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The Arians mocked St. Athanasius for hiding from the soldiers sent to arrest him. He answers that the saints of Scripture fled too, and so did the Lord Himself, until their hour had come.
It is short and vivid, with his own account of the night soldiers burst into his church.
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From the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 4 (1892), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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