The Hellenization of Christianity by the

Anti-Church Fathers and Scholastics

R. J. M. I.

By

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The Grace of the God of the Holy Catholic Church;

The Mediation of the Blessed Virgin Mary,

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Mother of Mary and Grandmother of God;

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Richard Joseph Michael Ibranyi

To Jesus through Mary

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“Beware of Greeks bearing gifts of philosophy and mythology.” (RJMI)

“Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit,

according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world,

and not according to Christ.” (Colossians 2:8)

“When the king…had gotten the rule into his hands, forthwith he began

to bring over his countrymen to the fashion of the heathens…

For they esteemed the Grecian glories for the best.” (2 Machabees 4:10-17)

“The voice of one crying in the desert:

Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God.

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low,

and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways plain.

And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,

and all flesh together shall see that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken.” (Isaias 40:3-5)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................... 19

PREFACE ..................................................................................................................................................................... 21

THE TWO MEANINGS OF THE WORDS PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHER ................................................................ 21 On the use of the words philosophy and philosopher in this book ........................................................................ 23

AGAINST THE HERESY THAT PHILOSOPHY IS A HANDMAID TO THEOLOGY ........................................................... 23

TRUE VS. FALSE DEFINITIONS OF PHILOSOPHY ........................................................................................................ 25 Purged non-philosophical works of the philosophers are allowed ........................................................................ 26 Purged philosophical works must still be banned .................................................................................................. 27

THE CATHOLIC WAY TO LEARN ABOUT PHILOSOPHY AND MYTHOLOGY .............................................................. 27

THE GOOD VS. THE EVIL MEANING OF THE WORD “GODS” .................................................................................... 29

BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................................................................... 31

AGAINST PHILOSOPHY AND MYTHOLOGY ..................................................................................... 39

THE ORIGINS OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY ....................................................................................... 41

CATHOLIC CHURCH’S TEACHINGS AGAINST MYTHOLOGY ..................................................................................... 42

CATHOLIC CHURCH’S TEACHINGS AGAINST PHILOSOPHY ...................................................................................... 42 Bible (Creation to 1st century AD) ......................................................................................................................... 42 Didascalia (1st to 3rd centuries) ............................................................................................................................ 46 Apostolic Constitutions (1st to 4th centuries) ........................................................................................................ 47 St. Dionysius of Corinth (c. 100-171) ...................................................................................................................... 47 Church Father St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. 130-202) .................................................................................................. 47 Church Father St. Hippolytus (170-c. 235) ............................................................................................................. 48 Church Father St. Cyprian of Carthage (c. 200-c. 258) ........................................................................................... 48 Church Father St. Alexander of Alexandria (d. 326) ............................................................................................... 49 Church Father Pope St. Sylvester (d. c. 335) .......................................................................................................... 49 Church Father St. Antony of the Desert (c. 251-c. 365) .......................................................................................... 50 Church Father St. Hilary of Poitiers (c. 300-368) .................................................................................................... 52 Church Father St. Athanasius (c. 297-373) ............................................................................................................ 54 Church Father St. Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 313-386) .................................................................................................. 55 Church Father St. Ambrose (c. 340-397) ................................................................................................................ 55 Fourth Council of Carthage (398) ........................................................................................................................... 57 Sulpicius Severus (c. 360-c. 420) ............................................................................................................................ 57 Church Father St. Augustine (354-430) .................................................................................................................. 57

St. Augustine was not a Platonist ....................................................................................................................................... 59 St. Augustine glorified philosophy when he was a catechumen ........................................................................................ 61

Church Father Pope St. Leo the Great (c. 400-461) ................................................................................................ 64 Emperor Justinian (c. 483-565) .............................................................................................................................. 65 Church Father St. Gregory of Tours (538-594) ....................................................................................................... 66 Church Father Pope St. Gregory the Great (c. 540-604) ........................................................................................ 66 Pope Hadrian I, Second Council of Nicea (787) ...................................................................................................... 67 Alcuin of York, ex-scholastic (730-804) .................................................................................................................. 67 The Holy Roman Emperor St. Charlemagne (742-814) .......................................................................................... 69 Odo of Cluny, ex-scholastic (878-942) ................................................................................................................... 69 Provincial Council at Paris (1210) .......................................................................................................................... 69 St. Dominic (c. 1170-1221) ..................................................................................................................................... 70 St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) ............................................................................................................................ 70

St. Francis cursed a scholastic with a death sentence ........................................................................................................ 70 A prophecy of the corruption of the Franciscan Order and the apostate Bonaventure..................................................... 71

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Side-by-Side Chart ................................................................................................................................................. 74

NOMINAL CATHOLICS AGAINST CERTAIN ASPECTS OF HELLENISM ....................................................................... 75 Apostate Justin Martyr (100-165) ......................................................................................................................... 75

He condemned most mythologies and most philosophies ................................................................................................ 75 Apostate Theophilus of Antioch (c. 115-181) ........................................................................................................ 75

He condemned philosophy and most aspects of mythology ............................................................................................. 75 Apostate Tatian (2nd century) .............................................................................................................................. 76

He condemned mythology and philosophy ....................................................................................................................... 76 Apostate Tertullian (c. 155-c. 230) ........................................................................................................................ 77

He condemned mythology and philosophy ....................................................................................................................... 77 Heretic John Chrysostom (c. 347-407) ................................................................................................................... 78

He condemned mythology and philosophy ....................................................................................................................... 78 Apostate Jerome (c. 347-420) ............................................................................................................................... 80 Apostate Peter Damian (1007-1072) .................................................................................................................... 80

He condemned mythology and most philosophies ............................................................................................................ 80 He did not teach that philosophy is the handmaid to theology .................................................................................. 82

Apostate Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) .......................................................................................................... 83 He condemned mythology, most philosophies, and scholasticism .................................................................................... 83 He condemned scholasticism and the apostate Abelard ................................................................................................... 84

Apostate Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) ......................................................................................................... 86 He condemned mythology and most philosophies ............................................................................................................ 86

The invalid and heretical Council of Trent (1547) .................................................................................................. 86 Did not include philosophy or other classics as a course of study for clerics and theologians .......................................... 86

SOME PAGAN PHILOSOPHERS AND THEIR IDOLATRIES, HERESIES, AND IMMORALITIES ...................................... 87 Hermes Trismegistus (born c. 16th to 15th century BC) ........................................................................................ 91 Homer (born c. 12th to 7th century BC) ................................................................................................................ 91 Thales of Miletus (c. 620-546 BC) .......................................................................................................................... 92 Heraclitus (born c. 530 BC) .................................................................................................................................... 93 Zeno (born c. 490 BC) ............................................................................................................................................ 93 Socrates (470-399 BC) ........................................................................................................................................... 94 Plato (427-347 BC) and the Platonists ................................................................................................................... 95 Aristotle (384-322 BC) ........................................................................................................................................... 97 Cicero (106-43 BC) ............................................................................................................................................... 100 Virgil (70-19 BC) .................................................................................................................................................. 103 Seneca (4 BC-65 AD) ............................................................................................................................................ 103 Several condemnations combined ....................................................................................................................... 104

THE METHODS AND EFFECTS OF HELLENIZING CHRISTIANITY ............................................. 107

THE MIXING OF PHILOSOPHY OR MYTHOLOGY WITH CHRISTIANITY .................................................................. 109

THE WAYS THAT PHILOSOPHY OR MYTHOLOGY ARE GLORIFIED ....................................................................... 112 1) By using philosophy or mythology to edify or enlighten oneself or others on faith or morals ........................ 112

1a) By presenting philosophy or mythology as a true religion or a religion in which one can be saved .......................... 112 Anti-Church Father Justin Martyr .............................................................................................................................. 123 Anti-Church Father Clement of Alexandria ................................................................................................................ 123 Anti-Church Father Lactantius ................................................................................................................................... 123 Scholastic Roger Bacon .............................................................................................................................................. 124

1b) By presenting philosophy or mythology as necessary or useful to better understand Christianity .......................... 124 Anti-Church Father Origen ......................................................................................................................................... 126 Anti-Church Father Lactantius ................................................................................................................................... 126 Anti-Church Father Basil ............................................................................................................................................ 126 Anti-Church Father Jerome ........................................................................................................................................ 127 Scholastics ................................................................................................................................................................. 127 Scholastic Roger Bacon .............................................................................................................................................. 128 Apostate Thomas Aquinas ......................................................................................................................................... 128 Scholastic Paulus Cortesius ........................................................................................................................................ 128 Apostate Antipope Leo X (1513-1521) ....................................................................................................................... 128 Apostate Antipope Pius IX (1846-1878) ..................................................................................................................... 130

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Apostate Antipope Leo XIII (1878-1903) .................................................................................................................... 130 Takes St. Augustine’s teaching out of context on taking gold out of Egypt ......................................................... 131

Apostate Antipope Pius X (1903-1914) ...................................................................................................................... 133 Apostate Antipope Benedict XV and the heretical 1917 Code of Canon Law ............................................................ 135 What’s worse is that they learn philosophy before theology .................................................................................... 135 Jesus Christ and the Apostles hated philosophy and scholasticism ........................................................................... 136

1c) By presenting philosophy or mythology as necessary or useful to live a moral and virtuous life .............................. 138 1d) By using philosophy as a source of revelation on faith or morals .............................................................................. 144

The three reasons why philosophers know some supernatural things about the Catholic faith ............................... 147 1e) By loving or at least liking philosophy or mythology .................................................................................................. 149

2) By using methods unique to philosophy when teaching on faith or morals .................................................... 149 2a) By emphasizing questions and not answers ............................................................................................................... 149

They love to debate, argue, and cause discord .......................................................................................................... 152 Catholics must not debate so-called Catholics who deny or doubt dogmas ....................................................... 154

2b) By presenting dogmas and heresies as allowable opinions ....................................................................................... 157 2c) By defending heresies and dogmas equally before saying which is heresy or which is dogma .................................. 160 2d) By willful ambiguity or willful contradictions ............................................................................................................. 160 2e) By complicating answers ............................................................................................................................................ 165 2f) By not denouncing heretics as heretics ...................................................................................................................... 166

They themselves are heretics or want to think, believe, and teach whatever they want ......................................... 166 3) By using terminologies unique to philosophy (scholastic babble) when teaching on faith or morals ............. 166

1) God and his faithful chosen people do not speak that way on faith and morals ......................................................... 167 2) Theology is not a secular science ................................................................................................................................. 170 3) The Catholic faith must be simple and not only for an elite few .................................................................................. 171 Examples of scholastic babble .......................................................................................................................................... 172

Apostate John Damascene ......................................................................................................................................... 172 Apostate Gilbert of Poitiers ........................................................................................................................................ 173 Apostate Thomas Aquinas ......................................................................................................................................... 174 Apostate Bonaventure ............................................................................................................................................... 175 Apostate Thomas Cajetan .......................................................................................................................................... 176

PHILOSOPHICAL HELLENIZERS PUT REASON OVER FAITH AND THE BRAIN OVER THE HEART ........................... 177 Good or evil, faith or faithlessness, virtue or vice is in the heart not the intellect ............................................... 178 God opens the understanding of men who first use their hearts by putting their faith in him and dogmas ....... 180 Men know by the natural law that faith is over reason, and the heart over the brain ....................................... 182 Ignorance caused by an evil heart ....................................................................................................................... 183 Scholastics try to understand by reason some dogmas that are above human reason ...................................... 185 Beware of scholastics who say that faith is over reason but actually put reason over faith ............................... 189 Jesus promotes devotion to his Sacred Heart, not his Sacred Brain .................................................................... 190

ACCEPTABLE VS. UNACCEPTABLE LOGIC, DIALECTICS, RHETORIC, AND GRAMMAR ......................................... 190 Men do not need a special course on logic, dialectics, rhetoric, or grammar but can take one .......................... 191 Must be true logic, true dialectics, true rhetoric, and correct grammar ............................................................. 193 Some methods of false logic, false dialectics, and false rhetoric ......................................................................... 194

Presenting truth and error equally before saying which one is the truth ........................................................................ 195 Wanting the truth to be questioned ................................................................................................................................ 196 Presenting error as truth because of pride ...................................................................................................................... 196 Presenting truth and error without saying which is true and which is false .................................................................... 198

Reason, true logic, and true dialectics must not be used with dogmas above human reason ............................ 200 True logic, true dialectics, true rhetoric, and correct grammar must not contain anything contrary to the

Catholic faith or morals .................................................................................................................................... 203 Philosophers’ works on logic, dialectics, rhetoric, and grammar contain teachings that are contrary to the Catholic faith

and morals .................................................................................................................................................................... 205

HERETICAL PROBABILISM ....................................................................................................................................... 206

THE THEOLOGIANS REPLACED THE MAGISTERIUM AND THE BIBLE .................................................................... 207 Replaced the magisterium ................................................................................................................................... 207 Replaced, banned, and ignored the Bible ............................................................................................................ 218

ONE WAY THAT PHILOSOPHY IS MORE EVIL AND DANGEROUS THAN MYTHOLOGY ......................................... 229

THE STOIC AND EPICUREAN PHILOSOPHIES ........................................................................................................... 230

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Summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 230 Good passions and evil passions ......................................................................................................................... 233 Stoics, the righties ............................................................................................................................................... 234

History .............................................................................................................................................................................. 234 Stoics condemn or abhor the true God ............................................................................................................................ 236 Stoics condemn or abhor flesh and the material world ................................................................................................... 236 Stoics condemn or abhor good passions.......................................................................................................................... 245

Most stoics feel guilty when they have to eat or sleep ............................................................................................. 247 The stoic heresy that God is passionless .......................................................................................................................... 248 The stoic heresy that God is a formless blob and men will become formless blobs ........................................................ 249 The stoic error that God is personally everywhere .......................................................................................................... 252 Many nominal Catholic stoics believed that Jesus always suffered on earth .................................................................. 253 Many stoic men shunned or abhorred all women ........................................................................................................... 253 The stoic heresy that the Old Testament elect were unholy barbarians ......................................................................... 261

Summary.................................................................................................................................................................... 261 The heresy that the Old Testament elect were unholy for enjoying the material world and good passions ............ 262 The heresy that God did not give the Old Testament elect the graces to be holy..................................................... 263 The difference between the Old and New Testament elect is sanctifying grace ....................................................... 265 The heresy that the Old Testament elect were under the law of fear but not the law of love ................................. 266 The heresy of racism, that God hates or despises the Jewish race............................................................................ 267

Hermits and solitary monks are not on the top of the list of vocations ........................................................................... 270 The military vocation is above the hermit vocation ......................................................................................................... 272

The vocation of sports players is similar to that of military soldiers ......................................................................... 274 Hate and despise parents, yourself, the world, the flesh, in context............................................................................... 275 Some stoics ...................................................................................................................................................................... 281

The Gnostics are also Stoics ....................................................................................................................................... 281 Apostates Pantaenus (d. c. 200), Clement of Alexandria (d. c. 215), and Origen (d. c. 254) ..................................... 282 The pagan Mani (c. 215-c. 277) and his Manichean sect ........................................................................................... 283 Apostates Palemon and Pachomius (4th century) ..................................................................................................... 284 Apostate Macarius of Alexandria (d. 394) ................................................................................................................. 286 Apostate Jerome (c. 347-420) .................................................................................................................................... 287 Apostate Simeon Stylites (c. 388-459) ....................................................................................................................... 290 Apostate John the Silent (d. 559)............................................................................................................................... 292 Apostate John Damascene (c. 676-c. 787) ................................................................................................................. 294 Apostate Peter Damian (1007-1072) ......................................................................................................................... 294

His heresy of abhorring hunting and games ........................................................................................................ 294 His heresy of abhorring comely and rich apparel ................................................................................................ 295 His heresy that only hermit monks and not communal monks can become perfect .......................................... 298 His heresy that Catholic officeholders cannot overcome the world and become perfect .................................. 303

Apostate Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) .............................................................................................................. 306 His condemning of the material world and the passions .................................................................................... 306 His mortal sins of trying to murder himself and his brothers by severe mortifications ...................................... 308 His iconoclast heresy of condemning images ...................................................................................................... 313 His calumny for condemning Catholics as fools and incapable of spiritual things .............................................. 317 His schism for saying that he does not belong to Catholics who like gold, silver, and images ............................ 318 His stealing from God to give to the poor ........................................................................................................... 318 His lie that Catholics cannot pray, read, and meditate when looking at holy things .......................................... 320 His idolatry and immorality by sins of omission, association, and commission .................................................. 320 His apostasy for supporting the apostate witch Hildegard von Bingen ............................................................... 321

Apostate Aelred (b. 1109-1166) ................................................................................................................................ 323 Apostate Antipope Celestine V (c. 1221-1296) .......................................................................................................... 323 Apostate Thomas à Kempis (1379-1471) and his book Imitation of Christ ................................................................ 328

His stoic heresy to love God only and no one else .............................................................................................. 328 His stoic heresy of abhorring the good things God has given men to enjoy ....................................................... 329 His stoic heresy that Jesus’ whole life on earth was one of suffering ................................................................. 329 His heresy of non-judgmentalism ........................................................................................................................ 330 His heresy of denying the magisterium of the Catholic Church .......................................................................... 331

Apostate Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498) ............................................................................................................. 333 Apostates Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier (16th century) ................................................................................ 333 Apostate Alban Butler and his book The Lives of the Saints (19th century) .............................................................. 333

He was also an apostate for glorifying Origen ..................................................................................................... 334 The Roman Missal...................................................................................................................................................... 336

Epicureans, the lefties ......................................................................................................................................... 337

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SOME HELLENIZERS TURNED TO BLACK MAGIC ................................................................................................... 338

THE ANTI-CHURCH FATHERS ........................................................................................................... 341

HISTORY OF THE ANTI-CHURCH FATHERS’ HELLENIZATION OF CHRISTIANITY ................................................. 343 1st to mid-2nd centuries – Impeded .................................................................................................................... 343 Mid-2nd to 4th centuries – Progressed ................................................................................................................ 344

The Catechetical School of Alexandria, Egypt .................................................................................................................. 345 Judaism was Hellenized during the Old Covenant era ............................................................................................... 345

Philo’s influence on the anti-Church Father Hellenizers ...................................................................................... 346 Christianity was Hellenized during the New Covenant era ........................................................................................ 349

Origen’s School at Caesarea in Palestine and his influence in Cappadocia ...................................................................... 353 Stoics were the first successful Hellenizers of Christianity ............................................................................................... 354

5th to 11th centuries – Impeded .......................................................................................................................... 355 11th century onward – Progressed under the scholastics ................................................................................... 356

JUSTIN MARTYR (100-165) ...................................................................................................................................... 357 His apostasy for believing that men can be saved by philosophy and reason ..................................................... 357 His apostasy for believing that men are saved without faith by obeying the natural law .................................. 357 His apostasy for glorifying the Sibyls ................................................................................................................... 357 His apostasy for believing that Christ is in all men .............................................................................................. 357 His apostasy for believing in Stoicism .................................................................................................................. 358 His apostasy for wearing the philosopher’s robe ................................................................................................. 358

TATIAN (100’S) ......................................................................................................................................................... 358

PANTAENUS (120-213) .............................................................................................................................................. 359

CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (C. 150-C. 215) ............................................................................................................. 359 Brief history of Clement of Alexandria ................................................................................................................. 359 His apostasy for believing that Greek philosophy is a true religion and saves men ............................................ 359 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy ................................................................................................................. 360 His apostasy for believing that God inspires men to worship the stars and planets ........................................... 360 His apostasy for believing that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit were created .................................................... 361 His apostasy for believing the Universal Salvation heresy ................................................................................... 362 His heresy for believing that men have two souls ............................................................................................... 363 His heresy for believing that original sin is not a real sin..................................................................................... 363 His apostasy for believing in Gnosticism and Stoicism ........................................................................................ 364 His works were condemned in the invalid and heretical Pseudo-Gelasius Decretals, and his name was removed

from the Roman Martyrology ........................................................................................................................... 365

ORIGEN (C. 185-C. 254) ............................................................................................................................................ 366 Brief history on Origen ......................................................................................................................................... 366

Chronological table of main events in Origen’s life .......................................................................................................... 369 Some of Origen’s idolatries and heresies ............................................................................................................. 369 Condemnations of Origen .................................................................................................................................... 370

228, 231, 236 – Condemned by Bishop Demetrius in 228 and 231, by Pope St. Pontian in 231, and by Pope St. Fabian in 236 ................................................................................................................................................................................ 370

311, d. c. – Church Father St. Methodius of Olympus ...................................................................................................... 372 311, d. – Church Father St. Peter of Alexandria ............................................................................................................... 372 360, d. c. – Church Father St. Eustathius, bishop of Antioch ............................................................................................ 373 374, 377 – Heretic Epiphanius .......................................................................................................................................... 374 396 – Apostate Jerome ..................................................................................................................................................... 377 397 – Church Father St. Augustine ................................................................................................................................... 384 399 – Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, and the Councils of Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Cyprus ............................... 385 400 – Church Father Pope St. Anastasius I ....................................................................................................................... 387 415 – The heretic Pelagius ................................................................................................................................................ 388 434 – Church Father St. Vincent of Lerins ........................................................................................................................ 389 448, c. – Church Father St. Peter Chrysologus .................................................................................................................. 389 449 – Church Father Pope St. Leo the Great .................................................................................................................... 389 460, c. – Church Father Antipater of Bostra ..................................................................................................................... 390

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543 – Holy Emperor Justinian .......................................................................................................................................... 390 553 – Second Council of Constantinople, confirmed by Pope Pelagius in 556 ................................................................ 390 649 – Pope St. Martin I, Lateran Council .......................................................................................................................... 392 680-681 – Third Council of Constantinople of 680-681, confirmed by Pope St. Leo II in 683 .......................................... 392 685, c. – Papal Coronation Oath ...................................................................................................................................... 392 692 – Council of Trullo (Quinisext) ................................................................................................................................... 393 787 – Pope Hadrian I, Second Council of Nicea ............................................................................................................... 393 869-870 – Pope Hadrian II, Fourth Council of Constantinople ......................................................................................... 393

The hiding of Origen’s heresies ........................................................................................................................... 394 Anti-Church Fathers Basil of Cesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus hid Origen’s heresies ................................................... 394 Anti-Church Father Rufinus hid some of Origen’s heresies ............................................................................................. 394 The Apology for Origen .................................................................................................................................................... 395

The excuse that Origen’s works were corrupted with heresies by others ........................................................... 395 Papal condemnations of Origen ....................................................................................................................................... 396

Popes St. Pontian and St. Fabian in the 3rd century .................................................................................................. 396 Pope St. Anastasius I in 400 ....................................................................................................................................... 396 Pope St. Leo the Great in 449 .................................................................................................................................... 397 Popes in one general council and four ecumenical councils condemned Origen ...................................................... 397 Popes and the Papal Coronation Oath....................................................................................................................... 397

His teacher was the apostate Clement of Alexandria ...................................................................................................... 398 The many heresies in many of Origen’s works................................................................................................................. 398 Overwhelming evidence against Origen from Church Fathers and others ...................................................................... 398

The conditions for not being guilty for referring to Origen as orthodox ............................................................. 399 St. Athanasius defended Origen as orthodox .................................................................................................................. 399 St. Vincent of Lerins did not defend Origen as possibly orthodox ................................................................................... 400

If Origen is not to be condemned, then no one can be ........................................................................................ 401 Some anti-Church Fathers who followed and glorified Origen............................................................................ 403

Firmilianus (d. 269) .......................................................................................................................................................... 403 Gregory Thaumaturgus (d. c. 279) ................................................................................................................................... 403 Pamphilus of Caesarea (d. 309) ....................................................................................................................................... 403 Arius (d. 336) .................................................................................................................................................................... 403 Eusebius of Nicomedia (d. 341) ....................................................................................................................................... 403 Eusebius of Caesarea (d. c. 341) ...................................................................................................................................... 403 Basil of Caesarea (d. 379) ................................................................................................................................................. 403 Gregory of Nyssa (d. c. 385) ............................................................................................................................................. 404 Gregory Nazianzus (d. c. 389) .......................................................................................................................................... 404 Didymus the Blind (d. c. 398) ........................................................................................................................................... 404 Evagrius Ponticus (d. 399) ................................................................................................................................................ 404 Rufinus (d. c. 410) ............................................................................................................................................................ 404 Jerome (d. 420) ................................................................................................................................................................ 404

Some scholastics who resurrected and glorified Origen ..................................................................................... 404 12th century – Peter Lombard ......................................................................................................................................... 404 13th century – Thomas Aquinas ...................................................................................................................................... 405 16th century – Original Douay Rheims Commentary ....................................................................................................... 405 19th century – Bishop George Haydock ........................................................................................................................... 405 19th century – Antipope Leo XIII ..................................................................................................................................... 406 20th century – Rev. Philip Hughes ................................................................................................................................... 407 21st century – Antipope Benedict XVI ............................................................................................................................. 410

FIRMILIANUS (D. 269) ............................................................................................................................................... 410 His apostasy for following Origen ....................................................................................................................... 410

GREGORY THAUMATURGUS (C. 213-C. 279) ........................................................................................................... 410 His apostasy for glorifying Origen and philosophy .............................................................................................. 410

PAMPHILUS OF CAESAREA (D. 309) ......................................................................................................................... 412 His apostasy for following Origen and glorifying philosophy .............................................................................. 412

LACTANTIUS (C. 250-C. 325) .................................................................................................................................... 413 His apostasy for believing that philosophy is good to learn before Christianity ................................................. 413 His apostasy for believing that the Messias came first to the Greeks and then to the Jews ............................... 413 His works were condemned in the invalid and heretical Pseudo-Gelasius Decretals .......................................... 415

ARIUS (250-336) ....................................................................................................................................................... 415 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy and believing that Jesus Christ is not God .............................................. 415

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Condemnations of Arius ....................................................................................................................................... 417 321 – Council of Alexandria .............................................................................................................................................. 417 325 – First Council of Nicea .............................................................................................................................................. 419 451 – Council of Chalcedon .............................................................................................................................................. 420 553 – Second Council of Constantinople .......................................................................................................................... 420 649 – Lateran Council ....................................................................................................................................................... 420 787 – Second Council of Nicea ......................................................................................................................................... 421

EUSEBIUS OF NICOMEDIA (D. 341) ........................................................................................................................... 421 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy and believing that Jesus Christ is not God .............................................. 421

EUSEBIUS OF CESAREA (C. 260-C. 341) .................................................................................................................... 422 His apostasy for following Origen ........................................................................................................................ 422 His apostasy for believing that Jesus Christ was created ..................................................................................... 422

He lied about or hid his heresy ......................................................................................................................................... 423 His idolatry for sacrificing to idols ....................................................................................................................... 423 The apostate Rufinus purged Eusebius’ heresies in his translation of Eusebius’ Church History ......................... 424 Condemnations of Eusebius ................................................................................................................................. 425

300’s – Emperor St. Constantine ...................................................................................................................................... 425 300’s – St. Athanasius ....................................................................................................................................................... 425 400’s – Jerome, apostate ................................................................................................................................................. 425 400’s – Antipater, bishop of Bostra .................................................................................................................................. 425 550 c. – Pseudo-Gelasius Decretals, invalid and heretical ................................................................................................ 426 787 – Pope Hadrian at the Second Council of Nicea ........................................................................................................ 426 800’s – Photius, apostate and Greek schismatic .............................................................................................................. 426 900’s – Suidas and Sophronius ......................................................................................................................................... 427 1100’s – John Zonaras, heretic and Greek Schismatic ...................................................................................................... 427

BASIL OF CESAREA (C. 330-379) .............................................................................................................................. 428 His apostasy for glorifying Origen ....................................................................................................................... 428

He and Gregory of Nazianzus hid Origen’s heresies ......................................................................................................... 428 His apostasy for using philosophy and mythology to edify and enlighten men on faith and morals .................. 429

The Renaissance humanists looked upon the apostate Basil as a role model .................................................................. 431 His apostasy for believing in Stoicism .................................................................................................................. 432 His heresy for being in religious communion with a known heretic .................................................................... 432

GREGORY OF NYSSA (D. C. 385) ............................................................................................................................... 433 His apostasy for following Origen and glorifying philosophy .............................................................................. 433 His apostasy for believing the Universal Salvation heresy ................................................................................... 433 His heresy for believing that original sin is not a real sin and does not merit punishment ................................. 435

GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS (329-C. 389) .................................................................................................................... 436 His apostasy for following Origen ........................................................................................................................ 436

He and Basil hid Origen’s heresies.................................................................................................................................... 436 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy and mythology ........................................................................................ 436

Gregory on Basil and their glorification of philosophy and mythology ............................................................................ 436 His heresy for believing that the Universal Salvation heresy is an allowable opinion ......................................... 438 His heresy for believing that original sin is not a real sin and does not merit punishment ................................. 439

DIDYMUS THE BLIND (C. 310-C. 398) ....................................................................................................................... 439 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy, following Origen, and believing the Universal Salvation heresy ............ 439 Condemnations of Didymus the Blind .................................................................................................................. 440

EVAGRIUS PONTICUS (C. 345-399) ........................................................................................................................... 440 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy, following Origen, and believing in Gnosticism and Stoicism ................. 440 Condemnations of Evagrius Ponticus ................................................................................................................... 442

RUFINUS OF AQUILEIA (C. 344-C. 410)..................................................................................................................... 443 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy and following Origen .............................................................................. 443

He was the first one to introduce Origen to the West ..................................................................................................... 443 He purged some of Eusebius’ heresies in his translation of Eusebius’ Church History and added praises of Origen and

Origenists ...................................................................................................................................................................... 444

SYNESIUS OF CYRENE (C. 370-C. 414) ...................................................................................................................... 444

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JEROME (C. 347-420)................................................................................................................................................ 445

Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 445 Summary of apostate Jerome’s idolatries, heresies, lies, and calumnies ........................................................................ 445 The apostates Jerome and Rufinus expose and denounce one another ......................................................................... 446 Brief chronology of events ............................................................................................................................................... 447

His apostasy for glorifying pagans and their philosophies and mythologies ...................................................... 448 He was told by God that he was not Catholic because he glorified Cicero ...................................................................... 448

384 – Letter 22, to Eustochium.................................................................................................................................. 448 He did not heed God’s warning for very long .................................................................................................................. 449

384 – Letter 27, to Marcella ...................................................................................................................................... 449 384 – Letter 33, to Paula ............................................................................................................................................ 450 388 – Commentary on Ephesians .............................................................................................................................. 450 394 – Letter 48, to Pammachius ................................................................................................................................ 450 394 – Letter 50, to Domnio ........................................................................................................................................ 450 394 – Letter 52, to Nepotian ..................................................................................................................................... 451 394 – Letter 53, to Paulinus ....................................................................................................................................... 451 395 – Letter 58, to Paulinus ....................................................................................................................................... 451 396 – Letter 60, to Heliodorus ................................................................................................................................... 452 396 – Letter 61, to Vigilantius .................................................................................................................................... 452 397 – Letter 66, to Pammachius ................................................................................................................................ 453 400 – Letter 84, to Pammachius and Oceanus .......................................................................................................... 453 415 – Letter 133, to Caetesiphon .............................................................................................................................. 454

He was warned by others but did not heed the warning ................................................................................................. 454 397 – Letter 70, to Magnus........................................................................................................................................ 454 402 – The apostate Rufinus shows that Jerome broke his vow, glorified pagans, and lied ....................................... 463

His heresy for denying the Salvation Dogma....................................................................................................... 468 His heresy of Universal Salvation that he held before he condemned Origen in 394 ...................................................... 469

The Universal Salvation heresy .................................................................................................................................. 469 388 – Commentary on Ephesians .............................................................................................................................. 471

Jerome’s Preface for his commentary ................................................................................................................. 471 Commentary on Ephesians 2:7 ............................................................................................................................ 472 Commentary on Ephesians 4:13, 16 .................................................................................................................... 477

388 – Commentary on Galatians ............................................................................................................................... 480 392 – Commentary on Micah .................................................................................................................................... 480 394 c. – Letter 55, to Amandus .................................................................................................................................. 480

His “all the baptized will be saved” heresy that he held until death ............................................................................... 481 406 – Letter 119, to Minerva and Alexandrian Monks .............................................................................................. 481 410 – Commentary on Isaias ..................................................................................................................................... 481 417 – Dialog against the Pelagians ............................................................................................................................ 482

Chart of apostate Jerome’s denial of the Salvation Dogma ............................................................................................. 483 He was guilty of some of Origen’s other heresies ............................................................................................... 483 He glorified the apostate Origen ......................................................................................................................... 484

He praised then condemned and then praised the apostate Origen ............................................................................... 484 Pope St. Anastasius I’s condemnation of Origen and his works ....................................................................................... 492 Chart of apostate Jerome’s praises and condemnations of Origen ................................................................................. 495

He glorified the apostate Clement of Alexandria ................................................................................................ 496 His held the error that Daniel’s Seventy-Weeks Prophecy does not apply to Jesus ............................................. 496 He held the error that St. Constantine was baptized on his deathbed and the calumny that he died as an Arian

heretic ............................................................................................................................................................... 497 The error that he was baptized on his deathbed and the calumny that he died as an Arian heretic .............................. 497 The error that he was baptized on his deathbed but not the calumny that he died as an Arian heretic ........................ 497 Proof that St. Constantine was not baptized on his deathbed in 337 .............................................................................. 498

1) All official sources say that St. Constantine was baptized by Pope St. Sylvester who died in 335 ........................ 498 2) He had to have been baptized before the Council of Nicaea in 325 because he called and presided over it ....... 500 3) St. Constantine testifies that he was baptized by Pope St. Sylvester .................................................................... 501 4) John Malalas testifies that St. Constantine was baptized by Pope St. Sylvester ................................................... 503 5) The Life of Sylvester says that St. Constantine was baptized sometime in or before 315 ..................................... 503 6) Abbot Theophanes’ Chronology says that St. Constantine was baptized in 314 ................................................... 505 7) The error that Constantine was baptized on his deathbed was resurrected by humanists in the 15th century .. 505

Proof that St. Constantine did not die as an Arian heretic ............................................................................................... 505 1) He condemned Arianism and Arius in 325 at the Council of Nicaea ..................................................................... 505 2) He opposed Arianism and Arians within one year before he died ........................................................................ 507 3) He was praised by St. Athanasius as a saint after his death .................................................................................. 509

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4) His banishing of St. Athanasius and communion with Eusebians did not concern his orthodoxy ......................... 509 His banishing of St. Athanasius ............................................................................................................................ 510 His inculpable communion with the Eusebians ................................................................................................... 512

His heresy of Stoicism .......................................................................................................................................... 516 He undermined the Septuagint ............................................................................................................................ 516 His idolatries, heresies, and immoralities are covered up by other apostates .................................................... 517

Butler’s Lives of the Saints ................................................................................................................................................ 517 The apostate Rev. Laux’s Church History ......................................................................................................................... 518 The nominal Catholic Encyclopedia .................................................................................................................................. 518

ENNODIUS (474-521) ................................................................................................................................................. 519 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy, mythology, and Boethius ....................................................................... 519

BOETHIUS (480-C. 524) ............................................................................................................................................. 520 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy and believing in Stoicism ........................................................................ 520

INVALID PSEUDO-GELASIUS DECRETAL (C. 550) .................................................................................................... 521

ISIDORE OF SEVILLE (C. 560-636) ............................................................................................................................ 523 His apostasy for glorifying mythology ................................................................................................................. 523

JOHN DAMASCENE (C. 676-C. 749) ........................................................................................................................... 524 His apostasy for using philosophy and mythology to edify and enlighten men on faith and morals .................. 524 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy by using its unique methods and terminologies ..................................... 525 His apostasy for glorifying anti-Church Father Basil’s apostate works ............................................................... 526 His blob-god heresy ............................................................................................................................................. 526 His heresy that original sin is not a true sin ......................................................................................................... 526 His heresy that the Holy Spirit does not proceed from the Son ........................................................................... 526 His works were not translated into Latin until 1150 ............................................................................................ 527

THE SCHOLASTICS ............................................................................................................................... 529

HISTORY OF THE SCHOLASTICS’ HELLENIZATION OF CHRISTIANITY ................................................................... 531 Scholastics glorified not only philosophy but also mythology ............................................................................. 531 Scholasticism was underground from the 4th to the 10th centuries ................................................................... 531 Scholasticism progressed from the 11th century onward ................................................................................... 531 In the 11th century philosophers’ un-purged works on logic, dialectics, rhetoric, and grammar were studied .. 533

Un-Purged Priscian’s Grammar ........................................................................................................................................ 534 In the 12th century Plato’s philosophical works were studied and glorified ....................................................... 538

From 1108 the School at Chartres glorified Plato’s philosophy and used philosophical methods ................................... 538 From 1108 the School at St. Victor glorified philosophical works and used philosophical methods ................... 539 In the 12th century philosophy’s unique methods were used .............................................................................. 540

Abelard’s Yes and No, Gratian’s Decretum, and Lombard’s Sentences ........................................................................... 540 In 1150 the apostate John Damascene’s scholastic works were translated into Latin ..................................................... 541

In the 12th century scholasticism corrupted canon law ...................................................................................... 541 Gratian, Alexander III, Innocent III, and Honorius III ........................................................................................................ 542 Gregory IX, Innocent IV, Alexander IV, Clement IV, Urban IV, Boniface VIII, Clement V, and John XXII ........................... 544 Gregory XIII (Corpus Juris Canonici) ................................................................................................................................. 546 Pius X and Benedict XV (1917 Code of Canon Law) .......................................................................................................... 546

In the 13th century Aristotle’s philosophical works were studied and glorified .................................................. 547 Aquinas’ Summa glorified philosophy in all the three ways ............................................................................................. 551

In the 13th century Lombard’s Sentences became the standard theology textbook ........................................... 551 The opposition to some aspects of scholasticism ................................................................................................ 551 The corruption of the Dominicans and Franciscans ............................................................................................. 553 The corruption of the Augustinians ..................................................................................................................... 557 The University of Paris ......................................................................................................................................... 558

Founded in 1200 and sanctioned in 1205 by apostate Antipope Innocent III .................................................................. 558 The University glorified philosophy from its founding onward ........................................................................................ 558 In 1210 a Provincial Council at Paris banned the study of Aristotle’s philosophical works .............................................. 559 In 1215 the study of Aristotle’s philosophical works was again banned .......................................................................... 559 Between 1223 and 1228 the University introduced Lombard’s Sentences ...................................................................... 559

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In 1228 apostate Antipope Gregory IX insufficiently condemned philosophy taught at the University .......................... 560 From 1229 to 1231 the University was closed ................................................................................................................. 560 In 1231 apostate Antipope Gregory IX approved the study of purged philosophical works ........................................... 561 From 1231 to 1255 un-purged philosophical works banned ........................................................................................... 561 In 1255 the University sanctioned Aristotle’s un-purged philosophical works ................................................................ 562 Opposition to Aristotle’s philosophy................................................................................................................................ 563 In 1270 and 1277 apostate Bishop Tempier condemned philosophical opinions held at the University ........................ 564 Other evil fruits of the University .................................................................................................................................... 565

Miscellaneous ............................................................................................................................................................ 565 In the 13th century the University allowed its members to promote occult practices ............................................. 566 In the 15th century the University held the Conciliarist heresy ................................................................................ 567 In the 15th century apostate Jean Gerson spoke of the corruption at the University .............................................. 568

The University of Oxford ...................................................................................................................................... 570 Founded around 1180 ...................................................................................................................................................... 570 In 1256 Lombard’s Sentences and Aristotle’s philosophical works entered the University ............................................ 570 1277 condemnation of opinions held at the University ................................................................................................... 571

From 1305 to 1376 the Babylonian Captivity ...................................................................................................... 571 The apostate antipopes during the Babylonian Captivity promoted Thomism ............................................................... 572

In 1323 effective opposition to philosophy and Thomism ended when Aquinas was canonized ........................ 572 From 1347 to 1350 the Black Death killed many priests, religious, theologians, and laymen ............................ 572 From 1378 to 1417 the Western Schism ............................................................................................................. 575 In 1445 apostate Antipope Eugene IV desecrated St. Peter’s Basilica ................................................................ 576 In the 1500’s the anti-Church Father Basil’s Address to Young Men on the Right Use of Greek Literature was

translated into Latin ......................................................................................................................................... 576 In 1540 the apostate Society of Jesus was founded ............................................................................................ 576 In 1567 apostate Antipope Pius V proclaimed Aquinas a Doctor of the Universal Church .................................. 577 In 1622 Albert the Great Wretch was beatified by apostate Antipope Gregory XV ............................................ 577 In 1879 apostate Antipope Leo XIII proclaimed Aquinas the prince and master of all scholastics ...................... 578 In 1907 apostate Antipope Pius X made the study of philosophy and Thomism mandatory to become a bishop,

priest, theologian, or canonist .......................................................................................................................... 578 In 1917 apostate Antipope Benedict XV and the 1917 Code of Canon Law upheld Pius X’s decree .................... 578 In 1931 Albert the Great Wretch was canonized by apostate Antipope Pius XI .................................................. 578 From the 11th century onward the glorification of philosophy and mythology, occult practices, immorality, and

the desecration of Catholic places made steady progress ............................................................................... 578 A Chronology of Scholasticism ............................................................................................................................ 579

RABANUS MAURUS (C. 776-856) .............................................................................................................................. 584 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy and mythology ....................................................................................... 584

JOHN SCOTUS ERIGENA (C. 810-C. 877) .................................................................................................................. 584 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy and Boethius, and his other heresies ...................................................... 584

GERBERT OF AURILLAC (C. 945-1003)/ANTIPOPE SYLVESTER II (999-1003) ....................................................... 587 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy and Boethius and practicing black magic ............................................... 587

BERENGARIUS OF TOURS (C. 999-1088) .................................................................................................................. 589 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy, and his other heresies ........................................................................... 589

ANSELM OF BEC, BISHOP OF CANTERBURY (C. 1033-1109) ................................................................................... 591 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy ................................................................................................................ 591

WILLIAM OF CHAMPEAUX (C. 1070-1121) (VICTORINE SCHOOL) ......................................................................... 592 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy ................................................................................................................ 592

BERNARD OF CHARTRES (D. C. 1130) (CHARTRES SCHOOL) .................................................................................. 592 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy ................................................................................................................ 592

HUGH OF ST. VICTOR (1096-1141) (VICTORINE SCHOOL) ..................................................................................... 593 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy ................................................................................................................ 593

PETER ABELARD (1079-1142) .................................................................................................................................. 594 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy and holding other heresies ..................................................................... 594

GILBERT OF POITIERS (1076-1154) (CHARTRES SCHOOL) .................................................................................... 598 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy and Boethius, and his other heresies ...................................................... 598

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THEODORIC (THIERRY) OF CHARTRES (D. C. 1150) (CHARTRES SCHOOL) ........................................................... 600 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy ................................................................................................................. 600

BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX (1090-1153) .................................................................................................................... 601

WILLIAM OF CONCHES (C. 1100-D. C. 1154) (CHARTRES SCHOOL) ....................................................................... 601 His apostasy for glorifying philosophy and Boethius .............................