Euthymius Zigabenus, Panoplia Dogmatica; Theodoretus, Historia Religiosa

poisonous and earthy dogmas were corrupted again; and of the spiritual,
separating, because of the perhaps long and chronic siege
of the enemies, the weeds that were well-cleared in this way;
the unfruitful and only fit for burning, the wood-mania excessive growth of the
heretics. But sneaking in with muddy streams of words,
their teachers prepare them to sprout.
What does he do? A very divine fire from the heart, with such
great contempt, is roused to zeal; and a flame becomes a
therapy for them; and not even greater and high; for having set aside
times for the study of the God-inspired scriptures; when
he had a greater opportunity from public and commonwealth-benefiting
cares, he devoted himself to diligent reading with intensity.
Having as a good fortune the practical ones of the foreigners;
of which many and good, a wealth as manifest as a child's
play; but especially, he was trained in dogmatic words;
and he carried a warm and burning love for them in his soul.
In him; and like iron, hot and capable, in cold water mixed?,
and having renounced the tongue of those who form such
words, he was perfected as a double-edged sword
against blasphemous dogmas and teachings; and suffering?
the white ...he was writing? because of the scripture, the hard and
calloused insensitivity of the God-fighters. As he himself
professes. Whenever he encountered those talking, I understood and
noted them all. So therefore; to some of those wandering? ones,
he dipped in invincible weapons and cast down; others of the
distorted, and changing toward harmonious sweet-voicedness,
he tried to admonish and incline; with much
patience and gentleness, soothing with words; so that