I don’t remember, but weren’ there a few scattered Arians of the non Gothic type down there? I have often thought that Islam took some from that also.
“I don’t remember, but weren’ there a few scattered Arians of the non Gothic type down there?”
There certainly were; mostly merchants of one sort or another. There were a group if indigenous Arabians who worshipped the Theotokos as a goddess too; all sorts of weird, heretical Christian offshoots down there. Mix that with Judaism and Arab paganism and you get...Mohammedanism! In many ways, Mohammedanism and Mohammedan are the classic examples of what +John Chrysostomos meant when he wrote:
“The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.”