To Florus 1.75

What Babylon's shameful betrayal has undertaken is so wicked that, when we charge you with it, you deny it. What we believe is so holy that you wish to hide in its shade, though your minds oppose it. For when I drew out what was scattered throughout the parts of your argument and compressed the issue into a brief statement, so that the extent and character of the cause of the Church's division would appear without smoke or mist, I said that you deny both free choice and God as the Creator of newborn children, while we defend both. That is why you raise an empty din in uneducated ears about the names of catholic men who struggle alongside us for the apostolic faith we defend. Those afraid of being called Caelestians by you lose the dignity of heavenly faith; those terrified of being called Pelagians plunge into the sea of Manichaeism. Uneducated people come to think they cannot be called Christians if the advocates of inherited sin have called them Pelagians. Sensible people, by contrast, decide that they must endure any hatred or insult attached to names rather than abandon the catholic faith.

But do not boast that even this type of abuse was invented by your ingenuity. Remember that all heretics commonly give us different names. At the council of Rimini it became especially clear what wickedness an ambiguous word or the threat of a new label can achieve in leaden minds. Under an Arian ruler, Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, a man of great steadfastness and thoroughly sound faith, resisted after almost the whole world had slipped away from the apostles' faith and the times had become impious. For this he was driven into exile. Out of six hundred and fifty bishops, as the report goes, scarcely seven were found who valued God's commands more than the king's: they would neither agree to Athanasius's condemnation nor deny the confession of the Trinity. Besides fear of mistreatment, the entire crowd of those broken spirits was deceived chiefly either by the threatening label “Athanasian” or by a cunning question.