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Rh he has uttered, in affirming, that the Son of God sprang from nothing, and that there was a time when he was not; saying, moreover, that the Son of God was possessed of free-will, so as to be capable either of vice or virtue; and calling him a creature and a work. All these sentiments the holy Synod has anathematized. So contagious has his pestilential error proved, as to involve, in the same perdition, Theonas, bishop of Marmarica, and Secundus of Ptolemais; for they have suffered the same condemnation as himself."

"It should be here observed," says Socrates, "that Arius had written a treatise on his own opinion, which he entitled 'Thalia;' but the character