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of men, and they introduced abstinence from what they call animate things, being ungrateful to the God who made all things, and they contradict 4.29.3 the salvation of the first-formed man. And this has now been invented among them by a certain Tatian, who was the first to introduce this blasphemy; who, having been a hearer of Justin, as long as he was with him, brought forth nothing of this kind, but after his martyrdom he fell away from the church, puffed up and blinded by the conceit of being a teacher, as if he were superior to the rest, he established his own type of school, inventing certain invisible aeons, like those of Valentinus, and declaring marriage to be corruption and fornication, similarly to Marcion and Saturninus, and making his own denial of the salvation of Adam». 4.29.4 These things Irenaeus wrote then; but a little later, a certain Severus by name, having strengthened the aforementioned heresy, became the cause for those who came from it of the designation Severians, derived from him. 4.29.5 These, then, use the Law and the Prophets and the Gospels, interpreting in their own way the sense of the sacred Scriptures; but they blaspheme Paul the apostle and set aside his epistles, not even accepting the Acts of the Apostles. 4.29.6 However, their former leader, Tatian, having composed I know not how a certain combination and collection of the Gospels, named this The Diatessaron, which is still current among some even now; and they say that he dared to alter some expressions of the apostle, as if correcting the composition of their style. 4.29.7 This man has left behind a great number of writings, of which his celebrated discourse, To the Greeks, is especially mentioned by many, in which, mentioning ancient times, he showed that Moses and the Hebrew prophets were earlier than all the renowned men among the Greeks; and this indeed seems to be the finest and most useful of all his writings. And such were the things concerning these men; 4.30.1 In the same reign, when heresies were abounding in Mesopotamia, Bardesanes, a most able man and most skillful in the Syriac tongue, having composed dialogues against the Marcionites and certain others who were leaders of different doctrines, committed them to his own language and script, along with very many other of his writings; these his pupils, who were very many for him as he was powerful in argument, have translated 4.30.2 from the Syriac to the Greek tongue. Among which is also his most able dialogue on fate addressed to Antoninus, and as many other things as they say he wrote on the occasion of the persecution at that time. 4.30.3 He had formerly belonged to the school of Valentinus, but having condemned it and refuted much of its mythology, he seemed somehow to himself to have passed over to the more orthodox opinion, yet he did not completely wash away the filth of his former heresy. At this time, moreover, Soter, the bishop of the church of the Romans, died. 5.pin.t Ε And the fifth book of the Ecclesiastical History contains these things: 5.pin.1 Α How many, and in what manner, under Verus, in Gaul, endured the contest for piety. Β How the God-loving martyrs healed and welcomed those who had fallen in the persecution. Γ What kind of vision appeared to the martyr Attalus in a dream. Δ How the martyrs commended Irenaeus by letter. Ε How God, hearing the prayers of our people, sent rain from heaven for Marcus Aurelius Caesar. A list of those who were bishops in Rome. Ζ How even up to that time, miraculous powers were at work through the faithful. Η How Irenaeus mentions the divine Scriptures. Θ The bishops under Commodus. Ι Concerning Pantaenus the philosopher. ΙΑ Concerning Clement of Alexandria. ΙΒ Concerning the bishops in Jerusalem. ΙΓ Concerning Rhodo and the dissension against Marcion which he mentioned. ΙΔ

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ἀνθρώπων πεποιηκότος, καὶ τῶν λεγομένων παρ' αὐτοῖς ἐμψύχων ἀποχὴν εἰσηγήσαντο, ἀχαριστοῦντες τῷ πάντα πεποιηκότι θεῷ, ἀντιλέ4.29.3 γουσί τε τῇ τοῦ πρωτοπλάστου σωτηρίᾳ. καὶ τοῦτο νῦν ἐξευρέθη παρ' αὐτοῖς Τατιανοῦ τινος πρώτως ταύτην εἰσενέγκαντος τὴν βλασφημίαν· ὃς Ἰουστίνου ἀκροατὴς γεγονώς, ἐφ' ὅσον μὲν συνῆν ἐκείνῳ, οὐδὲν ἐξέφηνεν τοιοῦτον, μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἐκείνου μαρτυρίαν ἀποστὰς τῆς ἐκκλησίας, οἰήματι διδασκάλου ἐπαρθεὶς καὶ τυφωθεὶς ὡς διαφέρων τῶν λοιπῶν, ἴδιον χαρακτῆρα διδασκαλείου συνεστήσατο, αἰῶνάς τινας ἀοράτους ὁμοίως τοῖς ἀπὸ Οὐαλεντίνου μυθολογήσας γάμον τε φθορὰν καὶ πορνείαν παραπλησίως Μαρκίωνι καὶ Σατορνίνῳ ἀναγορεύσας, τῇ δὲ τοῦ Ἀδὰμ σωτηρίᾳ παρ' ἑαυτοῦ τὴν ἀντιλογίαν ποιησάμενος». 4.29.4 ταῦτα μὲν ὁ Εἰρηναῖος τότε· σμικρῷ δὲ ὕστερον Σευῆρός τις τοὔνομα κρατύνας τὴν προδεδηλωμένην αἵρεσιν, αἴτιος τοῖς ἐξ αὐτῆς ὡρμημένοις τῆς ἀπ' αὐτοῦ παρηγμένης Σευηριανῶν προση 4.29.5 γορίας γέγονεν. χρῶνται μὲν οὖν οὗτοι νόμῳ καὶ προφήταις καὶ εὐαγγελίοις, ἰδίως ἑρμηνεύοντες τῶν ἱερῶν τὰ νοήματα γραφῶν· βλασφημοῦντες δὲ Παῦλον τὸν ἀπόστολον, ἀθετοῦσιν αὐτοῦ τὰς ἐπιστολάς, μηδὲ τὰς Πράξεις τῶν ἀποστόλων καταδεχόμενοι. 4.29.6 ὁ μέντοι γε πρότερος αὐτῶν ἀρχηγὸς ὁ Τατιανὸς συνάφειάν τινα καὶ συναγωγὴν οὐκ οἶδ' ὅπως τῶν εὐαγγελίων συνθείς, Τὸ διὰ τεσσάρων τοῦτο προσωνόμασεν, ὃ καὶ παρά τισιν εἰς ἔτι νῦν φέρεται· τοῦ δ' ἀποστόλου φασὶ τολμῆσαί τινας αὐτὸν μεταφράσαι φωνάς, ὡς ἐπιδιορθούμενον αὐτῶν τὴν τῆς φράσεως σύνταξιν. 4.29.7 καταλέλοιπεν δὲ οὗτος πολύ τι πλῆθος συγγραμμάτων, ὧν μάλιστα παρὰ πολλοῖς μνημονεύεται διαβόητος αὐτοῦ λόγος ὁ Πρὸς Ἕλληνας, ἐν ᾧ καὶ τῶν ἀνέκαθεν χρόνων μνημονεύσας, τῶν παρ' Ἕλλησιν εὐδοκίμων ἁπάντων προγενέστερον Μωυσέα τε καὶ τοὺς Ἑβραίων προφήτας ἀπέφηνεν· ὃς δὴ καὶ δοκεῖ τῶν συγγραμμάτων ἁπάντων αὐτοῦ κάλλιστός τε καὶ ὠφελιμώτατος ὑπάρχειν. καὶ τὰ μὲν κατὰ τούσδε τοιαῦτα ἦν· 4.30.1 ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς αὐτῆς βασιλείας, πληθυουσῶν τῶν αἱρέσεων ἐπὶ τῆς Μέσης τῶν ποταμῶν, Βαρδησάνης, ἱκανώτατός τις ἀνὴρ ἔν τε τῇ Σύρων φωνῇ διαλεκτικώτατος, πρὸς τοὺς κατὰ Μαρκίωνα καί τινας ἑτέρους διαφόρων προϊσταμένους δογμάτων διαλόγους συστησάμενος τῇ οἰκείᾳ παρέδωκεν γλώττῃ τε καὶ γραφῇ μετὰ καὶ πλείστων ἑτέρων αὐτοῦ συγγραμμάτων· οὓς οἱ γνώριμοι πλεῖστοι δὲ ἦσαν αὐτῷ δυνατῶς τῷ λόγῳ παρισταμένῳ ἐπὶ 4.30.2 τὴν Ἑλλήνων ἀπὸ τῆς Σύρων μεταβεβλήκασι φωνῆς. ἐν οἷς ἐστιν καὶ ὁ πρὸς Ἀντωνῖνον ἱκανώτατος αὐτοῦ περὶ εἱμαρμένης διάλογος ὅσα τε ἄλλα φασὶν αὐτὸν προφάσει τοῦ τότε διωγμοῦ 4.30.3 συγγράψαι. ἦν δ' οὗτος πρότερον τῆς κατὰ Οὐαλεντῖνον σχολῆς, καταγνοὺς δὲ ταύτης πλεῖστά τε τῆς κατὰ τοῦτον μυθοποιίας ἀπελέγξας ἐδόκει μέν πως αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ ἐπὶ τὴν ὀρθοτέραν γνώμην μετατεθεῖσθαι, οὐ μὴν καὶ παντελῶς γε ἀπερρύψατο τὸν τῆς παλαῖας αἱρέσεως ῥύπον. ἐν τούτῳ γε μὴν καὶ ὁ τῆς Ῥωμαίων ἐκκλησίας ἐπίσκοπος Σωτὴρ τελευτᾷ. 5.pin.t Ε Τάδε καὶ ἡ πέμπτη περιέχει βίβλος τῆς Ἐκκλησιαστικῆς ἱστορίασ 5.pin.1 Α Ὅσοι καὶ ὅπως κατὰ Οὐῆρον ἐπὶ τῆς Γαλλίας τὸν ὑπὲρ τῆς εὐσεβείας διεξῆλθον ἀγῶνα. Β Ὡς οἱ θεοφιλεῖς μάρτυρες τοὺς ἐν τῷ διωγμῷ διαπεπτωκότας ἐθεράπευον δεξιούμενοι. Γ Ὁποῖα τῷ μάρτυρι Ἀττάλῳ δι' ὀνείρου γέγονεν ἐπιφάνεια. ∆ Ὅπως οἱ μάρτυρες τὸν Εἰρηναῖον δι' ἐπιστολῆς παρετίθεντο. Ε Ὡς Μάρκῳ Αὐρηλίῳ Καίσαρι ταῖς τῶν ἡμετέρων εὐχαῖς οὐρανόθεν ὁ θεὸς ἐπακούσας ὗσεν. Τῶν ἐπὶ Ῥώμης ἐπισκοπευσάντων κατάλογος. Ζ Ὡς καὶ μέχρι τῶν τότε καιρῶν διὰ τῶν πιστῶν δυνάμεις ἐνηργοῦντο παράδοξοι. Η Ὅπως ὁ Εἰρηναῖος τῶν θείων μνημονεύει γραφῶν. Θ Οἱ κατὰ Κόμοδον ἐπισκοπεύσαντες. Ι Περὶ Πανταίνου τοῦ φιλοσόφου. ΙΑ Περὶ Κλήμεντος τοῦ Ἀλεξανδρέως. ΙΒ Περὶ τῶν ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἐπισκόπων. ΙΓ Περὶ Ῥόδωνος καὶ ἧς ἐμνημόνευσεν κατὰ Μαρκίωνα διαφωνίας. Ι∆