Eustathius

After the death of Eustathius, Meletius became Bishop of Antioch in 360 by the united vote of the Arians and the orthodox. The Eustathians would not recognize him, even after his election was approved by the Synod of Alexandria in 362.

Their intransigent attitude gave rise to two factions among the orthodox, the so-called Meletian schism, which lasted till the second decade of the fifth century. This is all came from the false notion that the Kingdom of God is a democracy and that men can exercise authority one over the other in that kingdom. These false doctrines were rampant among the Constantinian christians.

patriarch

The term patriarch is a man who is the oldest or most venerable of a group. It is also defined as "a bishop of one of the most ancient Christian sees (Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and formerly Rome)." This is an office that came to us from the Church of Constantine. We can trace the term patriarch's origins back to its ancient Greek root pater meaning "father." There is the Paterfamilias which is the head of the family and also called and elder. Those are terms of the Family, not of the Church. It was an office of the Roman government similar of the office held by Ambrose prior to the citizens of Milan electing him to be their Bishop to handle the daily ministration of Constantine's new church.

There is also the Pater Patriae which is a term of the governments of the world. Parens Patriae is Latin phrase for "parent of the nation" (lit., "parent of the fatherland"). In law, it refers to the power of public policy residing in the state to intervene against the parent or legal guardian of the children of the State. This is a power of choice that supersedes the Paterfamilias the natural father of the family.

Some people think that is the job of governments to manage the morality and practices of the family and at one time the State may have done a good job doing just that and people are right that someone should be attending to the weightier matters for children. But there are means and methods of doing just that before the creation of the Welfare State.

The record of Eustathius as a bishop of Beroea it is not available so we cannot say that he was a good or bad bishop of Beroea or that he was even a follower of Christ. A [[bishop is merely an overseer of some form of social welfare system. All city states had such overseers including the cities of blood.

The only complete work by Eustathius is the De Engastrimytho contra Origenem.[6]

The Commentary on the Hexameron attributed to him in the manuscripts is too late to be authentic.

Works

Works of Eustathius of Antioch (300-337)

Allocutio ad imperatorem Constantinum [grc]

De anima contra Arianos [grc]

De anima contra philosophos [grc]

Commentarius in evangelium secundum Joannem [grc]

Commentarius in hexaemeron [grc]

Commentarius in Psalmum [grc]

Commentarius in Psalmum 92 [grc]

In Ecclesiasten [grc]

ek tou panekklhsiastou [grc]

De engastrimytho contra Origenem [grc]

De fide contra Arianos [grc]

Eustathius of Antioch (300-337) Allocutio ad imperatorem Constantinum [grc]