Defining orthodoxy in Hilary of Poitiers' 'Commentarium in Matthaeum'

Despite the fact that Hilary had not yet heard of the Nicene creed before g oing into exile (356), most scholars have argued that the bishop did posses s an awareness of the "Arian" disputes in the West. In answer to the questi on of whether the commentary underwrites this awareness, I shall demonstrat e that Hilary, like the vast majority of western bishops of that time, knew nothing about these controversies such that is affected his theology and e xegesis. At the same time, he does evidence concern over contemporary subor dinationist interpretations of Christ whose views stemmed from a "logos-sar x" incarnational theology present throughout the West in the third and four th centuries.