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Περὶ Μακεδονίου καὶ τῆς ὑπ´ αὐτοῦ συστάσης αἱρέσεως.

Τοιαύτας μιαιφονίας ἡ Ἀρείου βεβλάστηκε βλασφημία. Τῇ γὰρ κατὰ τοῦ μονογενοῦς λύττῃ συμβαίνει τὰ κατὰ τῶν ἐκείνου θεραπόντων τολμήματα.

Ἀλλὰ τοῦτον οὕτω τῷ θανάτῳ, μᾶλλον δὲ τῇ τῶν οὐρανῶν παραπέμψαντες βασιλείᾳ, Μακεδόνιον ἀντὶ τούτου προὐβάλοντο, ὁμογνώμονα τοῦτον ὑπειληφότες ἐπειδὴ παραπλησίως αὐτοῖς ἐβλασφήμει τὸ πανάγιον πνεῦμα. Ἀλλὰ μικρὸν ὕστερον καὶ τοῦτον ἐξήλασαν, κτίσμα λέγειν οὐκ ἀνασχόμενον ὃν υἱὸν ἡ θεία προσαγορεύει γραφή. Οὗ δὴ χάριν οὗτος ἐκείνων ἀποκριθεὶς ἰδίας αἱρέσεως προστάτης γεγένηται· ὁμοούσιον μὲν οὐδὲ οὗτος τῷ πατρὶ τὸν υἱὸν εἶναι λέγων, ὅμοιον δὲ εἶναι κατὰ πάντα τῷ γεγεννηκότι διδάσκων, κτιστὸν δὲ τὸ πνεῦμα προφανῶς ὀνομάζων. Ταῦτα μὲν οὖν οὐ πολλῷ χρόνῳ ὕστερον οὕτω γέγονεν ὡς εἰρήκαμεν.

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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.