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of the first and second and third, which three books we have divided into seven volumes, and in each volume a certain number of heresies 1.157 and schisms is contained, and all together they are eighty, whose names and origins are these: first Barbarism, second Scythianism, third Hellenism, fourth Judaism, fifth Samaritanism. from these the succeeding ones: before the advent of Christ, but after Barbarism and the Scythian superstition, these are the ones that have sprung from Hellenism: sixth, Pythagoreans or rather Peripatetics, divided through those around Aristotle; seventh, Platonists; eighth, Stoics; ninth, Epicureans. Then the Samaritan heresy which is from Judaism, and of this there are four sects: tenth, Gorothenes, eleventh, Sebuaeans, twelfth, Essenes, thirteenth, Dositheans. Then the same aforementioned Judaism, having received its character from Abraham and having been broadened by the law given to Moses, and having inherited the name of Judaism from Judah the son of Jacob, also called Israel, through David who reigned from his tribe. And from Judaism itself these seven heresies: fourteenth, of the Scribes, fifteenth, of the Pharisees, sixteenth, of the Sadducees, seventeenth, of the Hemerobaptists, eighteenth, of the Ossenes, nineteenth, of the Nasarenes, twentieth, of the Herodians. 4. From these heresies and afterwards in the succession of time appeared the saving dispensation of our Lord Jesus Christ, that is, his presence in the flesh and evangelical teaching and preaching of the kingdom, which alone is the source of salvation and faith of truth of the catholic and apostolic and orthodox church. but from this were broken off and were rent, having only the name of Christ, 1.158 but not the faith, these heresies: first, Simonians, second, Menandrians, third, Saturnilians, fourth, Basilidians, fifth, Nicolaitans, sixth, Gnostics, also known as Stratiotici, and the same are the Phibionites, by some called Secundians, by others Socratites, by others Zacchaeans, by some called Coddians and Borborites and Barbelites, seventh, Carpocratians, eighth, Cerinthians, also known as Merinthians, ninth, Nazoraeans, tenth, Ebionites, eleventh, Valentinians, twelfth, Secundians, to whom are joined Epiphanes and Isidore, thirteenth, Ptolemaeans; fourteenth, Marcosians, fifteenth, Colorbasians, sixteenth, Heracleonites, seventeenth, Ophites, eighteenth, Cainites, nineteenth, Sethians, twentieth, Archontics, twenty-first, Cerdonians, twenty-second, Marcionites, twenty-third, Lucianists, twenty-fourth, Apellians, twenty-fifth, Severians, twenty-sixth, Tatianists; twenty-seventh, Encratites, twenty-eighth, according to the Phrygians, also known as Montanists and Tascodrugites; and these Tascodrugites in turn were divided among themselves, twenty-ninth, Pepuzians also known as Priscillianists and Quintillianists, to whom are joined the Artotyrites, thirtieth, Tessareskaidekatitae who keep the pascha on one day of the year, thirty-first, Alogi who do not accept the Gospel and the Apocalypse of John, thirty-second, Adamites, thirty-third, Sampsaeans also known as Elkesaites, thirty-fourth, Theodotians, thirty-fifth, Melchisedekians, thirty-sixth, Bardesianists, thirty-seventh, Noetians, thirty-eighth, Valesians, thirty-ninth, Cathari also known as Navatians, fortieth, Angelics, forty-first, Apostolics also known as Apotactics, forty-second, Sabellians, forty-third, Origenists also known as the shameful-doers, forty-fourth, Origenists also known as followers of Adamantius; forty-fifth, of Paul of Samosata, forty-sixth, Manichaeans also known as Acuanites, forty-seventh, Hieracites, forty-eighth

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πρώτου καὶ δευτέρου καὶ τρίτου, ἅτινα τρία βιβλία εἰς ἑπτὰ τόμους διείλομεν, ἐν δὲ ἑκάστῳ τόμῳ ἀριθμός τις αἱρέσεων 1.157 καὶ σχισμάτων ἔγκειται, ὁμοῦ δὲ πᾶσαί εἰσιν ὀγδοήκοντα, ὧν αἱ ὀνομασίαι καὶ αἱ προφάσεις αὗται· πρώτη Βαρβαρισμός, δευτέρα Σκυθισμός, τρίτη Ἑλληνισμός, τετάρτη Ἰουδαϊσμός, πέμπτη Σαμαρειτισμός. ἐκ τούτων αἱ καθεξῆς· πρὸ Χριστοῦ μὲν τῆς ἐπιδημίας, μετὰ δὲ Βαρβαρισμὸν καὶ τὴν Σκυθικὴν δεισιδαιμονίαν αἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἑλληνισμοῦ φύσασαι αὗται· ἕκτη Πυθαγόρειοι εἴτ' οὖν Περιπατητικοί, διὰ τῶν περὶ Ἀριστοτέλην διαιρεθεῖσα· ἑβδόμη Πλατωνικοί· ὀγδόη Στωϊκοί· ἐνάτη Ἐπικούρειοι. εἶτα ἡ Σαμαρειτικὴ αἵρεσις ἡ οὖσα ἐκ τοῦ Ἰουδαϊσμοῦ καὶ ταύτης τέσσαρα ἔθνη· δεκάτη Γοροθηνοί, ἑνδεκάτη Σεβουαῖοι, δωδεκάτη Ἐσσηνοί, τρισκαιδεκάτη ∆οσίθεοι. εἶτα ὁ αὐτὸς προειρημένος Ἰουδαϊσμὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ τὸν χαρακτῆρα εἰληφὼς καὶ διὰ τοῦ δοθέντος νόμου τῷ Μωυσῇ πλατυνθεὶς καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἰούδα υἱοῦ Ἰακὼβ τοῦ καὶ Ἰσραὴλ διὰ ∆αυὶδ τοῦ βασιλεύσαντος ἐκ τῆς τούτου φυλῆς τὸ ἐπώνυμον τοῦ Ἰουδαϊσμοῦ κληρωθείς. καὶ ἀπ' αὐτοῦ τοῦ Ἰουδαϊσμοῦ ἑπτὰ αἱρέσεις αὗται· τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτη Γραμματέων, πεντεκαιδεκάτη Φαρισαίων, ἑκκαιδεκάτη Σαδδουκαίων, ἑπτακαιδεκάτη Ἡμεροβαπτιστῶν, ὀκτωκαιδεκάτη Ὀσσαίων, ἐννεακαιδεκάτη Νασαραίων, εἰκοστὴ Ἡρῳδιανῶν. 4. Ἐκ τούτων τῶν αἱρέσεων καὶ μετέπειτα κατὰ διαδοχὴν τῶν χρόνων ἐπεφάνη ἡ σωτήριος τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ οἰκονομία ἤγουν ἡ ἔνσαρκος αὐτοῦ παρουσία καὶ εὐαγγελικὴ διδασκαλία τε καὶ κήρυγμα βασιλείας, ἥτις μόνη ἐστὶ πηγὴ σωτηρίας καὶ πίστις ἀληθείας τῆς καθολικῆς καὶ ἀποστολικῆς καὶ ὀρθοδόξου ἐκκλησίας. ἐκ δὲ ταύτης περιεκλάσθησάν τε καὶ ἐσχίσθησαν ὄνομα μόνον Χριστοῦ 1.158 ἔχουσαι, ἀλλ' οὐχὶ τὴν πίστιν, αἱρέσεις αὗται· πρώτη Σιμωνιανοί, δευτέρα Μενανδριανοί, τρίτη Σατορνιλιανοί, τετάρτη Βασιλειδιανοί, πέμπτη Νικολαῗται, ἕκτη Γνωστικοὶ οἱ καὶ Στρατιωτικοὶ οἱ αὐτοὶ δὲ Φιβιωνῖται παρὰ δέ τισι Σεκουνδιανοὶ παρὰ ἄλλοις δὲ Σωκρατῖται παρ' ἑτέροις δὲ Ζακχαῖοι παρὰ δέ τισι Κοδδιανοὶ καλούμενοι καὶ Βορβορῖται καὶ Βαρβηλῖται, ἑβδόμη Καρποκρατῖται, ὀγδόη Κηρινθιανοὶ οἱ καὶ Μηρινθιανοί, ἐνάτη Ναζωραῖοι, δεκάτη Ἐβιωναῖοι, ἑνδεκάτη Οὐαλεντῖνοι, δωδεκάτη Σεκουνδιανοί, οἷς συνάπτονται Ἐπιφάνης καὶ Ἰσίδωρος, τρισκαιδεκάτη Πτολεμαῖοι· τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτη Μαρκώσιοι, πεντεκαιδεκάτη Κολορβάσιοι, ἑκκαιδεκάτη Ἡρακλεωνῖται, ἑπτακαιδεκάτη Ὀφῖται, ὀκτωκαιδεκάτη Καϊανοί, ἐννεακαιδεκάτη Σηθιανοί, εἰκοστὴ Ἀρχοντικοί, εἰκοστὴ πρώτη Κερδωνιανοί, εἰκοστὴ δευτέρα Μαρκίωνες, εἰκοστὴ τρίτη Λουκιανισταί, εἰκοστὴ τετάρτη Ἀπελληϊανοί, εἰκοστὴ πέμπτη Σευηριανοί, εἰκοστὴ ἕκτη Τατιανοί· εἰκοστὴ ἑβδόμη Ἐγκρατῖται, εἰκοστὴ ὀγδόη κατὰ Φρύγας, τῶν καὶ Μοντανιστῶν καὶ Τασκοδρουγιτῶν· οὗτοι δὲ πάλιν οἱ Τασκοδρουγῖται διῃρέθησαν εἰς ἑαυτούς, εἰκοστὴ ἐνάτη Πεπουζιανοὶ οἱ καὶ Πρισκιλλιανοὶ καὶ Κυϊντιλλιανοί, οἷς συνάπτονται Ἀρτοτυρῖται, τριακοστὴ Τεσσαρεσκαιδεκατῖται οἱ τὸ πάσχα μίαν ἡμέραν τοῦ ἔτους ποιοῦντες, τριακοστὴ πρώτη Ἄλογοι οἱ τὸ εὐαγγέλιον καὶ τὴν ἀποκάλυψιν Ἰωάννου μὴ δεχόμενοι, τριακοστὴ δευτέρα Ἀδαμιανοί, τριακοστὴ τρίτη Σαμψαῖοι οἱ καὶ Ἐλκεσαῖοι, τριακοστὴ τετάρτη Θεοδοτιανοί, τριακοστὴ πέμπτη Μελχισεδεκιανοί, τριακοστὴ ἕκτη Βαρδησιανισταί, τριακοστὴ ἑβδόμη Νοητιανοί, τριακοστὴ ὀγδόη Οὐαλήσιοι, τριακοστὴ ἐνάτη Καθαροὶ οἱ καὶ Ναυᾶτοι, τεσσαρακοστὴ Ἀγγελικοί, τεσσαρακοστὴ πρώτη Ἀποστολικοὶ οἱ καὶ Ἀποτακτικοί, τεσσαρακοστὴ δευτέρα Σαβελλιανοί, τεσσαρακοστὴ τρίτη Ὠριγένειοι οἱ καὶ αἰσχροποιοί, τεσσαρακοστὴ τετάρτη Ὠριγένειοι οἱ καὶ τοῦ Ἀδαμαντίου· τεσσαρακοστὴ πέμπτη Παύλου τοῦ Σαμοσατέως, τεσσαρακοστὴ ἕκτη Μανιχαῖοι οἱ καὶ Ἀκουανῖται, τεσσαρακοστὴ ἑβδόμη Ἱερακῖται, τεσσαρακοστὴ ὀγδόη