Also, men oppose her for reasons of jealousy, he stresses, not because they really think that she is acting in an anti-Christian manner. Thus while Socrates Scholasticus himself never even entertained any point-of-view remotely considered heretic, including Gnosticism and Manichaeism as well as Arianism, he never condoned violence and was able to see how personal and political biases could fuel hateful actions masking as 'anti-heretical' actions like the murder of a woman preacher. Although he on a few occasions used the term "evil" is in regards to the Arians, and he gave ample attention to the benefits of the creation of the creed of Nicene, praising its ideals, more often than not Socrates Scholasticus used cool and factual language to describe controversies. Sometimes even the Arians who denied the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father and Trinitarian notions of God are given a chance, through excerpts, to 'speak' their peace, even while the author makes it clear he disagrees with them. This stands in contrast to the way that Philostorgius is treated by the patriarch of Constantinople. Philostorgius believed, like Arius, that the Son was a different being, not holding to what Socrates Scholasticus called the "sacred doctrine which declares that the Son is of the Father, but is not a part of his substance" (33). But in what survives of Philostorgius' writings, he is called "impious" by the Patriarch of Constantinople even when the patriarch grudgingly admits that Philostorgius showed a balanced perspective, praising "Eusebius Pamphilus as well on other grounds as on account of his Ecclesiastical History." (I.2). Some of Philostorgius' statements sound relatively benign, or rather like statements of fact, despite the Patriarch's inflamed rhetoric: "He [Philostorgius] says that Arius, after his secession from the church, composed several songs to be sung by sailors, and by millers, and by travellers along the...
"Though Philostorgius extols Arius to the skies for impugning the Divinity of the Son, yet he asserts that the latter is involved in the most absurd errors, because he everywhere affirms that God cannot be known, or comprehended, or conceived by the human mind; and not only by men, (which perhaps were an evil more easy to endure,) but also not even by His own only-begotten Son. And lie asserts that not only Arius, but also a large body of his followers, were carried away into this absurd error at the same time" (II.3).
The two documents agree with each other in preserving monasteries from episcopal interference, and thus are in sympathy with the Benedictine spirit (Bettenson, 1972). Chapter III of the Council is sweeping in its prohibition: 'That no bishop shall in any way interfere with any monasteries dedicated to God nor take away forcibly any part of their property'. Canons of the penitential grant to the monastic community the right of
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