picious of AnastasiuB on this yital point should be dis-
seminated in the empire. Bat Anastasins, in the con-
scientious conviction of his own orthodoxy, and that
virtue which had caUed forth the popular acclamation^
" Beign as you have lived/' dared to enforce despotic
toleration. The East was now divided into four reli-
Foot pwtfM gious parties. 1. Those who, with the Roman
In um s^ Pontiff and tiie monks of Constantinople, held
inflexibly to the Council of Chalcedon, and demanded
the distinct recognition of its doctrines. These were
not content with the anathema against Nestorius,
Eutyches, and Dioscorus: they insisted on including
under the malediction Acadus and Peter the Stam-
merer.^ 2. Those who, holding the tenets of Chalcedon,
had yet subscribed the Henoticon, and for the sake of
peace would not compel the acceptance of the Chalce-
donian decrees. Among these were Euphemius of Con-
stantinople before the accession of Anastasius, and at
first his successor Macedonius, and the Patriarchs of
Antioch and Jerusalem ; all the four great Prelates had
subscribed the Henoticon. 3. Those who subscribed
the Henoticon, and abhorred the decrees of Chalcedon ;
these were chiefly the Patriarch of Alexandria, with
the Bishops of Egypt and Libya. 4. The Acephali,
the Eutychian party, who held the Council of Chalcedon
to be a Nestorian conclave, and cherished the memory
of Dioscorus and of Eutyches. Anastasius issued his
mandate, that no bishop should compel a reluctant
people to adhere to the Council of Chalcedon; no
bishop should compel a people which adhered to the
Council of Chalcedon to abandon its principles. Many
who infringed on this law of Imperial charity were



* Emfl^UB, in. 31.
Chap. I.
MACEDONIUS.
