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69. And once also the
Arians having lyingly asserted that Antony’s opinions were the
same as theirs, he was displeased and wroth against them. Then being
summoned by the bishops and all the brethren, he descended from the
mountain, and having entered Alexandria1116
1116 July
25–27, 338, Fest. Ind. x. | ,
he denounced the Arians, saying that their heresy was the last of all
and a forerunner of Antichrist. And he taught the people that the Son
of God was not a created being, neither had He come into being from
non-existence, but that He was the Eternal Word and Wisdom of the
Essence of the Father. And therefore it was impious to say,
‘there was a time when He was not,’ for the Word was always
co-existent with the Father. Wherefore have no fellowship with the most
impious Arians. For there is no communion between light and darkness1117 . For you are good Christians, but they, when
they say that the Son of the Father, the Word of God, is a created
being, differ in nought from the heathen, since they worship that which
is created, rather than God the creator1118
1118 Orat. ii. 23, &c. This was an argument much used
against Arianism. Antony’s arguments may be compared with those
of Ath. in Ep. Æg. 13. | .
But believe ye that the Creation itself is angry with them because they
number the Creator, the Lord of all, by whom all things came into
being, with those things which were originated.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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