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| Athanasius is found Innocent of what he was accused; his Accusers take to Flight.
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Chapter
XXX.—Athanasius is found Innocent of what he was
accused; his Accusers take to Flight.
Matters having been brought to
this issue with regard to Arsenius, the contrivers of this imposture
were reduced to perplexity; and Achab,246
| 246In Athanasius’ account (Apol. c. Arian.
65) this man’s name is given as ᾽Αρχαφ(Archaph), which is an
Egyptian name; its assonance with the biblical ᾽Αχαάβ may have made the latter a
current appellation. John was no doubt his monastic name.
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who was also called John, one of the principal accusers, having slipped
out of court in the tumult, effected his escape. Thus Athanasius
cleared himself from this charge, without having recourse to any
pleading;247
| 247παραγραφή ,
legal term; γραφή =
‘indictment,’ παραγραφή =
‘demurrer,’ so used by Isocrates, Demosthenes, &c., of
the classical authors.
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for he was confident that the sight only of Arsenius alive would
confound his calumniators.
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