13.  The beginning of this madness was Arius (whose name is derived from frenzy Frenzy.  Cf. Orat. ii. 37; xxxiv. 8.), who paid the penalty of his unbridled tongue by his death in a profane spot, A profane spot, lit. “profane places”—plural as contrasted with the ἐν τόπῳ ἁγίῳ, Lev. vi. 16. etc., etc.:  in which the priests must eat of the sacrifices.  The meaning of the phrase is “Arius died excommunicated”—indeed on the eve of the day on which the Emperor Constantine had ordered him to be restored to communion. brought about by prayer not by disease, when he like Judas Like Judas.  Cf. Epiph. Hær. 68. 7; Socr. i. 38.  Theodoret i. 4. burst asunder Acts i. 18. for his similar treachery to the Word.  Then others, catching the infection, organized an art of impiety, and, confining Deity to the Unbegotten, expelled from Deity not only the Begotten, but also the Proceeding one, and honoured the Trinity with communion in name In name, etc., i.e., They used the name Trinity, although it was rendered meaningless by their false doctrine as to the inequality of the Three Blessed Persons. alone, or even refused to retain this for it.  Not so that blessed one, Who was indeed a man of God and a mighty trumpet of truth:  but being aware that to contract To contract, etc.  On this whole passage cf. Orat. ii. 36, 37, notes. the Three Persons to a numerical Unity is heretical, and the innovation of Sabellius, who first devised a contraction of Deity; and that to sever the Three Persons by a distinction of nature, is an unnatural mutilation of Deity; he both happily preserved the Unity, which belongs to the Godhead, and religiously taught the Trinity, which refers Which refers, etc., or “which consists in personal relations.”  Cf. on ἰδιότῆς.  Orat. xliii. 30. note. to Personality, neither confounding the Three Persons in the Unity, nor dividing the Substance among the Three Persons, but abiding within the bounds of piety, by avoiding excessive inclination or opposition to either side.