"If it come out of the Scriptures, friend Athanasius, they must omit therefrom thy newly-coined word ’Catholic,’ for that word is not scriptural, nor is the idea which thou signifiest by it therein. The Scriptures speak not of the ’Catholic’ Church at all, but of ’the common church,’ ’the common faith,’ ’the common salvation,’ ’the common hope,’ ’the common Saviour’; and thou well knowest that ’common’ pertaineth only to the common or communal organization of Christ’s kingdom. Yet, perhaps, it is natural that one so young, so beautiful, so gifted as thou art, should prefer the imperial and aristocratic designation which hath been recently adopted in the Western Empire, and despise the plebeian, scriptural name ’common’ or ’communal.’ For two Christians might both belong to thy ’Catholic’ Church, while one of them might be a prince and the other a pauper; but the two Christians who belong to the primitive ’common’ church must be brethren, equal, free, fraternal; and the difference, friend Athanasius, between ’common’ ([Greek: _koínos_]) and ’catholic’ ([Greek: _kata holos_]) is just the difference between the Christian Church and that of Constantine. I know not what the martyrs would have said of it, nor what the steadfast confessors here present may think of it; but I prefer the ancient, scriptural term ’common,’ ’communal,’ ’communistic’ church of which Jesus Christ only is King, and in which all men are brethren, to the new ’Catholic’ establishment which has come in with our unbaptized emperor." There was not a confessor present but what would have applauded these bold and truthful sentiments, the force of which we can at this day with difficulty realize; but Constantine bit his lip to restrain a terrible oath, and his face darkened ominously as he glared upon the audacious presbyter. Hosius, Marcellus, Alexander, and others of the same party, seemed to have been stricken dumb by the clear, incisive, fearless, and uncompromising declarations of Arius. Only Athanasius seemed to preserve his marvelous self-possession, and laughed musically, while, in order to distract attention from the dangerous question which the old heretic seemed determined to bring up at every possible turn of the discussion, he cried aloud: "But hast thou not commonly taught that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are three, and not one God, and thereby made thy heresy assume the complexion of polytheism? Hast thou not done that?"