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this term they degrade Him to the rank of a creature. For that the ministering spirits are<br />

creatures we are told by Scripture in the words “they are all ministering spirits sent forth to<br />

minister.” 2416 But because of men who make universal confusion, <strong>and</strong> do not keep the<br />

doctrine of the Gospels, it is necessary to add yet this further, that they are to be shunned,<br />

as plainly hostile to true religion, who invert the order left us by the Lord, <strong>and</strong> put the Son<br />

before the Father, <strong>and</strong> the Holy Spirit before the Son. For we must keep unaltered <strong>and</strong> inviolable<br />

that order which we have received from the very words of the Lord, “Go ye therefore<br />

<strong>and</strong> teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father <strong>and</strong> of the Son, <strong>and</strong> of the<br />

Holy Ghost.” 2417<br />

I, Eustathius, bishop, have read to thee, Basil, <strong>and</strong> understood; <strong>and</strong> I assent to what is<br />

written above. I have signed in the presence of our Fronto, Severus, the chorepiscopus, <strong>and</strong><br />

several other clerics.<br />

new party arose in the Delta about 362, <strong>and</strong> was first known as “Tropici.” <strong>The</strong>y were condemned at the synod<br />

held at Alex<strong>and</strong>ria on the return of Athanasius from his third exile. Its Synodical Letter is the Tomus ad Anti-<br />

ochenos.<br />

2416 Heb. i. 14.<br />

2417 Matt. xxviii. 14.<br />

A transcript of the faith as dictated by Saint Basil, <strong>and</strong> subscribed by…<br />

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