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HIERAX, or HIERACAS

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 453 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HIERAX, or HIERACAS , a learned ascetic who flourished about the end of the 3rd See also:century at Leontopolis in See also:Egypt, where he lived to the See also:age of ninety, supporting himself by calligraphy and devoting his leisure to scientific and See also:literary pursuits, especially to the study of the See also:Bible. He was the author of Biblical commentaries both in See also:Greek and Coptic, and is said to have composed many See also:hymns. He became See also:leader of the so-called See also:sect of the Hieracites, an ascetic society from which married persons were excluded, and of which one of the leading tenets was that only the celibate could enter the See also:kingdom of See also:heaven. He asserted that the suppression of the sexual impulse was emphatically the new See also:revelation brought by the See also:Logos, and appealed to 1 See also:Cor. vii., Heb.. xii. 14, and Matt. xix. 12, See also:xxv. 21. Hierax may be called the connecting See also:link See also:bet ween See also:Origen and the Coptic monks. A See also:man of deep learning and prodigious memory, he seems to have See also:developed Origen's Christology in the direction of See also:Athanasius. He held that the Son was a See also:torch lighted at the torch of the See also:Father, that Father and Son are a See also:bipartite See also:light. He repudiated the ideas of a bodily resurrection and a material See also:paradise, and on the ground of 2 Tim. ii. 5 questioned the salvation of even baptized infants, " for without knowledge no conflict, without conflict no See also:reward." In his insistence on virginity as the specifically See also:Christian virtue he set up the See also:great theme of the See also:church of the 4th and 5th centuries.

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