Arius the namesake of madness
Arius — namesake of madness — is the cause of this dispute and gathering: somehow enrolled in the Alexandrian priesthood, he escaped our notice while remaining alien to the teaching of the thrice-blessed prophets and apostles. He is not ashamed to strip the only-begotten Son and Word of the Father of the Father’s consubstantiality, and as a worshipper of the creature he presses to number the Creator with the creation.
Greek
Ἄρειος ἡμῖν ὁ τῆς μανίας ἐπώνυμος τοῦ λόγου καὶ τῆς συνελεύσεως αἴτιος· ὃς, ὡς οὐκ ἴσμεν ὅπως, τῷ πρεσβυτερίῳ τῆς Ἀλεξανδρέων ἐγκαταλεγεὶς Ἐκκλησίας, ἐλάνθανεν ἡμᾶς, τῆς τῶν τρισμακαρίων προφητῶν καὶ ἀποστόλων διδασκαλίας ὑπάρχων ἀλλότριος. Τὸν γὰρ μονογενῆ Υἱὸν καὶ Λόγον τοῦ Πατρὸς ἀποστερεῖν τῆς ὁμοουσιότητος τοῦ Πατρὸς οὐκ ἐντρέπεται, καὶ τῇ κτίσει τὸν κτίστην ὁ κτιστολάτρης συναριθμεῖν ἐπείγεται.
About this text
Address (PG marks Spurious) thanking Constantine and urging the Nicaea council against Arius.
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 18 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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