This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...the character of a polemical pamphlet; and yet, in the words of a recent French writer who in his able monograph on Athanasius has pressed this point', 'le ton seul est oratoire, le fond est la ve'rite' meme, ' and if in details 'indignation makes' him a satirist, or tempts him to adopt the blackest view of his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...the character of a polemical pamphlet; and yet, in the words of a recent French writer who in his able monograph on Athanasius has pressed this point', 'le ton seul est oratoire, le fond est la ve'rite' meme, ' and if in details 'indignation makes' him a satirist, or tempts him to adopt the blackest view of his persecutors' conduct, 'dans les assertions importantes on le trouvera toujours irre'pre'hensible.' The most striking feature, perhaps, of the 'History' is the contrast between its tone and that of the Apology to Constantius in regard to that despicable tyrant. Instead of the 'pious' Emperor2 who was so well versed in Scripture, whose presence would gladden a dedication festival, whose well-known humanity forbade the supposition that he could have perpetrated a deliberate injustice, we find a 'Costyllius' (or 'Connikin'), whose misdeeds could only be palliated by the imbecility which rendered him the 'slave' of his own servants, --inhuman towards his nearest of kin, --false and crafty, a Pharaoh, a Saul, an Ahab, a Belshazzar, more cruel than Pilate or Maximian, ignorant of the Gospels, a patron of heresy, a precursor of Antichrist, an 'enemy of Christ, as if himself Antichrist, ' and--the words must be written--' selfabandoned to the future doom of fire3.' It is impossible not to wish that Athanasius had in this case felt the responsibility of public utterance, and, indeed, that he had remembered the responsibility attaching to the most private utterance which expresses man's judgment on his fellow-man. But, as has been already said, in proportion to the effort which he had made to hope the best for the prince who had so solemnly guaranteed him protection, would be the reaction of irrepressible disgust and wrath when he found that this effort had been va...
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