(3) The God-loving Bishops, Puotius of Tyre, and
Evstaruius of Berytus, and Uranius of Himeria,
said :—

In reference to Ibas, matters concerning The
Faith were mooted in our presence; and because
witnesses for this case were requisite, and a long
space of time would have intervened, we commanded
that those who belonged to the clerical body
(kAnpos) of the City of Edessa, should affirm on
Oath upon the Gospels, whatever they were cognizant
of in reference to the accusation advanced against
him (Ibas) touching The Faith. Now, on this mat-
ter a great commotion was made, and a considerable
amount of talk took place, at Edessa, which circum-
stancealso was notified to our Gracious and Humanita-
rian Emperor: and it is because we have thus been ap-
prised of the Victorious Emperorhaving notification of
this matter and of his having received the Affidavits
of all those whose names are notified in the Records,*


* These Records were the Documentary Acts drawn up at Edessa.
Like many other words in our MS., this one LiiscaSc20om, which so





frequently occurs in it, is only the Greek word tarourypatra Syrianized,
and, with them, shows clearly enough that this MS. or these Acts of the
Second Synod of Ephesus were originally written in Greek. In a note
on p. 178 of Dr. Cureton’s “ Ancient Syriac Documents” he says that
“‘Valesius, in his notes to Eusebius, Hist. £cc/., B. I., c. g. n. b. writes,
«¢ Acts were Books wherein the Scribes that belonged to the several
“places of Judicature recorded the sentences pronounced by the Judges.
