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 | | Then, the number of actual Arians was still small, and the semi-Arian Eusebians would not, outwardly at least, separate themselves from the Church; now, however, at Sardica, they came forward in open opposition to the Church, and thus strengthened the party to which, from the beginning, they had felt themselves drawn by a spiritual affinity. |
 | | She, too, was a zealous Arian, so that Pope Liberius returned the money which she sent to him to distribute, saying that she might make the Arian bishops the administrators of her alms. |
 | | But neither the Orthodox nor the Arian party would allow this celebrated man to be absent from Milan; and accordingly not only did the Emperor and the Papal legates send written petitions to him, but the Synod also dispatched an embassage to Vercelli, to obtain the bishop’s consent to their proceedings. |
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