Philip Schaff

“ As to the question, “How does it appear that there is only one first principle?” he said he could not tell, only he was impelled to that belief. On my thereupon conjuring him to speak the truth, he solemnly declared that he was expressing his real sentiments; and that he did not know “how” there could be one uncreated God, but that he believed the fact. ”

“ For one of their herd, Apelles, who prides himself on the strictness of his life, [9] and on his age, admits that there is only one first principle, [10] yet says that the prophecies have come from an opposing spirit, in which opinion he is influenced by the responses of a soothsaying [11] maid named Philumene. ”

“ He also appears to have written against the blasphemous Apelles, [6] whose Hexaëmeron was an attempt to refute Moses; but whether he also fulfilled his promise concerning an ̓Επίλυσις of Tatian’s Problems (or Questions) , seems doubtful. Routh has devoted to the fragment here translated six pages of notes, [7] which he subjoins to the Greek text (of Eusebius) and a Latin version of the same.
Wherefore also they [8] disagree among themselves, maintaining as they do an opinion which has no consistency with itself. ”