Book IX.
Contents.
The following are the contents of the ninth book of the Refutation of all Heresies:—
What the blasphemous folly is of Noetus, and that he devoted himself to the tenets of Heraclitus the Obscure, not to those of Christ.
And how Callistus, intermingling the heresy of Cleomenes, the disciple of Noetus, with that of Theodotus, constructed another more novel heresy, and what sort the life of this (heretic) was.
What was the recent937 What Hippolytus now states in regard of the opinions of Basilides, is quite new (compare Irenæus, i. 24; Clemens Alexandrinus, Strom., iii. and vii.; Tertullian, Præscript., xlvi.; Epiphanius, Hær., xxiv.; Theodoret, i. 4; Eusebius, Ecclesiast. Hist., iv. 7; and Philastrius, c. xxxii.). Abbe Cruice refers us to Basilidis philosophi Gnostici Sententiæ, by Jacobi (Berlin, 1852), and to Das Basilidianische System, etc., by Ulhorn (Gottingen, 1855). Matt. vii. 3, 4; Luke vi. 41, 42. Or, “fruitless;” or “unmeaning.” arrival (at Rome) of the strange spirit Elchasai, and that there served as a concealment of his peculiar errors his apparent adhesion to the law, when in point of fact he devotes himself to the tenets of the Gnostics, or even of the astrologists, and to the arts of sorcery.
What the customs of the Jews are, and how many diversities of opinion there are (amongst them).
[ΤΟΥ ΚΑΤΑ ΠΑΣΩΝ ΑΙΡΕΣΕΩΝ ΕΛΕΓΧΟΥ] Θ [Τ]άδε ἔνεστιν ἐν τῇ ἐννάτῃ τοῦ κατὰ πασῶν αἱρέσεων ἐλέγχου: Τίς ἡ Νοητοῦ βλάσφημος ἀφροσύνη, καὶ ὅτι [τοῖς] δόγμασιν Ἡρακλείτου τοῦ σκοτεινοῦ προσέσχεν, οὐ τοῖς Χριστοῦ. Καὶ πῶς Κάλλιστος, μίξας τὴν Κλεομένους, μαθητοῦ [τοῦ] Νοητοῦ, καὶ [τὴν] Θεοδότου αἵρεσιν, ἑτέραν καινοτέραν αἵρεσιν συνεστήσ[ατ]ο, καὶ τίς ὁ τούτου βίος. Τίς ἡ καινὴ ἐπιδημία τοῦ ξένου δαίμονος Ἠλχασαΐ, καὶ ὅτι [ἐστὶ] σκέπη τῶν ἰδίων σφαλμάτων τὸ δοκεῖν προσέχειν [τῷ] νόμῳ, τῷ δὲ ὄντι γνωστικοῖς δόγμασιν ἢ καὶ ἀστρολογικοῖς καὶ μαγείαις πρόσκειται. Τίνα τὰ [παρὰ] Ἰουδαίοις ἔθη, καὶ πόσαι τούτων διαφοραί.