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more excellent than his disciples, such as Peter and Paul and the rest of the apostles; and that these are in no way inferior to Jesus. And that their souls, coming from the super-eminent power Ep. of the same sphere, and for this reason likewise despising l. c. Int. despising the world-makers, have been deemed worthy of the same power, and again depart to the same place. And if anyone should despise the things here more than he did, he could be more excellent than him. 1.20.2 Therefore, practicing magical arts and incantations, both love-potions and charms, and familiars and dream-senders and the other wicked practices, claiming to have power to rule even over the rulers and makers of this world, and not only them, but also all the things made in it, who also themselves, for the slander of the divine name of the Church, were put forth l. as also the Gentiles by Satan, so that men, hearing their doctrines in one way or another, and thinking that we are all such, may turn their ears away from the preaching of the truth, adj. or even seeing their deeds may blaspheme us all. And they say that souls are transmigrated to such an extent until they have fulfilled all sins; and when nothing is lacking, then, having been freed, it departs to that God who is above the world-making angels, and thus all souls will be saved. But if any, having managed in one coming to be mixed up with all sins, are no longer transmigrated, but having paid all their debts at once, they will be freed from being in a body any longer. 1.20.3 And whether the godless, and lawless, and forbidden things are practiced among them, I would not believe. But in their writings it is so recorded, and they themselves so explain it, saying that Jesus spoke in a mystery to his disciples and apostles in private, and deemed them worthy to hand these things down to the worthy and to those who obey. For one is saved through faith and love; but the other things, being indifferent, according to the opinion of men, are considered in some places good, in others evil, with nothing being evil by nature. 1.20.4 Some of these also brand their own disciples on the back parts of the lobe of the right ear .... and they also make .... images of Christ, saying that one was made by Pilate at that time ... 1.21.1 A certain CERINTHUS, himself also trained in the education of the Egyptians, said that the world was not made by the first suppl. God, but by a certain power that was separated, suppl. and distant from that authority which is over all things, and which was ignorant of the God who is over all. And he supposed that Jesus was not born of a virgin, but that he was the son l. son of Joseph and Mary, in the same way as all other men, and that he was more just Int. and more prudent and wiser. And that after his baptism, the Christ l. from that authority which is over all things, descended upon him in the form of a dove; and that he then preached the known l. unknown Father, and performed mighty works, but at the end, the Christ departed from Jesus, and Jesus suffered and was raised, but the Christ remained impassible, being paternal l. spiritual. But the EBIONITES confess that the world was made by the true God; but concerning Christ they tell myths similarly to Cerinthus and Carpocrates. And a certain CERDON, having taken his starting-points from the school of Simon, and having come to stay in Rome in the time of Hyginus, who held the ninth place in the episcopal succession from the apostles, taught that the God proclaimed by the law and the prophets was not the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. For the one was to be known Hipp. was known, but the other was unknowable Hipp. unknown; and the one was just, but the other was good. SUCCEEDING him, however, Marcion of Pontus expanded the school, blaspheming shamelessly. From Saturninus and Marcion, those called Encratites preached abstinence from marriage, setting aside the ancient creation of God, and quietly

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διαφορωτέρους τῶν ἐκείνου μαθητῶν, οἷον Πέτρου καὶ Παύλου καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν ἀποστόλων· τούτους δὲ κατὰ μηδένα ἀπολείπεσθαι τοῦ Ἰησοῦ. Τὰς δὲ ψυχὰς αὐτῶν ἐκ τῆς ὑπερκειμένης ἐξουσίας Ep. τῆς αὐτῆς περιφορᾶς παρούσας, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ὡσαύτως καταφρονεῖν l. c. Int. καταφρονοῦσας τῶν κοσμοποιῶν διὰ τῆς αὐτῆς ἠξιῶσθαι δυνάμεως, καὶ αὖθις εἰς τὸ αὐτὸ χωρῆσαι. Εἰ δέ τις ἐκείνου πλέον καταφρονήσειεν τῶν ἐνταῦθα, δύνασθαι διαφορώτερον αὐτοῦ ὑπάρχειν. 1.20.2 Τεχνὰς οὖν μαγικὰς ἐξεργαζόμενοι καὶ ἐπαοιδὰς, φίλτρα τε καὶ χαριτήσια, παρέδρους τε καὶ ὀνειροπόμπους καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ κακουργήματα, φάσκοντες ἐξουσίαν ἔχειν πρὸς τὸ κυριεύειν ἤδη τῶν ἀρχόντων καὶ ποιητῶν τοῦδε τοῦ κόσμου, οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἐν αὐτῷ ποιημάτων ἁπάντων, οἵτινες καὶ αὐτοὶ εἰς διαβολὴν τοῦ θείου τῆς Ἐκκλησίας ὀνόματος, πρὸς l. ὡς καὶ τὰ ἔθνη ὑπὸ τοῦ Σατανᾶ προεβλήθησαν, ἵνα κατ' ἄλλον καὶ ἄλλον τρόπον τὰ ἐκείνων ἀκούοντες ἄνθρωποι, καὶ δοκοῦντες ἡμᾶς πάντας τοιούτους ὑπάρχειν, ἀποστρέφουσι τὰς ἀκοὰς αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ τῆς ἀληθείας κηρύγματος, adj. ἢ καὶ βλέποντες τὰ ἐκείνων ἅπαντας ἡμᾶς βλασφημοῦσιν. Εἰς τοσοῦτον δὲ μετενσωματοῦσθαι φάσκουσι τὰς ψυχὰς, ὅσον πάντα τὰ ἁμαρτήματα πληρώσωσιν· ὅταν δὲ μηδὲν λείπῃ, τότε ἐλευθερωθεῖσαν ἀπαλλαγῆναι πρὸς ἐκεῖνον τὸν ὑπεράνω τῶν κοσμοποιῶν ἀγγέλων Θεὸν, καὶ οὕτως σωθήσεσθαι πάσας τὰς ψυχάς. Εἴ τινες δὲ φθάσασαι ἐν μίᾳ παρουσίᾳ ἀναμιγῆναι πάσαις ἁμαρτίαις οὐκέτι μετενσωματοῦνται, ἀλλὰ πάντα ὁμοῦ ἀποδοῦσαι τὰ ὀφλήματα, ἐλευθερωθήσονται τοῦ μηκέτι γενέσθαι ἐν σώματι. 1.20.3 Καὶ εἰ μὲν πράσσεται παρ' αὐτοῖς τὰ ἄθεα, καὶ ἔκθεσμα, καὶ ἀπειρημένα, ἐγὼ οὐκ ἂν πιστεύσαιμι. Ἐν δὲ τοῖς συγγράμμασιν αὐτῶν οὕτως ἀναγέγραπται, καὶ αὐτοὶ οὕτως ἐξηγοῦνται, τὸν Ἰησοῦν λέγοντες ἐν μυστηρίῳ τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀποστόλοις κατ' ἰδίαν λελαληκέναι, καὶ αὐτοὺς ἀξιῶσαι, τοῖς ἀξίοις καὶ τοῖς πειθομένοις ταῦτα παραδιδόναι. ∆ιὰ πίστεως γὰρ καὶ ἀγάπης σώζεσθαι· τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ ἀδιάφορα ὄντα, κατὰ τὴν δόξαν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, πῆ μὲν ἀγαθὰ, πῆ δὲ κακὰ νομίζεσθαι, οὐδενὸς φύσει κακοῦ ὑπάρχοντος. 1.20.4 Τούτων τινὲς καὶ καυτηριάζουσι τοὺς ἰδίους μαθητὰς ἐν τοῖς ὀπίσω μέρεσι τοῦ λοβοῦ τοῦ δεξιοῦ ὠτός .... καὶ εἰκόνας δὲ .... κατασκευάζουσι τοῦ Χριστοῦ, λέγοντες ὑπὸ Πιλάτου τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ γενέσθαι ... 1.21.1 ΚΗΡΙΝΘΟΣ δέ τις, καὶ αὐτὸς Αἰγυπτίων παιδείᾳ ἀσκηθεὶς, ἔλεγεν οὐχ ὑπὸ τοῦ πρώτου suppl. Θεοῦ γεγονέναι τὸν κόσμον, ἀλλ' ὑπὸ δυνάμεως τινὸς κεχωρισμένης, suppl. καὶ ἀπεχούσης τῆς ὑπὲρ τὰ ὅλα ἐξουσίας, καὶ ἀγνοούσης τὸν ὑπὲρ πάντα Θεόν. Τὸν δὲ Ἰησοῦν ὑπέθετο μὴ ἐκ παρθένου γεγενῆσθαι, γεγονέναι δὲ αὐτὸν ἐξ Ἰωσὴφ καὶ Μαρίας οἷον l. υἱὸν, ὁμοίως τοῖς λοιποῖς ἅπασιν ἀνθρώποις, καὶ δικαιότερον γεγονέναι Int. καὶ φρονιμώτερον καὶ σοφώτερον. Καὶ μετὰ τὸ βάπτισμα κατελθεῖν εἰς αὐτὸν τὸν l. ἀπὸ τῆς ὑπὲρ τὰ ὅλα αὐθεντίας, τὸν Χριστὸν ἐν εἴδει περιστερᾶς· καὶ τότε κηρῦξαι τὸν γνωστὸν l. ἄγνωστον πατέρα, καὶ δυνάμεις ἐπιτελέσαι, πρὸς δὲ τῷ τέλει, ἀποστῆναι τὸν Χριστὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, καὶ τὸν Ἰησοῦν πεπονθέναι καὶἐγηγέρθαι, τὸν δὲ Χριστὸν ἀπαθῆ διαμεμενηκέναι πατρικὸν l. πνευματικὸν ὑπάρχοντα. ἘΒΙΩΝΑΙΟΙ δὲ ὁμολογοῦσι τὸν κόσμον ὑπὸ τοῦ ὄντως Θεοῦ γεγονέναι· τὰ δὲ περὶ τὸν Χριστὸν ὁμοίως τῷ Κηρίνθῳ καὶ Καρποκράτει μυθεύουσι. ΚΕΡ∆ΩΝ δέ τις ἀπὸ τῶν περὶ τὸν Σίμωνα τὰς ἀφορμὰς λαβὼν, καὶ ἐπιδημήσας ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ ἐπὶ Ὑγίνου, ἔνατον κλῆρον τῆς ἐπισκοπικῆς διαδοχῆς ἀπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων ἔχοντος, ἐδίδαξε τὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ νόμου καὶ προφητῶν κεκηρυγμένον Θεὸν, μὴ εἶναι Πατέρα τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. Τὸν μὲν γὰρ γνωρίζεσθαι Hipp. ἐγνῶσθαι, τὸν δὲ ἀγνῶτα Hipp. ἄγνωστον εἶναι· καὶ τὸν μὲν δίκαιον, τὸν δὲ ἀγαθὸν ὑπάρχειν. ∆ΙΑ∆ΕΞΑΜΕΝΟΣ δὲ αὐτὸν Μαρκίων ὁ Ποντικὸς, ηὔξησε τὸ διδασκαλεῖον, ἀπηρυθριασμένως βλασφημῶν. Ἀπὸ Σατορνίνου καὶ Μαρκίωνος οἱ καλούμενοι ἐγκρατεῖς, ἀγαμίαν ἐκήρυξαν, ἀθετοῦντες τὴν ἀρχαίαν πλάσιν τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ἠρέμα