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The Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret (CCEL)

Chapter IX. Of what befell Julianus, the Emperor’s Uncle, and Felix.

Julianus forthwith fell sick of a painful disease; his entrails rotted away, and he was no longer able to discharge his excrements through the normal organs of excretion, [^36] but his polluted mouth, at the instant of his blasphemy, became the organ for their emission.

His wife, it is said, was a woman of conspicuous faith, and thus addressed her spouse: “Husband, you ought to bless our Saviour Christ for shewing you through your castigation his peculiar power. For P. 100 you would never have known who it is who is being attacked by you if with his wonted long suffering he had refrained from visiting you with these heaven-sent plagues.” Then by these words and the heavy weight of his woes the wretched man perceived the cause of his disease, and besought the emperor to restore the church to those who had been deprived of it. He could not however gain his petition, and so ended his days.

Felix too was himself suddenly struck down by a heaven-sent scourge, and kept vomiting blood from his mouth, all day and all night, for all the vessels of his body poured their convergent streams to this one organ: so when all his blood was shed he died, and was delivered to eternal death.

Such were the penalties inflicted on these men for their wickedness.

[^36] ἀπόκρισις

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Ὅτι παιδόθεν ἐν εὐσεβείᾳ τραφεὶς ἐξώκειλεν εἰς ἀσέβειαν.

Οὗτος δέ, νέαν μὲν ἄγων τὴν ἡλικίαν σὺν Γάλλῳ τῷ ἀδελφῷ καὶ ἄνηβος ὢν ἔτι, τὴν τῆς εὐσεβοῦς διδασκαλίας εἷλκε θηλήν, καὶ μὲν δὴ καὶ πρόσηβος γενόμενος καὶ ἔφηβος τῆς αὐτῆς μετελάγχανε· δείσας δὲ τὸν Κωνστάντιον (τοὺς γὰρ γένει προσήκοντας ἀνῄρει δειμαίνων τὰς τυραννίδας) τοῦ τῶν ἀναγνωστῶν ἠξιώθη χοροῦ καὶ τὰς ἱερὰς βίβλους ἐν τοῖς ἐκκλησιαστικοῖς συλλόγοις ὑπανεγίνωσκε τῷ λαῷ. Καὶ σηκὸν μαρτύρων ἐδομήσατο μέν, οὐ προσεδέξαντο δὲ οἱ μάρτυρες τὴν εἰς ἀσέβειαν αὐτοῦ παρατροπὴν προθεώμενοι· τῶν γὰρ δὴ θεμελίων τὸ τῆς ἐκείνου γνώμης μιμησαμένων ἀβέβαιον, πρὶν ἱερωθῆναι κατέπεσε. Τὰ μὲν δὴ τῆς πρώτης ἡλικίας αὐτοῦ καὶ τῆς δευτέρας τοιαῦτα ἦν.