SANCTI HILARII LIBER DE SYNODIS, SEU DE FIDE ORIENTALIUM.
41. Ut essentiae nomine, ita sunt unum essentiae genere. 0513C
58. Filius ex Dei substantia, non ut creaturae ex voluntate. 0520C
71. Et pie dici potest, et pie taceri. ---Non est, 0527B
78. Orientalium laus ob haeresim coercitam. ---O 0530C 0531A 0531B
82. Quo sensu judicio communi damnetur. ---Sed 0535A
83. Quod pie a Nicaena synodo susceptum, non debeat 0535B improbari. 0535C
86. Some misunderstand ὁμοούσιον; does that prevent me from understanding it? The Samosatene was wrong in using the word ὁμοούσιον; does that make the Arians right in denying it? Eighty bishops once rejected it; but three hundred and eighteen recently accepted it. And for my own part I think the number sacred, for with such a number Abraham overcame the wicked kings, and was blessed by Him who is a type of the eternal priesthood. The former disapproved of it to oppose a heretic: the latter surely approved of it to oppose a heretic. The authority of the fathers is weighty, is the sanctity of their successors trivial? If their opinions were contradictory, we ought to decide which is the better: but if both their approval and disapproval established the same fact, why do we carp at such good decisions?
86. An quia ab 80 episcopis rejectum.---Male intelligitur homousion: quid ad me bene intelligentem? Male homousion 513 Samosatenus confessus est: sed numquid melius Arii negaverunt? Octoginta episcopi olim respuerunt; sed trecenti et decem octo nuper receperunt. Et mihi quidem 0539A ipse ille numerus hic sanctus est, in quo Abraham victor regum impiorum (Gen. XIV, 14), ab eo qui aeterni sacerdotii est forma, benedicitur. Illi contra haereticum improbaverunt: numquid et isti non adversum haereticum probaverunt? Gravis auctoritas est veterum: numquid et horum levis sanctitas est? Si contraria invicem senserunt, debemus quasi judices probare meliora: si vero et probando et improbando unum utrumque statuerunt, quid bene constituta convellimus?