Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Philostorgius 1: 4

A sample of what appears in the Real Messiah order it here

He says that there was a presbyter Alexander who was surnamed Baucalis because the bulge of superfluous flesh accumulated on his back gave him the shape of an earthenware jug which the Alexandrians call locally a baukale. He ranked second after Arius and was behind the quarrel with between Bishop Alexander and Arius on account of which the cosubstantialist doctrine was devised.


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