THE STORY OF THE COPTS - THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN EGYPT

the ephemeral troubles and party prejudices to concentrate on divine ideas: his one aim being to clarify the dogma that had been ...

Father in the Son through the Holy Spirit; He is the Speaker by the prophets. After giving a vivid and clear picture of the Chur ...

The direct and sole successor of the Constantinian Dynasty was Julian. He came to the throne with all the assets that could char ...

At long last he entered Alexandria. He had grown older and thinner but maintained the same fiery Spirit. Wearing the same old g ...

let us welcome them with open arms and rejoice at their return. Let us be true followers, indeed, of our Lord".^51 With these t ...

half-Arians adopted the .Orthodox Doctrines almost immediately. The pagans felt attracted by his magnetic personality and his tr ...

Meanwhile, the Prefect received orders to follow Athanasius. So, no sooner had he heard of his departure than he boarded a boat ...

palmgroves by the banks of the Nile under the starry skies. Thus, all endeavours to find him were fruitless. One day when for a ...

religious Friend of God, Athanasius – from Jovian – We greatly admire, beyond all words, the sanctity of your life and the indef ...

Athanasius, then, wrote the Nicean Creed in its integrity, and added: "This is the Faith, O Prince, in which you should live, fo ...

town and every village. At night, the whole countryside would be lit with torches held by long lines of people waiting to greet ...

The visit to the monasteries was the termination of the pastoral tour, after which Athanasius set sail northward, going downstre ...

grounds that he had made it because he wanted to avoid unnecessary disturbances and bloodshed, and to maintain peace along those ...

the Apostles, and to the true Christian faith. It meant a denial of the Incarnation, the redemption by blood and the glorious Re ...

And now the life of Athanasius was nearing its sunset. Like the Apostle Paul, he "had fought the good fight, he had run the rac ...

he is made a compeer of Christ's Apostles, has come to be an indivisible part of his name. Sixteen centuries have now passed sin ...

XII. NOTES Abbe P. Barbier. Vie de St. Athanose. p.1·3. Jeremiah 1:5. Cf. Ms. no. lll Hist. kept in the Church of Abu Sarga in ...

Manassa '!-Qommos op. cit. p.149. Book of Saints of the Ethiopian Church trans by Wallis Budge, Vol. II, p. 388. Palladius. Par ...

Barbier; pp.194-6; Guettee. Vol. llt, p. I 1?. Guettee. Vol. III, p.113. For details on this letter, Cf. Guettee. Vol. III, pp. ...

W. Budge. trans. Paradise of the Fathers. Vol. I, p.150. For details of the Arian atrocities under George of Cappadocia, cf: P. ...