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Epistles on the Arian Heresy

Alexander of Alexandria

Section 13

About this work

Author: Alexander of Alexandria

13. These things in part have I written in

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this

epistle

,

thinking

it

burdensome

to

write

out

each

accurately

,

even

as

I

said

before

,

because

they

escape

not

your

religious

diligence

.

Thus

do

we

teach

,

thus

do

we

preach

.

These

are

the

apostolic

doctrines

of

the

Church

,

for

which

also

we

die

,

esteeming

those

but

little

who

would

compel

us

to

forswear

them

,

even

if

they

would

force

us

by

tortures

,

and

not

casting

away

our

hope

in

them

.

To

these

Arius

and

Achilles

opposing

themselves

,

and

those

who

with

them

are

the

enemies

of

the

truth

,

have

been

expelled

from

the

Church

,

as

being

aliens

from

our

holy

doctrine

,

according

to

the

blessed

Paul

,

who

says

,

“

If

any

man

preach

any

other

gospel

unto

you

than

that

ye

have

received

,

let

him

be

accursed

;

even

though

he

feign

himself

an

angel

from

heaven

.

”

And

also

,

“

If

any

man

teach

otherwise

,

and

consent

not

to

the

wholesome

words

of

our

Lord

Jesus

Christ

,

and

to

the

doctrine

which

is

according

to

godliness

;

he

is

proud

,

knowing

nothing

,

”

and

so

forth

.

These

,

therefore

,

who

have

been

anathematized

by

the

brotherhood

,

let

no

one

of

you

receive

,

nor

admit

of

those

things

which

are

either

said

or

written

by

them

.

For

these

seducers

do

always

lie

,

nor

will

they

ever

speak

the

truth

.

They

go

about

the

cities

,

attempting

nothing

else

but

that

under

the

mark

of

friendship

and

the

name

of

peace

,

by

their

hypocrisy

and

blandishments

,

they

may

give

and

receive

letters

,

to

deceive

by

means

of

these

a

few

“

silly

women

,

and

laden

with

sins

,

who

have

been

led

captive

by

them

,

”

and

so

forth

.

Notes

39
Gal. i. 8, 9.
40
1 Tim. vi. 3, 4.
41
2 Tim. iii. 4.