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28. The news of the intrusion of
George.
The rest of their proceedings will perhaps be
thought incredible, and will fill all men with astonishment, by reason
of their extreme atrocity. It is necessary however to speak of them, in
order that your Christian zeal and piety may perceive that their
slanders and calumnies against us are framed for no other end, than
that they may drive us out of the Churches, and introduce their own
impiety in our place. For when the lawful Bishops, men of advanced age,
had some of them been banished, and others forced to fly, heathens and
catechumens, those who hold the first places in the senate and men who
are notorious for their wealth, were straightway commissioned by the
Arians to preach the holy faith instead of Christians1365 . And enquiry was no longer made, as the
Apostle enjoined, ‘if any be blameless1366 :’ but according to the practice of the
impious Jeroboam, he who could give most money was named Bishop; and it
made no difference to them, even if the man happened to be a heathen,
so long as he furnished them with money. Those who had been Bishops
from the time of Alexander, monks and ascetics, were banished: and men
practised only in calumny corrupted, as far as in them lay, the
Apostolic rule, and polluted the Churches. Truly their false
accusations against us have gained them much, that they should be able
to commit iniquity, and to do such things as these in your time; so
that the words of Scripture may be applied to them, ‘Woe unto
those through whom My name is blasphemed among the Gentiles1367 .’E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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