Arius
historical figure · 2 works · 9 mentions · 15 anchored passages
his own teacher · that ill-named Arius · the champion of the heresy · the ill-named Arius · the ill-named heresy of Arius
in the texts
Letters
Fourth-century heresiarch whose teaching underlies the later blasphemy against the Holy Spirit and Eustathius's creed.
and since, little by little, the wicked seeds of impiety advancing — those that were first sown by Arius, the champion of the heresy, and afterward nurtured to the ruin of the churches by those who succeeded badly to his teachings — the sequence of impiety has burst out into blasphemy against the Spirit:
But when, on coming into Cilicia and meeting a certain Gelasius, he set forth to him a creed which only Arius, or some genuine disciple of his, could have composed, then indeed we were the more confirmed in our separation, reckoning that neither will the Ethiopian ever change his skin, nor the leopard his spots, nor can one bred up in perverse doctrines wash off the evil of his heresy.
But if the sins of parents are to become charges against the children, far more justly should the things of Arius be laid against his disciples;
De Anima
Philosopher cited for the doctrine that wise souls dwell in the air after death.
with Arius, into the air;
But our slumber, you say, is in the ether with the boy-lovers of Plato, or in the air with Arius, or about the moon with the Endymions of the Stoics.