21/30 771.] [Footnote 14: Arsenius escaped from the palace of Constantinople, and passed fifty-five years in rigid penance in the monasteries of Egypt. 676-702; and Fleury, Hist Eccles.tom.v.p.1, &c.; but the latter, for want of authentic materials, has given too much credit to the legend of Metaphrastes.] [Footnote 15: This story (Zosimus, l.v.p. 290) proves that the hymeneal rites of antiquity were still practised, without idolatry, by the Christians of the East; and the bride was forcibly conducted from the house of her parents to that of her husband. Our form of marriage requires, with less delicacy, the express and public consent of a virgin.] [Footnote 16: Zosimus, (l.v.p. |