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IT was decided therefore that Lucifer should go to Antioch in
Syria, and Eusebius to Alexandria, that by assembling a Synod in
conjunction with Athanasius, they might confirm the doctrines of the
church. Lucifer sent a deacon as his representative, by whom he
pledged himself to assent to whatever the Synod might decree; but he
himself went to Antioch, where he found the church in great disorder,
the people not being agreed among themselves. For not only did the
Arian heresy, which had been introduced by Euzoius, divide the
church, but, as we before said, the followers of Meletius also,
from attachment to their teacher, separated themselves from those with
whom they agreed in sentiment. When therefore Lucifer had constituted
Paulinus their bishop, he again departed.
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