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SERIES VI

SELECT PASSAGES

DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATIVE

OF THE HISTORY OF

THE CHURCH

VOL. II

LITERATURE. SERIES VI
SELECT PASSAGES

DOCUMENTS
ILLUSTRATIVE OF
THE HISTORY

OF THE CHURCH

VOL. II 313-461 A.D.

Edited by

B.J. KIDD, D.D.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. London

The Macmillan Company: New York

C.S.E.L.

J.T.S.

L.F.

N. & P.-N.F.

ABBREVIATIONS

Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum.
Journal of Theological Studies.

Library of the Fathers, Parker & Co.

Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers, Parker & Co.
Migne, Patrologia Græca.

P.G.

P.L.

Migne, Patrologia Latina.

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CONTENTS

PAGE

COUNCIL OF NICEA, 325.

No. 1. EUSEBIUS, BISHOP OF CÆSAREA, 314-†40. The

persecution under Licinius, 319

No. 2. CONSTANTINE, 323-†37. Order for copies of the

CONSTANTINE, 323-137. Suppression of private

divination, Feb. 1, 319

The Testament of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, 320

CONSTANTINE, 323-†37. Legislation about Sun-

day, c. 321

No. 6. ARIUS, †336. Letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia,

c. 321.

No. 7. ARIUS, †336. Letter to Alexander of Alexandria,

c. 321

ALEXANDER, BISHOP OF ALEXANDRIA, 312-†28.

The excommunication of Arius, c. 321

COUNCIL OF NICEA, 325. Its Synodal Letter.

COUNCIL OF NICEA, 325. The Paschal Question.

CONSTANTINE, 323-†37. The exposure of child-

COUNCIL OF ALEXANDRIA, 339. Nullity of ordina-

tion by a presbyter

27

No. 16. COUNCIL OF GANGRA, 340. Synodal Letter and

Canons

28

No. 17. JULIUS, BISHOP OF ROME, 337-†52. The Roman

See

CYRIL, BISHOP OF JERUSALEM, 350-†86. The

delivery of the Creed

No. 22. SARAPION, BISHOP OF THMUIS. His Sacrament-

No. 23. HOSIUS, BISHOP OF CORDOVA, 296-†357. Church

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and State, 355

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