be a day on which no work was done and no war was waged (1).

Constantine then ordered the Bishop of Jerusalem to locate the site of the sepulcher and the Cross, to build churches there, and to begin with the Church of the Resurrection (2). Helena, his mother, said, “I have vowed to journey to Jerusalem, to seek out the holy places and to build them.” The emperor gave her abundant funds, and she traveled with the Bishop of Jerusalem. She built the Church of the Resurrection on the spot of the Cross, and also the Church of Constantine (3).

After this they assembled a great council in Jerusalem. Among them was a man whom the Patriarch of Constantinople had secretly planted, together with a company, to question the Patriarch of Alexandria. When this man had earlier returned to the emperor he professed opposition to Arius, yet he in fact held Arius’s view and proclaimed his doctrine. The man now rose and said, “(Arius never said) (4) that Christ created humankind; rather, he said that through him all things were created, for he is the Word of God by which the heavens and the earth were made. God created things by His Word, and things did not create His Word, as Christ says in the Gospel: ‘All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be.’ He also said, ‘In him was life, and the life (5) was the light of men,’ and, ‘The world came to be through him’ (6).” Thus he affirmed that all things came into existence through him.