Chapter CII

Read the treatise of Gelasius,[560] bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, _Against the Anomoeans_, in one volume. His style is free from superfluities, and vigorous; he makes frequent use of Attic words, his principles are carefully worked out, and he is not at a loss for arguments; in all respects he is a good writer, except that he childishly employs the rules and terms of logic till they become wearisome, as if he had just peeped into dialectical text-books, and uses his words wrongly. Certainly he inserts an apology for this ill-timed language, but what he intended to excuse he ought never to have used at all. In addition, the arrangement of the work is somewhat faulty. The same little volume contained the various arguments by Diodorus of Tarsus _Concerning the Holy Spirit_, in which he shows that he is already infected by the taint of the Nestorian heresy.