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41 Serapion the bishop PL 23, 655
Serapion, ordained bishop of Antioch in the eleventh year of the emperor Commodus, wrote a letter to Caricus and Pontius on the heresy of Montanus, in which he said “that you may know moreover that the madness of this false doctrine, that is the doctrine of a new prophecy, is reprobated by all the world, I have sent to you the letters of the most holy Apollinaris bishop of Hierapolis in Asia.” He wrote a volume also to Domnus, who in time of persecution went over to the Jews, and another work on the gospel which passes under the name of Peter, a work to the church of the Rhosenses in Cilicia who by the reading of this book had turned aside to heresy. There are here and there short letters of his, harmonious in character with the ascetic life of their author.
Serapion, undecimo Commodi imperatoris anno Antiochiae episcopus ordinatus, scripsit epistolam ad Caricum et Pontium, de haeresi Montani, in qua et haec addit: Ut autem 883 sciatis falsi hujus dogmatis, id est, novae prophetiae ab omni mundo insaniam reprobari, misi vobis Apollinaris beatissimi, qui fuit in Hierapoli Asiae episcopus, litteras. Ad Domninum quoque, qui persecutionis tempore ad Judaeos declinaverat, volumen composuit; et alium de Evangelio, quod sub nomine Petri fertur, librum ad Rhosensem Ciliciae Ecclesiam, quae in haeresim ejus lectione diverterat. Leguntur et sparsim ejus breves epistolae, auctoris sui ἀσκήσει et vitae congruentes.
Σαραπίων, τῷ ἐνδεκάτῳ ἐνιαυτῷ Κομόδου τοῦ βασιλέως, χειροτονθεὶς τῆς Ἀντιοχέων ἐκκλησίας ἐπίσκοπος ἔγραψεν ἐπιστολὴν πρὸς Καρῖνον καὶ Πόντιον, περὶ τῆς αἱρέσεως Μοντανοῦ ταῦτα προσθείς· « Ἵνα δὲ 884 γνῶτε τὴν βλάστην τοῦ δόγματος τούτου, τῆς καινῆς λέγω προφητείας, καὶ τὴν ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ κόσμῳ μανίαν ἀποδοκιμαστέαν ὑπάρχειν, ἔπεμψα ὑμῖν Ἀπολλιναρίου τοῦ μακαριωτάτου, ὃς γέγονεν Ἱεραπολίτης Ἀσίας ἐπίσκοπος, γράμματα· καὶ πρὸς Δόμνον δὲ τὸν τῷ καιρῷ τοῦ διωγμοῦ πρὸς τοὺς Ἰουδαίους κατανεύσαντα συνέταξε τεῦχος, καὶ ἄλλο περὶ τοῦ Εὐαγγελίου, ὅπερ ἐπ' ὀνόματι Πέτρου φέρεται, καὶ πρὸς τὴν ἐν Ῥόσῳ τῶν Κιλίκων Ἐκκλησίαν βίβλον, ἥτις εἰς τὴν αἵρεσιν αὐτοῦ ἐξεστράφη, καί τινας εἰς ἀνάγνωσιν τῆς τούτου αἱρέσεως μετήνεγκεν. Ἀναγινώσκονται δὲ καὶ σποράδην βραχύταται αὐτοῦ ἐπιστολαὶ τῇ ἀσκήσει καὶ τῷ βίῳ αὐτοῦ συνᾴδουσαι.