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And then one settles down into such good- tempered Lucianic contempt for men. One wants so little from them, when one knows what one's self is worth, and what they are. They are just worth the coin one can extract from them, in order to live. "Our life that is worth so much to us. And then their joys, so vulgar to them, we can make them golden and kingly.
The anathemas also are the Nicene with insertions which might have been made for the very purpose of letting the Arians escape. However, the conservatives were well satisfied with the Lucianic creed, and frequently refer to it with a veneration akin to that of Athanasius for the Nicene. But the wire-pullers were determined to upset it.
The words of one essence and of like essence are next rejected because they are not found in Scripture, and the new Anomoean unlike is anathematized 'but we clearly confess the likeness of the Son to the Father, according to the apostle's words, Who is the image of the invisible God. There was a hot dispute on the fourth day, when Acacius explained the likeness as one of will only, not extending to essence, and refused to be bound by his own defence of the Lucianic creed against Marcellus.
It sat two months, and reversed the acts of the Homoeans at Constantinople four years before. Nor did they forget to re-issue the Lucianic creed for the acceptance of the churches. They also discussed without result the deity of the Holy Spirit. Eustathius of Sebastia for one was not prepared to commit himself either way. The decisions were then laid before Valens.
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