thunderstruck with the Boldness of the Attempt; the whole Party took the Alarm; _Eudoxius_ Bishop of _Constantinople_, and the neighbouring Bishops, forgetful of every thing else, hastened to _Antioch_; Hopes, Fears, Prayers, Menaces, were successively employed, and nothing left unattempted to divert, at least to allay, the impending Storm. But all in vain; the Zeal of _Meletius_ was incapable of Controul: he openly declared, that nothing should, nothing could, make him desist from, or relent in, the Work he had undertaken, till he had utterly extirpated the _Arian_ Heresy, without leaving the least Shoot of so poisonous a Weed in the Field, which by Divine Appointment he was to guard and cultivate[1035]. The _Arians_ finding him immovably fixed in his Resolution, and, what doubled their Concern, the whole Party in imminent Danger from one of their own chusing, they applied with better Success to the Emperor _Constantius_; and, charging the new Bishop of _Antioch_ with _Sabellianism_, which Charge the credulous and unwary Prince believed upon their Word, [Sidenote: _He is banished._] they extorted from him a Rescript banishing _Meletius_ from _Antioch_ about Thirty Days after his Installment, and confining him to _Melitene_ in _Armenia_, his native City[1036]. _Euzoius_ was preferred in his room, formerly the chief Favourite of _Arius_, and the most antient of all his Disciples; for together with him he was condemned by the great Council of _Nice_. [Sidenote: _Great Divisions in that Church._]