Anomoeanism

12.

When on the cross the Lord Christ said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit, this spirit is said by the Arians and the Eunomians to be the Godhead of the only begotten.

For they hold that the body which he took was without a soul, but the heralds of the truth say that the soul was so called, and they base their opinion on the following passages.

The rightwise evangelist immediately adds, And having said thus he gave up the ghost.

Swallow.

Oration twenty-seven, The First Theological Oration, A Preliminary Discourse Against the Eunomians.

One, I am to speak against persons who pride themselves on their eloquence.

So, to begin with a text of Scripture, "Behold, I am against thee, O thou proud one, not only in thy system of teaching, but also in thy hearing and in thy tone of mind." For there are certain persons who have not only their ears and their tongues, but even as I now perceive their hands too, itching for our words, who delight in profane babblings and oppositions of science falsely so-called, and strifes about words which tend to no profit.