Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 04 — Section 245
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 4
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§3. Applications. (a) Death of Alexander and Election of Athanasius. That the latter took place on June 8, 328, is established by the agreement of our sources, together with the numbering of the Festal Letters. Theodoret (H. E. i. 26) and others, misled by some words of Athanasius (Apol. c. Ar. 59), handed down to later ages the statement that Alexander died five months after the Council of Nicæa. It had long been seen that this must be a mistake (Tillemont, vi. 736, Montfaucon, Monit. in Vit. S. Athan.) and various suggestions [98] were made as to the terminus a quo for the five mont…
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