Sabellius
historical figure · 1 work · 7 mentions · 11 anchored passages
the Libyan · the empty-minded Sabellius
in the texts
Letters
Sabellian heresiarch whom Dionysius of Alexandria opposed, overcorrecting into another error.
The writings of Dionysius which you seek came to us, indeed, and very many of them;
But when they hear this, Sabellius is ready to hand against us, and the disease that springs from him is rumoured against our teaching.
But among you now I hear of things ventured even more boldly than by the empty-minded Sabellius.