It suited the Arians and the Macedonians[475], who insisted that the Holy Ghost is a creature.
The former were refuted by Epiphanius, who points out that the sense is not complete until you have read the words [Greek: ho gegonen].

A fresh sentence (he says) begins at [Greek: En auto zoe en][476].

Chrysostom deals with the latter.

'Let us beware of putting the full stop' (he says) 'at the words [Greek: oude hen],--as do the heretics.

In order to make out that the Spirit is a creature, they read [Greek: ho gegonen en auto zoe en]: by which means the Evangelist's meaning becomes unintelligible[477].' But in the meantime, Valentinus, whose example was followed by Theodotus and by at least two of the Gnostic sects against whom Hippolytus wrote, had gone further.