Gregory himself was almost a Tritheist; and his monarchy of heaven resembles a well-regulated aristocracy.] [Footnote 42: The first general council of Constantinople now triumphs in the Vatican; but the popes had long hesitated, and their hesitation perplexes, and almost staggers, the humble Tillemont, (Mem.Eccles.

tom.
ix.p.499, 500.)] [Footnote 43: Before the death of Meletius, six or eight of his most popular ecclesiastics, among whom was Flavian, had abjured, for the sake of peace, the bishopric of Antioch, (Sozomen, l.vii.c.3, 11.
Socrates, l.v.c.

v.) Tillemont thinks it his duty to disbelieve the story; but he owns that there are many circumstances in the life of Flavian which seem inconsistent with the praises of Chrysostom, and the character of a saint, (Mem.Eccles.tom.x.p.

541.)] [Footnote 44: Consult Gregory Nazianzen, de Vita sua, tom.ii.p.

25-28.
His general and particular opinion of the clergy and their assemblies may be seen in verse and prose, (tom.i.Orat.i.p.