Hermogenes

they went over to Hermogenes, who was diametrically the enemy of the false doctrine of Arius, as the very creed of Nicaea shows, which was uttered by that man at the beginning.

That I may not, then, come into judgment with you, but rather find you a sharer in my defence before Christ, I looked round about in the council of the presbyterate in the city, and chose out the most honoured vessel, the grandson of the blessed Hermogenes, who wrote the great and unbreakable creed at the great synod:

When he returned to his own country, he gave to the most blessed bishop Hermogenes of Caesarea, who was judging him for his false doctrine, a confession of sound faith.

For Hermogenes too overthrows the arguments of certain men who say that evils were necessary for the illumination of goods, which are to be understood from their contraries.

Thus on this score too Hermogenes prefers Matter to God, by preferring it to the Son.

Namely, because if nature shall be altered in Matter from evil to good, it could be altered in God too from good to evil.

One contest having already been decided against Hermogenes, as we said before — since we claim that the soul is from the breath of God, not from matter, being fortified there too by the inerasable rule of the divine determination, ‘And God breathed the breath of life into the face of man, and man became a living soul,’ assuredly from the breath of God — about this nothing more need be turned over.

But against Hermogenes, who contends that it is from matter, not from the breath of God, we uphold properly the term ‘breath.

In my engagement with Hermogenes I dealt only with the question of the soul's origin, in so far as he presumed that it was constituted out of the underlying stuff of matter rather than out of the breath of God;

But on catching sight of a group comprising Socrates, Critobulus, Hermogenes, Antisthenes, and Charmides, Callias bade one of his servants escort Autolycus and the others, and himself going over to Socrates and his companions, said,

In the goodness and the power of my friends, he answered, and in the fact that with all their excellence they have regard for me.

What about you, Hermogenes?

Now you know that Hermogenes is a conscientious man and would be ashamed to take a favour from you without making a return.

Good householders, you know, say that the right time to buy is when a valuable article can be bought at a low price;

Thank you, Socrates, said Diodorus, pray bid Hermogenes call on me.

And not only did they go off with my furniture, men of the jury, but they were even on the point of taking away my son, as though he were a slave, until Hermogenes, one of my neighbors, met them and told them that he was my son.

Of native Athenians there was this Apollodorus, and Critobulus and his father, and Hermogenes and Epiganes and Aeschines and Antisthenes;

This will be the Matter that has joined us in conflict with Hermogenes and the rest who presume that God wrought all things out of matter, not out of nothing.

Most wretched indeed, as the apostle pronounced, who will be held as hoping in this life only — to be shut out, while they snatch beforehand what is promised after that life — frustrated about the truth, no less than Phygellus and Hermogenes.

For the Apostle himself too delivered Phygellus and Hermogenes to Satan, that they might be corrected, lest they blaspheme.

Such weakness suffices for a third and a fourth, and perhaps even a seventh marriage—so that she who is the stronger as often as she has been the weaker, will now have for her author not the apostle, but some Hermogenes, wont to lead about more women than to paint.

The same apostle, when he reproves those who serve the elements, points to something of Hermogenes, who, introducing unborn matter, compares it to the unborn God, and so, making the mother of the elements a goddess, can serve her whom he compares to God.

These we name as the more notable and frequent adulterers of the truth.

Hermogenes, the son of Hipponicus, however, was a companion of his and has given us reports of such a nature as to show that the sublimity of his speech was appropriate to the resolve he had made.

Hermogenes stated that with this resolve Socrates came before the jury after his adversaries had charged him with not believing in the gods worshipped by the state and with the introduction of new deities in their stead and with corruption of the young, and replied:

As Heaven is my witness, Hermogenes, he had gone on, I shall never court that fate;

But when the Athenians learned of this, they likewise sent ambassadors,—Conon at their head, and Hermogenes, Dion, Callisthenes, and Callimedon.