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590 Credibility of the Gospel History.
7. Says Jerom, ' Eiinomiiis* of the Ariau faction, bishop of
' Cyziciim, breaking out into the open blasphemy of his
' heresy, so as to profess publicly what they hiile, is said to
' live siill in Capj>adocia, and to write many things against
' the church. He has been answered by Apollinarius,
' Didymus, Basil of Csesarea, Gregory Nazianzen, and
* Gregory Nyssen.'
Eunomius was ordained bishop of Cyzicum by" Eudoxius
and Maris, in the year 360 ; soon after which he was banished
by Constantius. He suffered the like disgrace in the reign
of Valens ; and once more under Theodosius ; who however
at length suffered him to retire to some lands of his
own at Dacora, "' his native place, in Cappadocia. The
occasion of this last banishment, as Philostorgius says, was,
that'"^ the emperor understood he had perverted some of Jiis
courtiers whilst he lived at Constantinople. Eunomius was
alive in 392, when Jerom wrote his Catalogue of Ecclesiastical
Writers. But he died not long after, about the year
394.
Eunomius was not only a disciple of Aetius, but also his ^
secretary, or amanuensis.
I shall transcribe here an article from Augustine's book
of Heretics. ' They Aetians were so called from Aetius,
' and are also called Eunomians from Eunomius, the disciple
' of Aetius, by which name they are better known. For
' Eunomius, being a better logician, Avas more successful in
' spreading that lieresy, which holds the Son to be in all
' things unlike to the Father, and the Spirit to the Son. He
' is reported to have been so great an enemy to good manners,
' as to have asserted that no man need to fear harm, what-
' ever vices he indulged, if he embraced the doctrines taught
' by him.'
' Eunomius, Arianae partis, Cyzicenus episcopus, in apertam hsereseos suae
prorumpens blasphemiam, ut quod illi tegunt, ille publice fateretur, usque hodie
vivere dicitur in Cappadocia, et multa contra ecclesiam scribere. Responderunt
ei Apollinarius, Didymus, Basilius Ceesariensis, Gregorius Nazianzenus, et
Gregorius Nyssenus. De V. T. c. 120.
" Thdrt. 1. ii. c.27. p. 113. D. Phil. 1. v. c. 3.
" Soz. 1. vii. c. 17. in. " Phil. 1. x. c. 6.
" Taxvypacpog wv iKiivs, Kai inr avrs iraidivOtiq ttjv alptTticriv Xs^tv. Socrat.
I. ii. c. '45. p. 130. C. 'EvvofiioQ vTtoypa Aetiani ab Aetio sunt vocati, iidemque Eunomiani ab Eunomio Aetii
discipulo, quo nomine magis innotuerunt. Eunomius quippe in