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Anius, and his FoUoiuers. Asterius. 587
Socrates says, that" Aetius wrote letters to the emperor
Constaiitius, ami others, filled with a contentious sophistry.
Epiphaiiiiis has preserved" a small hook of Aetiiis, con-
cerning- the faith, consisting of seven and forty propositions,
or short chapters, which he distinctly answers. And Epiphanius
says, it was reported, that he p had drawn up three
l)undred such chapters.
3. Anonymous author of a Commentary'' upon the book
of Job, in three books, ascribed to Origen, but plainly not
his, and written after the rise of the Arian controversy.
Some have thought it to be the work of a Latin author,
particularly Maxituin the Arian, to be mentioned by and by.
But Huet, to whom"^ I refer, has well observed, that this
work in Latin, as we now have it, is a translation from the
Greek. I know not the exact time of it ; but probably it
was written before the end of the fourth century. The three
books of this work contain a comment only upon the first
and second, and part of the third chapter of the book of Job.
It is, in my o|)inion, a dull and tedious performance.
I shall make no extracts out of it any farther than to
observe, that many books of the Old and New Testament
are here quoted, particularly^ the Acts of the Apostles; and
that the author appears to have received* the epistle to the
Hebrews.
4. Anonymous author of a Discourse" or Sermon, answered
at length by Augustine : which confutation was written^
about the year 418. That sermon is a short performance, in
which many texts of the gospels and epistles of the apostles
are quoted.
5. ' Asterius,' says"^ Jerom, ' a philosopher of the Arian
* faction, in the reian of Constantius, wrote Commentaries
' upon the epistle to the Romans, and upon the gospels, and
" Ubi supr. p. 130. B. ° H. 76. p. 924, &c.
P lb. p. 930. D. 1 Ad calcem. T. ii. 0pp. Origen. ex edit.
Bened. Origenian. 1. iii. n. 2.
* Sicut dictum est ad Cornelium : Orationes tuae et eleemosynae tuae ascen-
derunt sursum in memoriam coram Deo. Act. x. 4. Ascenderunt procul
dubio ab angelis, atque spiritalibus ministris delatae. De quibiis dicitur
Omnes sunt ministeriales spiritus pro his qui salutem in haereditatem capiunt.
Hebr. i. 14. Orig. 0pp. T. ii. p. 856. B. C,
' Vid. not. =.
" Ap. August. T. 8.
" Sub haec venit in manus meas quidam sermo Arianorum, sine nomine
auctoris sui. Huic, petente atque instante qui eum mihi miserat, quanta potui
etiam brevitate ac celeritate respondi. Retr. 1. ii. c. 52.
* Asterius, Arianae philosophus factionis, scripsit in epistolam ad Romanos,
et in evangelia, et Psalmos, Commentarios, et multa alia, quae a suae partis
hominibus studiosissirae legimtur. De V. I. c. 94.
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