7. What measures are they now taking against
the Church? For the shiftiness of their originators, shocking;
for the apathy of all who are affected by them, pitiable. By a
respectable commission the children and grandchildren of Euippius have
been summoned from distant regions to Sebasteia, and to them the people
have been entrusted. i.e.
bishops and presbyters whose spiritual descent is to be traced to
Euippius, viz.: Eustathius and his clergy. Over
what see Euippius presided is unknown. They have
taken possession of the altar. They have been made the leaven of
that Church. I am persecuted by them as a Homoousiast.
Eustathius, who brought the Homoousion in the script from Rome to
Tyana, although he was not able to get admitted into their much to be
coveted communion, either because they feared, or respected the
authority of, the large number of persons who had agreed in condemning
him, is now in intimate alliance with them. I only hope that I
may never have time enough on my hands to tell of all their
doings—who were gathered together, how each one had been
ordained, and from what kind of earlier life each arrived at his
present dignity. I have been taught to pray “that my mouth
may not utter the works of the men.”
Ps. xvii. 3 and 4, LXX. If you enquire you will learn these
things for yourself, and, if they are hidden from you, they will not
assuredly continue hidden from the judges.