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| Eunomius separates from Eudoxius; a Disturbance is raised at Alexandria by Eudoxius, and Athanasius flees into Voluntary Exile again, but in Consequence of the Clamors of the People the Emperor recalls and re-establishes him in his See.
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Chapter XIII.—Eunomius
separates from Eudoxius; a Disturbance is raised at Alexandria by
Eudoxius, and Athanasius flees into Voluntary Exile again, but in
Consequence of the Clamors of the People the Emperor recalls and
re-establishes him in his See.
About the same time
Eunomius605
| 605Eunomius adopted the standpoint and also the views
of Aëtius and gave them his own name. Briefly his fundamental
principle was that the Son is absolutely unlike the Father in
substance, and hence a creature among other creatures, a mere man.
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separated himself from Eudoxius, and held assemblies apart, because
after he had repeatedly entreated that his preceptor Aëtius might
be received into communion, Eudoxius continued to oppose it. Now
Eudoxius did this against his preference, for he did not reject the
opinion with Aëtius since it was the same as his own;606
but he yielded to the prevailing sentiment of his own party, who
objected to Aëtius as heterodox. This was the cause of the
division between Eunomius and Eudoxius, and such was the state of
things at Constantinople. But the church at Alexandria was disturbed by
an edict of the prætorian prefects, sent hither by means of
Eudoxius. Whereupon Athanasius, dreading the irrational impetuosity of
the multitude, and fearing lest he should be regarded as the author of
the excesses that might be committed, concealed himself for four entire
months in an ancestral tomb. Inasmuch however as the people, on account
of their affection for him, became seditious in impatience of his
absence, the emperor, on ascertaining that on this account agitation
prevailed at Alexandria, ordered by his letters that Athanasius should
be suffered to preside over the churches without molestation; and this
was the reason why the Alexandrian church enjoyed tranquillity until
the death of Athanasius. How the Arian faction became possessed of the
churches after his decease, we shall unfold in the course of our
history.607
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