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Eunomius, the Apology (with the Confession of 383)

Eunomius of Cyzicus · Apology c. AD 361; Confession AD 383

What this text is

The rare heresiarch whose book survived his condemnation: the first Apology (which provoked Basil's Against Eunomius), the Confession submitted to Theodosius, and — via Gregory of Nyssa's colossal rebuttal — long verbatim stretches of the lost Apology for the Apology. Imperial edicts ordered his books burned; transmission inside his refuters defeated the bonfire.

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Public-domain translations

Working translation (from the Greek, ed. Vaggione)

We believe in one God, ingenerate, without beginning... the name 'Ingenerate' is not honorific but the very essence. (Apology 7–8, condensed)

Manuscript witnesses

Preserved with and inside the Cappadocian rebuttals

10th c. onward (medieval Greek copies)

The Apology travels appended to Basil's refutation; the second Apology survives only in Nyssa's quotations — adversarial transmission against imperial book-burning edicts (logged).

EARLIEST WITNESSES

Vaggione's critical edition (Oxford Early Christian Texts)

1987

The extant works with facing translation.

CRITICAL EDITION

Provenance

Constantinople and Cyzicus; the Anomoian system in its author's own words

Editions & scholarship

Critical editions and standard translations behind the text above.

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