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Rh time, nevertheless in an arbitrary manner. John of Antioch had, in a still existing letter written on the journey, given a prospect of his and his countrymen's arrival within 5 to 6 days, and this letter had arrived at Ephesus at the latest on the 20th of June ; 68 bishops on the 21st of June had protested against the opening of the synod before the arrival of the Antiochians , and the commissioner, whom the emperor had sent to Ephesus, the count Candidian, emphatically demanded that the opening should be postponed. But Cyril could not be hindered from making the best of the favourable situation. That Nestorius did not present himself before this party-council is comprehensible. They condemned him then in absentia and incited the people of Ephesus to tumultuous approbation of this judgment. At the latest four days