This work agrees in its dogmatics with Gregory of Nyssa, and is valuable on account of the numerous excerpts from the writings of the opponent of Macarius.
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He may be the Macarius, bishop of Magnesia, who, at the Synod of the Oak in 403, brought charges against Heraclides, bishop of Ephesus, the friend of John Chrysostom, although Adolf Harnack dated him in the late third century.
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These fragments are apparently drawn from the lost "Words against the Christians" of Porphyry or from the "Truth-Loving Words" of Hierocles.
Saint Macarius | Macarius of Egypt | Macarius of Alexandria | Macarius | The Saint's homecoming: more than five centuries after Venerable Macarius' flight from the ruins of his monastery, his head gets red-carpet treatment in the towns it visits on its way back to Makaryevo | Macarius of Unzha | Macarius of Jerusalem |