A most unaccountable Oversight, and hardly credible! But _Theodoret_[912], _Ambrose_[913], _Sulpitius Severus_[914], and _Fulgentius_[915], took it upon their Word, and so must we. Neither Party could brag of the Victory; for the _Arians_ had anathematized the Heresy of _Arius_; and on the other hand the orthodox Bishops had deliberately agreed to the suppressing of the Words _Substance_ and _Consubstantial_, and inadvertently acknowleged the Son to be a Creature; which was all the _Arians_ aimed at, or could desire. The Council being thus ended, new Deputies were sent to acquaint the Emperor with what had passed, who being highly pleased with the Report made by _Ursacius_ and _Valens_ (for they were at the Head of the Deputation) immediately granted the Bishops Leave to return to their respective Sees, after they had been about Four Months at _Rimini_. The Council no sooner broke up than the _Arians_ began to proclaim aloud the Victory they had gained, bragging, that it had not been defined in the Council of _Rimini_, that the Son was not a Creature, but only that he was not like other Creatures; and declaring it was, and had always been their Opinion, that the Son was no more like the Father, than a Piece of Glass was like an Emerald[916]. [Sidenote: _They discover their Mistake._] _Phœbadius_, and the other Bishops who had adhered to him, were returned to their Sees with great Joy, flattering themselves that they had sufficiently established the Catholic Doctrine, and prevented all future Disputes: but, finding that the _Arians_ pretended their Tenets had been confirmed by this very Council, and seriously reflecting on the Articles, which they themselves had agreed to, they discovered at last how grosly they had been imposed upon, and publicly retracted all they had said, done, or signed, repugnant to the Truths of the Catholic Church[917]. However, _Gregory_ Bishop of _Elvira_ refused to communicate with any of the Bishops who had assisted at the Council of _Rimini_, and was on that account commended by _Eusebius_ of _Vercelli_[918]. [Sidenote: _Are judged Guilty by the exiled Bishops._] The exiled Bishops, and those who lay concealed, agreed among themselves by Letters, to declare them for ever incapable of performing any Episcopal or Sacerdotal Functions, and to admit them to the Communion of the Church only in the Capacity of Laymen[919]. When Peace was restored to the Church by the Death of _Constantius_ in 361. most of the orthodox Bishops were for deposing all those of the Council of _Rimini_, and placing others in their room. But this Sentence the People would not suffer to be put in Execution, rising every-where in Defence of their Pastors, and in some Places insulting, beating, and even killing, those who came to depose them[920]. [Sidenote: _Great Disagreement in the Council of_ Seleucia.]