Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 11 — Section 1662
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 11
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As also we remember that a dead man was raised to life by Abbot Macarius who was the first to find a home in the desert of Scete. [1946] For when a certain heretic who followed the error of Eunomius was trying by dialectic subtlety to destroy the simplicity of the Catholic faith, and had already deceived a large number of men, the blessed Macarius was asked by some Catholics, who were terribly disturbed by the horror of such an upset, to set free the simple folk of all Egypt from the peril of infidelity, and came for this purpose. And when the heretic had approached him with his dialec…
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