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Chapter XX.—Divisions
among the Arians and Other Heretics.
I conceive it right moreover
not to leave unnoticed the proceedings of the other religious bodies,
viz. the Arians,759
| 759See chap. 23 of this book.
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Novatians, and those who received their denominations from Macedonius
and Eunomius. For the Church once being divided, rested not in that
schism, but the separatists taking occasion from the slightest and most
frivolous pretences, disagreed among themselves. The manner and time,
as well as the causes for which they raised mutual dissensions, we will
state as we proceed. But let it be observed here, that the emperor
Theodosius persecuted none of them except Eunomius; but inasmuch as the
latter, by holding meetings in private houses at Constantinople, where
he read the works he had composed,
corrupted many with his doctrines, he ordered him to be sent into
exile. Of the other heretics he interfered with no one; nor did he
constrain them to hold communion with himself; but he allowed them all
to assemble in their own conventicles, and to entertain their own
opinions on points of Christian faith. Permission to build themselves
churches without the cities was granted to the rest: but inasmuch as
the Novatians held sentiments precisely identical with his own as to
faith, he ordered that they should be suffered to continue unmolested
in their churches within the cities, as I have before noticed.760
Concerning these I think it opportune, however, to give in this place
some farther account, and shall therefore retrace a few circumstances
in their history.
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