Chapter XIV.—Tatian.
Tatian, however, similarly with Valentinus and the others, says that there are certain invisible Æons, and that by some one of these the world below has been created, and the things existing in it. And he habituates himself to a very cynical1031 The allusion here is to the shamelessness of the Cynics in regard to sexual intercourse. mode of life, and almost in nothing differs from Marcion, as appertaining both to his slanders, and the regulations enacted concerning marriage.
[18] Τατιανὸς δὲ παραπλησίως τῷ Οὐαλεντίνῳ καὶ τοῖς ἑτέροις φησὶν αἰῶνας εἶναί τινας ἀοράτους, ἐξ ὧν ὑπό τινος [τῶν] κάτω τὸν κόσμον δεδημιουργῆσθαι καὶ [πάντα] τὰ ὄντα. κυνικωτέρῳ δὲ βίῳ ἀσκεῖται [καὶ] σχεδὸν οὐδὲν Μαρκίωνος ἀπεμφαίνει πρὸς [τε] τὴν δυσφημίαν [κατά τε τῆς γεννήσεως] καὶ τῆς περὶ γάμων νομοθεσίας.