The Macedonians Separate Again

After the Macedonians sent their deputation to Liberius, that sect was admitted to full communion with the churches in every city, and they mingled freely with those who from the beginning had embraced the form of faith published at Nicaea. But when the law of the emperor Gratian allowed the various sects to meet freely for public worship, they resolved to separate themselves once more. They met at Antioch in Syria and decided to avoid the word homoousios again, and in no way to hold communion with those who upheld the Nicene Creed. They gained nothing by this attempt, however. Most of their own party were disgusted at the fickleness with which they held one opinion at one time and another at another, and so withdrew from them, and from then on became firm adherents of those who professed the doctrine of the homoousion. [a]