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Πλεῖστα μὲν οὖν παρὰ πολλοῖς εἰσέτι νῦν τῶν τότε σώζεται παλαιῶν καὶ ἐκκλησιαστικῶν ἀνδρῶν ἐναρέτου σπουδῆς ὑπομνήματα· ὧν γε μὴν αὐτοὶ διέγνωμεν, εἴη ἂν τὰ Ἡρακλείτου εἰς τὸν ἀπόστολον, καὶ τὰ Μαξίμου περὶ τοῦ πολυθρυλήτου παρὰ τοῖς αἱρεσιώταις ζητήματος, τοῦ πόθεν ἡ κακία, καὶ περὶ τοῦ γενητὴν ὑπάρχειν τὴν ὕλην· τά τε Κανδίδου εἰς τὴν ἑξαήμερον, καὶ Ἀπίωνος εἰς τὴν αὐτὴν ὑπόθεσιν· ὁμοίως Σέξτου περὶ ἀναστάσεως, καὶ ἄλλη τις ὑπόθεσις Ἀραβιανοῦ, καὶ μυρίων ἄλλων, ὧν διὰ τὸ μηδεμίαν ἔχειν ἀφορμὴν οὐχ οἷόν τε οὔτε τοὺς χρόνους παραδοῦναι γραφῇ οὔθ᾿ ἱστορίας μνήμην ὑποσημήνασθαι. καὶ ἄλλων δὲ πλείστων, ὧν οὐδὲ τὰς προσηγορίας καταλέγειν ἡμῖν δυνατὸν, ἦλθον εἰς ἡμᾶς λόγοι ὀρθοδόξων μὲν καὶ ἐκκλησιαστικῶν, ὥς γε δὴ ἡ ἑκάστου παραδείκνυσι τῆς θείας γραφῆς ἑρμηνεία, ἀδήλων δὲ ὅμως ἡμῖν, ὅτι μὴ τὴν προσηγορίαν ἐπάγεται τῶν συγγραψαμένων.
如今，當時那些古時、屬教會之人的美德與熱忱的許多遺著，直到今日仍在許多人中保存著。在我們自己所得知的當中，有赫拉克利圖斯論《使徒（保羅）》的著作；有馬克西穆斯論那異端分子間爭論甚多之問題的著作——就是惡從何來，並論物質是被造的；又有康狄都斯論創世六日的著作，和阿皮翁論同一題目的著作；同樣還有塞克斯圖斯論復活的著作，以及阿拉比亞努斯的另一篇論述，並無數其他人的著作。對於這些人，因我們毫無線索，便無法將他們的年代付諸文字，也無法在歷史中記下任何提述。還有極多其他人的論述也傳到我們這裡，連他們的名號我們都無法一一列舉——他們乃是正統、屬教會的人，正如各人對神聖經文的解釋所顯明的，然而對我們卻是不為人知的，因為這些著作並不署有作者的名字。
Now very many memorials of the virtuous zeal of the ancient and ecclesiastical men of that time are still preserved among many to this day. Of those which we ourselves have come to know, there would be the works of Heraclitus on the Apostle; and those of Maximus on the much-discussed question among the heretics—whence comes evil, and concerning matter's being created; and those of Candidus on the Hexaemeron, and of Apion on the same subject; likewise of Sextus on the Resurrection, and a certain other treatise of Arabianus, and of countless others, of whom, having no starting-point, it is not possible either to commit their dates to writing or to set down any mention in history. And the discourses of very many others, whose appellations also we are unable to enumerate, have come to us—men orthodox and ecclesiastical, as the interpretation of the divine Scripture by each shows, yet nevertheless unknown to us, in that they do not bear the name of their authors.