Section 513
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DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE PRECEDING NARRATIVE. In the translation of the Letters, which are found in Socrates, with the ex ception of those of Arius and Eusebius of Nicomedia, which are recorded by Theodoret, the edition of Valesius, by Reading, Cambridge, 1720, has been used, Letter of Alexander, Bishop of Alexandria. To our beloved, and most honored colleagues, in all places, in the ministry of the Catholic Church, Alexander, greeting in the Lord. As the body of the Catholic Church is one, and as it is com manded in the divine scriptures that we should preserve the bond of peace and concord, it is proper that we should write and signify to one another, what happens to any of us ; so that if one mem ber suffer or rejoice, the others may sympathize or rejoice with him. In our jurisdiction, then, there have lately appeared ini quitous men, and enemies of Christ, teaching an apostacy which might be justly thought and called a forerunner of Antichrist. I had intended to bury this matter in silence, that the evil, being confined to the apostates themselves, might haply die away ; and that it might not, by passing into other places, pollute the ears of some of the more simple. But since Eusebius, who is now of Nicomedia. imagining that the affairs of the Church depend upon his direction, (because, leaving the Church of Berytus, he coveted