Paragraph:
83
Translation:
<After Sabas’ death, Origenism came into the open in the monasteries of the Judean desert.> Nonnus and his friends took the opportunity of our father’s death – I mean Sabas’ – and made public the heretical ideas they had kept deeply hidden in their hearts. They began to instill a destructive madness into their neighbours and not only drew down into their foul heresy the ‘intellectuals’ of the Nea Laura, but also those of Martyrius’ monastery and of Firminus’ Laura, since the fathers of this laura had already gone to rest: (I mean) the blessed Firminus and Sozomen, who had been followers of the godly Elder (Sabas) and fighters alongside him …
(transl. Leah Di Segni)
Summary:
After Sabas' and Firminus' death, Origenism spreads in the laura, ca. AD 535.