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| The Macedonians hold a Synod at Lampsacus, during a Period of Both Secular and Ecclesiastical Agitation; and after confirming the Antiochian Creed, and anathematizing that promulgated at Ariminum, they again ratify the Deposition of Acacius and Eudoxius.
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Chapter IV.—The
Macedonians hold a Synod at Lampsacus, during a Period of Both Secular
and Ecclesiastical Agitation; and after confirming the Antiochian
Creed, and anathematizing that promulgated at Ariminum, they again
ratify the Deposition of Acacius and Eudoxius.
While these events were taking
place there could be no peace either in the church or in the state. Now
those who had been empowered by the emperor to hold a council assembled
at Lampsacus in the consulate just mentioned: this was seven years
after the council of Seleucia. There, after confirming the Antiochian
Creed, to which they had subscribed at Seleucia,572
they anathematized that which had been set forth at Ariminum573
| 573Cf. II. 37. Six years previous to the point of time
reached by the historian thus far; i.e. 359 a.d.
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by their former associates in opinion. They moreover again condemned
the party of Acacius and Eudoxius, and declared their deposition to
have been just.574
The civil war which was then impending prevented Eudoxius bishop of
Constantinople from either gainsaying or revenging these
determinations. Wherefore Eleusius bishop of Cyzicus and his adherents
became for a little while the stronger party; inasmuch as they
supported the views of Macedonius, which although before but obscurely
known, acquired great publicity through the Synod at Lampsacus. This
Synod, I think, was the cause of the increase of the Macedonians in the
Hellespont; for Lampsacus is situated in one of the narrow bays of the
Hellespont. Such was the issue of this council.
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