The Epistle
of St. Athanasius to Ruffinian.
Συ
μὲν τὰ
υἱῷ,
κ.τ.λ.
(
Found translated as
Epistle LV.
in Vol. IV.
of the
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (
2d Series
)
pp
.
566
and
567.)
It has been determined by synods in Greece, Spain,
France, that they who have fallen, or been leaders of impiety
[Arianism], be pardoned upon repentance, but that they have not the
place of the clergy; but that they who were only drawn away by force,
or that complied for fear the people should be corrupted, have the
place of the clergy too. Let the people who have been deceived,
or forced, be pardoned, upon repentance and pronouncing anathema
against the miscreancy of Eudoxius and Euzoius, ringleaders of the
Arians (who assert that Christ is a creature); and upon professing the
faith of the Fathers at Nice, and that no synod can prejudice
that.