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the catholic church knows as strangers those preaching something other than the faith. But that the faith formerly set forth in Sirmium under our pious emperor is equivalent to this faith, those who read it know. 26. The following signed the faith: Basil, Mark and George the bishop of Alexandria, Pancratius and Hypatianus and most of the bishops of the west. 3.300 I, George, bishop of Alexandria, set forth the faith; thus I confess I believe as is aforewritten. I, Acacius, bishop of Caesarea, set forth the faith; thus I confess I believe as is aforewritten. Uranius, bishop of Tyre, Eutychius, bishop of Eleutheropolis, Zoïlus, bishop of Larissa in Syria, Seras, bishop from Paraetonium in Libya, Paul, bishop of Emisa, Eustathius, bishop of Epiphania, Irenaeus, bishop of Tripolis in Phoenicia, Eusebius, bishop of Seleucia in Syria, Eutychianus, bishop of Patara in Lycia, Eustathius, bishop of Pinara and Sidyma, Basil, bishop of Caunus in Lydia, Peter, bishop of Hippus in Palestine, Stephen, bishop of Ptolemaïs in Libya, Eudoxius, bishop of *, Apollonius, bishop of Oxyrhynchus, Theoctistus, bishop of Ostracine, Leontius, bishop of Tripolis in Lydia, Theodosius, bishop of Philadelphia in Lydia, Phoebus, bishop of Polychalandus in Lydia, Magnus, bishop of Themisonium in Phrygia, Evagrius, bishop of Mitylene of the islands, Kyrion, bishop of Doliche, Augustus, bishop of Euphrates, Magnus, bishop of Themisonium in Phrygia, Polydeuces, bishop of * of the second province of Libya, Pancratius, bishop of Pelusium, 3.301 Philicadus, bishop of Agoustadae of the province of Phrygia, Serapion, bishop of Antipyrgus in Libya, Eusebius, bishop of Sebaste in Palestine, Heliodorus, bishop of Sozusa in Pentapolis, Ptolemy, bishop of Thmuis in Augustonica, Augarus, bishop of Cyrrhus in Euphrasia, Exeresius, bishop of Gerasa, Arabion, bishop of Adraa, Charisius, bishop of Azotus, Elissaeus, bishop of Diocletianopolis, Germanus, bishop of Petra, Barochius, bishop of Arabia. In all, 43 bishops. Thus far is completed the exposition of the aforementioned Semi-Arians and Arians. 27. You who are intelligent, having gone through this and the others, know how facile is the undertaking of the other of their systems and nothing is correct, nor does it share even a little in the confession according to God. For the Lord affirms, saying, "what you have heard in the ear, proclaim on the housetops"; and as the holy apostle says, "let each one speak the truth with his neighbor," but the prophet, refuting their malice, cries out saying "he speaks peacefully with his neighbor, but in his heart he has enmity," or rather, wickedness, so also these followers of Acacius, who are divided from the followers of Basil, wishing to dissolve the bond of the true confession, set forth a certain spurious and easily captured, from all sides deceptive exposition, so that they might be able from these stated things, if they should wish to deceive some, to be able to confess what is right; but if they should wish to reveal the poison of their own evil opinion, this exposition will be for them ambiguous towards the two positions and able to make the confession of each of their creations. But since indeed in this synod of 3.302 Acacius, which was divided from the other two synods—for we said how the Arian party was divided into three factions, that Eudoxius and Germanus, and George of Alexandria, and Euzoius of Antioch were split off into one faction, and Basil and Eleusius, Eustathius and George of Laodicea, and Silvanus of Tarsus, Macedonius of Constantinople and many others were likewise divided into one faction, and Acacius again, as I said before, and Meletius and Eutychius and certain others, these too another faction

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