Orations against the arians

 Of teachers, in order that they too may seem to be called christians in this way and not being ashamed of their own disgraceful name, let them play g

 Wishing to dance against the savior, to express his own miserable little sayings of impiety in dissolute and loose melodies? so that, just as wisdom s

 Is proper to created things and is one of them. and with these things, having become as it were a successor of the devil’s rashness, he has put in his

 Saying certain parts of the gospels, they will deny along with them the law and the prophets. but if in their ignorance they are so tossed by the stor

 The word the father he is not the true and only word of the father himself, but is called word and wisdom by name only, and by grace is called son an

 Seeing him who sowed the heresy among them at a loss, and that they may learn, even though late, that being arians, they are not christians. you have

 A few things 26.37 for i have hoped in the eternal one for your salvation, and joy came to me from the holy one. and since the apostle, writing to th

 You do not hide yourselves at all, nor even when hiding can you escape notice for again you signify times, saying, «there was a time when he was not,

 A partaker? of the spirit? and yet the spirit itself rather receives from the son, as he himself has said, and it is unreasonable to say that this one

 Being, in whom he creates. then let them tell us, or rather, even from this let them see their own impiety in saying, there was a time when he was no

 To be at some time, but to be always. and these things are the son who says, i am the life, and, i wisdom dwelt in counsel. how then is he not imp

 In which seeing himself, he rejoices, as the son himself says: i was she in whom he rejoiced. when, then, did the father not see himself in his own im

 Wishing the image from the father, in order that they might make the son equal to created things. for at any rate, numbering him among these, those ar

 Of things that are and are not, as we said. but if they are speaking about god and his word, let them add what is missing to the question, and ask thu

 Do both supply what is lacking in each other? for by saying such things, you rather show the weakness of the one who fashioned, if he was not strong e

 Of heretics towards their parents 26.69 refutes their malice. for they recognized what is according to nature, and henceforth were ashamed about the t

 For it is of things that are, and it was not before it came to be. but things that were not before they came to be, how could they co-exist with the e

 Hence to ask about that which exists, but is neither begotten of any, nor has a father for itself they will hear from us that the one so signified, t

 Created things are signified, so also 'father' is indicative of the son and the one who names god maker and creator and unbegotten sees and apprehend

 Not existing god and a created son, they consequently collected for themselves such expressions as were fitting for a creature but since, when they a

 That some grace and state of virtue has accrued to a certain particular substance, and that this is so called word, and son, and wisdom, in such a way

 He partook, as we said or the other alternative, which may it be turned upon their own heads, they must needs say, that he was not before this, but w

 He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even death on a cross. therefore god has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is abo

 With him, and let us enter into the gates of the heavens, which he himself again opened for us, as those who run before say: lift up the gates, o ye r

 To become of god and in the epistle he writes: by this we know that he abides in you, from his spirit, which he has given to us. and this is also a

 That god bestowed upon him, and the heretics think it to be a defect or a passion of the substance of the word, it is necessary to say how these thing

 John's gospel: i have sent them into the world, and for their sake i sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified in truth. and saying this, he

 To the immortal one who has taken on the mortal? or what improvement to the eternal one who has put on the temporal? and what greater reward could the

 Your throne, o god, is for ever and ever a scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your 26.116 kingdom and announcing his descent to us, he says: t

 Should attempt it, the deceit of the serpent himself would be weakened, and the lord being unchangeable and unalterable, the serpent would become weak

 And after a little: wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of our profession, jesus, who wa

 And the occasion of the apostolic saying, the foolish would not have been so impious, taking human things to refer to the godhead. and it is possible

 Saying that 'having become' is equivalent to 'having been begotten,' and that he is better, he says. for what is begotten does not differ, whether one

 Might show from their end the nature of created things. for the things that are able to perish, even if they do not perish because of the grace of the

 Disciples have discipled all the nations, and now what is written has been fulfilled: they shall all be taught by god. and then, the things shown were

 Ascending and descending but concerning the son he says: and let all the angels of god worship him and when angels minister, they say, i was sent to

 Help to those in need. for god is always and the same but men came to be after these things through the word, when the father himself willed it and

 Therefore, neither what is written in the proverbs, the lord created me as the beginning of his ways for his works, nor what was said by the apostle

 Folly, how could the second thing, which is according to will, come to be? but the word is first, and creation is second. but the word exists, even if

 To deny the natural and genuine generation of the son from the father but when they hear the terms and words for 'creature', they are immediately car

 Not even one. but if he himself is the word and the wisdom, in whom all things are made, then he is not one of the things made, nor at all of the thin

 From the history according to the law and aaron. thus aaron was not born a high priest, but a man, and after a time, when god willed, he became a high

 Unless when he himself likewise partook of blood and flesh with us? and when did he become a merciful and faithful high priest, if not when he was mad

 For the sake of sanctifying the flesh he became man and being lord, was in the form of a servant for all creation, which came to be and was made by

 Unto you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, which god did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves know. therefore, what is said at the end

 A house of refuge and a god who is a defender, so also our lord has become. and he did not then have a beginning of being but we had a beginning of h

 Of your feet and in the fifteenth: you will not abandon my soul to hades, nor will you allow your holy one to see corruption. that such sayings, ther

 Of this. for being the son of god, he would be like him and being like him, he is in every way both lord and king for he himself says, 'he who has s

 They think they are saying something against the christian faith, it is necessary to examine the text itself, just as the phrase, who was faithful to

 Hymns the truth, and blesses, and trembles but the word is its creator, and he himself says, 'i am the truth.' therefore the word is not a creature,

 To know, but the sight and the knowledge concerning this surpasses all for god himself said: 'no one shall see my face and live' and the son has sai

 Nor would these things have been said about him, if he were at all one of the creatures. but now since he is not a creature, but the proper offspring

 Of these things. but if god so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, o

 It is possible to see, but while the creatures are many, the word is one who does not perceive from these things also, that the son is distinct from

 Being a created son, he was able to be made by god alone. but god is in need of nothing may it never be! for he himself said: i am full. nor did th

 Our weakness, he, being powerful, was made by the father alone, that he might create us through him as through an instrument far from it! it is not s

 He sent forth his word, and healed them. for all these things everywhere expose the arian heresy, and signify the eternity of the word, and that he is

 To the impassible and unchangeable god, so that by these they might disturb the ears of the more simple, and turn them away from the truth? for who, h

 Of him, who is the subject of our discourse. he is therefore creator, and without him was made not one thing, nor is it possible for anything to be ma

 For just as one would not say that the divinity mentioned here is christ, but that it is the father himself so also i think his eternal power and div

 The word of god, was preached by john: the word became flesh, and, all things were made through him. wherefore also concerning our lord jesus christ a

 Washing? for what fellowship has the creature with the creator? or why is that which is made numbered together with the one who made it for the perfec

 Having a correct one. for this reason, therefore, the savior also did not simply command to baptize, but first he says, 'make disciples ' then thus: '

 To john in the gospel, saying: these things i have spoken to you in proverbs, but the hour is coming when i will no longer speak to you in proverbs, b

 The one created according to god in righteousness and holiness of the truth. for neither did david speak of a people being created in substance, 26.24

 To the offspring, what is called the beginning of ways because he is the only-begotten word. for if he is an offspring, how do you call him a creature

 And wisdom but the things that have come into being, not existing before, were made through the word himself. therefore that much-talked-of saying of

 To work. but noah was not created for the sake of the ark, but that he might first exist and become a man for after these things he received the comm

 It is clear that, pre-existing, he is later formed, and the formation signifies not the beginning of his being, but the incarnation, in which he also

 Having learned from him, the apostle also said: since therefore the children share in blood and flesh, he himself likewise partook of the same things,

 It is proper and characteristic of man to say, “he created,” and, “he made him.” for this reason, then, the cause of, 26.268 “he created,” is also add

 And in this again you have dared to be impious toward the lord, saying that he is a work, or a creature, that is, a begotten thing? for you assert tha

 To beget, is significant of the son, but to make, is indicative of works. for this reason, then, we are not first begotten, but are made for it is wr

 And in this he is called and is our firstborn, since, when all men were perishing through the transgression of adam, his flesh was the first of all to

 Be considered apart from the children of jacob. but also concerning the lord himself the apostle has not said, that he might become the firstborn of a

 26.285 since truth, therefore, has shown that the word is not by nature a creature, it follows then to say, how he is also called the beginning of th

 The father for perfection, these are the things for which he is created, saying in the proverbs: the lord created me as the beginning of his ways for

 He came, then, not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to work out our salvation. indeed, being able to speak the law from heaven, he saw that i

 Son and man would not have been brought to the father, if the word who put on the body had not been by nature and truly his word. and just as we woul

 Had been made, and scripture would neither have distinguished him from the works, nor would it have named some things works, and preached the word and

 He was speaking of himself, i saw 26.304 that such a characteristic was not of a creature, but of divinity and of the father's nature. therefore the a

 The redemption and salvation prepared for us beforehand, rising again, we might remain immortal, when he for our sakes is created the beginning of the

 May be renewed, and planning this, he prepares it beforehand, and gives to the one who has worked the preparation for renewal, and the pre-preparation

 For since in the wisdom of god the world through wisdom knew not god? or how, if there is no wisdom, is a multitude of wise men found in scripture? an

 Before all hills he begets me so that in saying “before all creation” (for in these words he indicated all creation) he might show that he was not cr

 By saying, he who has seen me has seen the father, and, i am in the 26.321 father, and the father is in me. therefore your boast has been shown to be

 Is sanctified but the son himself is not a son by participation, but is the proper offspring of the father. again, the son is not in the father in th

 Consequently the son is in the father, and the father is in the son. for this reason, having previously and fittingly said, 'i and the father are one,

 Worships also the king for the image is his form and his shape. since, therefore, the son is the image of the father, it is necessary to understand t

 As has been said but when the son came, he glorified not himself, but the father, saying to the one who came to him: why do you call me good? no one

 Having joined himself to the father, he showed that he is of the nature of the father, and gave us to know that he is the true offspring of the true f

 Father who is in heaven, and observing the saying, therefore be imitators of god, as beloved children and walk in love, just as christ also loved us.

 His grandsons ephraim and manasseh, he said: the god who has fed me from my youth until this day the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless t

 For he is the radiance of the father and thus the father and the son are one. but one would not say this concerning things that are begotten and crea

 Form of godhead, which is also in the word and one god the father, being in himself as being over all and appearing in the son as pervading through

 Your former thoughts, we have devised a newer one and say: thus the son and the father are one, and thus the father is in the son, and the son is in t

 But the savior, showing what herod was like, said: go tell that fox and to the disciples he commanded: behold, i send you out as sheep in the midst o

 Like is by nature united to like since also all flesh is gathered together according to its kind. the word, therefore, is unlike us, but like the fat

 In me is the salvation of men, i ask that they also may become one, according to the body in me, and according to its perfection that they also may b

 Mind, and he will teach how we are in god, and god in us and how again we become one in him, but how far the son is distant in nature from us and he

 The holy and paraclete spirit in god departed from him, but he will be in that one to whom the sinner has subjected himself, as it happened in the cas

 And to speak more jewishly according to caiaphas: why at all, being a man, did christ make himself god? for the jews then, seeing these things and thi

 Understanding the sayings which they were alleging, it is possible somehow to learn from the few things said before but that also in what they now ag

 They say is a race. of old, therefore, it happened to each of the saints, and he sanctified those who genuinely received him but neither, when they w

 Not any of the created beings, nor any common man, but him who is from god, by nature and true son, this one who also became man, we call upon him non

 His own body. and he himself remains by nature impassible, as he is, not being harmed by these, but rather making them disappear and destroying them

 Which he possesses eternally. for that was given, and was delivered, and the like, do not diminish the godhead of the son, but rather show him to

 In the father, and the father in me. therefore this is clear to everyone, that to be ignorant belongs to the flesh, but the word himself, as he is wor

 Of glory, they crucified. for he had that which he asked for, saying: with the glory that i had with you before the world was. and the authority which

 The hour of the day what could one say more foolish than these things, or what madness could one equate to them? through the word all things were mad

 Has been determined, and he himself knows what was determined through him. for there is nothing, which has not both come to be and been determined thr

 Bridegroom. he knows when and at what hour he is coming, and when he is about to say: awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and christ will s

 And yet knowing, he says, not even the son knows. for what reason then did he say, i do not know, what he himself, as lord, knows? one who investigate

 For in saying this, he wishes us to be always ready for you, he says, do not know but i the lord know when i am coming, even if the arians do not ex

 Was he capable of advancement? for men, being creatures, are able in a way to advance and make progress in virtue enoch, at least, was thus translate

 Manifest to all. wherefore it does not say, the word advanced, but, jesus, which name the lord was called when he became man so that the advance was

 They number with creation him through whom creation came to be. what then is left in which these men differ from the jews? for just as those men blasp

 To marvel at the courage of the word, but to say that the word himself was afraid, on account of whom they also despised death? but from the most stea

 They buzz around saying: so be it, you interpret these things thus, and you conquer with your reasonings and your proofs but one must say that the so

 The sophist, having composed with his own words, that the offspring and the made thing are the same, and that the son is one from all existing offspri

 The son is superior to creation, so much also is that which is according to nature superior to the will and it was necessary for them, when they hear

 In a psalm: you held my right hand and by your counsel you have guided me. how then can the word, being the counsel and will of the father, himself c

 Of the father's hypostasis would be by an act of will. for of whatever quality and manner that blessed hypostasis is, such and so must be the proper o

 Saying, if you had a son, before you gave birth? but the fathers, and to say to them: do you become fathers by taking counsel, or by nature and your w

of teachers, in order that they too may seem to be called Christians in this way; and not being ashamed of their own disgraceful name, let them play games; but if they are ashamed, let them cover themselves up, or let them leap away from their own impiety. For a people never took its name from its own bishops, but from the Lord, in whom we also have faith; indeed, although the blessed apostles have become our teachers and have ministered the Gospel of the Savior, we were not named from them, but from Christ we are and are called Christians. But those who have the origin of what they consider their faith from others, reasonably have their name also, as having become their property. Indeed, while all of us are and are called Christians from Christ, long ago Marcion was cast out for inventing a heresy; and those who remained with the one who cast him out remained Christians; but those who followed Marcion were no longer Chri 26.17 stians, but were henceforth called Marcionites. Thus also Valentinus, and Basilides, and Manichaeus, and Simon Magus have imparted their own name to their followers; and some are called Valentinians, and others Basilidians, and others Manichaeans, and those Simonians, and others are addressed as Phrygians from Phrygia, and Novatians from Novatus. Thus also Meletius, when he was cast out by Peter the bishop and martyr, no longer called his own people Christians but Meletians; so then, when the blessed Alexander cast out Arius, those who remained with Alexander remained Christians; but those who went out with Arius left the name of the Savior to us who are with Alexander, and they were henceforth called Arians. Behold, then, even after the death of Alexander, those who are in communion with Athanasius who succeeded him, and those with whom Athanasius himself is in communion, have the same character; and none of them have his name, nor is he named from them, but all are again and customarily called Christians. For though we may have successors of teachers, and become their disciples; yet being taught the things of Christ by them, we are no less Christians and are so called. But those who follow the heretics, even if they have ten thousand successors, yet they always bear the name of the one who invented the heresy. Indeed, after Arius died, and while many of his own succeeded him, nevertheless those who hold his opinions are known from Arius and are called Arians. And a wonderful proof of this is that those from the Greeks who are now coming to the Church, leaving behind the superstition of idols, do not take the name of their catechists, but that of the Savior, and instead of Greeks they begin to be called Christians; but those who go away to them, or as many as change from the Church to the heresy, leave behind the name of Christ, and are henceforth called Arians, as no longer having the faith of Christ, but having become successors of the madness of Arius. 26.20 How then are they Christians who are not Christians, but Ariomaniacs? Or how are they of the Catholic Church who have cast off the apostolic faith, and have become inventors of new evils, who have abandoned the oracles of the divine Scriptures, but call the Thalia of Arius a new wisdom? Reasonably saying this, for they proclaim a new heresy. Wherefore one might wonder that, although many have written many treatises and very many homilies on both the Old and the New Testaments, and Thalia is found in none of them, nor even among the serious Greeks, but only among those who sing such things at drinking parties with applause and jests in their games, for the sake of being laughed at by others, the admirable Arius, imitating nothing serious, but also being ignorant of the works of serious men, and having stolen very much from other heresies, emulated only the buffoonery of Sotades. For what was it fitting for him to do, but

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διδασκάλων, ἵνα δόξωσι καὶ αὐτοὶ οὕτως καλεῖσθαι Χριστιανοί· μηδὲ αἰσχυνόμενοι τὸ ἐπονείδιστον ἑαυτῶν ὄνομα, παιζέτωσαν· εἰ δὲ αἰσχύνονται, ἐγκαλυπτέσθωσαν, ἢ ἀποπηδάτωσαν ἀπὸ τῆς ἑαυτῶν ἀσεβείας. Οὐδὲ πώποτε γὰρ λαὸς ἀπὸ τῶν οἰκείων ἐπισκόπων ἔσχε τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν, ἀλλ' ἀπὸ τοῦ Κυρίου, εἰς ὃν καὶ τὴν πίστιν ἔχομεν· τῶν γοῦν μακαρίων ἀποστόλων διδασκάλων ἡμῶν γε νομένων, καὶ διακονησάντων τὸ τοῦ Σωτῆρος Εὐαγγέλιον, οὐκ ἐξ ἐκείνων ἐκλήθημεν, ἀλλ' ἀπὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ Χριστιανοὶ καὶ ἐσμὲν, καὶ ὀνομαζόμεθα. Οἱ δὲ παρ' ἑτέρων ἔχοντες τὴν ἀρχὴν ἧς νομίζουσι πίστεως, ἐκείνων εἰκότως ἔχουσι καὶ τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν, ὡς αὐτῶν γενόμενοι κτῆμα. Ἀμέλει πάντων ἡμῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ Χρι στιανῶν ὄντων καὶ καλουμένων, ἐξεβλήθη πάλαι Μαρκίων αἵρεσιν ἐφευρών· καὶ οἱ μὲν παραμείναντες μετὰ τοῦ ἐκβαλόντος ἐκεῖνον ἔμειναν Χριστιανοί· οἱ δ' ἀκολουθήσαντες Μαρκίωνι οὐκέτι μὲν Χρι 26.17 στιανοὶ, Μαρκιωνισταὶ δὲ λοιπὸν ἐκλήθησαν. Οὕτω καὶ Οὐαλεντῖνος, καὶ Βασιλίδης, καὶ Μανιχαῖος, καὶ Σίμων ὁ μάγος τοῖς ἀκολουθήσασι μεταδεδώκασι τοῦ ἰδίου ὀνόματος· καὶ οἱ μὲν Οὐαλεντινιανοὶ, οἱ δὲ Βασιλιδιανοὶ, οἱ δὲ Μανιχαῖοι, κἀκεῖνοι Σιμωνιανοὶ, καὶ ἄλλοι κατὰ Φρύγας ἀπὸ Φρυγίας, καὶ ἀπὸ Νοουάτου Νοουατιανοὶ προσαγορεύονται. Οὕτω καὶ Μελέτιος, ἐκβληθεὶς παρὰ Πέτρου τοῦ ἐπισκόπου καὶ μάρτυρος, οὐκέτι Χριστιανοὺς ἀλλὰ Μελιτιανοὺς ἐκάλεσε τοὺς ἰδίους· οὕτως ἄρα καὶ τοῦ μακαρίτου Ἀλεξάνδρου τὸν Ἄρειον ἐκβαλόντος, οἱ μὲν μετὰ Ἀλεξάνδρου μείναντες ἔμειναν Χριστιανοί· οἱ δὲ συνεξελθόντες Ἀρείῳ τὸ μὲν ὄνομα τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῖν τοῖς μετὰ Ἀλεξάνδρου καταλελοίπασιν, Ἀρειανοὶ δὲ λοιπὸν ἐκλήθησαν ἐκεῖνοι. Ἰδοὺ γοῦν καὶ μετὰ θάνατον τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου, οἱ κοινωνοῦντες τῷ διαδεξαμένῳ τοῦτον Ἀθανασίῳ, καὶ οἷς ὁ αὐτὸς Ἀθανάσιος κοινωνεῖ, τὸν αὐτὸν ἔχουσι τύπον· καὶ οὔτε ἐκείνων τὸ τούτου τινὲς ἔχουσιν ὄνομα, οὔτε αὐτὸς ἐξ ἐκείνων ὀνομάζεται, ἀλλὰ πάντες πάλιν καὶ συνήθως Χριστιανοὶ καλοῦνται. Κἂν γὰρ διδα σκάλων διαδόχους ἔχωμεν, καὶ μαθηταὶ τούτων γινώ μεθα· ἀλλά γε τὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ παρ' αὐτῶν διδασκόμενοι, Χριστιανοὶ οὐδὲν ἧττον ἐσμὲν καὶ καλούμεθα. Οἱ δέ γε τοῖς αἱρετικοῖς ἀκολουθοῦντες, κἂν μυρίους διαδόχους ἔχωσιν, ἀλλὰ πάντως τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ τὴν αἵρεσιν ἐφευρόντος φέρουσιν. Ἀμέλει τελευτήσαντος Ἀρείου, πολλῶν δὲ τῶν ἰδίων αὐτὸν δια δεξαμένων, ὅμως οἱ τὰ ἐκείνου φρονοῦντες ἐξ Ἀρείου γνωριζόμενοι Ἀρειανοὶ καλοῦνται. Καὶ θαυμαστόν γε τούτου τεκμήριον, οἱ μὲν ἐξ Ἑλλήνων καὶ νῦν εἰς τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν ἐρχόμενοι, ἀφιέντες τὴν τῶν εἰ δώλων δεισιδαιμονίαν, οὐ τῶν κατηχούντων λαμ βάνουσι τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν, ἀλλὰ τὴν τοῦ Σωτῆρος, καὶ ἀντὶ Ἑλλήνων ἄρχονται Χριστιανοὶ καλεῖσθαι· οἱ δὲ πρὸς ἐκείνους ἀπιόντες, ἢ ὅσοι δ' ἂν ἀπὸ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας πρὸς τὴν αἵρεσιν μεταβάλλονται, τὸ μὲν Χριστοῦ καταλιμπάνουσιν ὄνομα, καὶ λοιπὸν δὲ Ἀρειανοὶ καλοῦνται, ὡς οὐκέτι τὴν Χριστοῦ πίστιν ἔχοντες, ἀλλὰ τῆς Ἀρείου γενόμενοι μανίας διάδοχοι. 26.20 Πῶς τοίνυν Χριστιανοὶ οἱ μὴ Χριστιανοὶ, ἀλλὰ Ἀρειομανῖται; Ἢ πῶς τῆς καθολικῆς Ἐκκλησίαςεἰσὶν οἱ τὴν ἀποστολικὴν ἀποτιναξάμενοι πίστιν, καὶ καινῶν κακῶν ἐφευρεταὶ γενόμενοι, οἱ τὰ μὲν τῶν θείων Γραφῶν λόγια καταλείψαντες, τὰς δὲ Θαλείας Ἀρείου σοφίαν καινὴν ὀνομάζοντες; Εἰκότως τοῦτο λέγοντες καινὴν γὰρ αἵρεσιν ἀπαγγέλ λουσι. ∆ιὸ καὶ θαυμάσειεν ἄν τις, ὅτι πολλὰ πολλῶν συντάγματα καὶ πλείστας ὁμιλίας εἴς γε τὴν Παλαιὰν καὶ τὴν Καινὴν γραψάντων, καὶ παρὰ μη δενὶ Θαλείας εὑρισκομένης, ἀλλὰ μηδὲ παρὰ τοῖς σπουδαίοις τῶν Ἑλλήνων, ἢ παρὰ μόνοις τοῖς ᾄδουσι τὰ τοιαῦτα παρὰ πότον μετὰ κρότου καὶ σκωμμάτων ἐν παιδιαῖς, ἕνεκεν τοῦ γελᾶσθαι παρ' ἑτέρων, ὁ θαυ μαστὸς Ἄρειος οὐδὲν σεμνὸν μιμησάμενος, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ τῶν σπουδαίων ἀγνοήσας, πλεῖστά τε τῶν ἄλλων αἱρέσεων ὑποκλέψας, τὴν τοῦ Σωτάδου μόνου γελοιολογίαν ἐζήλωσε. Τί γὰρ ἔπρεπε ποιεῖν αὐτὸν, ἢ

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