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<p> <b> [[Theognostus]] (1) </b> , a priest of [[Alexandria]] and a writer of about the middle of cent. iii., whom we only know from quotations in St. [[Athanasius]] and Photius. He composed a work called <i> Hypotyposes </i> in seven books, still extant when [[Photius]] wrote ( <i> Cod. </i> 106). He used language in bk. ii. of very [[Arian]] sound, speaking of the Son as a creature, and in bk. iii. of the Holy [[Ghost]] in a style as little orthodox as that of Origen. In bk. v. he attributed bodies to angels and devils. In bks. vi. and vii. he discussed the doctrine of the [[Incarnation]] in a more orthodox manner than in bk. ii. Yet St. Athanasius regarded him as a useful witness against Arianism. [[Philip]] of Side says that he presided over the school of Alexandria after [[Pierius]] a.d. 282 (cf. Dodwell, <i> Dissert. in Irenaeum </i> , p. 488). The fragments of Theognostus are collected in Routh's <i> Reliq. Sac. </i> t. iii. 407–422, and trans. in <i> Ante-Nic. Lib. </i> Cf. Migne, <i> Patr. Gk. </i> t. x. col. 235–242; Ceill. ii. 450; Athan. <i> Ephesians 4 </i> <i> ad Serap., de Decretis Nic. Syn. </i> </p> <p> [G.T.S.] </p>

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