A Source Book for Ancient Church History - Mirrors

(A) Dynamistic Monarchianism 193Ch. 36. While, however, different questions have arisenamong them, a certain one named Theodotus, by trade a money-changer[to be distinguished from the other Theodotus, whois commonly spoken of as Theodotus, the leather-worker], attemptedto establish the doctrine that a certain Melchizedek is thegreatest power, and that this one is greater than Christ. And theyallege that Christ happens to be according to the likeness of thisone. And they themselves, similarly with those who have beenpreviously spoken of as adherents of Theodotus, assert that Jesusis a mere man, and that in conformity with the same account,Christ descended upon Him.(b) The Little Labyrinth, in Eusebius, Hist. Ec., V, 28. (MSG,20:511.)The author of The Little Labyrinth, a work from whichEusebius quotes at considerable length, is uncertain. It hasbeen attributed to Hippolytus.The Artemonites say that all early teachers and the Apostlesthemselves received and taught what they now declare, and thatthe truth of the preaching [i.e., the Gospel] was preserved untilthe time of Victor, who was the thirteenth bishop in Rome afterPeter, and that since his successor, Zephyrinus, the truth hasbeen corrupted. What they say might be credible if first of allthe divine Scriptures did not contradict them. And there arewritings of certain brethren which are older than the times ofVictor, and which they wrote in behalf of the truth against theheathen and against heresies of their time. I refer to Justin,Miltiades, Tatian, Clement, and others. In all of their worksChrist is spoken of as God. For who does not know the worksof Irenæus and of Melito and of others, which teach that Christis God and man? And how many psalms and hymns, writtenby the faithful brethren from the beginning, celebrate Christ as