History of the Arians

 a wild beast has come forth upon the earth, this heresy. For not only does it harm the innocent with its words as with teeth, but it has also hired ex

 Nevertheless, since Eusebius was lusting after and wanting to seize the episcopate of the city (for thus also he had moved from Berytus to Nicomedia),

 seeing themselves, who happened to be suspected in all things, not prevailing in an ecclesiastical judgment, they approach Constantius alone and then

 you deemed them worthy to have communion from them, they were not worthy of blows but if you were beating them as wicked men, why were you summoning

 of the accusers, as they themselves had suborned everything and contrived such things. Seeing these things, although they had come with haste, thinkin

 deeds to be revealed. For since those in Adrianople did not wish to have communion with them, as men who had fled from the Synod and had become liable

 wonderful and daring in all things, as they have seen them in Antioch, they plotted together, but Stephen alone undertook the drama as being well-suit

 the people of Alexandria. Making our aim your good order in all things ... (This too was likewise written in the same 65th oration and because it vari

 having received letters from him. And having gone up also to Rome, they were repenting, confessing that everything whatsoever they had done and said a

 present, not with palace officials or notaries having been sent, such as they themselves now do, but not even when the emperor was present, nor having

 the emperor commanded.” How many were harassed by them in every city, so that they might not 31.6 condemn them as friends of the bishops. For letters

 Lucifer the bishop from the metropolis of Sardinia, and Eusebius from Vercelli in Italy, and Dionysius 33.7 from Milan, which is also a metropolis of

 Accept these things.” 36.1 But the bishop, persuading by speech, was teaching: “How is it possible for this to happen against Athanasius? For how can

 of the gates, so that no orthodox person, entering, might see Liberius? Rome also had experience of the Christ-fighters and knew at last what it had n

 with 40.3 Constantius’ soldiers. Truly, wickedness is blind for in that by which they thought to vex the confessors by separating them from one anoth

 he might write against us, but hold communion with the Arians. 43.2 But the old man, finding the hearing of it unpleasant and being grieved that he sh

 What courtier of his compelled him to subscribe against anyone, that Valens and his party should say such things? Cease, I beseech you, and remember t

 (for he was now a hundred years old) the heartless one was put to shame. For the new Ahab, another Belshazzar who had arisen among us, overlooked all

 he writes evil things again to the council and the people of Alexandria, inciting the younger men, so that they all might come together and either exp

 to Felicissimus, the then duke, and to Nestorius the prefect, so that if either Philip the prefect or anyone else should dare to plot against Athanasi

 ordered the church to be handed over.” And while all were marveling at this and nodding to one another and saying, “Has Constantius become a heretic?”

 the miracle had a more manifest proof. For a certain licentious young man, running in and daring to do so, sat upon the throne. And sitting down, the

 And to their women they have given authority to abuse whomever they wish. And the respectable and faithful women would turn aside and yield the way to

 And they, seeing the man blind from birth now seeing, and the man who had been a paralytic for a long time made well, they accused the Lord who had do

 the evils that have come to pass, after the persecution which occurred through Heraclius, they again do not cease slandering to the emperor. For they

 the antichrist himself? For he himself, because of his heresy, was the first to hasten to rival Saul in cruelty. For that one, when the priests had gi

 writing, he repents, and repenting, he is provoked, and again he laments and not having what he should do, he shows the desolation of his soul's mind.

 For they did not even pity them when they were sick, but even drove them on when they were bearing up with difficulty on account of their weakness, so

 he is, such as that one might become. For he speaks words against the most high, being the head of the impious heresy, and he makes war against the sa

 to the man. But if you speak having heard from these men, it is just for you to believe also the things said by him, but if you do not believe him, bu

 having caused the Arian heresy to be so much as 78.5 named in it. For still only in the whole of Egypt was there freedom of speech for orthodoxy, and

 It is good to be content with the divine scripture and for all to be persuaded by it as it commands, both because of the other heresies and especially

 as the soldiers were coming on, and men were being shot with arrows and killed. And some of the soldiers also turned to plundering and stood the virgi

having received letters from him. And having gone up also to Rome, they were repenting, confessing that everything whatsoever they had done and said against him, all these things were 26.2 false and only a calumny. And not simply have they done this either, but for having also anathematized the Arian heresy, they have given their repentance in writing, writing to Julius the bishop, in Latin indeed, but translated into Greek, these things; for the copy was sent to us from Paul bishop of Trier in Latin. 26.3 Translation from the Latin: To my lord, most blessed Pope Julius, Ursacius and Valens. Since it has been established that we before this many and terrible things... (It was written later in the 68th discourse and is in all respects similar and equal.) 26.4 Translation from the Latin: To my lord and brother Athanasius the bishop, Ursacius and Valens, bishops. An occasion was given to us through our brother and fellow presbyter... (It was written later in the same 68th discourse and is similar and equal in its entirety.) 26.5 Having written these things, they also signed the letters of peace when Athanasius’s presbyters, Peter and Irenaeus, and the layman Ammonius passed by, although he had not even written to them through them. 27.1 Who then was not amazed, seeing these things and so great a peace of the churches? Who did not rejoice seeing the concord of so many bishops? Who did not glorify the Lord, beholding the gladness of the people in the congregations? How many of the enemies repented; how many of those who previously slandered apologized; how many who formerly hated him afterwards loved him; how many of those who had written against him sang a recantation. 27.2 And many of those who were with the Arians not by choice but by necessity, coming by night, made their apology, and both anathematized the heresy, and asked to have pardon, because through the conspiracies and slanders coming from them they appear there in body, but in their heart are gathered with Athanasius and are always with him; yes, believe it. 28.1 But hearing and seeing these things, the heirs of the opinion and impiety of Eusebius and his party, Leontius the eunuch, who ought not to receive communion even as a layman, because he had mutilated himself in order to be able to sleep henceforth with impunity with a certain Eustolium, a woman on his account, though called a virgin, and George and Acacius and Theodore and Nar 28.2 cissus, who also were deposed in the synod, were greatly ashamed. Then, seeing the agreement and peace of the bishops toward Athanasius (and they were more than 400), from great Rome and all Italy and Calabria and Apulia and Campania and Bruttium and Sicily and Sardinia and Corsica and all of Africa, and those from the Gauls and Britain and the Spains with the great and confessor Hosius, then those from the Pannonias and Noricum and Siscia and Dalmatia and Dardania and Dacia and Moesia and Macedonia and Thessaly and all of Achaia and Crete and Cyprus and Lycia and most of Palestine and Isauria and Egypt 28.3 and Thebais and all of Libya and Pentapolis; seeing these things, they were seized with envy and fear, with envy because of the communion of so many, and with fear lest those who had been deceived by them should be added to the unanimity of so many, and henceforth their heresy, being made a public example, should be triumphed over and pilloried everywhere. 29.1 First, they persuade Ursacius and Valens and their party, like dogs, to change their minds and to return to their own vomit, and like swine, to wallow again in the former mire of impiety, and to fabricate a pretext for their reversal, that they had done this out of fear of the most God-fearing Constans, and yet, even if there was fear, 29.2 it was not right, if indeed they were confident in what they had done, to become traitors to these things. But when there was not even fear, but they were lying, how are they not worthy of all condemnation? For neither a soldier

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λαβόντες παρ' αὐτοῦ γράμματα. ἀνελθόντες δὲ καὶ εἰς τὴν Ῥώμην μετενόουν ὁμολο γοῦντες ὅτι πάντα, ὅσαπερ πεποιήκασι καὶ εἰρήκασι κατ' αὐτοῦ, ταῦτα εἶναι πάντα 26.2 ψευδῆ καὶ μόνον συκοφαντίαν. οὐχ ἁπλῶς δὲ τοῦτο οὐδ' αὐτοὶ πεποιήκασιν, ἀλλὰ γὰρ καὶ ἀναθεματίσαντες τὴν ἀρειανὴν αἵρεσιν ἔγγραφον τὴν μετάνοιαν αὐτῶν δεδώκασι γράψαντες Ἰουλίῳ τῷ ἐπισκόπῳ, Ῥωμαιστὶ μέν, μεταβληθέντα δὲ Ἑλληνιστί, ταῦτα·τὸ γὰρ ἀντίγραφον ἀπεστάλη ἡμῖν παρὰ Παύλου ἐπισκόπου Τριβέρων Ῥωμαιστί. 26.3 Ἑρμηνεία ἀπὸ Ῥωμαικοῦ Κυρίῳ μου μακαριωτάτῳ πάπᾳ Ἰουλίῳ Οὐρσάκιος καὶ Οὐάλης. Ἐπειδὴ συνέστηκεν ἡμᾶς πρὸ τούτου πολλά τε καὶ δεινά ... (Ἐγράφη ὀπίσω εἰς τὸν ξηʹ λόγον καὶ ἔστι κατὰ πάντα ὁμοία καὶ ἴση.) 26.4 Ἑρμηνεία ἀπὸ Ῥωμαικοῦ Κυρίῳ μου ἀδελφῷ Ἀθανασίῳ ἐπισκόπῳ Οὐρσάκιος καὶ Οὐάλης ἐπίσκοποι. Ἀφορμὴ ἡμῖν ἐδόθη διὰ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ καὶ συμπρεσβυτέρου ... (Ἐγράφη ὀπίσω εἰς τὸν αὐτὸν ξηʹ λόγον καὶ ἔστιν ὁμοία καὶ ἴση ἐξ ὁλοκλήρου.) 26.5 Ταῦτα γράψαντες ὑπέγραψαν καὶ τοῖς εἰρηνικοῖς παρερχομένων πρεσβυτέρων Ἀθανασίου Πέτρου τε καὶ Εἰρηναίου καὶ Ἀμμωνίου λαικοῦ, καίτοι μηδὲ δι' αὐτῶν γράψαντος αὐτοῖς. 27.1 Τίς τοίνυν οὐκ ἐθαύμαζε βλέπων ταῦτα καὶ τὴν τοσαύτην τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν εἰρήνην; τίς οὐκ ἔχαιρεν ὁρῶν τῶν τοσούτων ἐπισκόπων τὴν ὁμόνοιαν; τίς οὐκ ἐδόξαζε τὸν κύριον θεωρῶν τῶν λαῶν τὴν ἐν ταῖς συνάξεσιν εὐφροσύνην; πόσοι τῶν ἐχθρῶν μετ ενόουν· πόσοι τῶν πρότερον διαβαλλόντων ἀπελογοῦντο· πόσοι πρότερον μισοῦντες αὐτὸν ὕστερον ἠγάπησαν· πόσοι τῶν γραψάντων κατ' αὐτοῦ παλινῳδίαν ᾖσαν. 27.2 πολλοὶ καὶ τῶν μὴ προαιρέσει, ἀλλ' ἀνάγκῃ μετὰ τῶν Ἀρειανῶν ὄντες ἐρχόμενοι νυκτὸς ἀπελογοῦντο, καὶ τὴν μὲν αἵρεσιν ἀνεθεμάτιζον, ἠξίουν δὲ συγγνώμην ἔχειν, ὅτι διὰ τὰς συσκευὰς καὶ τὰς διαβολὰς τὰς παρ' αὐτῶν γιγνομένας τοῖς μὲν σώμασιν ἐκεῖ φαίνονται, τῇ δὲ καρδίᾳ μετὰ Ἀθανασίου συνάγονται καὶ ἀεὶ μετ' αὐτοῦ τυγχάνουσι· ναὶ πιστεύσατε. 28.1 Ἀλλὰ ταῦτα ἀκούοντες καὶ βλέποντες οἱ κληρονόμοι τῆς γνώμης καὶ τῆς ἀσεβείας τῶν περὶ Εὐσέβιον, Λεόντιος ὁ ἀπόκοπος, ὃν οὐδὲ ὡς λαικὸν κοινωνεῖν ἐχρῆν, διότι ἑαυτὸν ἀπέκοψεν ὑπὲρ τοῦ μετ' ἐξουσίας λοιπὸν κοιμᾶσθαι μετὰ Εὐστολίου τινός, γυναικὸς μὲν δι' αὐτόν, λεγομένης δὲ παρθένου, Γεώργιός τε καὶ Ἀκάκιος καὶ Θεόδωρος καὶ Νάρ 28.2 κισσος, οἵτινες καὶ ἐν τῇ συνόδῳ καθῃρέθησαν, μεγάλως ᾐσχύνοντο. εἶτα βλέποντες τὴν πρὸς Ἀθανάσιον τῶν ἐπισκόπων συμφωνίαν τε καὶ εἰρήνην, πλείους δὲ ἦσαν υʹ, ἀπό τε τῆς μεγάλης Ῥώμης καὶ τῆς Ἰταλίας πάσης Καλαβρίας τε καὶ Ἀπουλίας καὶ Καμπανίας Βριττίας τε καὶ Σικελίας Σερδινίας τε καὶ Κορσικῆς καὶ πάσης τῆς Ἀφρικῆς τούς τε ἀπὸ Γαλλίων καὶ Βριττανίας καὶ Σπανίων μετὰ τοῦ μεγάλου καὶ ὁμολογητοῦ Ὁσίου, ἔπειτα τοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν Παννονίων καὶ Νωρικοῦ καὶ Σισκίας ∆αλματίας τε καὶ ∆αρδανίας ∆ακίας τε καὶ Μυσίας Μακεδονίας Θεσσαλίας καὶ πάσης τῆς Ἀχαίας καὶ Κρήτης Κύπρου τε καὶ Λυκίας καὶ πλείστους τῆς Παλαιστίνης τε καὶ Ἰσαυρίας Αἰγύπτου 28.3 καὶ Θηβαίδος καὶ πάσης Λιβύης καὶ Πενταπόλεως· ταῦτα βλέποντες ἐκεῖνοι φθόνῳ καὶ φόβῳ συνεσχέθησαν, φθόνῳ μὲν διὰ τὴν τοσούτων κοινωνίαν, φόβῳ δὲ μὴ οἱ παρ' αὐτῶν ἀπατηθέντες προστεθῶσι τῇ τῶν τοσούτων ὁμοψυχίᾳ καὶ λοιπὸν ἡ αἵρεσις αὐτῶν παραδειγματισθεῖσα θριαμβευθῇ καὶ στηλιτευθῇ πανταχοῦ. 29.1 Πρῶτον μὲν τοὺς περὶ Οὐρσάκιον καὶ Οὐάλεντα ὡς τοὺς κύνας μεταπείθουσι μετα βαλέσθαι καὶ εἰς τὸν ἴδιον ἐμετὸν ἐπιστρέψαι καὶ ὡς τοὺς χοίρους εἰς τὸν πρότερον βόρ βορον τῆς ἀσεβείας πάλιν κυλισθῆναι πρόφασίν τε τῆς μετανοίας πλάσασθαι, ὡς διὰ φόβον τοῦ θεοσεβεστάτου Κώνσταντος εἶεν τοῦτο πεποιηκότες, καίτοι, εἰ καὶ φόβος 29.2 ἦν, ἀλλ' οὐκ ἐχρῆν, εἴπερ ἐθάρρουν οἷς ἔπραξαν, προδότας τούτων γίγνεσθαι. ὅτε δὲ οὐδὲ φόβος, ἀλλ' ἐψεύδοντο, πῶς οὐκ ἄξιοι πάσης καταγνώσεώς εἰσιν; οὔτε γὰρ στρατιώτου

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