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3. Outrages of the Arians
against the Bishops.
For whom have they ever persecuted and taken,
that they have not insulted and injured as they pleased? Whom have they
ever sought after and found, that they have not handled in such a
manner, that either he has died a miserable death, or has been
ill-treated in every way? Whatever the magistrates appear to do, it is
their work; and the others are merely the tools of their will and
wickedness. In consequence, where is there a place that has not some
memorial of their malice? Who has ever opposed them, without their
conspiring against him, inventing pretexts for his ruin after the
manner of Jezebel? Where is there a Church that is not at this moment
lamenting the success of their plots against her Bishops? Antioch is
mourning for the orthodox Confessor Eustathius1397
1397 Vid.
Hist. Arian. §4. also Theodoret Hist. i. 20.
[Prolegg. ch. ii. §4.] The name of Euphration occurs de
Syn. 17 as the Bishop to whom Eusebius of Cæsarea wrote an
heretical letter. Balaneæ is on the Syrian coast. Paltus also and
Antaradus are in Syria, and these persecutions took place about a.d. 338; that of Eutropius, and of Lucius his
successor, about 331, shortly after the proceedings against Eustathius.
Cyrus too was banished under pretence of Sabellianism about 338. For
Asclepas, Theodulus, and Olympius vid. Hist. Arian. §19.
and supr. Apol. Ar. 44, 45. | ;
Balaneæ for the most admirable Euphration1398 ;
Paltus and Antaradus for Kymatius1399 and Carterius;
Adrianople for that lover of Christ, Eutropius, and his successor
Lucius, who was often loaded with chains by their means, and so
perished; Ancyra mourns for Marcellus, Berrhœa1400 for Cyrus1401 , Gaza for
Asclepas. Of all these, after inflicting many outrages, they by their
intrigues procured the banishment; but for Theodulus and Olympius,
Bishops of Thrace, and for us and our Presbyters, they caused diligent
search to be made, to the intent that if we were discovered we should
suffer capital punishment: and probably we should have so perished, had
we not fled at that very time contrary to their intentions. For letters
to that effect were delivered to the Proconsul Donatus against Olympius
and his fellows, and to Philagrius against me. And having raised a
persecution against Paul, Bishop of Constantinople, as soon as they
found him, they caused him to be openly strangled1402
1402 a.d. 350, infr. Hist. Arian. §4; for
Cucusus, see D.C.B. i. 529, 530. | at a place called Cucusus in Cappadocia,
employing as their executioner for the purpose Philip, who was Prefect.
He was a patron of their heresy, and the tool of their wicked
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