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LuciAN. A. D. 290. 213
(listiiiouislKth" between the ancient Liician, follower of
Alairion, and Luoian who lived, he says, in the time of
Con.stantine, whom the Avians call a martyr, and who was
inclined to the Arian heresy. According- to ^Philostorgius,
Eusebius of Nicomedia, and others of the chief of tlu; Arians,
were disciples of Lucian ;
JNlaris of Chalcedon, 'J'heognis of
Nice, Leontius of Antioch, Asterius the sophist, and others;
which induced Du Pin to say that all the heads of that
party Men; Lucian's disciples : and, not to add any thingmore,
Alexander in his letter to his namesake of Constantinople
says, that ' "Lucian, succeeding- [or following] Paul
' of Samosata, remained for a long tune, during- three bishops,
' excommunicated,' or separated from the church : those
three bishops are supposed to be^ Domnus, Timseus, and
Cyril ;
which last was succeeded by'" Tyrannus.
Learned men are not agreed in their interpretation of those
words ; some supposing- them to mean that'' Lucian, following-
the sentiments of Paul of Samosata, bishop of Antioch,
separated himself from the conmiunion of the church :
others,
thaty he was by three successive bishops excluded from
communion. It is, however, the g-eneral opinion of learned
moderns, that Lucian did not always continue separated, or
excommunicated : they agree in supposing- that^ those words
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ov Sr)6ev oi Aptiavoi iv [laprvrnv £7rti//?;i^i ^oi/rai' ?;v yap Kai STog o AaKiavog,
iprifii, TTpoaavix^'^v '^V '"'"' Apuaviov aiptaii. Epiph. H. 43. n. i. p. 378.
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'Evatf^iov Tov 'aiKOjujSiiag, Km Mapcv tov XaXKtSovog, k. \. Philost. 1. ii. C. xiv.
p. 475. A. Vid. lb. c. 12, 13. p. 474. et c. 3. p. 470.
" 'Ov SiaSe^afievog AsKiavog anoavvayMyog ifitivt rpiiiiv tmaKOiriov TroXverng
Xpopng. Alex. ap. Thdrt. H. E. 1. i. c. 4. p. 15. B.
" Vid. Hieron. Chr. p. 176, 177.
" Antiochiae decimus nonus constituitur episcopiis Tyranntis. ib. p. 179.
" Causa itaque schismatis Luciani fuit doctrina Pauli Samosateni, quara
defendebat ; cujus gratia diu separavit se a Iribus episcopis Antiochenis,
Domno scilicet, Timaeo, ac Cyrillo, qui sibi invicem successere. Pagi Ann.
311. n. xi. Cceteriim hujus verbi mroavvaywyog ifiuvs, k. X. vim non intel-
lexere mterpretes, quos secutus Baronias scnl>it, Lucianum a tribus episcopis
sibi continue succedentibus, ecclesia ejectum fuisse. Atqui hoc non dicit
Alexander, sed tantum ait, Lucianum schisma fecisse in Antiocliensi ecclesia,
et sub tribus episcopis sibi continue succedentibus Collectas seorsum cele-
brasse. Id enim significat vox aTro(n