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Council of Nicea, great as it was, was able to establish it directly. The latter's decisions also required at least sixty years of turmoil and dissention of similar breadth and wide consideration in places both low and high, in order to achieve any similar unanimity, but it was also that unanimity that allowed the decisions to prevail in the long term. Does that seem unscholarly? I don't see evidence for it.
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