praxeas

Updated: May 21, 2025

Now it so happens, that as Aerius, Jovinian, and Vigilantius in the fourth protested against austerities, so did Praxeas, Noetus, and Sabellius in the third protest against the Catholic or Athanasian doctrine of the Holy Trinity. A much stronger case surely could be made out in favour of the latter protest than of the former. Noetus was of Asia Minor, Praxeas taught in Rome, Sabellius in Africa.

John Henry Newman - Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3): The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity

As long as the dark heresies of Praxeas and Sabellius labored to confound the Father with the Son, the orthodox party might be excused if they adhered more strictly and more earnestly to the distinction, than to the equality, of the divine persons.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2

Alex.: Exhortation to Heathen, XI; Instructor, I, 12; Stromata, I, 5, 19; II, 2; V, 1, 6, 11-13; VII, 1; VI, 5; Tertullian: Against Marcion, V, 16; Against Praxeas, XIV; Origen: De Principiis I, iii, 1; Against Celsus, VII, 42, 44; Novatian: De Trinitate, VIII; Arnobius: Against the Heathen, I, 38.

Lawrence Thomas Cole - The Basis of Early Christian Theism

I give only one reference to the first few verses, as the number in Tertullian's writings is enormous. John, ii. The twenty-first chapter of the "Discourse against Praxeas" is filled with citations from St. John. I will give a small part. "He declared what was in the bosom of the Father alone; the Father did not divulge the secrets of His own bosom. He that believeth, &c.

M. F. (Michael Ferrebee) Sadler - The Lost Gospel and Its Contents: Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself