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| After having given Audience to both Parties, the Emperor condemned the Followers of Arius and banished them.
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Chapter XX.—After
having given Audience to both Parties, the Emperor condemned the
Followers of Arius and banished them.
The next debate by the priests
turned upon doctrine.1123
| 1123Eus. V. C. iii. 13, 14; Soc. i. 8.
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The emperor gave patient attention to the speeches of both parties; he
applauded those who spoke well, rebuked those who displayed a tendency
to altercation, and according to his apprehension of what he heard, for
he was not wholly unpracticed in the Greek tongue, he addressed himself
with kindness to each one. Finally all the priests agreed with one
another and conceded that the Son is consubstantial with the Father. At
the commencement of the conference there were but seventeen who praised
the opinion of Arius, but eventually the majority of these yielded
assent to the general view. To this judgment the emperor likewise
deferred, for he regarded the unanimity of the conference to be a
divine approbation; and he ordained that any one who should be
rebellious thereto, should forthwith be sent into banishment, as guilty
of endeavoring to overthrow the Divine definitions. I had thought it
necessary to reproduce the very document concerning the matter, as an
example of the truth, in order that posterity might possess in a fixed
and clear form the symbol of the faith which proved pacificatory at the
time but since some pious friends, who understood such matters,
recommended that these truths ought to be spoken of and heard by the
initiated and their initiators1124
| 1124μύσται καὶ
μυσταγωγοί ,
as applied to the Christian mysteries. The principle here adduced is
different from that which ruled with Ruf. H. E. i. 6; Soc. i.
8.
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only, I agreed with their council; for it is not unlikely that some of
the uninitiated may read this book. While I have concealed such of the
prohibited material as I ought to keep silent about, I have not
altogether left the reader ignorant of the opinions held by the
synod.
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