Artemon

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Artemon (fl. ca. 230 AD), a prominent Christian teacher in Rome, who held Adoptianist, or Antitrinitarian views, about whose life little is known for certain. He is mentioned as the leader of an Antitrinitarian sect at Rome in the third century. He is spoken of by Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., V.28) as the forerunner of Paul of Samosata, an opinion confirmed by the acts of a council held at Antioch in 264, which connect the two names as united in mutual communion and support. Eusebius and Theodoret (Haer. Fab., II,4; V,2) describe his teaching as a denial of Christ's divinity and an assertion that he was a mere man, the falsification of Scripture, and an appeal to tradition in support of his errors. Both authors mention refutations: Eusebius an untitled work, Theodoret one known as The Little Labyrinth, which has been attributed to a Roman priest named Caius, and more recently to Hippolytus, the supposed author of the Philosophoumena.

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