NOETUS  , a

presbyter of the church of Asia Minor about A.D . 230, was a native of Smyrna, where (or perhaps in Ephesus) he became a prominent representative of the particular type of Christology now called modalistic monarchianism or patripassianism . His views, which led to his excommunication from the Asiatic Church, are known chiefly through the writings of Hippolytus, his contemporary at Rome, where he settled and bad a large following . He accepted the fourth Gospel, but regarded its statements about the Logos as allegorical . His disciple Cleomenes held that God is both invisible and visible; as visible He is the Son .