Syagrius

Syagrius wrote On Faith, against the presumptuous terms that heretics adopt in order to destroy or replace the names of the Holy Trinity. They say that the Father ought not to be called Father, lest the name Son should be in harmony with the name Father, but that he should be called the Unbegotten, or the Imperishable, and the Absolute, so that whatever is distinct from him in person may also be separate in nature. Syagrius shows that the Father, who is unchangeable in nature, may be called the Unbegotten, though the Scripture does not call him so; that the person of the Son is begotten from him, not made; and that the person of the Holy Spirit proceeds from him, not begotten and not made. Under the name of this Syagrius I found seven books entitled On Faith and the Rules of Faith, but since they did not agree in style, I did not believe they were written by him. [a]