_Christmas Day_ (Vol. iii., p. 167.).--In a note to one of Bishop Pearson's
sermons (_Opera Minora_, ed. Churton) occurs the following passage from St.
Chrysostom:--
"[Greek: Para tôn akribôs tauta eidotôn, kai tên polin ekeinên] (sc.
Romam) [Greek: oikountôn, PAREILÊPHAMEN TÊN HÊMERAN. Hoi gar ekei
diatribontes ANÔTHEN kai ek PALAIAS PARADOSEÔS tautên epitelountes],"
&c.--_Homil. Di. Nat._ ii. 354.
The remainder of the quotation my _note_ does not supply, but it may be
easily found by the reference. The day, therefore, seems fixed by
"tradition," and received both by the Eastern and Western Church, and not
on any dogmatical decision of the popes.