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The philological and biographical works of Charles Butler, Volume 1 (1817)
By Charles Butler
https://books.google.com/books?id=iWwUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA402
Also in Ethan Smith
A Treatise on the Character of Jesus Christ: And on the Trinity in Unity of the Godhead; with Quotations from the Primitive Fathers (1814)
https://books.google.com/books?id=fe8rAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA167
“issued by Huneric on this occasion, seems worthy "of notice. He therein requires the orthodox bishops of his dominions to attend the council "thus convened, there to defend by the Scriptures "the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, against certain Arian opponents. At the time appointed, nearly four hundred bishops attended "this council, from the various provinces of Africa, "and from the isles of the Mediterranean sea; at "the head of whom stood the venerable Eugenius, bishop of Carthage. The public professions "of Huneric promised a fair and candid discus“sion of the divinity of Jesus Christ; but it soon appeared that his private intentions were to compel, by force, the vindicators of that belief to "submit to the tenets of Arianism. For when Eugenius, with his Anti-Arian prelates, entered "the room of consultation, they found Cyrila, their "chief antagonist, seated on a kind of throne, at"tended by his Arian coadjutors, and surrounded
by armed men; who quickly, instead of waiting "to hear the reasonings of their opponents, offered "violence to their persons. Convinced by this
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application of force that no deference would be "paid to argument, Eugenius and his prelates "withdrew from the council-room; but not with"out leaving behind them a protest, in which, (among other passages of scripture), this Verse "of St. John is thus especially insisted upon, in vin"dication of the belief to which they adhered. "That it may appear more clear than the light
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"that the divinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is one, see it proved by the Evangelist St. John, who writes thus: there are three "which bear record in heaven, the Father, the "Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these Three 66 are one."
"This remarkable fact appears to be, alone, amply decisive as to the originality of the Verse in question. The manner in which it happened "seems to carry irresistible conviction with it. It was not a thing done in a corner, a transaction "of solitude or obscurity. It passed in the metro"polis of the kingdom, in the court of the reigning prince, in the face of opponents, exasperated by " controversy and proud of royal support, and in "the presence of the whole congregated African "church. Nor is the time, when this transaction
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happened, less powerfully convincing than its 66 manner. Not much more than three centuries "had elapsed from the death of St. John, when "this solemn appeal was thus made to the authority "of This Verse. Had The Verse been forged by
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Eugenius and his bishops, all christian Africa "would have exclaimed at once against them. "Had it even been considered as of doubtful
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The philological and biographical works of Charles Butler, Volume 1 (1817)
By Charles Butler
https://books.google.com/books?id=iWwUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA402
Also in Ethan Smith
A Treatise on the Character of Jesus Christ: And on the Trinity in Unity of the Godhead; with Quotations from the Primitive Fathers (1814)
https://books.google.com/books?id=fe8rAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA167
“issued by Huneric on this occasion, seems worthy "of notice. He therein requires the orthodox bishops of his dominions to attend the council "thus convened, there to defend by the Scriptures "the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, against certain Arian opponents. At the time appointed, nearly four hundred bishops attended "this council, from the various provinces of Africa, "and from the isles of the Mediterranean sea; at "the head of whom stood the venerable Eugenius, bishop of Carthage. The public professions "of Huneric promised a fair and candid discus“sion of the divinity of Jesus Christ; but it soon appeared that his private intentions were to compel, by force, the vindicators of that belief to "submit to the tenets of Arianism. For when Eugenius, with his Anti-Arian prelates, entered "the room of consultation, they found Cyrila, their "chief antagonist, seated on a kind of throne, at"tended by his Arian coadjutors, and surrounded
by armed men; who quickly, instead of waiting "to hear the reasonings of their opponents, offered "violence to their persons. Convinced by this
application of force that no deference would be "paid to argument, Eugenius and his prelates "withdrew from the council-room; but not with"out leaving behind them a protest, in which, (among other passages of scripture), this Verse "of St. John is thus especially insisted upon, in vin"dication of the belief to which they adhered. "That it may appear more clear than the light
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"that the divinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is one, see it proved by the Evangelist St. John, who writes thus: there are three "which bear record in heaven, the Father, the "Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these Three 66 are one."
"This remarkable fact appears to be, alone, amply decisive as to the originality of the Verse in question. The manner in which it happened "seems to carry irresistible conviction with it. It was not a thing done in a corner, a transaction "of solitude or obscurity. It passed in the metro"polis of the kingdom, in the court of the reigning prince, in the face of opponents, exasperated by " controversy and proud of royal support, and in "the presence of the whole congregated African "church. Nor is the time, when this transaction
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happened, less powerfully convincing than its 66 manner. Not much more than three centuries "had elapsed from the death of St. John, when "this solemn appeal was thus made to the authority "of This Verse. Had The Verse been forged by
Eugenius and his bishops, all christian Africa "would have exclaimed at once against them. "Had it even been considered as of doubtful
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