Puritans (who have copied them in so many other things), whenever a
godly man visited them.

{66a} Meletius, bishop of Lycopolis, was the author of an obscure
schism calling itself the "Church of the Martyrs," which refused to
communicate with the rest of the Eastern Church. See Smith's
"Dictionary," on the word "Meletius."

{66b} Arius (whose most famous and successful opponent was
Athanasius, the writer of this biography) maintained that the Son of
God was not co-equal and co-eternal with the Father, but created by
Him out of nothing, and before the world. His opinions were
condemned in the famous Council of Nicaea, A.D. 325.

{67} If St. Antony could use so extreme an argument against the
Arians, what would he have said to the Mariolatry which sprang up
after his death?

{68a} I.e. those who were still heathens.

{68b} [Greek text]. The Christian priest is always called in this
work simply [Greek text], or elder.

{72a} Probably that of A.D. 341, when Gregory of Cappadocia,
nominated by the Arian Bishops, who had assembled at the Council of
Antioch, expelled Athanasius from the see of Alexandria, and great
violence was committed by his followers and by Philagrius the
Prefect. Athanasius meanwhile fled to Rome.

{72b} I.e. celebrated there their own Communion.