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Josephus, The Antiquities of the Jews 13.46.

cf. On the Incarnation of the Word, ca. 318 C.E.

Guiseppi Bovini, Ravena Felix (Ravenna: Edizioni A. Longo, 1957), p. 31. Though the Arian baptistery is not explicitly mentioned in the list of structures “reconciled” to the Catholic Church by Bishop Agnellus in 561 C.E., Sant’Apollinare Nuovo is, and clearly figures in the Orthodox damnatio: Reiner Sörries, Die Bilder der Orthodoxen, pp. 24, 57, 72.

Sörries, Die Bilder der Orthodoxen, p. 59.

Sörries, Die Bilder der Orthodoxen, pp. 22–24, 57, 271.

Johnson, “Toward a History,” p. 85.

For the extent and progress of his program, see now Mark J. Johnson, “Toward a History of Theodoric’s Building Program,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 42 (1988), pp. 73–96.

Zeev Rubin, in “The Conversion of the Visigoths to Christianity,” Museum Helveticum 38 (1981), pp. 34–54, has sustained this date and reaffirmed E. A. Thompson’s picture of the social situation of the Goths at this juncture of history. Rubin’s position is reported in the text following this note. I am grateful to Gideon Bohak of Princeton University for this reference.

The present text of the Creed of Constantinople was preserved and transmitted to us by the Council of Chalcedon (451 C.E.) and can be found in Richard A. Norris, Jr., The Christological Controversy, Sources of Christian Thought (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1980), p. 157. For scholarly discussions as to whether this creed actually derives from the Council of Constantinople, see Hanson, Search for the Christian Doctrine (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1988), pp. 812–815.