Part 2 · Introduction

“God was not always the Father; but there was a time when God was not the Father. The Word of God was not always, but was made ‘from things that are not;’ for He who is God fashioned the non-existing from the non-existing; wherefore there was a time when He was not. For the Son is a thing created, and a thing made: nor is He like to the Father in substance; nor is He the true and natural Word of the Father; nor is He His true Wisdom; but He is one of the things fashioned and made. And He is called, by a misapplication of the terms, the Word and Wisdom, since He is Himself made by the proper Word of God, and by that wisdom which is in God, in which, as God made all other things, so also did He make Him. Wherefore, He is by His very nature changeable and mutable, equally with other rational beings. The Word, too, is alien and separate from the substance of God. The father also is ineffable to the Son; for neither does the Word perfectly and accurately know the Father, neither can He perfectly see Him. For neither does the Son indeed know His own substance as it is. Since He for our sakes was made, that by Him as by an instrument God might create us; nor would He have existed had not God wished to make us. Some one asked of them whether the Son of God could change even as the devil changed; and they feared not to answer that He can; for since He was made and created, He is of mutable nature.”

Signators

Presbyters of Alexandria.

I, Colluthus, presbyter, give my suffrage to the things which are written, and also for the deposition of Arius, and those who are guilty of impiety with him.

Alexander, presbyter, in like manner.

Dioscorus, presbyter, in like manner.

Dionysius, presbyter, in like manner.

Eusebius, presbyter, in like manner.

Alexander, presbyter, in like manner.

Nilaras, presbyter, in like manner.

Arpocration, presbyter, in like manner.

Agathus, presbyter.

Nemesius, presbyter.

Longus, presbyter.

Silvanus, presbyter.

Perous, presbyter.

Apis, presbyter.

Proterius, presbyter.

Paulus, presbyter.

Cyrus, presbyter, in like manner.

Deacons.

Ammonius, deacon, in like manner.

Macarius, deacon.

Pistus, deacon, in like manner.

Athanasius, deacon.

Eumenes, deacon.

Apollonius, deacon.

Olympius, deacon.

Aphthonius, deacon.

Athanasius, deacon.

Macarius, deacon, in like manner.

Paulus, deacon.

Petrus, deacon.

Ambytianus, deacon.

Gaius, deacon, in like manner.

Alexander, deacon.

Dionysius, deacon.

Agathon, deacon.

Polybius, deacon, in like manner.

Theonas, deacon.

Marcus, deacon.

Commodus, deacon.

Serapion, deacon.

Nilus, deacon.

Romanus, deacon, in like manner.

Presbytery of Mareotis.

I, Apollonius, presbyter, give my suffrage to the things which are written, and also for the deposition of Arius, and of those who are guilty of impiety with him.

Ingenius, presbyter, in like manner.

Ammonius, presbyter.

Tyrannus, presbyter.

Copres, presbyter.

Ammonas, presbyter.

Orion, presbyter.

Serenus, presbyter.

Didymus, presbyter.

Heracles, presbyter.

Dioscorus, presbyter.

Sostras, presbyter.

Theon, presbyter.

Boccon, presbyter.

Agathus, presbyter.

Achilles, presbyter.

Paulus, presbyter.

Thalelæus, presbyter.

Dionysius, presbyter, in like manner.

Deacons.

Sarapion, deacon, in like manner.

Justus, deacon, in like manner.

Didymus, deacon.

Demetrius, deacon.

Maurus, deacon.

Alexander, deacon.

Marcus, deacon.

Comon, deacon.

Tryphon, deacon.

Ammonius, deacon.

Didymus, deacon.

Ptollarion, deacon.

Seras, deacon.

Gaius, deacon.

Hierax, deacon.

Marcus, deacon.

Theonas, deacon.

Sarmaton, deacon.

Carpon, deacon.

Zoilus, deacon, in like manner.