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A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…
A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Usher.A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Ussher.
Oxford: printed by Henry Hall, 1643
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Chapter 4: Of the Asian Diocese, and the Metropolitan cities thereof; with the Civill and Ecclesia…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But among all these, the See of Ephesus had evermore the preeminence. And as it was the mother city of the Proconsular Asia: so was that Asia likewise the prime Province of all the Asian Diocese; and had in such esteem, that the Proconsul thereof was exempted from the jurisdiction of the Praefectus Praetorio Orientis, (as before we have heard out of Eunapius) unto which the Vicarius or Lieutenant of the Asian Diocese was subject. Conformably whereunto in the Ecclesiastical government, the Bishop of Ephesus was not only held to be the Metropolitan of the Proconsular Asia, but also the Primate of all the provinces that were contained within the compass of the whole Asian Diocese. Upon which ground it was, that among those Bishops which Palladius (in the life of Chrysostom) mentioneth to have been ordained by Antoninus Bishop of Ephesus; zsome were of Lycia and Phrygia, as well as others of Asia: the ordination of these latter being challenged by virtue of his Metropolitical, of the others by his Patriarchicall jurisdiction.
But among all these, the See of Ephesus had evermore the preeminence. And as it was the mother city of the Proconsular Asia: so was that Asia likewise the prime Province of all the Asian Diocese; and had in such esteem, that the Proconsul thereof was exempted from the jurisdiction of the Praefectus Praetorio Orientis, (as before we have heard out of Eunapius) unto which the Vicarius or Lieutenant of the Asian Diocese was subject. Conformably whereunto in the Ecclesiasticall government, the Bishop of Ephesus was not only held to be the Metropolitan of the Proconsular Asia, but also the Primate of all the provinces that were contained within the compasse of the whole Asian Diocese. Vpon which ground it was, that among those Bishops which Palladius (in the life of Chrysostom) mentioneth to have beene ordained by Antoninus Bishop of Ephesus; zsome were of Lycia and Phrygia, as well as others of Asia: the ordination of these latter being challenged by vertue of his Metropoliticall, of the others by his Patriarchicall jurisdiction.
- z[Greek or Hebrew]. Sozomen. hist. lib. 8. cap. 6.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Sozomen. hist. lib. 8. cap. 6.