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father's opinion. 24. Basilidians, performers of the same shameful act, from Basilides who was a fellow disciple with Saturnilus of the Simonians and Menandrians, thinking similar things, but differing in some respect. He says that there are three hundred and sixty-five heavens and for these he sets out angelic names. For which reason also the year is of so many days, and the name Abraxas is of the same numerical value and is 365. And he says this is the holy name. 25. Nicolaitans, from Nicolas who was appointed over the widows by the apostles, who out of jealousy for his own wife taught his disciples to perform the shameful act along with others, and having introduced ideas about Caulacau and Prunicus and other barbaric names. 26. Gnostics, having succeeded to the same heresies, but working the shamefulness more madly than all of them, in Egypt being called Stratiotici and Phibionites, and in the upper regions Secundians, in other regions Socratites, and among others Zacchaeans; others call them Coddianoi, others call them Borborites. These boast of Barbelo who is also Barbero. 27. Carpocratians, from a certain Carpocrates of those in Asia, who taught to carry out every shameful act and every practice of sin. And unless someone, he says, passes through all things and carries out the will of all demons and angels, he cannot ascend into the highest heaven nor pass by the principalities and the powers. He said that Jesus had received an intelligent soul, and knowing the things above 1.236 announced them here, and that if anyone should do things similar to Jesus, he would be like him. He forbids the law along with the resurrection of the dead, as do the heresies from Simon until now. Of this one was Marcellina in Rome. And having secretly made images of Jesus and Paul and Homer and Pythagoras, he burned incense to them and worshipped them. 28. Cerinthians, who are also Merinthians. These, from Cerinthus and Merinthus, are certain Jews who boast of circumcision, saying that the world was made by angels, and that Jesus was called Christ according to progress. 29. Nazoraeans, confessing Christ Jesus to be the son of God, but living in all things according to the law. 30. Ebionites, similar to the aforementioned Cerinthians and Nazoraeans, with whom the heresy of the Sampsaeans and Elkesaites was in some way joined, who say that Christ and the holy spirit were created in heaven, and that Christ first dwelt in Adam and from time to time putting off that Adam and putting him on again; for they say he accomplished this in his incarnate presence. And being Jews, they use gospels, they abhor the eating of flesh, and they hold water in place of God, and that Christ put on a man in his incarnate presence, as I said. And they are continually baptized in the waters both in summer and winter, for purification, forsooth, just like the Samaritans. 31. Valentinians, who deny the resurrection of the flesh, and they reject the old testament and the prophets, reading them and accepting as many things as can be tropologically interpreted into a likeness of their own heresy, but introducing certain other mythologies, speaking the names of thirty male-female aeons, begotten together from the father of all, 1.237 whom they also consider gods and aeons. And they say that Christ brought a body from heaven and passed through Mary as through a pipe.

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πατρὸς γνώμην. κδ. Βασιλειδιανοί, τῆς αὐτῆς αἰσχρουργίας τελεσταί, ἀπὸ Βασιλείδου τοῦ ἅμα Σατορνίλῳ τοῖς Σιμωνιανοῖς καὶ Μενανδριανοῖς μεμαθητευμένου, τὰ ὅμοια μὲν φρονοῦντος, κατά τι δὲ διαφερομένου. λέγει δὲ τριακοσίους ἑξήκοντα πέντε οὐρανοὺς εἶναι καὶ τούτοις ὀνόματα ἀγγελικὰ ἐκτίθησιν. διὸ καὶ τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν τοσούτων ἡμερῶν εἶναι, καὶ τὸ Ἀβρασὰξ ὄνομα τῆς αὐτῆς ψήφου εἶναι καὶ εἶναι τξε. καὶ εἶναι τοῦτο τὸ ἅγιον ὄνομά φησιν. κε. Νικολαῗται, ἀπὸ Νικολάου τοῦ ἐπὶ ταῖς χήραις ὑπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων ταχθέντος, ὃς διὰ ζῆλον τῆς ἰδίας γαμετῆς τὴν αἰσχρουργίαν ἅμα τοῖς ἄλλοις ἐπιτελεῖν τοὺς αὐτοῦ μαθητὰς ἐδίδαξεν, καὶ περὶ τοῦ Καυλακαῦ καὶ Προυνίκου καὶ ἄλλων βαρβαρικῶν ὀνομάτων εἰσηγησάμενος. κςϛ. Γνωστικοί, τὰς αὐτὰς αἱρέσεις διαδεξάμενοι, πλέον δὲ αὐτῶν πάντων τὴν αἰσχρότητα ἐμμανῶς ἐργαζόμενοι, ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ δὲ Στρατιωτικοὶ καλούμενοι καὶ Φιβιωνῖται, ἐν δὲ τοῖς ἀνωτερικοῖς μέρεσι Σεκουνδιανοί, ἐν ἄλλοις μέρεσι Σωκρατῖται, παρὰ δὲ ἑτέροις Ζακχαῖοι· ἄλλοι δὲ Κοδδιανοὺς αὐτοὺς λέγουσιν, ἄλλοι δὲ Βορβορίτας αὐτοὺς καλοῦσιν. οὗτοι τὴν Βαρβηλὼ τὴν καὶ Βαρβηρὼ αὐχοῦσιν. κζ. Καρποκρατιανοί, ἀπὸ Καρποκράτους τινὸς τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ, ὃς ἐδίδασκε πᾶσαν αἰσχρουργίαν ἐκτελεῖν καὶ πᾶν ἐπιτήδευμα ἁμαρτίας. καὶ εἰ μή τις διὰ πάντων, φησί, παρέλθοι καὶ τὸ θέλημα πάντων δαιμόνων καὶ ἀγγέλων ἐκτελέσῃ, οὐ δύναται ὑπερβῆναι εἰς τὸν ἀνώτατον οὐρανὸν οὐδὲ τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ τὰς ἐξουσίας παρελθεῖν. ἔλεγε δὲ τὸν Ἰησοῦν ψυχὴν νοερὰν εἰληφέναι, εἰδότα δὲ τὰ ἄνω 1.236 ἐνταῦθα καταγγέλλειν, καὶ ὡς εἴ τις πράξειεν ὅμοια τῷ Ἰησοῦ, κατ' αὐτὸν εἶναι. τὸν δὲ νόμον σὺν τῇ τῶν νεκρῶν ἀναστάσει ἀπαγορεύει, ὡς αἱ ἀπὸ Σίμωνος καὶ δεῦρο αἱρέσεις. τούτου γέγονεν ἡ ἐν Ῥώμῃ Μαρκελλίνα. εἰκόνας δὲ ποιήσας ἐν κρυφῇ Ἰησοῦ καὶ Παύλου καὶ Ὁμήρου καὶ Πυθαγόρου ταύταις ἐθυμία καὶ προσεκύνει. κη. Κηρινθιανοί, οἱ καὶ Μηρινθιανοί. οὗτοι οἱ ἀπὸ Κηρίνθου καὶ Μηρίνθου Ἰουδαῖοί τινες περιτομὴν αὐχοῦντες, τὸν δὲ κόσμον ὑπὸ ἀγγέλων γεγενῆσθαι, Ἰησοῦν δὲ κατὰ προκοπὴν Χριστὸν καλεῖσθαι λέγοντες. κθ. Ναζωραῖοι, Χριστὸν ὁμολογοῦντες Ἰησοῦν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ, πάντα δὲ κατὰ νόμον πολιτευόμενοι. λ. Ἐβιωναῖοι, παραπλήσιοι τῶν προειρημένων Κηρινθιανῶν καὶ Ναζωραίων, οἷς συνήφθη κατά τι ἡ τῶν Σαμψαίων τε καὶ Ἑλκεσαίων αἵρεσις, οἳ Χριστόν φασιν ἐκτίσθαι ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ καὶ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα, ἐνδημήσαντα δὲ τὸν Χριστὸν ἐν τῷ Ἀδὰμ πρῶτον καὶ κατὰ καιρὸν ἐκδυόμενον αὐτὸν τὸν Ἀδὰμ καὶ πάλιν ἐνδυόμενον· τοῦτο γάρ φασιν ἐπιτετελεκέναι αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ ἐνσάρκῳ αὐτοῦ παρουσίᾳ. Ἰουδαῖοι δὲ ὄντες εὐαγγελίοις κέχρηνται, σαρκοφαγίαν βδελύττονται, τὸ ὕδωρ δὲ ἀντὶ θεοῦ ἔχουσι, τὸν δὲ Χριστὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐν τῇ ἐνσάρκῳ παρουσίᾳ ἐνδεδύσθαι, ὡς ἔφην. συνεχῶς δὲ βαπτίζονται ἐν τοῖς ὕδασι θέρους τε καὶ χειμῶνος, εἰς ἁγνισμὸν δῆθεν ὥσπερ οἱ Σαμαρεῖται. λα. Οὐαλεντῖνοι, οἳ σαρκὸς μὲν ἀπαγορεύουσιν ἀνάστασιν, παλαιὰν δὲ ἀθετοῦσι διαθήκην καὶ προφήτας ἀναγινώσκοντες μὲν καὶ ὅσα εἰς ὁμοίωσιν δύναται τροπολογεῖσθαι τῆς αὐτῶν αἱρέσεως δεχόμενοι, ἑτέρας δέ τινας μυθολογίας παρεισφέροντες, τριάκοντα αἰώνων ὀνομασίας λέγοντες ἀρρενοθηλείων, ὁμοῦ τε ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς τῶν ὅλων 1.237 γεγεννημένων, οὓς καὶ θεοὺς ἡγοῦνται καὶ αἰῶνας. τὸν δὲ Χριστὸν ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ σῶμα ἐνηνοχέναι καὶ ὡς διὰ σωλῆνος τὴν Μαρίαν διαπεπερακέναι.