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St Photius the Great, tr. Freese, 1920; selections

32. Codex 32: Athanasius, Letters

Read various letters of Athanasius,1 some containing a kind of Apology for his flight.2 The style is elegant, brilliant, and clear, full of grace and persuasiveness. It is a pleasure to listen to the Apology.

Notes

  1. (296-373). Patriarch of Alexandria, the father of orthodoxy and the chief opponent of Arianism.
  2. He was accused of cowardice by the Arians for taking refuge in the desert.

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