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Defence of His
Flight.
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1. Athanasius charged with cowardice for
escaping.
I hear that Leontius1389
| 1389 Leontius died in the summer of 357, probably before Ath.
wrote. | , now at Antioch, and Narcissus1390
of the city of Nero, and George1391
, now at Laodicea, and the Arians who are
with them, are spreading abroad many slanderous reports concerning me,
charging me with cowardice, because forsooth, when I myself was sought
by them, I did not surrender myself into their hands. Now as to their
imputations and calumnies, although there are many things that I could
write, which even they are unable to deny, and which all who have heard
of their proceedings know to be true, yet I shall not be prevailed upon
to make any reply to them, except only to remind them of the words of
our Lord, and of the declaration of the Apostle, that ‘a lie is
of the Devil,’ and that, ‘revilers shall not inherit the
kingdom of God1392
.’ For it is
sufficient thereby to prove, that neither their thoughts nor their
words are according to the Gospel, but that after their own pleasure,
whatsoever themselves desire, that they think to be good.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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