Conclusion

So each of them outdoes the others in his own particular vices. But there is a common stain on them all: through their heresy they are enemies of Christ, and they are no longer called Christians, but Arians. They ought indeed to accuse one another of the sins they are guilty of, since they are against the faith of Christ; but instead they hide them, for their own sakes. And it is no wonder that, having such a spirit and being caught up in such vices, they persecute and hunt down those who do not follow the same ungodly heresy as they do. They delight to destroy them, and they are grieved if they fail to get what they want. As I said before, they think themselves injured when they see alive those whom they wish to see dead. [a]

May they go on being injured in this way, so that they lose the power to injure others, and so that those they persecute may give thanks to the Lord and say in the words of the twenty-sixth Psalm: “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom then shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom then shall I be afraid? When the wicked, my enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.” And again in the words of the thirtieth Psalm: “You have saved my soul from troubles; you have not shut me up in the hands of my enemies; you have set my foot in a broad place,” in Christ Jesus our Lord, through whom be glory and power to the Father in the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.