Section 463
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432 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. " After you shall have obtained this sum, you are to 'order these monies to be distributed among the aforesaid ministers, ac cording to the abstract addressed to thee from Hosius. But if thou shalt learn, perhaps, that any thing shall be wanting to com plete this my purpose with regard to all, thou art authorized, without delay, to make demands for whatever thou mayest as certain to be necessary, from Heraclides, the procurator of our possessions. And I have also commanded him when present, that if thy authority should demand any monies of him, he should see that it should be paid without delay. And as I ascertained that some men, who are of no settled mind, wish to divert the people from the most holy catholic (universal) church, by a cer tain pernicious adulteration, I wish thee to understand that I have given, both to the proconsul Anulinus and to Patricius, vicargeneral of the prefects, when present, the following injunctions ; that, among all the rest, they should particularly pay the neces sary attention to this, nor should by any means tolerate that this should be overlooked. Wherefore, if thou seest any of these men persevering in this madness, thou shalt, without any hesi tancy, proceed to the aforesaid judges, and report it to them, that they may animadvert upon them, as I commanded them, when present. May the power of the great God preserve thee many years." CHAPTER VII. The privileges and immunities of the clergy. Copy of an Epistle in which the Emperor commands that the pre lates of the churches should be exempt from performing service in political matters. " HEALTH to thee, most esteemed Anulinus. As it appears from many circumstances, that when the religion was despised, in which the highest reverence of the heavenly majesty is ob