Section 334
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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. 308, said city, for the same cause, one could hardly number, but these were the most distinguished ; all, therefore, having convened at different times and frequently, various subjects and questions were agitated at every meeting : the adherents of the Sarnosatians, attempting to conceal and cover over their heterodoxy, but at the same time those on the other side used every effort to un mask and bring to light the heresy, and the blasphemy, of the men against Christ. In the mean time Dionysius died, in the twelfth, year of the reign of Gallienus, having presided over the church of Alexandria seventeen years. He was succeeded by Maximinus. But Gallienus reigned fifteen years in all, when he was succeeded by Claudius, who, after the lapse of two years, trans ferred the government to Aurelian. CHAPTER XXIX, Paul refuted by a certain Malchion, one of the presbyters who had been a sophist, was deposed. IT was in the reign of this emperor, when a final council was convened, in which a great number of bishops was present, and this arch heretic at Antioch being detected, and now evidently discarded by all, was now excommunicated from the whole catholic church under heaven. He was refuted, however, and argued out of his lurking place, chiefly by Malchion ; a man well versed in other departments of learning, and who had been at the head of the sophist's Greek school of sciences at Antioch ; but who also, on account of his great and sincere faith in Christ, was honoured with the office of presbyter in that church. This man indeed, was the only one who, after commencing the dis cussion with him, which, as there were ready writers that took down the whole, we know to be now extant, was able to ferret out the sly and deceitful sentiments of the man. 28*