Read a volume containing the _Acts_ of a disputation held before
John,[71] bishop of the queen-city, during the reign of Justin,[72]
in which Conon and Eugenius the Tritheites took part on the one side,
and Paul[73] and Stephen,[74] the Hesitators,[75] on the other. Conon
and Eugenius appear to have sided with Philoponus; for when Paul and
Stephen demanded that they should anathematize Philoponus, they were
unwilling to do so. On the other hand, they brought forth arguments
to prove that his views were in harmony with those of Severus[76] and
Theodosius, their own teachers. They indeed in many respects uphold
the orthodox views--that the Trinity is consubstantial and of the
same nature, that God is one, that the Godhead is one; but they are
guilty of blasphemy in asserting that the Father and the Son and the
Holy Ghost are partial substances, and have special divinities and
natures, thus being at variance with themselves and the truth. Many
other opinions of theirs are equally foolish and nonsensical.