Ambrose modestly confessed it; but he sternly reprimanded Timasius, general of the horse and foot, who had presumed to say that the monks of Callinicum deserved punishment.] [Footnote 95: Yet, five years afterwards, when Theodosius was absent from his spiritual guide, he tolerated the Jews, and condemned the destruction of their synagogues.Cod.Theodos.l.xvi.

tit.viii.

leg.
9, with Godefroy's Commentary, tom.vi.p.

225.] When Ambrose was informed of the massacre of Thessalonica, his mind was filled with horror and anguish.

He retired into the country to indulge his grief, and to avoid the presence of Theodosius.