Gregory of Nyssa, who had been commissioned by a Council held at Antioch in 378 to visit the Churches in Arabia and Palestine, “because matters with them were in confusion, and needed an arbiter,” gives a mournful account both of the distracted state of the Church, and of the prevailing corruption.  “If the Divine grace were more abundant about Jerusalem than elsewhere, sin would not be so much the fashion among those who live there , but as it is, there is no form of uncleanness that is not perpetrated among them; rascality, adultery, theft, idolatry, poisoning, quarrelling, murder, are rife.”  In a letter Greg. Nyss. Epist. xvii. in this Series. written after his return to Cæsarea in Cappadocia he asks, “What means this opposing array of new Altars?  Do we announce another Jesus?  Do we produce other Scriptures?  Have any of ourselves dared to say “Mother of Man” of the Holy Virgin, the Mother of God?