Note 045
From Chapter 21 of the Decline & Fall

Sozomen (1. i. c. 15) represents Alexander as indifferent, and even ignorant, in the beginning of the controversy; while Socrates (1. i. c. 5) ascribes the origin of the dispute to the vain curiosity of his theological speculations. Dr. Jortin (Remarks On Ecclesiastical History, vol. ii. p. 178) has censured, with his usual freedom, the conduct of Alexander; Ancient Greek

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