Divisions among the Arians and the Other Heretics

I think it right, moreover, not to pass over what went on among the other religious bodies, namely the Arians, the Novatians, and those who took their names from Macedonius and Eunomius. For once the church was divided, it did not rest in that one schism. The separatists, seizing on the slightest and most trivial pretexts, fell out among themselves. How and when they quarreled with one another, and why, we will tell as we go on. But let it be noted here that the emperor Theodosius persecuted none of them except Eunomius. Because Eunomius was holding meetings in private houses at Constantinople, where he read out the works he had written, and was corrupting many with his teaching, the emperor ordered him to be sent into exile. With the other heretics he did not interfere at all. He did not force them to share communion with him, but allowed them all to meet in their own meeting places and to hold their own opinions on points of the Christian faith. The rest were given permission to build themselves churches outside the cities. But because the Novatians held exactly the same faith as he did, he ordered that they be left undisturbed in their churches inside the cities, as I have mentioned before. About them, however, I think this a fitting place to give some further account, and so I will go back over a few events in their history. [a]