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Epistles on the Arian Heresy

Alexander of Alexandria

Section 10

About this work

Author: Alexander of Alexandria

10. But after these things, brethren beloved,

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what

is

there

wonderful

in

that

which

I

am

about

to

write

,

if

I

shall

set

forth

the

false

calumnies

against

me

and

our

most

pious

laity

?

For

those

who

have

set

themselves

in

array

against

the

Godhead

of

Christ

,

do

not

scruple

to

utter

their

ungrateful

ravings

against

us

.

Who

will

not

either

that

any

of

the

ancients

should

be

compared

with

them

,

or

suffer

that

any

of

those

whom

,

from

our

earliest

years

,

we

have

used

as

instructors

should

be

placed

on

a

level

with

them

.

Nay

,

and

they

do

not

think

that

any

of

all

those

who

are

now

our

colleagues

,

has

attained

even

to

a

moderate

amount

of

wisdom

;

boasting

themselves

to

be

the

only

men

who

are

wise

and

divested

of

worldly

possessions

,

the

sole

discoverers

of

dogmas

,

and

that

to

them

alone

are

those

things

revealed

which

have

never

before

come

into

the

mind

of

any

other

under

the

sun

.

Oh

,

the

impious

arrogance

!

Oh

,

the

immeasurable

madness

!

Oh

,

the

vainglory

befitting

those

that

are

crazed

!

Oh

,

the

pride

of

Satan

which

has

taken

root

in

their

unholy

souls

.

The

religious

perspicuity

of

the

ancient

Scriptures

caused

them

no

shame

,

nor

did

the

consentient

doctrine

of

our

colleagues

concerning

Christ

keep

in

check

their

audacity

against

Him

.

Their

impiety

not

even

the

demons

will

bear

,

who

are

ever

on

the

watch

for

a

blasphemous

word

uttered

against

the

Son

.