Download or read book The “Eranistes” or “Polymorphus” written by Theodoret and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some men, distinguished neither by family nor education, and without any of the honourable notoriety that comes of an upright life, are ambitious of achieving fame by wicked ways. Of these was the famous Alexander, the coppersmith, a man of no sort of distinction at all,—no nobility of birth, no eloquence of speech, who never led a political party nor an army in the field; who never played the man in fight, but plied from day to day his ignominious craft, and won fame for nothing but his mad violence against Saint Paul.