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he dogmatizes, reviling all creation and the one who made it. But not in the same way as these did he introduce three principles, but one principle and one God, who is highest and unnameable, and that this one made another. And this one, he says, who came into being, being found wicked, made the world by his own depravity. 45 Severians. A certain Severus, again following Apelles, rejects wine, and mythologizes that the vine grew from the serpent-like Satan and the earth, when they came together with one another. And he rejects woman, saying that she belongs to the left-hand power. And he produces certain names of rulers and apocryphal books. And similarly to the others, he rejects the resurrection of the flesh and the Old Testament. 46 Tatianists. This Tatian flourished with Justin the most holy martyr and philosopher, but after the death of the holy Justin, he was corrupted by the doctrines of Marcion and dogmatized things equal to him, adding other things besides him. It was said that he came from Mesopotamia. These are the chapters of the three tomes of the first book concerning the forty-six heresies. -Recapitulation of the second book, fourth tome, in which there are 18 heresies. 47 Encratites, who being a splinter group of Tatian reject marriage, saying that it is of Satan, and prohibiting all eating of animate things. 48 The Cataphrygians and Montanists and Ascodrugites, who accept the Old and New Testament, but introduce other prophets, boasting in a certain Montanus and Priscilla. 49 Pepuzians, also called Quintillians, to whom the Artotyrites are joined, two heresies. They are from the Cataphrygians themselves, but they dogmatize other things besides them, deifying Pepuza, a certain deserted city between Galatia and Cappadocia and Phrygia and indeed considering it to be Jerusalem—and there is another Pepuza—and they give to women the right to rule and to be priests. And they initiate someone by piercing a young child with bronze needles, just like the Cataphrygians, and having mixed flour with his blood and made bread, they partake of it as an offering. And indeed they mythologize that Christ was revealed there in Pepuza to Quintilla or Priscilla in the form of a female. They likewise use the Old and New Testament, changing it according to their own understanding. 50 Quartodecimans. These celebrate the Passover on one day of the year, on whatever day the fourteenth of the moon might fall, whether on a Sabbath or on a Lord's day, and they celebrate that day by fasting and also keeping a vigil. 51 Alogi, so called by us, who reject the Gospel according to John and his Revelation because they do not accept the one who came from the Father being always God the Word. 52 Adamites, from a certain Adam living, so called, have their doctrine more from mockery than from truth. And it is something like this: Men and women gather together naked, as from their mother, and thus they perform the readings and the prayers and whatever else, supposedly being both solitaries and celibates and not accepting marriage, they consider their own church to be paradise. 53 Sampsaeans and Elkesaites, still to this day inhabiting the Arabia situated above the Dead Sea; who being deceived by a certain false prophet Elxai, whose female relatives Marthous and Marthina, worshipped by the heresy as goddesses, still existed to this day, having all things similarly to the Ebionites.

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δογματίζει, κακίζει τὴν πᾶσαν ποίησιν καὶ τὸν πεποιηκότα. Οὐχ ὁμοίως δὲ τούτοις τρεῖς ἀρχὰς ὑφηγήσατο, ἀλλὰ μίαν μὲν ἀρχὴν καὶ ἕνα θεὸν ὄντα ἀνώτατον καὶ ἀκατονόμαστον, τοῦτον δὲ τὸν ἕνα πεποιηκέναι ἄλλον. Καὶ οὗτος, φησίν, ὁ γεγονὼς πονηρὸς εὑρεθεὶς τῇ αὐτοῦ φαυλότητι τὸν κόσμον ἐποίησεν. 45 Σευηριανοί. Σευῆρός τις πάλιν τῷ Ἀπελλῇ ἐποχούμενος τὸν οἶνον ἀποβάλλεται καὶ τὴν ἄμπελον ἐκ τοῦ δρακοντοειδοῦς Σατᾶν καὶ γῆς μυθολογῶν πεφυκέναι, συνελθόντων ἀλλήλοις. Γυναῖκα δὲ παραιτεῖται φάσκων ἀριστερᾶς δυνάμεως αὐτὴν ὑπάρχειν. Ὀνομασίας δέ τινας ἀρχόντων καὶ βίβλους ἀποκρύφους παράγει. Ὁμοίως δὲ τοῖς ἄλλοις τὴν τῆς σαρκὸς ἀνάστασιν ἀθετεῖ καὶ παλαιὰν διαθήκην. 46 Τατιανοί. Τατιανὸς οὗτος συνήκμασεν Ἰουστίνῳ τῷ ἁγιωτάτῳ μάρτυρι καὶ φιλοσόφῳ, μετὰ δὲ τὴν τοῦ ἁγίου Ἰουστίνου τελευτὴν προσεφθάρη τοῖς τοῦ Μαρκίωνος δόγμασιν καὶ ἴσα αὐτῷ ἐδογμάτισεν προσθεὶς καὶ ἕτερα παρ' ἐκεῖνον. Ἐλέγετο δὲ ἀπὸ Μεσοποταμίας ὁρμᾶσθαι. Ταῦτα τὰ κεφάλαια τῶν τριῶν τοῦ πρώτου βιβλίου τόμων περὶ τῶν τεσσαράκοντα ἓξ αἱρέσεων. -Ἀνακεφαλαίωσις τοῦ δευτέρου βιβλίου τόμου τετάρτου, ἐν ᾧ εἰσιν αἱρέσεις ιηʹ. 47 Ἐγκρατῖται, οἳ ἀπόσπασμα τυγχάνοντες Τατιανοῦ τὸν γάμον ἀποβάλλονται, τοῦ Σατανᾶ φάσκοντες εἶναι τοῦτον, πᾶσαν δὲ ἀπαγορεύοντες ἐμψυχοφαγίαν. 48 Οἱ Καταφρυγαστῶν καὶ Μοντανιστῶν καὶ Ἀσκοδρουγγητῶν, οἵτινες παλαιὰν καὶ καινὴν διαθήκην δέχονται, ἑτέρους δὲ προφήτας παρεισάγοντες, Μοντανόν τινα αὐχοῦντες καὶ Πρίσκιλλαν. 49 Πεπουζιανοί, οἱ καὶ Κυϊντιλλιανοί, οἷς συνάπτονται Ἀρτοτυρῖται, αἱρέσεις δύο. Ἐξ αὐτῶν μέν εἰσι τῶν Καταφρυγαστῶν, ἕτερα δὲ παρ' ἐκείνους δογματίζουσι, Πέπουζαν πόλιν τινὰ ἔρημον ἀνὰ μέσον Γαλατίας καὶ Καππαδοκίας καὶ Φρυγίας ἐκθειάζοντες καὶ δὴ ταύτην Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἡγούμενοι-ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄλλη Πέπουζα-, γυναιξὶ δὲ ἀποδιδόντες τὸ ἄρχειν καὶ ἱερατεύειν. Μυοῦνται δέ τινα κατακεντοῦντες νέον παῖδα ῥαφίσι χαλκαῖς ὥσπερ οἱ Καταφρυγαστῶν καὶ τῷ αἵματι αὐτοῦ ἄλευρον φυράσαντες καὶ ἀρτοποιήσαντες προσφορὰν μεταλαμβάνουσι. Καὶ δὴ τῇ Κυϊντίλλῃ ἢ Πρισκίλλῃ Χριστὸν ἐκεῖσε ἐν Πεπούζῃ ἀποκεκαλύφθαι ἐν εἴδει θηλείας μυθολογοῦσι. Κέχρηνται δὲ ὡσαύτως παλαιᾷ καὶ καινῇ διαθήκῃ κατὰ τὸν νοῦν τὸν ἴδιον μεταποιούμενοι. 50 Τεσσαρεσκαιδεκατῖται. Οὗτοι μίαν ἡμέραν τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ τὸ πάσχα ἐκτελοῦντες, ἐν ὁποίᾳ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ ἐμπέσοι ἡ τῆς σελήνης τεσσαρεσκαιδεκαταία, ἤτοι ἐν σαββάτῳ ἤτοι ἐν κυριακῇ, ἐκείνην τε νηστεύοντες καὶ ἅμα ἀγρυπνοῦντες ἑορτάζουσιν. 51 Ἄλογοι, ἀφ' ἡμῶν κληθέντες, οἱ τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τὸ κατὰ Ἰωάννην ἀθετοῦντες καὶ τὴν Ἀποκάλυψιν αὐτοῦ διὰ τὸ τὸν ἐλθόντα ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸς θεὸν λόγον ὄντα ἀεὶ μὴ δέχεσθαι. 52 Ἀδαμιανοὶ παρά τινος Ἀδὰμ ζῶντος καλουμένου χλεύης μᾶλλον ἢ ἀληθείας τὸ δόγμα ἔχουσι. Γίνεται δέ τι τοιοῦτον· Γυμνοὶ συνάγονται ὡς ἐκ μητρὸς ἄνδρες καὶ γυναῖκες ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ καὶ οὕτως τὰς ἀναγνώσεις καὶ τὰς εὐχὰς καὶ πᾶν ὁτιοῦν ἐκτελοῦσι, δῆθεν μονάζοντές τε καὶ ἐγκρατευόμενοι καὶ γάμον μὴ δεχόμενοι τὴν ἑαυτῶν ἐκκλησίαν παράδεισον ἡγοῦνται. 53 Σαμψαῖοι καὶ Ἐλκεσαῖοι, ἔτι δεῦρο τὴν Ἀραβίαν κατοικοῦντες καθύπερθεν τῆς νεκρᾶς θαλάσσης κειμένην· οἵτινες ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἠλξαΐ τινος ψευδοπροφήτου ἠπατημένοι, οὗ ἔτι δεῦρο ἐκ τῆς συγγενείας ὑπῆρχεν Μαρθοῦς καὶ Μαρθῖνα γυναῖκες προσκυνούμεναι ὑπὸ τῆς αἱρέσεως ὡς θεαί, παραπλησίως τῶν Ἐβιωναίων τὰ πάντα ἔχοντες.