{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/202/2020142.htm","path":"chr/ecf/202/2020142.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/202/2020142.htm","text":"Chapter XVII.\u2014The Emperor Valens, while at Antioch, again persecutes the Adherents of the \u2018Homoousion.\u2019\nThe Emperor Valens, little affected by the calamities resulting from the famine, went to Antioch in Syria, and during his residence there cruelly persecuted such as would not embrace Arianism. For not content with ejecting out of almost all the churches of the East those who maintained the \u2018homoousian\u2019 opinion, he inflicted on them various punishments besides. He destroyed a greater number even than before, delivering them up to many different kinds of death, but especially drowning in the river.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. II: The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus.: The Emperor Valens, while at Antioch, again persecutes the Adherents of the 'Homoousion.'","type":"page"}