The Death of _Hypatia_ brought an Infamy on _Cyril_ and the Christian Church: She was no Catholick, but a Heathen.
Thus ended the Life of _Hypatia_, whose Memory will ever last, and whose Murder happen’d in the fourth Year of _Cyril_’s Episcopate, _Honorius_ being the tenth Time and _Theodosius_ the sixth Time Consuls, in the Month of _March_, in the Time of _Lent_, and in the Year 415. “That Action (says _Socrates_) brought no small Infamy not only upon _Cyril_, but also upon the whole Church of _Alexandria_; for Slaughters, and Fightings, and such like Things, are quite foreign to the Christian Institution.” There’s nothing surer, there’s nothing truer; but of genuine Christianity there remain’d very little at that Time, unless Christianity be made to consist in the bare Name and Profession; for, were I disposed to take this Trouble upon me, I should think it no difficult Task to shew, that neither the Doctrines nor Distinctions then in Vogue were ever taught by _Christ_ or his Apostles; and that the Ceremonies injoined or practised were all utterly unknown to them. No, no, they were no Christians that kill’d _Hypatia_; nor are any Christian Clergymen now to be attack’d through the Sides of her Murderers, but those that resemble them; by substituting precarious Traditions, scholastick Fictions, and an usurped Dominion, to the salutiferous Institution of the holy _Jesus_. _Photius_ is very angry with _Philostorgius_, whom he stigmatizes as an _impious Man_, for saying that the _Homoousians_, or the _Athanasian Trinitarians, tore her to Pieces_; but is he not an _impudent Man_, or something worse, that dares to deny this? when none were more remarkable Sticklers for the _Homoousian_, than _Cyril_ and his Adherents.