But the Patriarch of Constantinople labored under the disadvantage that he was too closely under the eye, and, as he found to his cost, too often under the hand, of the emperor.

Distance gave security to the episcopates of Alexandria and Rome.
ECCLESIASTICAL DISPUTES.

Religious disputations in the East have generally turned on diversities of opinion respecting the nature and attributes of God; in the West, on the relations and life of man.

This peculiarity has been strikingly manifested in the transformations that Christianity has undergone in Asia and Europe respectively.

Accordingly, at the time of which we are speaking, all the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire exhibited an intellectual anarchy.