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title: "Select Works and Letters"
author: "Athanasius"
translator: "Archibald Robertson"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Church Fathers"
section: 81 of 146
url: https://scriptura.si/works/athanasius-select-works-and-letters/81/
cite: "Athanasius, tr. Archibald Robertson, Select Works and Letters, section 81. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/athanasius-select-works-and-letters/81/"
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# Select Works and Letters

*Athanasius, tr. Archibald Robertson*

Athanasius defends the Nicene faith: the Orations against the Arians, his letters and more.

## 81. Introduction · 2 of 2

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/athanasius-select-works-and-letters/81/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/athanasius-select-works-and-letters/81/#p-N

[¶0] §44. Letter of Hosius remonstrating with the Emperor.

[¶1] §§45, 46. Lapse of Hosius, his fidelity to Athanasius, recantation, and death.

[¶2] §47. Monstrosity of the above proceedings.

[¶3] Part VII. The attacks upon Athanasius (351–356).

[¶4] §47. Athanasius isolated by the exile of other bishops.

[¶5] §48. Attacks upon Athanasius himself (353–356).

[¶6] §§49, (50), 51. Hypocrisy of the Emperor’s pretended regard for his Father and Brother.

[¶7] §§52, 53. Impropriety of Imperial intervention in Church affairs.

[¶8] §54. The Churches at Alexandria given to the Arians.

[¶9] §55. Violence of Cataphronius, Prefect of Egypt.

[¶10] §§56, 57. Sack of the great church: divine judgments.

[¶11] §58. Scenes of persecution.

[¶12] §§59, 60. Savagery of Duke Sebastian. Martyrdom of Eutychius (356).

[¶13] §§61–63. Cruel treatment of the poor, and of the clergy.

[¶14] Part VIII. Further details of the Persecution in Egypt (357).

[¶15] §64. The Arian persecution more cruel than that of Maximian.

[¶16] §65. Martyrdom of Secundus of Barka.

[¶17] §§66, 67. Persecution the disgrace of the new heresy.

[¶18] §68, 69. Constantius worse than Ahab, &c., and inhuman toward his own family.

[¶19] §70. His fickleness, lack of character, and tyranny.

[¶20] §71. Novelty of this persecution on the part of pretended Christians.

[¶21] §72. Cruel exile of bishops and torture of monks and lay people.

[¶22] §73. Venal appointments to fill the vacancies thus created.

[¶23] §74. The predicted signs of Antichrist applied to Constantius.

[¶24] §75. Arrival of George at Alexandria.

[¶25] §76, 77. Further marks of Antichrist in the tyranny of Constantius over the Church.

[¶26] §78, 79. The Meletians the allies of Arianism in Egypt.

[¶27] §80. Duty of separating from heretics.

[¶28] §81. Appendix to §48. Second protest of the Church of Alexandria against the proceedings of Syrianus (356).