Note 47
Quid credidit? Certe, aut tria nomina audiens tres
Deos esse credidit, et idololatra effectus est; aut in
tribus vocabulis trinominem credens Deum, in Sabellii
haeresim incurrit; aut edoctus ab Arianis unum esse verum
Deum Patrem, filium et Spiritum sanctum credidit creaturas.
Aut extra haec quid credere portuerit nescio. Hieronym. adv.
Luciferianos [tom. ii. p. 184, ed Vallars.]
Jerom reserves
for the last the orthodox system, which is more complicated
and difficult.
Note to Chapter 21 of Decline and Fall by Gibbon