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85 The Agnoetae, also called Themistians, who impiously declare that Christ was ignorant of the day of judgment and who record his cowardice. These are an offshoot of the Theodosians; for Themistius, who became their heresiarch, advocated one composite nature in Christ. 86 The Barsanuphians, also called Semidalites, are of the same opinion as the Gaianites and the Theodosians, but they have something more; for they add fine wheat flour to what was supposedly offered by Dioscorus, and touching it with the tip of their finger, they taste the flour, and they receive this in place of the mystery, making no oblation at all. For having abandoned the communions of Dioscorus, as has been said, they add the fine wheat flour, as it was nearly used up, and this has been considered by them as communion. 87 The Hiketai, who are ascetics, being orthodox in all other things, but gathering together with female ascetics in monasteries, they offer hymns to God with a kind of choral dance and leaping, as if imitating that choir formed in the time of Moses over the destruction of the Egyptians which occurred in the Red Sea. 88 The Gnosimachi, who oppose all knowledge of Christianity, in that they say that those who seek out certain kinds of knowledge in the divine scriptures do something superfluous; for God seeks nothing else from a Christian except good deeds. It is therefore better for one to proceed more simply and not to meddle with any doctrine of gnostic study. 89 The Heliotropites, who say that the so-called heliotropic plants, which turn with the rays of the sun, have a certain divine power which works such turnings in them, and that because of this they wish to honor them, not understanding that their revealed motion is something natural. 90 The Thnetopsychites, who introduce the human soul as being like that of the beasts, and who say that it perishes along with the body. 91 The Agonyclites, who at every time of their prayers do not wish to bend the knee, but always standing, they make their prayers. 92 The Theocatagnostae, also called Blasphemers, who in certain words and deeds of our master God and of the holy persons dedicated to him and of the divine scriptures attempt to find fault, being certain audacious and blasphemous people. 93 The Christolytae, who say that our Lord Jesus Christ, after the resurrection from the dead, left his ensouled body below, and with his divinity alone ascended into the heavens. 94 The Ethnophrones, who follow the customs of the gentiles, while being Christians in other respects, who introduce genesis and fortune and fate, accepting all astronomy and astrology, and all divination and augury, and omens and averting rites and divinations by sounds and observation of portents and incantations, and similar things and other myths of the impious, holding to the remaining customs of the gentiles, and honoring certain Hellenic feasts, and again observing days and months and seasons and years. 95 The Donatici, having begun from a certain Donatus in Africa, who handed down to them a certain bone, that holding this in their hand, they should first kiss it, and then partake of the offering of the holy things, when these are about to be offered. 96 The Ethicoproscoptae, who stumble in the ethical, that is, the practical, and certain things

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85 Ἀγνοῆται, οἱ καὶ Θεμιστιανοί, οἱ ἀγνοεῖν ἀσεβῶς καταγγέλοντες τὸν Χριστὸν τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς κρίσεως καὶ δειλίαν αὐτοῦ καταγράφοντες. Οὗτοι δὲ ἀπόσχισμα τῶν Θεοδοσιανῶν εἰσιν· ὁ γὰρ Θεμίστιος, ὃς ἐγένετο αὐτῶν αἱρεσιάρχης, μίαν ἐπὶ Χριστοῦ φύσιν σύνθετον ἐπρέσβευεν. 86 Βαρσανουφῖται, οἱ καὶ Σεμιδαλῖται, σύμφρονες μὲν τῶν Γαϊανιτῶν καὶ τῶν Θεοδοσιανῶν, ἔχουσι δέ τι καὶ πλέον· σεμίδαλιν γὰρ προστιθέασι τοῖς ἀπὸ ∆ιοσκόρου δῆθεν προσκομισθεῖσι καὶ τῷ ἄκρῳ δακτύλῳ ἐφαπτόμενοι γεύονται τοῦ ἀλεύρου καὶ τοῦτ' ἀντὶ μυστηρίου δέχονται προσκομιδὴν καθόλου μὴ ποιούμενοι. Ἐάσαντες γὰρ τάς, ὡς εἴρηται, ∆ιοσκόρου κοινωνίας προστιθέασι τὴν σεμίδαλιν, καθότε δαπανηθείη παρὰ βραχύ, καὶ τοῦτ' αὐτοῖς ἀντὶ κοινωνίας λελόγισται. 87 Ἡϊκέται, οἵτινες ἀσκηταὶ μὲν ὑπάρχουσιν, ὀρθόδοξοι ἐν τοῖς ἄλλοις ἅπασιν ὄντες, συναγόμενοι δὲ ἅμα γυναιξὶν ἀσκητρίαις ἐν μοναστηρίοις ὕμνους τῷ θεῷ προσφέρουσι μετὰ χορείας τινὸς καὶ ὀρχήσεως, μιμούμενοι ὡσανεὶ τὸν χορὸν ἐκείνων ἐπὶ Μωσέως συστάντα ἐπὶ τῇ ἀπωλείᾳ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων τῇ ἐν τῇ ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ γεγονυίᾳ. 88 Γνωσιμάχοι, οἱ πάσῃ γνώσει τοῦ χριστιανισμοῦ ἀντιπίπτοντες ἐν τῷ λέγειν αὐτούς, ὅτι περισσόν τι ποιοῦσιν οἱ γνώσεις τινὰς ἐκζητοῦντες ἐν ταῖς θείαις γραφαῖς· οὐδὲν γὰρ ἄλλο ζητεῖ ὁ θεὸς παρὰ χριστιανοῦ εἰ μὴ πράξεις καλάς. Ἀγαθὸν οὖν ἐστι μᾶλλον ἁπλουστέρως τινὰ πορεύεσθαι καὶ μηδὲν δόγμα γνωστικῆς πραγματείας πολυπραγμονεῖν. 89 Ἡλιοτροπῖται, οἱ τὰς λεγομένας ἡλιοτροπίους βοτάνας ταῖς ἀκτῖσι τοῦ ἡλίου συμπεριφερομένας λέγοντες δύναμίν τινα θείαν ἔχειν, τὴν τὰς τοιαύτας περιφορὰς ἐργαζομένην ἐν αὐταῖς, καὶ ὡς διὰ τοῦτο τιμᾶν αὐτὰς ἐθέλοντας, μὴ συνιέντες τὴν μηνυθεῖσαν κίνησιν αὐτῶν φυσικήν τινα ὑπάρχειν. 90 Θνητοψυχῖται, οἱ τὴν ἀνθρωπείαν ψυχὴν εἰσάγοντες ὁμοίαν τῆς τῶν κτηνῶν καὶ τῷ σώματι λέγοντες συναπόλλυσθαι αὐτήν. 91 Ἀγονυκλῖται, οἱ ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ τῶν προσευχῶν αὐτῶν γόνυ μὴ θέλοντες κλίνειν, ἀλλ' ἑστῶτες ἀεὶ τὰς προσευχὰς ποιούμενοι. 92 Θεοκαταγνῶσται, οἱ καὶ Βλάσφημοι, οἱ ἔν τισι λόγοις καὶ πράγμασι τοῦ δεσπότου ἡμῶν θεοῦ τῶν τε ἀνακειμένων αὐτῷ ἁγίων προσώπων καὶ τῶν θείων γραφῶν πειρώμενοι καταγινώσκειν, τολμηροί τινες καὶ βλάσφημοι ὑπάρχοντες. 93 Χριστολύται, οἱ λέγοντες τὸν κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν μετὰ τὴν ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀνάστασιν τὸ ἔμψυχον σῶμα αὐτοῦ κάτω λελοιπέναι καὶ γυμνῇ τῇ θεότητι ἀνεληλυθέναι εἰς τοὺς οὐρανούς. 94 Ἐθνόφρονες, οἱ ταῖς συνηθείαις τῶν ἐθνῶν ἐπακολουθοῦντες, χριστιανοὶ τἄλλα ὑπάρχοντες, οἵτινες παρεισάγουσι γένεσιν καὶ τύχην καὶ εἱμαρμένην, πᾶσάν τε τὴν ἀστρονομίαν καὶ ἀστρολογίαν παραδεχόμενοι καὶ πᾶσαν μαντείαν καὶ ὀρνιθοσκοπίαν, καὶ οἰωνισμοῖς καὶ ἀποτροπιασμοῖς καὶ κληδονισμοῖς καὶ τερατοσκοπίαις καὶ ἐπαοιδαῖς καὶ τοῖς ὁμοίοις αὐτῶν καὶ ἑτέροις μύθοις ἀσεβῶν τῇ τε λοιπῇ συνηθείᾳ τῶν ἐθνῶν προσανέχοντες καὶ ἑορτάς τινας Ἑλληνικὰς τιμῶντες ἡμέρας τε αὖθις καὶ μῆνας καὶ καιροὺς καὶ ἐνιαυτοὺς παρατηρούμενοι. 95 ∆ονατικοί, ἀπὸ ∆ονάτου τινὸς ἐν τῇ Ἀφρικῇ ἐναρξάμενοι, τοῦ παραδεδωκότος αὐτοῖς ὀστοῦν τι, ἐπὶ τῆς χειρὸς αὐτῶν κρατοῦντας τοῦτο πρότερον ἀσπάζεσθαι καὶ τηνικαῦτα τῆς προσφορᾶς τῶν ἁγιασμάτων μετέχειν, ἡνίκα μέλλει ταῦτα προσκομίζεσθαι. 96 Ἠθικοπροσκόπται, οἱ ἐν τῇ ἠθικῇ ἤγουν πρακτικῇ προσκόπτοντες καὶ ἔνια