The work of Antipater was looked on as a masterly composition, and, as late as 540 was ordered to be read in the churches of the East as an antidote to the spread of the Origenistic heresies (Cotelier, Monument.
In his Life of Sabbas the Sanctified, Cyril of Scythopolis says that Antipater was for a time the chief doctrinal authority cited in the Origenist crisis of the 6th century.
In his Refutation of the Apology for Origen (a text written by Pamphilus of Caesarea), he denounced the doctrines of the pre-existence of souls and apocatastasis with dogmatic precision.
[6] Sartre concurs with this rendering, and argues on the basis of the ascribed Marian sermons that Antipater had a special devotion to Mary which drove him to dedicate a church to her.
These include four On Christ's Nativity in Armenian translation, two on St John the Baptist, the Silence of Zechariah, and the greeting of the Mother of God, and The Annunciation and Visitation, two On Epiphany and On the Beginning of the Fast, and a Latin homily On the Assumption of Mary[5] O'Carroll considers many of them to be of dubious authenticity.