not as if there were two Gods, but as though light from light, or a ray from the Sun1.” And thus we close our survey of the Catholic Ante-Nicene theology. IT remains to give some account of the heretical doctrine, which was first promulgated within the Church by Arius. There have been attempts to impute this heresy to Catholic writers previous to his time; yet its contemporaries are express in their testimony that he was
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