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| The Heresy of Macedonius.
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Chapter V.—The Heresy of Macedonius.
The Arians, having effected the death of Paulus, or rather having
despatched him to the kingdom of heaven, promoted Macedonius465
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the vicissitudes of the see of Constantinople, after the death of
Alexander, in a.d. 336, vide Soc. ii. 6 and
Soz. iii. 3. Paulus was murdered in 350 or 351, and the “shortly
after” of the text means nine years, Macedonius being replaced by
Eudoxius of Antioch, in 360. On how far the heresy of the
“Pneumatomachi,” called Macedonianism, was really due to
the teaching of Macedonius, vide Robertson’s Church Hist.
II. iv. for reff. | in his place, who, they imagined, held the
same sentiments, and belonged to the same faction as themselves,
because he, like them, blasphemed the Holy Ghost. But, shortly after,
they deposed him also, because he refused to call Him a creature Whom
the Holy Scriptures affirm to be the Son of God. After his separation
from them, he became the leader of a sect of his own. He taught that
the Son of God is not of the same substance as the Father, but that He
is like Him in every particular. He also openly affirmed that the Holy
Ghost is a creature. These circumstances occurred not long afterwards
as we have narrated them.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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