Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 12 — II. He also sends a copy of his letter to the Emperor and explains its contents.
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 12
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And they indeed, who were sent, and one of whom, escaping the violence of the bishop of Alexandria who claims everything for himself, faithfully reported to us what took place in the Synod, opposed, as it became them, what I will call the frenzy not the judgment of one man, protesting that those things which were being carried through by violence and fear could not reverse the mysteries of the Church and the Creed itself composed by the Apostles, and that no injuries could sever them from that Faith which they had brought fully set forth and expounded from the See of the blessed Apostl…
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