issued a motley crowd "of common beggars, who had forfeited their
claim to pity; of monks, who had the appearance of goats or satyrs;
and of women, more terrible than so many Jezebels." The doors of the
Anastasia were broke open; much mischief was perpetrated, or
attempted, with sticks, stones, and firebrands; and as a man lost his
life in the affray, Gregory, who was summoned the next morning before
the magistrate, had the satisfaction of supposing, that he publicly
confessed the name of Christ. After he was delivered from the fear and
danger of a foreign enemy, his infant church was disgraced and
distracted by intestine faction. A stranger who assumed the name of
Maximus, and the cloak of a Cynic philosopher, insinuated himself into
the confidence of Gregory; deceived and abused his favorable opinion;
and forming a secret connection with some bishops of Egypt, attempted,
by a clandestine ordination, to supplant his patron in the episcopal
seat of Constantinople. These mortifications might sometimes tempt the
Cappadocian missionary to regret his obscure solitude. But his
fatigues were rewarded by the daily increase of his fame and his
congregation; and he enjoyed the pleasure of observing, that the
greater part of his numerous audience retired from his sermons
satisfied with the eloquence of the preacher, or dissatisfied with the
manifold imperfections of their faith and practice.

The Catholics of Constantinople were animated with joyful confidence
by the baptism and edict of Theodosius; and they impatiently waited
the effects of his gracious promise. Their hopes were speedily
accomplished; and the emperor, as soon as he had finished the
operations of the campaign, made his public entry into the capital at
the head of a victorious army. The next day after his arrival, he
summoned Damophilus to his presence, and offered that Arian prelate
the hard alternative of subscribing the Nicene creed, or of instantly