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Nestorius indeed acted contrary to the usage of the Church, and
caused himself to be hated in other ways also, as is evident from what
happened during his episcopate. For Anthony bishop of Germa, a city
of the Hellespont, actuated by the example of Nestorius in his
intolerance of heretics, began to persecute the Macedonians, under
the pretext of carrying out the intentions of the patriarch. The
Macedonians for some time endured his annoyance; but when Anthony
proceeded to farther extremities, unable any longer to bear his harsh
treatment, they were led to a sad desperation, and suborning two men,
who put fight in a secondary place and profit first, they assassinated
their tormenter. When the Macedonians had perpetrated this crime,
Nestorius took occasion from it to increase his violence of conduct
against them, and prevailed on the emperor to take away their
churches. They were therefore deprived of not only those which they
possessed at Constantinople, before the old walls of the imperial
city, but of those also which they had at Cyzicus, and many others
that belonged to them in the rural districts of the Hellespont. Many
of them therefore at that time came over to the Catholic church, and
professed the 'homoousian' faith. But as the proverb says,
'drunkards never want wine, nor the contentious strife': and so it
fell out with regard to Nestorius, who after having exerted himself to
expel others from the church, was himself ejected on the following
account.
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