A Source Book for Ancient Church HistoryAyer, Joseph Cullen
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A Source Book for Ancient Church History
Ayer, Joseph Cullen
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 -- Sources
The following fragments are from the disputation of Malchion with
Paul at the Council of Antioch, 268 [see extract from Eusebius,
_Hist. Ec._, VII, 27, 29, 30; see above (_c_)], which Malchion is
said to have revised and published. The passages may be found also
in Routh, _Reliquiæ Sacræ_, second ed., III, 300 _ff._ Fragments
I-III are from the work of the Emperor Justinian, _Contra
Monophysitas_; fragment IV is from the work of Leontius of
Byzantium, _Adversus Nestorianos et Eutychianos_.
I. The Logos became united with Him who was born of David, who is Jesus,
who was begotten of the Holy Ghost. And Him the Virgin bore by the Holy
Spirit; but God generated that Logos without the Virgin or any one else
than God, and thus the Logos exists.
II. The Logos was greater than Christ. Christ became greater through
Wisdom, that we might not overthrow the dignity of Wisdom.
III. In order that the Anointed, who was from David, might not be a
stranger to Wisdom, and that Wisdom might not dwell so largely in another.
For it was in the prophets, and more in Moses, and in many the Lord was,
but more also in Christ as in a temple. For Jesus Christ was one and the
Logos was another.
IV. He who appeared was not Wisdom, for He could not be found in an
outward form, neither in the appearance of a man; for He is greater than
all things visible.
(_e_) Paul of Samosata, _Orationes ad Sabinum_, Routh, _op. cit._, III,
329.
The doctrine of Paul.
Paul’s work addressed to Sabinus has perished with the exception
of a few fragments. See Routh, _op. cit._
I. Thou shouldest not wonder that the Saviour had one will with God; for
just as nature shows us a substance becoming one and the same out of many
things, so the nature of love makes one and the same will out of many
through a manifest preference.
II. He who was born holy and righteous, having by His struggle and
sufferings overcome the sin of our progenitors, and having succeeded in
all things, was united in character to God, since He had preserved one and
the same effort and aim as He for the promotion of things that are good;
and since He has preserved this inviolate, His name is called that above
every name, the prize of love having been freely bestowed upon Him.
(_f_) Epiphanius, _Panarion_, _Hær._ LXV. (MSG, 42:12.)
The doctrine of Paul of Samosata.
Epiphanius was bishop of Salamis, 367-403. His works are chiefly
polemical and devoted to the refutation of all heresies, of which
he gives accounts at some length. He is a valuable, though not
always reliable, source for many otherwise unknown heresies. In
the present case we have passages from Paul’s own writings that
confirm and supplement the statements of the hereseologist.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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