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AFTER the judges had heard these replies, they ordered the
youngest of those who had been arrested to be brought before them.
Before he was subjected to the examination by scourging, he confessed
the whole plot, and stated that it was planned and carried into
execution by Onager. On this latter being brought in he affirmed that
he had only acted according to the commands of Stephanus. The guilt
of Stephanus being thus demonstrated, the bishops then present were
charged to depose him, and expel him from the Church. By his
expulsion the Church was not, however, wholly freed from the plague
of Arianism. Leontius, who succeeded him in his presidency, was a
Phrygian of so subtle and artful a disposition, that he might be said
to resemble the sunken rocks of the sea . We shall presently narrate
more concerning him .
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