“The palaces belong to the Emperor, the churches to the Bishop.”
The palaces belong to the Emperor, the churches to the Bishop.
Ambrose · Letters, and the funeral orations · NPNF2 X, Epistle XX
From the account of the siege of the Portian basilica, written to his sister while soldiers surrounded the building. He is answering the demand that he hand a church over for Arian worship, and the line divides two jurisdictions in nine words.
How this is known
These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.
Read in de Romestin, NPNF series 2 vol. 10 (1896) · H. de Romestin, with E. de Romestin and H. T. F. Duckworth
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- Ambrose every saying recorded of this person, and their page