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Written for the monks of Egypt while he was hiding among them, this is St. Athanasius's account of how the Arians used the emperor's power against the bishops who held to Nicaea.
It is angry, vivid and told by the man at the centre of it.
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About this edition
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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