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Rh the obscene Maronite. This production the Synod condemned at the same time.

"The emperor also wrote to the Church of the Alexandrians: 'The splendor of truth has dissipated, at the command of God, those dissensions, schisms, tumults, and, so to speak, deadly poisons of discord. I assembled, at the city of Nice, most of the bishops; with whom I, myself, also, who am but one of you, and who rejoice exceedingly in being your fellow-servant, undertook the investigation of the truth. Accordingly all points which seemed, in consequence of ambiguity, to furnish any pretext for dissension, have been discussed and