ver deserved the love
of the orthodox, and so continued till his maintenance of this
doctrine. Nay, he had undergone banishment for not submitting to
the Arians;--but why enlarge on it? It afflicted us much, and gave
us a sorrowful time, as is the wont of our enemy."--_Ibid._ 24.

St. Basil once got into trouble from a supposed intimacy with
Apollinaris. He had written one letter to him on an indifferent matter,
in 356, when he himself was as yet a layman, and Apollinaris orthodox
and scarcely in orders. This was magnified by his opponent Eustathius
into a correspondence and intercommunion between the archbishop and
heresiarch. As in reality Basil knew very little even of his works, the
description which the following passages give is valuable, as being, in
fact, a sort of popular opinion about Apollinaris, more than an
individual judgment. Basil wrote the former of the two in defence of
himself; in the latter, other errors of Apollinaris are mentioned,
besides those to which I have had occasion to allude, for, as I have
said, errors seldom are found single.

"For myself," says Basil, "I never indeed considered Apollinaris as
an enemy; nay, there are respects in which I reverence him;
however, I did not so connect myself with him as to make myself
answerable for his alleged faults, considering, too, that I have a
complaint of my own against him, on reading some of his
compositions. I hear, indeed, that he is become the most copious of
all writers; yet I have fallen in with but few of his works, for I
have not leisure to search into such, and besides, I do not easily
form the acquaintance of recent writers, being hindered by bodily
health from continuing even the study of inspired Scripture
laboriously, and as is fitting."--_Ep._ 244, Sec. 3.

The other passage runs thus:--

"After Eustathius comes Apollinaris; he, too, no slight disturber
of the Church; for, having a facility in writing and a tongue which
served him on every subject, he has filled the world with his
compositions, despising the warning, 'Beware of making many books,'
because in the many are many faults. For how is it possible, in
much speaking, to escape sin?"--_Ep._ 263, Sec. 4.

And then he goes on to mention some of the various gross errors, to
which by that time he seemed to be committed.

Lastly, let us hear Vincent of Lerins about him:--