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Chapter LXX.—An Exhortation to Unanimity.
“Let therefore both the unguarded question and the
inconsiderate answer receive your mutual forgiveness.3220
3220 Rendered “forbearance” above. | For the cause of your difference has not
been any of the leading doctrines or precepts of the Divine law, nor
has any new heresy respecting the worship of God arisen among you. You
are in truth of one and the same judgment:3221
3221 [The emperor seems at this time to have had a very imperfect
knowledge of the errors of the Arian heresy. After the Council of Nice,
at which he heard them fully explained, he wrote of them in terms of
decisive condemnation in his letter to the Alexandrian church. Vide
Socrates’ Eccles. Hist., Bk. 1, ch. 9.—Bag.]
Neither at this time nor at any time does Constantine seem to have
entered very fully into an appreciation of doctrinal niceties. Later he
was more than tolerant of semi-Arianism. He seems to have depended a
good deal on the “explanations” of others, and to have been
led in a somewhat devious path in trying to follow all. | you may therefore well join in communion
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