Read the work of John Scythopolita the Scholasticus _Against
Separatists from the Church_, or _Against Eutyches[508] and
Dioscorus[508] and those who held the same ideas_, and denied that
there were two natures in Christ. The work, in twelve books, was
written at the request of a certain patriarch named Julian.[509]
The writer’s style is clear and pure and he uses words suited to
the historic style. He vigorously combats heresy and makes full use
of evidence from Scripture, not neglecting logical methods, when
they are appropriate to the subject. The author of this separatist
treatise attacked by Scythopolita has concealed his name, but has
craftily entitled it _Against Nestorius_, in order to induce the
more simple-minded to read it. Perhaps it is Basil of Cilicia,[510]
who afterwards wrote against John a dramatic dialogue worthy of the
religion he professed.