| The word homoousios, at its first appearance in the middle of the third century, was therefore clearly connected with the theology of a Sabellian or monarchian tendency. |
| But given his monarchian conception of God, less than God is not God at all. |
| The institution of monarchy was legitimated by the monarchical episcopate that, no doubt, made equal appeal to a monarchian vision of God or Christ. |
| The Monarchian theory is a false teaching that started some time in the second century. |
