HERMOGENES CEAtto•yerns), the name of a man mentioned by St. Paul in the latest of the pastoral epistles (2 Tim. i. 15), who, with Phyge lus, deserted him when all they which are in Asia' (ol /v tj'Acricz, or perhaps they of or from Asia,' ol k Aoias, Conybeare and Howson, Life of St. Paul, vol. p. 585) had turned away from him.' The all in Asia' cannot imply a general desertion, but only those of whom St. Paul had had trial (Alford in for.) Whether Hermogenes and Phygelus had forsaken St. Paul because they were ashamed of him when in bonds (2 Tim. iv. 16) ; or whether, like Hyrnenmus and Philetus, they had erred concerning the truth' (2 Tim. ii. 18), is not stated. In the Roman bre viary (in Fest. S. .7ac. .4post. Pars erstiva, p. 48.59 Milan, 1851) the conversion of Hermogenes is at tributed to St. James the Great, and in the legen dary history of Abdias, the so-called bishop of Babylon (Fabricius, Cod. Apocryph. N. 7:, p. 517 seq.), Hermogenes is represented as first practising magic, and converted, with Philetus, by the same apostle. Grotius, apparently misled by the cir cumstance that the historian or geographer Her knogenes, mentioned by the scholiast of Apollonius Rhodius (ii. 722, Frag. Hist. Gran, Didot. ed.,
vol. iii., p. 523), wrote on primitive history, and incidentally (?) speaks of Nannacus or Anacus— and may therefore probably be the same as the Hermogenes wbom Josephus mentions as having treated 'on Jewish history (Contra Afithn. i. 23)— suggests that he may be the person mentiohed by St. Paul. This, however, is not likely. Nothing more is known of the Hermogenes in question, and he cannot be identified either with Hennogenes of Tarsus, a historian of the time of Domitian; who was put to death by that emperor (Suet. Donzie. io ; Smith's Dice. of Biography, s. v. • Hoffman, Lex. Univ., s. v. ; Alford, 2 Tim. i. 15), nor with Hennogenes the painter, against whom Tertullian wrote (Smith's Dice. of Biography, s. v.), nor with the saints of the Byzantine Church, commemorated on Jan. 24 and Sept. (Neale, Eastern Church, vol. ii., pp. 77o, 781).—F. W. M.