Homily XVI.
This Homily was delivered on the occasion of the Prefect 1 entering the Church, for the purpose of pacifying the minds of the people, in consequence of a rumour of an intended sack 2 having been announced to him, when all were meditating flight. It treats also on the subject of avoiding oaths, and on the words of the Apostle, "Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ." 3
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?rchontos, some read kometos, which seems to imply that this officer was the Praetorian Praefect of the East. See note of Ducaeus. Tillemont, art. xxxiv. calls him "le Gouverneur." ↩
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praidas, from the Latin Praeda. Ducaeus takes it with pros ton ?rchonta, making it only a confiscation. Montfaucon does not agree with Tillemont in dating the Homily, but it must have been delivered after the return of Caesarius to the Emperor, and before any news from him. The Prefect may be Hellebichus, who was left at Antioch: but see Pref. ↩
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Philem. i. 1. ↩
