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教會史（續編） 第 2 章
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Cum apud Alexandriam post Achillam, qui Petro Martyri successerat, Alexander sacerdotium suscepisset, quia pax nostris et quies a persecutionibus erat, atque Ecclesiarum gloria Confessorum meritis gaudebat: prosperitas rerum nostrarum domestica contentione turbatur. Etenim presbyter quidam apud Alexandriam, Arius nomine, vir specie et forma magis, quam virtute religiosus, sed gloriae laudisque et novitatis improbe cupidus, prava quaedam de fide Christi proferre, et quae antea in quaestionem nunquam venerant, coepit: abscidere ac separare ab illa aeterna et ineffabili Dei Patris substantia, vel natura Filium conabatur. Quae res plurimos in Ecclesia conturbabat.
在亞歷山大城，繼承彼得殉道者的亞基拉之後，亞歷山大接任了主教之職。當時我們的人享有平安，得免於逼迫的寧靜，眾教會的榮耀也因眾認信者的功德而歡欣；然而我們的興盛卻被內部的紛爭所攪擾。原來在亞歷山大城有一位長老，名叫亞流，此人在外表與形貌上虔誠，過於在德行上虔誠，卻邪惡地貪求榮耀、讚譽與新奇，開始提出一些關於基督信德的謬論，這些是從前從未被質疑過的事；他企圖將聖子從父神那永恆而難以言喻的本質或本性中割裂、分離出去。這事使教會中許多人陷入混亂。
When at Alexandria, after Achillas who had succeeded Peter the Martyr, Alexander had taken up the office of bishop, since peace and quiet from persecutions were granted to our people, and the glory of the Churches rejoiced in the merits of the Confessors, the prosperity of our affairs was thrown into turmoil by domestic strife. For a certain presbyter at Alexandria, Arius by name, a man religious in outward appearance and form rather than in virtue, but wickedly greedy of glory, praise, and novelty, began to put forward certain corrupt notions concerning the faith of Christ, things which had never before come into question: he attempted to cut off and separate the Son from that eternal and ineffable substance, or nature, of God the Father. This matter threw very many in the Church into confusion.
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Sed cum Alexander Episcopus natura lenis et quietus, assiduis commonitionibus Arium cuperet a pravo incepto et assertionibus impiis revocare, nec tamen res ex sententia procederet, quod plerosque jam contagio pestiferae assertionis infecerat, non solum apud Alexandriam, verum et per alias urbes provinciasque dispersa: perniciosum fore credens; si dissimularet a talibus, plurimis consacerdotibus suis rem indicat. Quaestio latius innotescit. Sermo usque ad aures religiosi principis, quippe qui omni studio et diligentia curaret, quae nostra sunt, pervenit.
亞歷山大主教生性溫和安靜，雖切望以不斷的勸戒使亞流回轉，離棄那敗壞的圖謀與不敬虔的主張，然而事情卻未能如他所願進行，因為那有毒主張的傳染已感染了許多人，不僅在亞歷山大城，更散布到其他城市與省分。他深信若對此默不作聲，必致禍患，於是將此事告知許多同作祭司的弟兄。這爭議遂更廣為人知，消息甚至傳到那位虔誠君王的耳中——他確以全副熱忱與殷勤關懷我們的事務。
But although Bishop Alexander, gentle and quiet by nature, desired by constant admonitions to recall Arius from his depraved undertaking and impious assertions, yet the matter did not proceed according to his wish, because the contagion of that pestilent assertion had already infected very many—and not only at Alexandria, but spread through other cities and provinces as well. Believing it would be ruinous if he were to conceal such things, he disclosed the matter to very many of his fellow-bishops. The controversy became more widely known. The report reached even to the ears of the religious emperor, who indeed cared with all zeal and diligence for those things which are ours.
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Tum ille ex sacerdotum sententia apud urbem Nicaeam Episcopale Concilium convocat (Anno CCCXXV), ibique Arium trecentis decem et octo Episcopis residentibus adesse jubet, ac de ejus propositionibus, et quaestionibus judicari.
於是這位君王依眾祭司的意見，在尼西亞城召開了主教會議（時為主後三二五年），並命令亞流出席於在座的三百一十八位主教面前，使他的主張與爭議之點受到審斷。
Then, by the counsel of the bishops, he convened an episcopal council at the city of Nicaea (in the year 325), and there commanded Arius to appear before three hundred and eighteen bishops in session, and that judgment be passed upon his propositions and questions.