Eventual Outcome of Athanasius’ Work

D issensions arose soon amongst the Arians themselves, by which their strength was considerably broken; at the second general Council of Constantinople in the year 381 A.D., their doctrine was again condemned, and the decisions of the Council at Nicaea renewed.

Athanasius did not live to see this triumph. He had died in the year 373 A.D. He had been a bishop for forty-six years, but twenty of those years were spent in banishment. In his eventful life he has been a great blessing for the Church by his bold and steadfast confession of the truth. The words of Immanuel may be applied to Athanasius: “To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it” (Revelation 2:17b).

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