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The Council of Nicea
Analecta Gorgiana
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The Council of Nicea
Lectures on the History of the Eastern Church
Arthur Stanley
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on the History
of the Eastern Church, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1907.
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LECTURE
II
T H E COUNCIL OF NICFFIA
THE authorities for the Council of Nicsea are as follows ; — I. T h e original documents. a. T h e Creed. b. T h e T w e n t y Canons. c. T h e Official Letters.
Contained in Mansi's Councils, ii. 625701, and the historians given below.
1. Letter of Constantine, convoking the Bishops from Ancyra. (Mr. Harris Cowper, Analecta Niceena, 21.) 2. Letter of Constantine to the Bishops, denouncing the books of Arius. 3. Letter of Constantine against Arius. 4. Letter of Constantine to the Bishops, containing the decree on Easter. 5. Letter of the Council to the Church of Alexandria, on the three points of debate. 6. Letter of Eusebius to the Church of Caesarea, Theod. i., explaining his subscriptions. 7. Letters of Eusebius and Theogois, praying for readmission. 8. Letter