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251from below.’)… And there are the women, the ‘subintroductæ,’as the people of Antioch call them, belonging to him and to thepresbyters and deacons with him. Although he knows and hasconvicted these men, yet he connives at this and their incurablesins, in order that they may be bound to him, and through fear [227]for themselves may not dare to accuse him for his wicked wordsand deeds.…”As Paul had fallen from the episcopate, as well as from theorthodox faith, Domnus, as has been said, succeeded to theservice of the church at Antioch [i.e., became bishop]. But asPaul refused to surrender the church building, the Emperor Aurelianwas petitioned; and he decided the matter most equitably,ordering the building to be given to those to whom the bishopsof Italy and of the city of Rome should adjudge it. Thus thisman was driven out of the Church, with extreme disgrace, by theworldly power.Such was Aurelian's attitude toward us at that time; but in thecourse of time he changed his mind in regard to us, and wasmoved by certain advisers to institute a persecution against us.And there was great talk about it everywhere. But as he wasabout to do it, and was, so to speak, in the very act of signingthe decrees against us, the divine judgment came upon him andrestrained him at the very verge of his undertaking.(d) Malchion of Antioch, Disputation with Paul. (MSG,10:247-260.)The doctrine of Paul of Samosata.The following fragments are from the disputation of Malchionwith Paul at the Council of Antioch, 268 [see extract fromEusebius, Hist. Ec., VII, 27, 29, 30; see above (c)], whichMalchion is said to have revised and published. The passagesmay be found also in Routh, Reliquiæ Sacræ, second ed., III,