16 of the eucharist and commended his soul to God. His last words were his accustomed dox- ology, the motto of his life: “Glory be to God for all things, Amen.”21 He was buried by the side of Basiliscus in the presence of monks and nuns. He was revered as a saint by the people. Thirty-one years afterwards, January 27, 438, his body was translated with great pomp to Constantinople and deposited with the emperors and patriarchs beneath the altar of the church of the Holy Apostles. The young Emperor Theodosius II. and his sister Pulcheria met the procession at Chalcedon, kneeled down before the coffin, and in the name of their guilty parents implored the forgiveness of heaven for the grievous injustice done to the greatest and saintliest man that ever graced the pulpit and episcopal chair of Constantinople. The Eastern church of that age shrunk from the bold speculations of Origen, but revered the narrow orthodoxy of Epiphanius and the ascetic piety of Chrysostom. The personal appearance of the golden-mouthed orator was not imposing, but dignified and winning. He was of small stature (like David, Paul, Athanasius, Melanchthon, John Wesley, Schleiermacher). He had an emaciated frame, a large, bald head, a lofty, wrinkled forehead, deep-set, bright, piercing eyes, pallid, hollow cheeks, and a short, gray beard.22 21 Δόξα τῷ θεῷ π€ντων œνεκεν. 22 See the frontispiece in the edition of Fronto Ducæus, and in the monograph of Stephens. 24 Chrysostom in Exile. His Death. A.D. 404–407.