FOREIGN

THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY.

VOLUME IX.

Gieseler's Compendium of Ecclesiastical History.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH:

T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET;

LONDON: NISBET & CO.; WARD & CO.; JACKSON & WALFORD; J. GLADDING. DUBLIN: JOHN ROBERTSON.—PHILADELPHIA: SMITH, ENGLISH, & CO.

MDCCCLIX.

OF

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY.

BY

DR JOHN C. L. GIESELER,

CONSISTORIAL COUNSELLOR AND ORDINARY PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY
IN GÖTTINGEN.

FOURTH EDITION REVISED AND AMENDED.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN

BY

SAMUEL DAVIDSON, LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE AND ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY IN THE
LANCASHIRE INDEPENDENT COLLEGE.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH:

T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET.

LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.; SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO.;

DUBLIN: JOHN ROBERTSON.

MDCCCLIX.

CONTENTS.

FOURTH CHAPTER.

HISTORY OF MONACHISM.

$95. Origin and history of Monachism in the East,