divine than the Father; that the two were equally divine, as an earthly father and son are equally human. For the Westerners and a few Easterners—Alexander and Athanasius, his personal assistant, Eustathius of Antioch, and Marcellus of Ancyra—it meant that Father and Son were one in a single Godhead. Both these senses ruled out Arian misconceptions. But some bishops hesitated at the Council, and many more reacted in alarm afterwards, fearing that the Greek word homoousios split the Godhead into two,