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Igitur in urbe Roma post Damasum Siricius Ecclesiae suscepit sacerdotium. Apud Alexandriam vero defuncto Petro, Timotheus, et post hunc Theophilus: in Jerosolymis autem post Cyrillum Joannes, Apostolicas reparant sedes. Apud Antiochiam vero defuncto Meletio substituitur Flavianus. Sed quod Paulinus adhuc supererat, qui in catholicorum semper societate permanserat, multa ibi jurgia et multae controversiae saepe commotae, nec tamen summa vi nitentibus aliis, aliis obnitentibus , ipsisque in hoc elementis terrae marisque fatigatis, potuit aliquando pacis ullus obtineri modus, cum utique fidei jam nulla videretur subesse discordia. Hoc idem apud Tyrum fuit:
Therefore, in the city of Rome, after Damasus, Siricius received the priesthood of the Church. At Alexandria, indeed, Peter having died, Timothy, and after him Theophilus; at Jerusalem, after Cyril, John, restored the Apostolic sees. At Antioch, however, Meletius having died, Flavian was substituted. But since Paulinus still survived, who had always remained in the society of the catholics, many quarrels and many controversies were often stirred up there; and yet, though others strove not with the utmost force, and others resisted, and the very elements of land and sea were wearied in this, hardly could any measure of peace at any time be obtained—although surely no discord of faith seemed to underlie it. The same was the case at Tyre:
於是，在羅馬城，達瑪穌之後，西理修接受了教會的祭司職。在亞歷山大，彼得既死，提摩太繼之，其後是提阿非羅；在耶路撒冷，區利羅之後是約翰，他們重整了使徒的座位。在安提阿，米利提烏既死，弗拉維安繼任。但因保利努仍然在世——他一向留在大公信仰者的群體中——那裏便屢屢生出許多爭執和許多爭議；雖然有人並未竭力相爭、有人卻竭力抵擋，海陸萬物彷彿都在此事上困乏，卻仍幾乎無法在任何時候取得些許和平的局面——儘管實在看不出有甚麼信仰上的分歧為其根由。推羅也是如此：
61:2
Ubi cum Diodorus, unus sane ex antiquis catholicis vir, et tentationum documentis probatus, Athanasii testimonio esset a confessoribus Episcopus factus, modestia ejus contemta, alius a Meletii partibus ordinatur. Sed et in multis aliis urbibus Orientis, hujusmodi confusiones contentio genuit sacerdotum. Apud Constantinopolim vero Nectarius ex Praetore Urbano catechumenus et nuper baptisma consecutus, sacerdotium suscepit.
There, when Diodorus—surely one of the ancient catholics, a man proved by the evidences of trials—had been made bishop by the confessors on the testimony of Athanasius, his modesty being scorned, another was ordained from the party of Meletius. But also in many other cities of the East, contention of this kind begot confusions among the priests. At Constantinople, however, Nectarius, a former Urban Praetor, a catechumen recently having obtained baptism, received the priesthood.
在那裏，狄奧多——確是古時大公信仰者之一，並經試煉的憑據所證實的人——憑亞他那修的見證，被眾認信者立為主教；但他的謙遜被人輕看，另有一人從米利提烏的黨派中被立。在東方許多別的城市，這類爭競也在祭司中間生出混亂。然而在君士坦丁堡，曾任都城裁判官的聶克塔留——一個剛受洗不久的慕道者——接受了祭司職任。