Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix

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ANF05. Fathers of the Third Century:
Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian,
Appendix
by
Philip Schaff
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ANF05. Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Philip Schaff
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Table of Contents
About This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. ii
Title Pages.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 1
Preface.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 3
Hippolytus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 6
Title Page.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 6
Introductory Notice.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 6
The Refutation of All Heresies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 12
Book I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 12
Contents.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 12
The Proœmium.--Motives for Undertaking the Refutation; Exposure of
the Ancient Mysteries; Plan of the Work; Completeness of the Refutation;
Value of the Treatise to Future Ages.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 14
Thales; His Physics and Theology; Founder of Greek Astronomy.. . . . p. 16
Pythagoras; His Cosmogony; Rules of His Sect; Discoverer of
Physiognomy; His Philosophy of Numbers; His System of the
Transmigration of Souls; Zaratas on Demons; Why Pythagoras Forbade
the Eating of Beans; The Mode of Living Adopted by His
Disciples.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 17
Empedocles; His Twofold Cause; Tenet of Transmigration.. . . . . . . p. 20
Heraclitus; His Universal Dogmatism; His Theory of Flux; Other
Systems.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 21
Anaximander; His Theory of the Infinite; His Astronomic Opinions; His
Physics.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 22
Anaximenes; His System of “An Infinite Air;” His Views of Astronomy
and Natural Phenomena.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 23
Anaxagoras; His Theory of Mind; Recognises an Efficient Cause; His
Cosmogony and Astronomy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 24
Archelaus; System Akin to that of Anaxagoras; His Origin of the Earth
and of Animals; Other Systems.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 25
Parmenides; His Theory of “Unity;” His Eschatology.. . . . . . . . . . . p. 26
Leucippus; His Atomic Theory.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 27
Democritus; His Duality of Principles; His Cosmogony.. . . . . . . . . . p. 27
Xenophanes; His Scepticism; His Notions of God and Nature; Believes
in a Flood.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 28
Ecphantus; His Scepticism; Tenet of Infinity.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 29
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Hippo; His Duality of Principles; His Psychology.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 29
Socrates; His Philosophy Reproduced by Plato.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 29
Plato; Threefold Classification of Principles; His Idea of God; Different
Opinions Regarding His Theology and Psychology; His Eschatology
and System of Metempsychosis; His Ethical Doctrines; Notions on the
Free-Will Question.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 30
Aristotle; Duality of Principles; His Categories; His Psychology; His
Ethical Doctrines; Origin of the Epithet “Peripatetic.”. . . . . . . . . . . . p. 33
The Stoics; Their Superiority in Logic; Fatalists; Their Doctrine of
Conflagrations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 34
Epicurus; Adopts the Democritic Atomism; Denial of Divine Providence;
The Principle of His Ethical System.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 35
The Academics; Difference of Opinion Among Them.. . . . . . . . . . . p. 36
The Brachmans; Their Mode of Life; Ideas of Deity; Different Sorts Of;
Their Ethical Notions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 36
The Druids; Progenitors of Their System.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 38
Hesiod; The Nine Muses; The Hesiodic Cosmogony; The Ancient
Speculators, Materialists; Derivative Character of the Heresies from
Heathen Philosophy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 38
Book IV.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 40
System of the Astrologers; Sidereal Influence; Configuration of the
Stars.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 40
Doctrines Concerning Æons; The Chaldean Astrology; Heresy Derivable
from It.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 40
The Horoscope the Foundation of Astrology; Indiscoverability of the
Horoscope; Therefore the Futility of the Chaldean Art.. . . . . . . . . . p. 41
Impossibility of Fixing the Horoscope; Failure of an Attempt to Do This
at the Period of Birth.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 43
Another Method of Fixing the Horoscope at Birth; Equally Futile; Use
of the Clepsydra in Astrology; The Predictions of the Chaldeans Not
Verified.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 44
Zodiacal Influence; Origin of Sidereal Names.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 46
Practical Absurdity of the Chaldaic Art; Development of the Art.. . . . . p. 46
Prodigies of the Astrologers; System of the Astronomers; Chaldean
Doctrine of Circles; Distances of the Heavenly Bodies.. . . . . . . . . . p. 47
Further Astronomic Calculations.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 49
Theory of Stellar Motion and Distance in Accordance with
Harmony.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 49
Theory of the Size of the Heavenly Bodies in Accordance with Numerical
Harmonies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 50
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Waste of Mental Energy in the Systems of the Astrologers.. . . . . . . p. 51
Mention of the Heretic Colarbasus; Alliance Between Heresy and the
Pythagorean Philosophy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 51
System of the Arithmeticians; Predictions Through Calculations;
Numerical Roots; Transference of These Doctrines to Letters; Examples
in Particular Names; Different Methods of Calculation; Prescience
Possible by These.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 52
Quibbles of the Numerical Theorists; The Art of the Frontispicists
(Physiognomy); Connection of This Art with Astrology; Type of Those
Born Under Aries.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 55
Type of Those Born Under Taurus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 56
Type of Those Born Under Gemini.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 57
Type of Those Born Under Cancer.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 57
Type of Those Born Under Leo.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 58
Type of Those Born Under Virgo.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 58
Type of Those Born Under Libra.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 58
Type of Those Born Under Scorpio.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 59
Type of Those Born Under Sagittarius.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 59
Type of Those Born Under Capricorn.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 59
Type of Those Born Under Aquarius.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 60
Type of Those Born Under Pisces.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 60
Futility of This Theory of Stellar Influence.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 60
System of the Magicians; Incantations of Demons; Secret Magical
Rites.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 61
Display of Different Eggs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 63
Self-Slaughter of Sheep.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 63
Method of Poisoning Goats.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 64
Imitations of Thunder, and Other Illusions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 64
The Burning Æsculapius; Tricks with Fire.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 65
The Illusion of the Sealed Letters; Object in Detailing These
Juggleries.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 66
The Divination by a Cauldron; Illusion of Fiery Demons; Specimen of a
Magical Invocation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 67
Mode of Managing an Apparition.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 68
Illusive Appearance of the Moon.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 69
Illusive Appearance of the Stars.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 70
Imitation of an Earthquake.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 70
Trick with the Liver.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 70
Making a Skull Speak.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 70
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The Fraud of the Foregoing Practices; Their Connection with
Heresy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 71
Recapitulation of Theologies and Cosmogonies; System of the Persians;
Of the Babylonians; The Egyptian Notion of Deity; Their Theology Based
on a Theory of Numbers; Their System of Cosmogony.. . . . . . . . . p. 72
Egyptian Theory of Nature; Their Amulets.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 74
Use of the Foregoing Discussions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 74
The Astrotheosophists; Aratus Imitated by the Heresiarchs; His System
of the Disposition of the Stars.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 75
Opinions of the Heretics Borrowed from Aratus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 76
Invention of the Lyre; Allegorizing the Appearance and Position of the
Stars; Origin of the Phœnicians; The Logos Identified by Aratus with
the Constellation Canis; Influence of Canis on Fertility and Life
Generally.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 77
Symbol of the Creature; And of Spirit; And of the Different Orders of
Animals.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 79
Folly of Astrology.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 80
The Hebdomadarii; System of the Arithmeticians; Pressed into the
Service of Heresy; Instances Of, in Simon and Valentinus; The Nature
of the Universe Deducible from the Physiology of the Brain.. . . . . . . p. 80
Note.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 82
Book V.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 83
Contents.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 83
Recapitulation; Characteristics of Heresy; Origin of the Name Naasseni;
The System of the Naasseni.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 83
Naasseni Ascribe Their System, Through Mariamne, to James the Lord's
Brother; Really Traceable to the Ancient Mysteries; Their Psychology
as Given in the “Gospel According to Thomas;” Assyrian Theory of the
Soul; The Systems of the Naasseni and the Assyrians Compared;
Support Drawn by the Naasseni from the Phrygian and Egyptian
Mysteries; The Mysteries of Isis; These Mysteries Allegorized by the
Naasseni.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 85
Further Exposition of the Heresy of the Naasseni; Profess to Follow
Homer; Acknowledge a Triad of Principles; Their Technical Names of
the Triad; Support These on the Authority of Greek Poets; Allegorize
Our Saviour's Miracles; The Mystery of the Samothracians; Why the
Lord Chose Twelve Disciples; The Name Corybas, Used by Thracians
and Phrygians, Explained; Naasseni Profess to Find Their System in
Scripture; Their Interpretation of Jacob's Vision; Their Idea of the “Perfect
Man;” The “Perfect Man” Called “Papa” By the Phrygians; The Naassenip. 93
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and Phrygians on the Resurrection; The Ecstasis of St. Paul; The
Mysteries of Religion as Alluded to by Christ; Interpretation of the
Parable of the Sower; Allegory of the Promised Land; Comparison of
the System of the Phrygians with the Statements of Scripture; Exposition
of the Meaning of the Higher and Lower Eleusinian Mysteries; The
Incarnation Discoverable Here According to the Naasseni.. . . . . . .
Further Use Made of the System of the Phrygians; Mode of Celebrating
the Mysteries; The Mystery of the “Great Mother;” These Mysteries
Have a Joint Object of Worship with the Naasseni; The Naasseni
Allegorize the Scriptural Account of the Garden of Eden; The Allegory
Applied to the Life of Jesus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 100
Explanation of the System of the Naasseni Taken from One of Their
Hymns.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 103
The Ophites the Grand Source of Heresy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 104
The System of the Peratæ; Their Tritheism; Explanation of the
Incarnation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 105
The Peratæ Derive Their System from the Astrologers; This Proved by
a Statement of the Astrological Theories of the Zodiac; Hence the
Terminology of the Peratic Heretics.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 106
System of the Peratæ Explained Out of One of Their Own Books.. . . . p. 109
The Peratic Heresy Nominally Different from Astrology, But Really the
Same System Allegorized.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 111
Why They Call Themselves Peratæ; Their Theory of Generation
Supported by an Appeal to Antiquity; Their Interpretation of the Exodus
of Israel; Their System of “The Serpent;” Deduced by Them from
Scripture; This the Real Import of the Doctrines of the
Astrologers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 111
Compendious Statement of the Doctrines of the Peratæ.. . . . . . . . p. 114
The Peratic Heresy Not Generally Known.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 116
The System of the Sethians; Their Triad of Infinite Principles; Their
Heresy Explained; Their Interpretation of the Incarnation.. . . . . . . . p. 116
The Sethians Support Their Doctrines by an Allegorical Interpretation
of Scripture; Their System Really Derived from Natural Philosophers
and from the Orphic Rites; Adopt the Homeric Cosmogony.. . . . . . . p. 120
The Sethian Theory Concerning “Mixture” And “Composition;” Application
of It to Christ; Illustration from the Well of Ampa.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 122
The Sethian Doctrines to Be Learned from the “Paraphrase of
Seth.”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 124
The System of Justinus Antiscriptural and Essentially Pagan.. . . . . p. 124
The Justinian Heresy Unfolded in the “Book of Baruch.”. . . . . . . . . p. 125
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The Cosmogony of Justinus an Allegorical Explanation of Herodotus'
Legend of Hercules.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 126
Justinus' Triad of Principles; His Angelography Founded on This Triad;
His Explanation of the Birth, Life, and Death of Our Lord.. . . . . . . . p. 126
Oath Used by the Justinian Heretics; The Book of Baruch; The Repertory
of Their System.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 131
Subsequent Heresies Deducible from the System of Justinus.. . . . . p. 133
Book VI.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 133
Contents.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 133
The Ophites the Progenitors of Subsequent Heresies.. . . . . . . . . . p. 134
Simon Magus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 134
Story of Apsethus the Libyan.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 135
Simon's Forced Interpretation of Scripture; Plagiarizes from Heraclitus
and Aristotle; Simon's System of Sensible and Intelligible
Existences.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 135
Simon Appeals to Scripture in Support of His System.. . . . . . . . . . p. 137
Simon's System Expounded in the Work, Great Announcement; Follows
Empedocles.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 137
Simon's System of a Threefold Emanation by Pairs.. . . . . . . . . . . . p. 138
Further Progression of This Threefold Emanation; Co-Existence with
the Double Triad of a Seventh Existence.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 138
Simon's Interpretation of the Mosaic Hexaëmeron; His Allegorical
Representation of Paradise.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 139
Simon's Explanation of the First Two Books of Moses.. . . . . . . . . . p. 141
Simon's Explanation of the Three Last Books of the Pentateuch.. . . . p. 141
Fire a Primal Principle, According to Simon.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 142
His Doctrine of Emanation Further Expanded.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 143
Simon Interprets His System by the Mythological Representation of
Helen of Troy; Gives an Account of Himself in Connection with the
Trojan Heroine; Immorality of His Followers; Simon's View of Christ;
The Simonists' Apology for Their Vice.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 144
Simon's Disciples Adopt the Mysteries; Simon Meets St. Peter at Rome;
Account of Simon's Closing Years.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 146
Heresy of Valentinus; Derived from Plato and Pythagoras.. . . . . . . p. 147
Origin of the Greek Philosophy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 148
Pythagoras' System of Numbers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 149
Pythagoras' Duality of Substances; His “Categories.”. . . . . . . . . . . p. 150
Pythagoras' Cosmogony; Similar to that of Empedocles.. . . . . . . . . p. 150
Other Opinions of Pythagoras.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 151
The “Sayings” Of Pythagoras.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 152
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Pythagoras' Astronomic System.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 153
Valentinus Convicted of Plagiarisms from the Platonic and Pythagoric
Philosophy; The Valentinian Theory of Emanation by Duads.. . . . . . p. 154
The Tenet of the Duad Made the Foundation of Valentinus' System of
the Emanation of Æons.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 156
Valentinus' Explanation of the Existence of Christ and the Spirit.. . . . . p. 158
Valentinus' Explanation of the Existence of Jesus; Power of Jesus Over
Humanity.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 159
The Valentinian Origin of the Creation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 161
The Other Valentinian Emanations in Conformity with the Pythagorean
System of Numbers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 161
Valentinus' Explanation of the Birth of Jesus; Twofold Doctrine on the
Nature of Jesus' Body; Opinion of the Italians, that Is, Heracleon and
Ptolemæus; Opinion of the Orientals, that Is, Axionicus and
Bardesanes.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 163
Further Doctrines of Valentinus Respecting the Æons; Reasons for the
Incarnation.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 164
Valentinus Convicted of Plagiarisms from Plato.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 165
Secundus' System of Æons; Epiphanes; Ptolemæus.. . . . . . . . . . . p. 166
System of Marcus; A Mere Impostor; His Wicked Devices Upon the
Eucharistic Cup.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 168
Further Acts of Jugglery on the Part of Marcus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 168
The Heretical Practices of the Marcites in Regard of Baptism.. . . . . p. 169
Marcus' System Explained by Irenæus; Marcus' Vision; The Vision of
Valentinus Revealing to Him His System.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 170
Marcus' System of Letters.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 172
The Quaternion Exhibits “Truth.”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 172
The Name of Christ Jesus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 173
Marcus' Mystic Interpretation of the Alphabet.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 173
His System Applied to Explain Our Lord's Life and Death.. . . . . . . . p. 175
Letters, Symbols of the Heavens.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 176
Respecting the Generation of the Twenty-Four Letters.. . . . . . . . . . p. 177
Why Jesus is Called Alpha.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 178
Marcus' Account of the Birth and Life of Our Lord.. . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 178
The System of Marcus Shown to Be that of Pythagoras, by Quotations
from the Writings of Marcus' Followers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 179
Their Cosmogony Framed According to These Mystic Doctrines of
Letters.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 181
The Work of the Demiurge Perishable.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 182
Marcus and Colarbasus Refuted by Irenæus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 182
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Book VII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 183
Contents.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 183
Heresy Compared to (1) the Stormy Ocean, (2) the Rocks of the Sirens;
Moral from Ulysses and the Sirens.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 184
The System of Basilides Derived from Aristotle.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 185
Sketch of Aristotle's Philosophy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 185
Aristotle's General Idea.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 186
Nonentity as a Cause.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 186
Substance, According to Aristotle; The Predicates.. . . . . . . . . . . . p. 186
Aristotle's Cosmogony; His “Psychology;” His “Entelecheia;” His
Theology; His Ethics; Basilides Follows Aristotle.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 187
Basilides and Isidorus Allege Apostolic Sanction for Their Systems;
They Really Follow Aristotle.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 189
Basilides Adopts the Aristotelian Doctrine of “Nonentity.”. . . . . . . . . p. 190
Origin of the World; Basilides' Account of the “Sonship.”. . . . . . . . . p. 190
The “Great Archon” Of Basilides.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 193
Basilides Adopts the “Entelecheia” Of Aristotle.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 194
Further Explanation of the “Sonship.”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 195
Whence Came the Gospel; The Number of Heavens According to
Basilides; Explanation of Christ's Miraculous Conception.. . . . . . . . p. 196
God's Dealings with the Creature; Basilides' Notion of (1) the Inner Man,
(2) the Gospel; His Interpretation of the Life and Sufferings of Our
Lord.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 198
The System of Saturnilus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 200
Marcion; His Dualism; Derives His System from Empedocles; Sketch
of the Doctrine of Empedocles.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 201
Source of Marcionism; Empedocles Reasserted as the Suggester of
the Heresy.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 205
The Heresy of Prepon; Follows Empedocles; Marcion Rejects the
Generation of the Saviour.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 206
The Heresy of Carpocrates; Wicked Doctrines Concerning Jesus Christ;
Practise Magical Arts; Adopt a Metempsychosis.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 208
The System of Cerinthus Concerning Christ.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 209
Doctrine of the Ebionæans.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 210
The Heresy of Theodotus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 210
The Melchisedecians; The Nicolaitans.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 211
The Heresy of Cerdon.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 212
The Doctrines of Apelles; Philumene, His Prophetess.. . . . . . . . . . p. 212
Book VIII.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 213
Contents.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 213
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