Reference numbers Urk. 2
Doc. 16
CPG 2046
Incipit Καλῶς φρονῶν εὔχου πάντας
Date c. 318
Ancient source Athanasius, On the Synods 17
Modern edition used H-G. Opitz, Athanasius Werke, band 2 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1940).

And Eusebius of Nicomedia in addition wrote thus to Arius:

Since you think properly, pray that everyone will think that way. For it is clear to all that the thing which is made did not exist before it came into being; but rather what came into being has a beginning to its existence.

Translation by GLT

Other translations in Hanson, p. 31; NPNF2 vol. 4, p. 459

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