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| The Partisans of Macedonius disputed with the Arians concerning Acacius.
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Chapter XIV.—The
Partisans of Macedonius disputed with the Arians concerning
Acacius.
At this period the adherents of
Macedonius, among whom were Eleusius, Eustathius, and Sophronius, who
now began openly to be called Macedonians, as constituting a distinct
sect, adopted the bold measure on the death of Constantius, of calling
together those of their own sentiments who had been convened at
Seleucia, and of holding several councils. They condemned the partisans
of Acacius and the faith which had been established at Ariminum, and
confirmed the doctrines which had been set forth at Antioch, and
afterwards approved at Seleucia.
When interrogated as to the cause of their dispute with
the partisans of Acacius, with whom, as being of the same sentiments as
themselves they had formerly held communion, they replied by the mouth
of Sophronius,1396
| 1396Soc. iii. 10, gives a direct extract; Soz. leaves
out some words purposely.
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a bishop of Paphlagonia, that while the Christians in the West
maintained the use of the term “consubstantial,” the
followers of Aëtius in the East upheld the dogma of dissimilarity
as to substance; and that the former party irregularly wove together
into a unity the distinct persons of the Father and of the Son, by
their use of the term “consubstantial,” and that the latter
party represented too great a difference as existing in the
relationship between the nature of the Father and of the Son; but that
they themselves preserved the mean between the two extremes, and
avoided both errors, by religiously maintaining that in hypostasis, the
Son is like unto the Father. It was by such representations as these
that the Macedonians vindicated themselves from blame.
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