On the Councils of Ariminum and Seleucia
§1. The reason of any new council having been called. Observe also that the Semi-Arian document of reconciliation in 363 (Socr. iii. 25) adopts the point pressed in de Syn. 41.
§1–9 — De Synodis (¶1)
§10. The Council’s Letter to the Emperor. §11. Decree of the Council. §12. Proceedings of the 160 at Seleucia Trachea. Deposition of Acacius, &c., and report to the Emperor. §13, 14.
§10–20 — De Synodis (¶2)
§21. Jerusalem (335). Letter announcing reception of Arius to Communion. §22. Antioch (‘Dedication’ 341). First creed. §23. Second (Lucianic) Creed. §24. Third creed (of Theophronius). §25.
§21–27 — De Synodis (¶3)
§28. ‘Second Sirmian’ (357, the ‘blasphemy’). §29. Creed propounded by the Acacians at Seleucia (359, the ‘Dated’ Creed revised in the Homœan sense). [§30.
§28–35 — De Synodis (¶4)
§36. The objection to ‘unscriptural’ language condemns the Arians. §37, 38. If the Son is truly ‘Like’ the Father, he is ‘Coessential.’ §39. The sense, not the occurrence of the terms in Scripture, must be attended to.
§36–48 — De Synodis (¶5)
§49. The Son is all that the Father is, except Father. §50. If the Son is not Coessential, the Unity of the Godhead is lost. §51. The Son cannot impart to man what is not His own; The oneness of Essence does not imply a…
§49–55 — De Synodis (¶6)
1. Perhaps news has reached even yourselves concerning the Council, which is at this time the subject of general conversation; for letters both from the Emperor and the Prefects were circulated far and wide for its…
§1–341 — De Synodis (¶7)
7. Having therefore no reason on their side, but being in difficulty whichever way they turn, in spite of their pretences, they have nothing left but to say; ‘Forasmuch as we contradict our predecessors, and transgress…
§7–13 — De Synodis (¶8)
14. The blessed Apostle approves of the Corinthians because, he says, ‘ye remember me in all things, and keep the traditions as I delivered them to you’ (1 Cor. xi.
§14–20 — De Synodis (¶9)
21. Yet so it is, they have convened successive Councils against that Ecumenical One, and are not yet tired. After the Nicene, Eusebius and his fellows had been deposed; however, in course of time they intruded…
§21–27 — De Synodis (¶10)
6. adv. Marc. iii. 9. adv. Prax. 16. Novat. de Trin. 18. Origen. in Gen. Hom. iv. 5. Cyprian. adv. Jud. ii. 5. Antioch. Syn. contr. Paul. apud Routh. Rell. t. 2. p. 469. Athan. Orat. ii. 13. Epiph. Ancor. 29 and 39.
§6–33 — De Synodis (¶11)
34. For answer, what is much to the purpose, Who are they whom you pretend are offended and troubled at these terms? of those who are religious towards Christ not one; on the contrary they defend and maintain them.
§34–40 — De Synodis (¶12)
41. Those who deny the Council altogether, are sufficiently exposed by these brief remarks; those, however, who accept everything else that was defined at Nicæa, and doubt only about the Coessential, must not be treated…
§41–47 — De Synodis (¶13)
48. Such then, as we confess and believe, being the sense of the Fathers, proceed we even in their company to examine once more the matter, calmly and with a kindly sympathy, with reference to what has been said before,…
§48–53 — De Synodis (¶14)
54. This is why the Nicene Council was correct in writing, what it was becoming to say, that the Son, begotten from the Father’s essence, is coessential with Him.
§54–55 — De Synodis (¶15)