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to their elders, observing by a more excessive will-worship customs which they have not learned through the law, but have fashioned for themselves, objects of worship of the justification of the legislation. 15. Pharisees, interpreted as 'separated ones', who live the strictest life and are supposedly more reputable than the others; among whom also is the resurrection of the dead as also among the Scribes and the assent concerning angels and the Holy Spirit, that it exists, and a different way of life, continence for a time and virginity, and fasting twice a week, cleansings of pots and plates and cups, as also among the Scribes, tithings and first-fruits and constant prayer and self-willed religious forms of dress through the outer garment and the dalmatics, that is, colobia, and the broadening of the phylacteries, that is, marks of purple, and tassels and pomegranates on the borders of the outer garment, which things were signs among them of continence for a time; who also introduced nativity and fate. 16. Sadducees, interpreted as 'most just', who were of Samaritan origin and also from a priest named Zadok, denying the resurrection of the dead and not accepting angel nor spirit, but in all other respects being Jews. 17. Hemerobaptists; these were Jews in every respect, but they said that no one obtains eternal life unless he is baptized every day. 18. Ossenes, who are interpreted as 'most audacious'. These performed all things according to the law, but they also used other scriptures besides the law, and they rejected most of the later prophets. 19. Nasaraeans, interpreted as 'stubborn ones', who forbid all eating of flesh, not partaking of living things at all; but they both use and believe in the holy names of the patriarchs in the Pentateuch up to Moses and Joshua son of Nun, I mean Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and those of earliest times and Moses himself and Aaron and Joshua. They dogmatize that the scriptures of the Pentateuch are not by Moses, and affirm that they have others besides them. 20. Herodians, who were Jews in every respect, but expected Herod to be the Christ, and to him they gave the honor and name of Christ. This is the first tome, containing [refutations] against all these twenty heresies; and in it is also the account concerning Christ's coming in the flesh and the confession of the truth. 1.234 The following are also in this second tome of the first book, in which are thirteen heresies, as follows: 21. Simonians, from Simon the magician of the time of Peter the apostle, from the village of Gitta in Samaria. This man came from the Samaritans, but he only assumed the name of Christ. He taught shameful conduct, that the defiling union with women is a matter of indifference; he rejects the resurrection of bodies and says that the world is not from God. And an image of himself as Zeus and of the harlot with him, named Helen, in the form of Athena * he gave to his own disciples for worship. And he said he was the Father to the Samaritans, but the Christ to the Jews. 22. Menandrians, who began from this Simon through a certain Menander, but differing from the Simonians in some respect; who said that the world was made by angels. 23. Saturnilians, who throughout Syria confirmed the foul speech of the Simonians, but preaching other things than the Simonians for 1.235 greater astonishment, having their origin from Saturnilus, who also himself, like Menander, asserted that the world was made by angels, but by seven only, apart from the one above

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αὐτοῖς πρεσβυτέρων, τῇ περιττοτέρᾳ ἐθελοθρῃσκείᾳ ἔθη φυλάττοντες ἃ οὐ διὰ τοῦ νόμου μεμαθήκασιν, ἀλλ' ἑαυτοῖς ἐτύπωσαν, σεβάσματα δικαιώματος τῆς νομοθεσίας. ιε. Φαρισαῖοι, ἑρμηνευόμενοι ἀφωρισμένοι, οἱ τὸ ἀκρότατον βιοῦντες καὶ δῆθεν τῶν ἄλλων δοκιμώτεροι· παρ' οἷς καὶ νεκρῶν ἀνάστασις ὡς καὶ παρὰ τοῖς Γραμματεῦσι καὶ ἡ περὶ ἀγγέλων καὶ πνεύματος ἁγίου, ὅτι ἔστι, συγκατάθεσις, πολιτεία τε διάφορος, ἐγκράτεια ἕως χρόνου καὶ παρθενία, νηστεία δὲ δὶς τοῦ σαββάτου, ξεστῶν καθαρισμοὶ καὶ πινάκων καὶ ποτηρίων, ὡς καὶ παρὰ τοῖς Γραμματεῦσι, ἀποδεκατώσεις καὶ ἀπαρχαὶ καὶ ἐνδελεχὴς εὐχὴ καὶ σχήματα ἐθελοθρῃσκευτικὰ τῆς ἐνδυμενίας διά τοι τῆς ἀμπεχόνης καὶ τῶν δαλματικῶν ἤγουν κολοβιώνων καὶ τοῦ πλατυσμοῦ τῶν φυλακτηρίων τουτέστι σημάτων τῆς πορφύρας καὶ κρασπέδων καὶ ῥοΐσκων ἐπὶ τὰ πτερύγια τῆς ἀμπεχόνης, ἅτινα ταῦτα ἐτύγχανε σημεῖα τῆς παρ' αὐτοῖς ἕως καιροῦ ἐγκρατείας· οἳ καὶ παρεισέφερον γένεσιν καὶ εἱμαρμένην. ιςϛ. Σαδδουκαῖοι, ἑρμηνευόμενοι δικαιότατοι, οἳ ἐκ γένους μὲν ἦσαν Σαμαρειτῶν ὁμοῦ δὲ καὶ ἱερέως Σαδδοὺκ ὀνόματι, νεκρῶν μὲν ἀνάστασιν ἀρνούμενοι καὶ μὴ παραδεχόμενοι ἄγγελον μήτε πνεῦμα, τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ πάντα ὄντες Ἰουδαῖοι. ιζ. Ἡμεροβαπτισταί· οὗτοι μὲν κατὰ πάντα Ἰουδαῖοι ἦσαν, ἔφασκον δὲ μηδένα ζωῆς τυγχάνειν αἰωνίου, εἰ μή τι ἂν καθ' ἑκάστην βαπτίζοιτο. ιη. Ὀσσηνοί, οἳ δὴ ἰταμώτατοι ἑρμηνεύονται. ἦσαν δὲ οὗτοι τὰ πάντα κατὰ νόμον τελοῦντες, ἐχρῶντο δὲ καὶ γραφαῖς ἑτέραις μετὰ τὸν νόμον, τοὺς δὲ πλείους τῶν μετέπειτα προφητῶν ἀπεβάλλοντο. ιθ. Νασαραῖοι, ἑρμηνευόμενοι ἀφηνιασταί, οἳ πᾶσαν σαρκοφαγίαν ἀπαγορεύουσιν, ἐμψύχων οὐδ' ὅλως μεταλαμβάνουσιν, ἄχρι δὲ Μωυσέως καὶ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ Ναυῆ τοῖς ἐν τῇ πεντατεύχῳ ἁγίοις ὀνόμασι πατριαρχῶν κεχρημένοι τε καὶ πιστεύοντες, φημὶ δὲ Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἰακὼβ καὶ τῶν ἀνωτάτω καὶ αὐτοῦ Μωυσέως καὶ Ἀαρὼνκαὶ Ἰησοῦ. τὰς δὲ τῆς πεντατεύχου γραφὰς οὐκ εἶναι Μωυσέως δογματίζουσιν, ἄλλας δὲ παρ' αὐτὰς ἔχειν διαβεβαιοῦνται. κ. Ἡρῳδιανοί, οἳ Ἰουδαῖοι μὲν ἦσαν κατὰ πάντα, Ἡρῴδην δὲ Χριστὸν προσεδόκων καὶ τούτῳ τὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀπεδίδοσαν γέρας καὶ ὄνομα. Οὗτος ὁ πρῶτος τόμος, περιέχων κατὰ πασῶν τῶν εἴκοσι τούτων αἱρέσεων· ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ καὶ ἡ περὶ τῆς Χριστοῦ ἐνδημίας ὑπόθεσις καὶ ἡ τῆς ἀληθείας ὁμολογία. 1.234 Τάδε ἔνεστι καὶ ἐν τούτῳ τῷ δευτέρῳ τόμῳ τοῦ πρώτου βιβλίου, ἐν ᾧ εἰσιν αἱρέσεις δεκατρεῖς οὕτως· κα. Σιμωνιανοί, οἱ ἀπὸ Σίμωνος τοῦ μάγου τοῦ ἐπὶ Πέτρου τοῦ ἀποστόλου, κώμης Γιτθῶν τῆς Σαμαρείας. οὗτος ἀπὸ Σαμαρειτῶν ὡρμᾶτο, Χριστοῦ δὲ ὑπέδυ ὄνομα μόνον. ἐδίδαξε δὲ αἰσχροποιίαν, τὴν μίξιν μολυσμοῦ γυναικῶν ἀδιάφορον· σωμάτων δὲ ἀποβάλλεται τὴν ἀνάστασιν καὶ τὸν κόσμον μὴ εἶναι θεοῦ φάσκει. εἰκόνα δὲ ἑαυτοῦ ὡς ∆ιὸς καὶ τῆς σὺν αὐτῷ πόρνης, ὀνόματι Ἑλένης, Ἀθηνᾶς τύπον * τοῖς ἑαυτοῦ μαθηταῖς παρεδίδου εἰς προσκύνησιν. ἔλεγεν δὲ ἑαυτὸν Σαμαρείταις μὲν τὸν πατέρα, Ἰουδαίοις δὲ τὸν Χριστόν. κβ. Μενανδριανοί, οἱ ἀπὸ τούτου τοῦ Σίμωνος διὰ Μενάνδρου τινὸς ἐναρξάμενοι, διαφερόμενοι δὲ πρὸς τοὺς Σιμωνιανοὺς κατά τι· ὃς ἀπὸ ἀγγέλων ἔλεγε τὸν κόσμον γεγενῆσθαι. κγ. Σατορνιλιανοί, οἱ κατὰ τὴν Συρίαν τὴν τῶν Σιμωνιανῶν κρατύναντες αἰσχρολογίαν, ἕτερα δὲ παρὰ τοὺς Σιμωνιανοὺς εἰς ἔκ 1.235 πληξιν περισσοτέραν κηρύσσοντες, ἀπὸ δὲ Σατορνίλου τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐσχηκότες, ὃς καὶ αὐτὸς κατὰ Μένανδρον ὑπὸ ἀγγέλων τὸν κόσμον γεγενῆσθαι ἔφασκεν, μόνων δὲ ἑπτά, παρὰ τὴν τοῦ ἄνω