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[2405] Colluthus, being a presbyter of Alexandria, puffed up with arrogance and temerity, had acted as a bishop, and had ordained many priests and deacons. But in the synod that was assembled at Alexandria all his acts of ordination were rescinded; and those who had been ordained by him degraded to the rank of laymen.—Tr.

[2406] [Perhaps a quotation, and hence a token of verity as to what is narrated of Peter, p. 263, note 4, supra.]

[2407] It is inferred from these words that this letter of Alexander was written after the Synod of Alexandria in which Arius and his companion were condemned. But Alexander convened two synods of the bishops of Egypt against Arius and his friends.—Tr.

[2408] Isa. i. 2.

[2409] Ps. xlv. 7.

[2410] [The two tests, or criteria, of Arianism. The Arians affirmed (1) the formula ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων , and (2) the ἦν ποτε ὅτε οὐκ ἦν.

[2411] John i. 18.

[2412] John i. 1-3.

[2413] Ecclesiasticus 3.22. [Compare the canonical equivalent, Ps. cxxxi. 1.]

[2414] 1 Cor. ii. 9.

[2415] Gen. xv. 5.

[2416] Ecclesiasticus 1.2.

[2417] Isa. liii. 8.

[2418] Matt. xi. 27.

[2419] Col. i. 16, 17.

[2420] Prov. viii. 30 (LXX.).

[2421] 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15.

[2422] Rom. viii. 32.

[2423] Matt. iii. 17.

[2424] Ps. xi. 7.

[2425] Ps. cx. 3 (LXX.).

 

 

 

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