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<p> A person of this name is said by [[Philip]] of Sida (see Dodwell, Dissert. in Iren. [Oxon. 1689], p. 488 sq.) to have presided over the catechetical school of [[Alexandria]] in the second half of the 3rd century. [[Photius]] calls him an [[Alexandrian]] and an exegete; and he was unquestionably an Origenist, in the strict sense. Photius also expressly states that [[Theognostus]] shared the errors of [[Origen]] with respect to the Trinity, and termed the Son Icri aycc (comp. Dionys. Alexand., and see Athanasius, De Blasph. in Spirit. Sanctum; also Origen, De Princ. 1, 3, 7, 63). Theognostus wrote seven books of Hypotheses, which, according to Photius, constitute a doctrinal work constructed in the order of loci-(1) of God the Father as the exclusive originator of the world (against an assumed eternity of matter); (2) of the Son; (3) of the Holy Spirit; (4) of angels and demons; (5 and 6) of the incarnation; (7) of the world-order. The brief extracts from this work which were preserved by [[Athanasius]] in De Decret. Nic. Synod. 25, and a fragment from that father's work On the [[Blasphemy]] of the Holy [[Ghost]] (Athan. Ephesians 4 ad Serap. 11) may be found in Ronth, Relig. Sacr. 3, 221 sq. See Galland, Bibl. Vet. Patr. 3; Guericke, De Schola Alexand. (Halle, 1824), 1, 78; 2, 325 sq. </p>

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