[138:5] Theodoret, i., 4; _cf._ Philostorgius, i., 3.
[138:6] See two letters in Socrates, i., 6.
[139:3] Euseb., _Life of Const._, iii., ch. 4.
[139:4] Euseb., _Life of Const._, ii., ch. 64-72; Socrates, i., 7.
[139:5] Euseb., _Life of Const._, iii., 6.
[140:1] Historians disagree about the number; Eusebius gives 250; Theodoret, 300; Milman, 323; Döllinger, 318; Gwatkin, 223; etc.
[140:3] Euseb., _Life of Const._, iii., 7; Socrates, i., 14; Sozomen, i., 17; Milman, i., 99.
[140:4] Socrates, i., 8; Sozomen, i., 17, 18.
[140:5] Euseb., _Life of Const._, iii., ch. 10.
[141:1] Euseb., _Life of Const._, iii., 12; Theodoret, i., 7; Hefele, _Hist. of the Ch. Councils_, 280, 281.
[141:2] Hefele, i., 281; Moeller, i., 336, suggests Eustathius of Antioch and Alexander of Alexandria.
[141:3] No minutes in the modern sense were kept. After measures were agreed upon they were signed and thus promulgated. See Hefele, i., 262.
[142:1] Theodoret, i., 12; _Nic. and Post-Nic. Fathers_, 2d ser., xiv., 1.
[142:2] The Nicene Creed of the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and Anglican churches is not this one but "the baptismal creed of the Church of Jerusalem" enlarged in 362-373.
[142:3] The Latin list of names numbers 228, though the original Greek lists certainly had more. Hefele, i., 296.
[142:4] Sozomen, i., 9, 21; Theodoret, i., 7, 8.
[142:5] Sozomen, i., 21; Socrates, i., 9.
[142:6] Euseb., _Life of Const._, iii., 15.
[142:7] Univ. of Pa., _Transl. and Rep._, iv., No. 2; Schaff, iii., 631; Fulton, _Index Canonum_.
[143:1] Univ. of Pa., _Transl. and Rep._, iv., No. 2. Cf. Hefele, i., 355 ff.
[143:2] Excellent discussion of the whole question in Hefele, i., sec. 37.
[143:3] About 350 the canons were interpolated so as to give the Bishop of Rome a primacy.
[143:4] Socrates, i., ch. 11; Sozomen, i., 23; Schaff, ii., 411; Hefele, i., 435.
[145:1] Pope Liberius was reinstated, after the death of Felix II., on subscribing to the Arian articles.
[145:2] Univ. of Pa., _Transl. and Rep._, iv., No. 2, p. 11; _Nic. and Post-Nic. Fathers_, 2d ser., xiv., 163.
[145:3] See Hodgkin, _Italy and her Invaders_.
OUTLINE: I.--Favourable conditions when the Christian era began. II.--Forces at work up to 313. III.--Description of the Roman Church in 313. IV.--Growth of the Papacy from 313 to 604. V.--Condition of the Papacy at the close of this period, 604. VI.--Sources.