Ambrose considers the toleration of the Jewish, as the persecution of the Christian, religion; boldly declares that he himself, and every true believer, would eagerly dispute with the bishop of Callinicum the merit of the deed, and the crown of martyrdom; and laments, in the most pathetic terms, that the execution of the sentence would be fatal to the fame and salvation of Theodosius.
As this private admonition did not produce an immediate effect, the archbishop, from his pulpit, [93] publicly addressed the emperor on his throne; [94] nor would he consent to offer the oblation of the altar, till he had obtained from Theodosius a solemn and positive declaration, which secured the impunity of the bishop and monks of Callinicum.

The recantation of Theodosius was sincere; [95] and, during the term of his residence at Milan, his affection for Ambrose was continually increased by the habits of pious and familiar conversation.
[Footnote 9111: Raeca, on the Euphrates--M.] [Footnote 92: See the whole transaction in Ambrose, (tom.ii.

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950-956,) and his biographer Paulinus, (c.

23.) Bayle and Barbeyrac (Morales des Peres, c.xvii.p.325, &c.) have justly condemned the archbishop.] [Footnote 93: His sermon is a strange allegory of Jeremiah's rod, of an almond tree, of the woman who washed and anointed the feet of Christ.
But the peroration is direct and personal.] [Footnote 94: Hodie, Episcope, de me proposuisti.