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Allocutio ad imperatorem Constantinum [Sp.] SANCTI EUSTATHII EPISCOPI ANTIOCHENI ALLOCUTIO AD IMPERATOREM CONSTANTINUM IN CONCILIO NICAENO.

We thank God, most excellent emperor, who directs your earthly kingdom for you; who through you has abolished the error of idols, and has established the cheerfulness of the faithful in boldness. The stench of demons has ceased; the objects of worship of Hellenic polytheism have been destroyed; the darkness of ignorance is driven away; the world is illuminated by the light of the knowledge of God; the Father is glorified; the Son is worshipped together with him; the Holy Spirit is proclaimed; a consubstantial Trinity, one 676 divinity in three persons and hypostases is preached.

By this, O emperor, is the power of your piety fortified; keep this inviolate for us. Let no heretic, having infiltrated the Church, take away any one of the Trinity, leaving the remainder dishonored. Arius, named for his madness, is the cause of our discussion and our assembly; who, we know not how, having been enrolled in the presbytery of the Church of Alexandria, escaped our notice, being alien to the teaching of the thrice-blessed prophets and apostles.

For he is not ashamed to deprive the only-begotten Son and Word of the Father of his consubstantiality with the Father, and this worshipper of the created is eager to number the creator with the creation. You might persuade this man, O emperor, to change his mind, not to oppose the apostolic teachings; or if he persists in the impious tenets of the false doctrine in which he was caught, you might utterly remove him from the fold of Christ and of us, so that he may not make the souls of the more simple a prey for his turbid verbal flattery.

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Allocutio ad imperatorem Constantinum [Sp.] SANCTI EUSTATHII EPISCOPI ANTIOCHENI ALLOCUTIO AD IMPERATOREM CONSTANTINUM IN CONCILIO NICAENO.

Εὐχαριστοῦμεν Θεῷ, κράτιστε βασιλεῦ, τῷ τὴν ἐπίγειον συνθύνοντί σοι βασιλείαν· τῷ τὴν πλάνην τῶν εἰδώλων διὰ σοῦ καταργήσαντι, καὶ τῶν πιστῶν καταστήσαντι ἐν παῤῥησίᾳ τὸν εὔθυμον. Πέπαυται κνίσσα δαιμόνων· καταλέλυται πολυθεΐας Ἑλληνικῆς τὰ σεβάσματα· τὸ τῆς ἀγνωσίας ἀπελαύνεται σκότος· τῷ τῆς θεογνωσίας φωτὶ ἡ οἰκουμένη καταυγάζεται· Πατὴρ δοξολογεῖται· Υἱὸς συμπροσκυνεῖται· τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον καταγγέλλεται· Τριὰς ὁμοούσιος, μία 676 θεότης ἐν τρισὶ προσώποις καὶ ὑποστάσεσι κηρύττεται.

Ταύτῃ τειχίζεται, βασιλεῦ, τὸ τῆς εὐσεβείας σου κράτος· ταύτην ἡμῖν ἄσυλον διαφύλαττε. Μηδεὶς αἱρετικὸς, ὑποδὺς τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν, ἕν τι τῆς Τριάδος ἀφαιρείτω, καταλιμπάνων τὸ λειπόμενον ἄτιμον. Ἄρειος ἡμῖν ὁ τῆς μανίας ἐπώνυμος τοῦ λόγου καὶ τῆς συνελεύσεως αἴτιος· ὃς, ὡς οὐκ ἴσμεν ὅπως, τῷ πρεσβυτερίῳ τῆς Ἀλεξανδρέων ἐγκαταλεγεὶς Ἐκκλησίας, ἐλάνθανεν ἡμᾶς, τῆς τῶν τρισμακαρίων προφητῶν καὶ ἀποστόλων διδασκαλίας ὑπάρχων ἀλλότριος.

Τὸν γὰρ μονογενῆ Υἱὸν καὶ Λόγον τοῦ Πατρὸς ἀποστερεῖν τῆς ὁμοουσιότητος τοῦ Πατρὸς οὐκ ἐντρέπεται, καὶ τῇ κτίσει τὸν κτίστην ὁ κτιστολάτρης συναριθμεῖν ἐπείγεται. Τοῦτον ἂν πείσειας, αὐτοκράτωρ, μεταφρονοῦντα, τοῖς ἀποστολικοῖς μὴ ἀντιτείνειν διδάγμασιν· ἢ τοῖς ἐν οἷς ἑάλω κακοδοξίας ἐγκείμενον ἀσεβήμασιν, ἄρδην τῆς Χριστοῦ καὶ ἡμῶν ἀφανίσειας ἐπαύλεως, ὡς ἂν μὴ τῆς θολερᾶς αὐτοῦ λογοθωπείας τὰς τῶν ἁπλουστέρων ψυχὰς ἐργάσηται θέραμα.