Hermogenes

HERMOGENES, whom St. Paul speaks of 2 Tim. i. 15.to Timothy, was, according to some Authors not much to be depended upon,¹ a Magician, converted by St. James the Great, together with Phygellus. But they, after having followed the Apostle for some time, forsook him, when they saw him in prison for the Faith. Tertullian says, that Tertull. contra Hermogen.Hermogenes renounced the Faith, and that he was a different person from another Hermogenes, against whom he wrote. Some say he adhered to the errors of Simon and Nicholas; and that his principal mistake was, his denying the Resurrection of the dead, and maintaining that it was already 2 Tim. ii. 17.passed. This is the most certain account that we have of Hermogenes. They who please may see the fabulous circumstances of his conversion in ABDIAS.

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