The church history of Socrates Scholasticus, from Constantine's conversion in 306 to the year 439: Nicaea, Arius and Athanasius, the emperors after Constantine, the councils and quarrels of the fourth and early fifth centuries. In modern English from the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers translation (1890), checked against it chapter by chapter.
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Contents
Book 6
1Writing the History of Our Own Times2Arcadius and Honorius Divide the Empire3Nectarius Dies and John Is Made Bishop4John’s Birth and Education5Serapion the Deacon Turns the Clergy Against John6John Offends the Powerful, and the Fall of Eutropius7The Revolt of Gainas the Goth8Theophilus and the Monks of the Desert9The Night Hymns and the Arian Riot10Theophilus Quarrels with Peter and Turns on John11Epiphanius Calls a Synod to Condemn Origen’s Books12Severian, Antiochus, and the Quarrel with John13Epiphanius Ordains at Constantinople Without John’s Consent14Socrates Defends Origen15John Rebukes Epiphanius, Who Leaves Constantinople16A Synod at Chalcedon Deposes John17Riots over John’s Banishment, and His Recall18The Riot over Heraclides, and the Flight of Theophilus19Eudoxia’s Silver Statue and John’s Second Exile20Arsacius Succeeds John, and the Sickness of Cyrinus21The Death of Arsacius and the Ordination of Atticus22John Dies in Exile23Sisinnius, Bishop of the Novatians, and His Quick Wit24The Death of the Emperor Arcadius