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The Ecclesiastical History of Theodoret (CCEL)
Chapter VIII. Stephanus Deposed.
After the judges had heard these replies, they ordered the youngest of those who had been arrested to be brought before them. Before he was subjected to the examination by scourging, he confessed the whole plot, and stated that it was planned and carried into execution by Onager. On this latter being brought in he affirmed that he had only acted according to the commands of Stephanus. The guilt of Stephanus being thus demonstrated, the bishops then present were charged to depose him, and expel him from the Church. By his expulsion the Church was not, however, wholly freed from the plague of Arianism. Leontius, who succeeded him in his presidency, was a Phrygian of so subtle and artful a disposition, that he might be said to resemble the sunken rocks of the sea 1. We shall presently narrate more concerning him 2.
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φασὶ δὲ καὶ νήεσσιν ἁλιπλανέεσσι χερειους τὰς ὑφάλους πέτρας τῶν φανερῶν σπιλάδων —Anth. Pal. xi. 390. ↩
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Leontius, Bishop of Antioch from a.d. 348 to 357, was one of the School of Lucianus. (Philost. iii. 15), cf. pp. 38 and 41, notes. Athanasius says hard things of him ( de fug. §26), but Dr. Salmon ( Dict. Christ. Biog. s.v.) is of opinion that “we may charitably think that the gentleness and love of peace which all attest were not mere hypocrisy, and may impute his toleration of heretics to no worse cause than insufficient appreciation of the importance of the issues involved.” Vide infra. chap. xix. ↩
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6. Macedonius und seine Irrlehre
Diesen Bischof schickten sie also in den Tod oder, besser gesagt, hinüber in das Reich der Himmel. Darauf setzten sie an seine Stelle den Macedonius, den sie für ihren Gesinnungsgenossen hielten, weil er ähnlich wie sie lästerlich vom Heiligen Geiste redete. Jedoch nach kurzer Zeit vertrieben sie auch diesen wieder, weil er es nicht über sich bringen konnte, den ein Geschöpf zu nennen, den die Heilige Schrift als Sohn bezeichnet. Daher ist er, getrennt von ihnen, Haupt und Führer einer besonderen Häresie geworden; zwar wollte auch er den Sohn nicht „gleichwesentlich dem Vater“ nennen, aber er lehrte doch, daß derselbe seinem Erzeuger in jeder Beziehung ähnlich sei; den (Heiligen) Geist dagegen nannte er ganz offen ein Geschöpf. Das geschah nicht lange nachher in der eben erwähnten Weise.