it is impossible not to be impressed by the testimony of the best historian of his times, a pagan, a personal friend of Julian, and one who is stated to have been a lover of truth.
Alypius set vigorously to work, and was seconded by the governor of the province; when fearful balls of fire, breaking out near the foundations, continued their attacks, till the workmen, after repeated scorchings, could, approach no more: and he gave up the attempt" (Newman's Ecclesiastical Miracles, p.
After the reconstruction of the Temple, the next stage of impious sin will be its desecration; and history affords so striking an example that the perpetrator of it has actually been mistaken for Antichrist.
www.biblebelievers.org.au /temple.htm   (2065 words)

  
 Roman Power and Christian Conflict 285-395 by Sanderson Beck
Julian revoked the special taxes on Jews and appointed Alypius of Antioch to restore the great temple at Jerusalem so that they could sacrifice; but calamities from fires or earthquake caused the project to be abandoned.
After Antioch bishop Meletius died, Gregory of Nazianzus presided, and the patriarch of Constantinople as the "new Rome" was ranked second after the bishop of Rome.
When the people of Antioch, provoked by excessive taxation for the war against Maximus and imperial celebrations, rioted and destroyed the statues of Emperor Theodosius and his late wife Flacilla, Bishop Flavius went to Constantinople to ask pardon for the city.
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 Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch - Archdiocese of the Western U.S.
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