43. Before the death of Meletius, six or eight of his most
popular ecclesiastics, among whom was Flavian, had abjured,
for the sake of peace, the bishopric of Antioch (Sozomen, 1.
vii. c. 3, 1l; Socrates, l. v. c. 5). Tillemont thinks it
his duty to disbelieve the story; but he owns that there are
many circumstances in the life of Flavian which seem
inconsistent with the praises of Chrysostom and the
character of a saint (Mem. Eccles. tom. x. p. 541).