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132 THE HISTORY OF HERESIES,
and united Trinity."
against Sabellius, says :
therefore, to be divided into three Deities ;
St. Dionisius Romanus, in his
Epistle
" The admirable and Divine is unity not,
but we are bound to
believe in God, the Father Almighty, and in Christ Jesus, his
Son, and in the Ghost."
Holy I omit the innumerable testimo
nies of the Fathers of the following
centuries ; but I here merely
note some of those who have purposely attacked the heresy of
Macedonius, and these are St. Athanasius, St. Basil, St. Gre
gory Nazianzen, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Epiphanius, Didimus,
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Cyril
of Alexandria, and St. Hilary (37).
These Fathers, immediately on the appearance of the Macedonian
heresy, all joined in condemning it a clear proof that it was
contrary to the Faith of the Universal Church.
16. This heresy was condemned, besides, by several Councils,
both General and Particular. First It was condemned (two
years after Macedonius had broached it) by the Council of
Alexandria, celebrated by St. Athanasius, in the year 372, in
which it was decided that the Holy Ghost was Consubstantial in
the Trinity. In the year 377, it was condemned by the Holy
See, in the Synod of Illiricum ; and about the same time, as
Theodoret (38) informs us, it was condemned in two other Roman
Synods, by the Pope, St. Damasus. Finally, in the year 381,
it was condemned in the First Council of Constantinople, under
St. Damasus ;
Faith :
" We
and this Article was annexed to the symbol of the
believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of
Life, proceeding from the Father, and with the Father and the
Son to be adored and glorified, who spoke by the Prophets." He
to whom the same is worship to be given as to the Father and the
Son, is surely God. Besides, this Council has been always held
as Ecumenical by the whole Church, for though composed of
only one hundred and fifty Oriental Bishops, still, as the Western
Bishops,
about the same time, defined the same Article of the
Divinity of the Holy Ghost, under St. Damasus, this decision has
been always considered as the decision of the Universal Church ;
and the subsequent General Councils that is, the Council of
(37) St. Athan. Ep. ad Scrap. ; St. de S. San. ; St. Cyril, Hieros. Cat.
Basil, /. 3, 5, cont. Eunom. & /. de 16, 17; St. Cyril, Alex. /. 7, de
Spi. S. ; St. Greg. Naz. /. 5, de Trin. & I de S. Sane. ; St. Hil. de
Theol. ; St. Greg. Nys. /. ad Eust. ; Trinit.
St. Epiphan. Hier. 74; Didimus, /. (38) Theodoret, /. 2, Hist. c. 22.