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excelling in life and word, about whom Eusebius of Pamphylia wrote great praises in the third discourse of those addressed to the emperor. And the most Christian emperor lavishly supplied to all the things for their needs. This holy and ecumenical synod, by the cooperation of the holy and consubstantial Trinity, deposed Arius and those of his mind, Eusebius of Nicomedia and Theognis of Nicaea and those with them, except for Eusebius of Pamphylia, who for the present agreed to the term "consubstantial," and it sent these into exile, with the all-praised Emperor Constantine being present with them and cooperating in all things according to God, and he commanded others to be ordained in their 22 place and it brought forth a written exposition of the faith which is now recited in every orthodox church. Then, when the impious Arius was present in the synod and being judged, Eusebius of Nicomedia and Theognis and Maris and Narcissus and Theophantus and Patrophilus supported Arius, who, having composed a blasphemous statement of faith, presented it to the synod. But when it was torn up, those who had made it turned around and condemned Arius, except for Secundus of Ptolemais of Egypt and Theonas of Marmarica, who were cast out with Arius and anathematized, they dictated the holy symbol of the faith, with all signing along with the most pious emperor, and they acclaimed it, and so the assembly was dissolved. In this year Crispus, the son of the emperor, a Christian, fell asleep; and Byzantium began to be built. The first holy and ecumenical synod therefore convened in the twelfth indiction, in the twentieth year of the great Constantine, on the 20th of the month of May. And the synod wrote an encyclical letter in Alexandria and Libya and Pentapolis, through which it declared the expulsion of Arius and Secundus and Theonas; and it also indicated concerning Meletius, that he should remain quietly in his own city, and those ordained by him should be confirmed by a more mystical ordination. And it also wrote concerning Pascha to no longer celebrate it with the Jews, but according to the Italian custom, celebrating it rather on the Lord's day. Likewise the most pious emperor also wrote letters everywhere commanding the same things and confirming the things proclaimed by the holy synod, and repudiating Arius along with those of his mind, that they should be called Porphyrians, and their writings should be burned, and those not doing this should be put to death; and he also set forth an imperial law that these things should be so. And when the festival of his twentieth anniversary of his reign was at hand, he invited all the fathers to a feast, reclining with them and splendidly honoring them; and of Paphnutius and similar confessors he kissed the eyes that had been gouged out and the limbs that had been maimed in the persecution, receiving sanctification from them. 23 And he advised all the bishops to keep the peace and to abstain from railings against their neighbor. And the petitions which some had presented against each other, he burned with fire, affirming with an oath, that if he should see a bishop committing adultery, he would readily cover him with his purple robe. And having gifted many things to all the churches and having exhorted the rulers of the provinces to honor the priests, he sent them all away rejoicing. But when the emperor was reproached by Greek philosophers in Byzantium, that he was not acting well contrary to the customs of the Roman emperors by innovating the religion, it seemed good to the emperor to send this one of the philosophers to Alexander the bishop to dispute with him. And Alexander was a divine man, but inexperienced in arguments. And he said to the dialectical philosopher who was speaking contentiously: "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ the true God to be silent and not to speak." And at the same time with the word he was muzzled and became mute. And to Macarius, the bishop of Jerusalem, who was present in the synod, the emperor commanded upon his return to search for the place of the holy resurrection and that of the

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βίῳ καὶ λόγῳ διαπρεπόντων, περὶ ὧν μεγάλους ἐπαίνους ἐν τῷ τρίτῳ λόγῳ τῶν εἰς τὸν βασιλέα Εὐσέβιος ὁ Παμφίλου ἔγραψεν. πᾶσι δὲ τὰ πρὸς χρείαν δαψιλῶς ὁ χριστιανικώτατος βασιλεὺς ἐχορήγει. αὕτη ἡ ἁγία καὶ οἰκουμενικὴ σύνοδος συνεργίᾳ τῆς ἁγίας καὶ ὁμοουσίου τριάδος Ἄρειον καθεῖλε καὶ τοὺς ὁμόφρονας αὐτοῦ, Εὐσέβιον τὸν Νικομηδείας καὶ Θεόγνιν τὸν Νικαίας καὶ τοὺς περὶ αὐτούς, χωρὶς Εὐσεβίου τοῦ Παμφίλου συνθεμένου τῇ φωνῇ τοῦ ὁμοουσίου πρὸς τὸ παρόν, καὶ τούτους ἐξορίαις παρέπεμψεν, συμπαρόντος αὐτοῖς καὶ τοῦ πανευφήμου βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου καὶ συνεργοῦντος ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς κατὰ θεόν, ἄλλους τε ἀντ' 22 αὐτῶν χειροτονηθῆναι ἐκέλευσε πίστεώς τε ἔκθεσιν ἔγγραφον ἐξήνεγκε τὴν κατὰ πᾶσαν ἐκκλησίαν ὀρθοδόξων νῦν ἀπαγγελλομένην. τότε Ἀρείου τοῦ δυσσεβοῦς παρόντος ἐν τῇ συνόδῳ καὶ κρινομένου, Εὐσέβιος ὁ Νικομηδείας καὶ Θεόγνις καὶ Μάρις καὶ Νάρκισσος καὶ Θεόφαντος καὶ Πατρόφιλος ἀντεποιοῦντο Ἀρείου, οἳ συντάξαντες πίστεως λόγον βλάσφημον ἐπέδωκαν τῇ συνόδῳ. τοῦ δὲ διαρρηχθέντος, οἱ πεποιηκότες τοῦτον ἀντιστραφέντες κατεδίκασαν Ἄρειον χωρὶς Σεκούνδου Πτολεαΐδος τῆς Αἰγύπτου καὶ Θεωνᾶ τοῦ Μαρμαρικῆς, ὧν ἐκβληθέντων σὺν Ἀρείῳ καὶ ἀναθεματισθέντων, τὸ ἅγιον σύμβολον τῆς πίστεως ὑπηγόρευσαν ὑπογράψαντες ἅπαντες σὺν τῷ πανευσεβεῖ βασιλεῖ, καὶ εὐφήμησαν, καὶ οὕτω διελύθη ὁ σύλλογος. Τούτῳ τῷ ἔτει Κρίσπος, ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ βασιλέως, Χριστιανὸς ἐκοιμήθη· καὶ τὸ Βυζάντιον ἤρξατο κτίζεσθαι. Συνέστη οὖν ἡ ἁγία καὶ οἰκουμενικὴ πρώτη σύνοδος τῇ δωδεκάτῃ ἰνδικτιῶνι, ἔτει εἰκοστῷ τοῦ μεγάλου Κωνσταντίνου, μηνὶ Μαίῳ κʹ. ἔγραψε δὲ ἐπιστολὴν ἐγκύκλιον ἡ σύνοδος ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ καὶ Λιβύῃ καὶ Πενταπόλει, δι' ἧς ἐδήλωσε τὴν ἐκβολὴν Ἀρείου καὶ Σεκούνδου καὶ Θεωνᾶ· ἐσήμανε δὲ καὶ περὶ Μελετίου, ὥστε ἰδιάζειν ἐν τῇ ἰδίᾳ πόλει ἡσυχάζοντα, τοὺς δὲ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ χειροτονηθέντας μυστικωτέρᾳ χειροτονίᾳ βεβαιοῦσθαι. ἔγραψε δὲ καὶ περὶ τοῦ πάσχα μηκέτι μετὰ Ἰουδαίων αὐτὸ ποιεῖν, ἀλλὰ τῷ κατὰ Ἰταλίαν τύπῳ κατὰ τὴν κυριακὴν μᾶλλον ἡμέραν ἑορτάζοντας. ὁμοίως καὶ ὁ πανευσεβὴς βασιλεὺς ἐπιστολὰς ἔγραψε πανταχοῦ τὰ αὐτὰ κελευούσας καὶ βεβαιούσας τὰ παρὰ τῆς ἁγίας συνόδου ἐκφωνηθέντα, καὶ Ἄρειον ἅμα τοῖς ὁμόφροσιν αὐτοῦ ἀποκηρύττων, Πορφυριανούς τε αὐτοὺς ὀνομάζεσθαι, καὶ τὰ συγγράμματα αὐτῶν κατακαίεσθαι, καὶ τοὺς μὴ τοῦτο ποιοῦντας θανατοῦσθαι· ἐξέθετο δὲ καὶ νόμον βασιλικὸν οὕτω ταῦτα γενέσθαι. τῆς δὲ ἑορτῆς ἐνστάσης κατ' αὐτὸ τῆς εἰκοσαετηρίδος τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας, πάντας τοὺς πατέρας εἰς ἑστίασιν προετρέψατο, συγκατακλιθεὶς αὐτοῖς καὶ λαμπρῶς τιμήσας αὐτούς· Παφνουτίου δὲ καὶ τῶν ὁμοίων ὁμολογητῶν τοὺς ἐξορυχθέντας ὀφθαλμοὺς καὶ τὰ πηρωθέντα μέλη ἐν τῷ διωγμῷ κατεφίλει, ἁγιασμὸν ἐξ αὐτῶν ποριζόμενος. 23 παρῄνει δὲ πᾶσι τοῖς ἐπισκόποις εἰρήνην ἄγειν καὶ τῶν κατὰ τοῦ πλησίον λοιδοριῶν ἀπέχεσθαι. τοὺς δὲ λιβέλλους, οὓς κατ' ἀλλήλων τινὲς ἐπιδεδώκασιν, πυρὶ κατέκαυσεν ὅρκῳ βεβαιῶν, ὡς, εἰ ἴδοι ἐπίσκοπον μοιχεύοντα, τῇ πορφυρίδι σκέπειν τοῦτον προθύμως. πολλὰ δὲ πάσαις ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις δωρησάμενος καὶ τοῖς ἄρχουσι τῶν ἐθνῶν τιμᾷν τοὺς ἱερεῖς παρακελευσάμενος χαίροντας ἅπαντας ἐξαπέστειλεν. τοῦ δὲ βασιλέως ὑπὸ φιλοσόφων Ἑλλήνων ὀνειδισθέντος ἐν Βυζαντίῳ, ὡς οὐ πράττει καλῶς παρὰ τὰ ἔθη τῶν βασιλέων Ῥωμαίων νεωτερίζων τὴν θρησκείαν, ἔδοξε τῷ βασιλεῖ ἕνα τῶν φιλοσόφων Ἀλεξάνδρῳ τῷ ἐπισκόπῳ τοῦτον πρὸς τὸ διαλεχθῆναι μετ' αὐτοῦ παραπέμψαι. ὁ δὲ Ἀλέξανδρος θεῖος μὲν ἦν ἀνήρ, λόγων δὲ ἄπειρος. εἶπε δὲ τῷ διαλεκτικῷ φιλοσόφῳ γλωσσαλγοῦντι· "ἐπιτάττω σοι ἐν ὀνόματι Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τοῦ ἀληθινοῦ θεοῦ σιωπᾷν καὶ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι." ἅμα δὲ τῷ λόγῳ ἐφιμώθη καὶ γέγονεν ἄλαλος. τῷ δὲ ἐπισκόπῳ Ἱεροσολύμων Μακαρίῳ παρόντι ἐν τῇ συνόδῳ προσέταξεν ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐπανιόντι ἐρευνῆσαι τὸν τόπον τῆς ἁγίας ἀναστάσεως καὶ τὸν τοῦ