the heresiarch, was
regarded, while presbyter of the church at Antioch, as a remarkable
extemporaneous teacher, and composed a great many
treatises on various Questions, into which already at that
time he infused that subtle evil, which
afterwards became the poison of acknowledged impiety, veiled meanwhile
by moral exhortation. But afterwards, when commended by his eloquence
and abstemiousness he had been made pontiff of the church at
Constantinople, showing openly what he had for a long while concealed, he became a declared enemy of the church, and wrote a book On the incarnation of the Lord, formed of sixty-two passages from Divine Scripture, used in a perverted meaning. What he maintained in this book may be found in the catalogue of heretics.