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Un-chronological and not as extensive as Socrates and Sozomen’s works, these five books also cover the years 322–427. Another vantage point from which to study this rich history, these books are still greatly valued because of their alternate sources and abundant inclusion of letters.

When they perceived the gain resulting from the sale of ordinances, they felt unable to remain in subjection to the church; they accordingly constructed caverns, like those of robbers, in which they constantly assemble, and day and night they there invent calumnies against the Saviour, and against us. They revile the religious doctrines of the apostles, and having, like the Jews, conspired against Christ, they deny his divinity, and declare him to be on a level with other men. They collect all those
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