By Water & Blood

On Photinus

Photinus said that there is one energy of Father and Son and Holy Spirit, proclaiming with other names the sense of Sabellius’s doctrines. Against these four the divine Diodorus, who steered the metropolis of the Cilicians, wrote, proving that Christ is God before the ages, who in the last days became man and accomplished the salvation of human beings.

All these heresies the destroyer of humankind devised for the abolition of the Only-begotten’s deity; but he who rebukes the abyss and dries it up quenched them all—he who says to the abyss, “You shall be made desolate, and I will dry up your rivers.” For not even a brief remnant of these remained: not of Cerinthians, not of Ebionites, not of Theodotians, not of Elkesaites, not of Melchizedekians, not of Sabellians, not of Paulianists, not of Marcellians, not of Photinians; but all were once for all handed over to the gloom of forgetfulness, and not even their names are known to most. For unfailing is the word of our Savior: “Every plant which my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.” But the divine doctrines of the Gospels have flourished, and the vines of the apostles have stretched as far as the sea, and the shoots have filled the world, and the whole earth has been filled with knowing the Lord, as much water covers seas, and the witness of events has shown the truth of the prophecy.