CONTENTS. EPISTLE OF S. ATHANASIUS IN DEFENCE OF THE NICENE DEFINITION. The complaint of the Arians against the Nicene Council; their fickleness they are like Jews; their employment of force instead of reason. Page 1 CHAP. II. CONDUCT OF THE ARIANS TOWARDS THE NICENE COUNCIL. Ignorant as well as irreligious to attempt to reverse an Ecumenical Council; proceedings at Nicæa; Eusebians then signed what they now complain of; on the unanimity of true teachers, and the process of tradition; changes CHAP. III. THE MEANING OF THE WORD SON AS APPLIED TO OUR LORD. Two senses of the word, 1. adoptive, 2. substantial. Attempts of Arians to find a third meaning between these; e. g. that our Lord alone was created immediately by God; Asterius's view; or that our Lord alone partakes the Father. The second and true sense; God begets as He makes, really; though His creation and generation not like man's; His generation inde- pendent of time; generation implies an internal, and therefore an eternal, b PROOF OF THE CATHOLIC SENSE OF THE WORD SON. Power, Word or Reason, and Wisdom, the names of the Son, imply CHAP. V. 66 DEFENCE OF THE COUNCIL'S PHRASES, FROM THE SUBSTANCE," Objection that the phrases are not scriptural; we ought to look at the sense 30 CHAP. VI. AUTHORITIES IN SUPPORT OF THE COUNCIL. Theognostus; Dionysius of Alexandria; Dionysius of Rome; Origen. 43 CHAP. VII. ON THE ARIAN SYMBOL INGENERATE." This term afterwards adopted by the Arians; and why; three senses of it. 51 APPENDIX. Letter of Eusebius of Cæsarea to the People of his Diocese. 59 On the meaning of the phrase ἐξ ἑτέρας ὑποστάσεως ἢ οὐσίας in the Nicene Anathema. 66 |