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III,
IV - EPISTLES ON THE ARIAN HERESY
III.--EPISTLE.(1)
Alexander, to the priests and deacons, Alexandria and Mareotis, being
present to them present, brethren beloved in the Lord, sends greeting:
Although you have been forward to subscribe the letters that I sent to
those about Arius, urging them to abjure their impiety, and to obey the
wholesome and Catholic faith; and in this manner have shown your orthodox
purpose, and your agreement in the doctrines of the Catholic Church; yet
because I have also sent letters to all our fellow-ministers in every place
with respect to the things which concern Arius and his companions; I have
thought it necessary to call together you the clergy of the city, and to
summon you also of Mareotis; especially since of your number Chares and
Pistus, the priests; Sarapion, Parammon, Zosimus, and Irenaeus, the deacons,
have gone over to the party of Arius, and have preferred to be deposed
with them; that you may know what is now written, and that you should declare
your consent in these matters, and give your suffrage for the deposition
of those about Arius and Pistus. For it is fight that you should know what
I have written, and that yon should each one, as if he had written it himself
retain it in his heart.
IV.--EPISTLE TO AEGLON, BISHOP OF CYNOP0LIS, AGAINST THE ARIANS.(2)
From a letter of St. Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, to AEglon, bishop
of Cynopolis, against the Arians.
1. Natural will is the free faculty of every intelligent nature as having
nothing involuntary which is in respect of its essence.
2. Natural operation is the innate motion of all substance. Natural operation
is the substantial and notifying reason of every nature. Natural operation
is the notifying virtue of every substance.
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