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AFTER the deputation from the Macedonians to Liberius, that sect
was admitted to entire communion with the churches in every city,
intermixing themselves indiscriminately with those who from the
beginning had embraced the form of faith published at Nicaea. But
when the law of the Emperor Gratian permitted the several sects to
reunite without restraint in the public services of religion, they
again resolved to separate themselves; and having met at Antioch in
Syria, they decided to avoid the word homoousios again, and in no way
to hold communion with the supporters of the Nicene Creed. They
however derived no advantage from this attempt; for the majority of
their own party being disgusted at the fickleness with which they
sometimes maintained one opinion, and then another, withdrew from
them, and thenceforward became firm adherents of those who professed
the doctrine of the homoousion.
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