Epistles on the Arian Heresy and the Deposition…

 Epistles on the Arian Heresy

 To our beloved and most reverend fellow-ministers of the Catholic Church in every place, Alexander sends greeting in the Lord:

 Alexander, to the priests and deacons, Alexandria and Mareotis, being present to them present, brethren beloved in the Lord, sends greeting:

 From a letter of St. Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, to Æglon, bishop of Cynopolis, against the Arians.

 1. The Word which is ungrudgingly sent down from heaven, is fitted for the irrigation of our hearts, if we have been prepared for His power, not by sp

 VI.—The Addition in the Codex, with a Various Reading.

IV.—Epistle to Æglon, Bishop of Cynopolis, Against the Arians.69 Two fragments from an epistle. St. Maxim., Theological and Polemical Works, vol. ii. pp. 152–155. Edit. Paris, 1675.

From a letter of St. Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, to Æglon, bishop of Cynopolis, against the Arians.

1. Natural will is the free faculty of every intelligent nature as having nothing involuntary which is in respect of its essence.

2. Natural operation is the innate motion of all substance. Natural operation is the substantial and notifying reason of every nature. Natural operation is the notifying virtue of every substance.