11. To this heresy Callistus[32] gave strength--a man artful in evil and versatile in falsehood, who was seeking after the [Sidenote: p. 435.] bishop’s throne. And he led whither he liked Zephyrinus,[33] an ignorant man, unlearned and unskilled in the Church’s rules, whom [Callistus] persuaded by gifts and extravagant demands. [And as Zephyrinus] was a receiver of bribes and a money-lover, he induced him to be ever making faction between the brethren, while he himself by crafty words contrived that at the last both parties should be friendly to himself. And sometimes he deceived those who thought truly, by saying that he thought for his own part like things with them; and again he said likewise to those [who held] the opinions of Sabellius, whom, when he might have brought him into the right way, he abandoned. For Sabellius did not harden [his heart] to our[34] admonitions, but when he got alone with Callistus, he was urged by him to relapse towards the doctrine of Cleomenes, alleging that he was of like opinions. [Sabellius] did not then understand his trickery, but knew it afterwards, as I will shortly explain.[35] Now [Callistus] bringing forward Zephyrinus himself, persuaded him to say publicly: “I know one God, Christ Jesus, [Sidenote: p. 436.] and beside Him I know no other, begotten and susceptible of suffering.” And at one time he said: “The Father did not die but the Son,” and thus maintained without ceasing the faction among the people.[36] Knowing whose designs, we did not give way to him, but refuted and withstood him for the Truth’s sake. He also, advancing towards madness, through everyone concurring with him--though we did not--called us ditheists,[37] thus violently spitting forth the concealed poison within him. It seems good to us then to set forth the lovable[38] life of this man since he was born at the same time as ourselves, in order that by the mode of life of such a one being made apparent, the heresy which he has taken in hand may become well and quickly known to those who have right mind. He bore witness[39] when Fuscianus was Prefect of Rome;[40] and the manner of his martyrdom was on this wise.