JUSTINIANUS and JUSTUS Bishops of Spain,
ISidore of Sevil observes it as a thing extraordinary, that there were in Spain, under the Reign of Theodius, i. e. toward the Year 535, four Brethren born of the same Mother, all four Bishops, * 1.1 and all four Writers.
The first is Justinian Bishop of Valentia, who wrote a Treatise containing divers Answers to the Questions of Rusticus; The first concerning the Holy Spirit; the second against the followers of Bonosus, who believ'd that Jesus Christ was an Adoptive Son, and not the Natural Son of God; the third about the Baptism of Jesus Christ, to show that it is not lawful to reiterate it; the fourth, about the Distinction between John's Baptism, and that of Jesus Christ; the fifth to prove that the Son is in∣visible as the Father.
The second was Justus Bishop of Urgellum, who publish'd a little Commentary upon the Canticles, wherein he explains in a few words, and very clearly, the Allegorical sense of this Book of Holy Scripture.
The two other Brethren were call'd Hebrides and Elpides; but it is not known where they were Bishops, and what is the subject of their Writings. We have not now the Work of Justinian, but only that of Justus upon the Canticles. St. Isidore has given a sound Judgment of it: In it he ex∣pounds very succinctly and clearly the Canticles, by applying it to Jesus Christ and his Church. There are two Letters of the same Bishop in the fifth Tome of the Spicilegium of Luc Dachery, the first whereof is supposititious.