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again existing in God above, as reason in the heart of a man. For these things are of the demon's madness and have all the characteristics of denying God. 9. Having approved these few things against his heresy as being well *. For their force is not difficult nor unable to be overturned by all the prudent. Wherefore, having cut out the roots of his thorns with the proclamation and mind of the truth, and having quenched the venom, so to speak, and having exposed his poison, having invoked the helper 3.13, the Father with the Son, who truly is, and the Son truly begotten in his own hypostasis, and his Holy Spirit, being a Spirit in his own hypostasis, and * the salvation of the economy of the incarnate dispensation, through the trophy over death, I mean the cross, having crushed the head of this question of the new Jews, let us go on to what follows, O beloved. For a certain snake called Dryinas resembles this heresiarch; as the dryinas is said to be a snake, but it lurks most constantly among the grasses or also oaks; for this reason it is also called dryinas, from its being a tree-lover and assimilating itself among the leaves thrown from the trees to the greenness of each one. the animal is not so painful, but if it persists, it causes death. For so also this one and the heresy from him likens itself to the number of the faithful, clothed with the name of Christ, but having taken up the mindset of the Jews, confessing Christ as the Word, but thinking that this one is not, and is not ashamed to parade himself in many things; whose seeming teaching, but which is error, having trampled under the sandal of Christ and with the medical scalpel of the Gospel having lanced those who were bitten and having purged the venom from them, to the narration of what follows, as I said before, we shall come. - - - Against the Manichaeans, 40, but of the sequence, 60. 1. Manichaeans, who are also called Acuanites, because of a certain veteran who came from Mesopotamia, called Acuas, who brought to Eleutheropolis this 3.14 treatise of this poison, these at that time preached in their life, a great evil for the world, rising up after the heresy of Sabellius; for these came into being in the times of the emperor Aurelian, about the fourth year of his reign. And this heresy is much talked of and spoken of in many parts of the earth, receiving from a certain Manes, as I said, its spread in parts of the earth. And this Manes hailed from the land of the Persians. first being called Cubricus, but having given himself the name of Manes, 3.15 perhaps I think from the economy of God drawing to himself the manic name. And as he himself thought, according to the language of the Babylonians he supposedly gave himself the name "vessel"; for the name Manes, being translated from Babylonian to Greek, signifies "vessel"; but as the truth shows, he possesses the epithet of madness (mania), by which the wretched man was thunderstruck to sow evil teaching in the world. And this Cubricus was the slave of a certain widow, who dying childless left to him an incomparable multitude of possessions, of gold and silver and perfumes and other things. And she herself had 3.16 the succession of the inheritance from a certain Terebinthus, he too having been a slave, but renamed Buddas according to the Assyrian language, who himself also was a slave of a certain Scythianus. hailing from Saracenia, but having been brought up in the borders of Palestine, that is, in Arabia. This Scythianus, having been educated in the aforementioned places in the language of the Greeks and the learning of their letters, became clever concerning the vain opinions of the world. And always setting his course to the land of the Indians for the sake of business, he carried on much trade. from where, having acquired many things in the

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πάλιν ἐν θεῷ ὑπάρχοντα ἄνω, ὡς ἐν καρδίᾳ ἀνθρώπου λόγος. ταῦτα γὰρ τῆς τοῦ δαίμονος ἐμβροντήσεώς ἐστι καὶ ἐπαρνησιθεΐας πάσης ἔχοντα τοὺς χαρακτῆρας. 9. Ταῦτα δὲ τὰ ὀλίγα πρὸς τὴν τούτου αἵρεσιν καλῶς ἔχειν δοκιμάσαντες *. οὐ δυσχερὴς γὰρ ἡ τούτων δύναμις οὔτε μὴ δυναμένη ὑπὸ πάντων συνετῶν ἀνατρέπεσθαι. διὸ καὶ τούτου τὰς ῥίζας τῶν ἀκανθῶν ἐκτεμόντες τῷ τῆς ἀληθείας κηρύγματι καὶ φρονήματι καὶ τὸν ἰὸν ὡς εἰπεῖν ἀποσβέσαντες καὶ τὸ δηλητήριον τούτου ὑποδείξαντες, τὸν ἀρωγὸν 3.13 ἐπικεκλημένοι σὺν υἱῷ πατέρα, τὸν ὄντως ὄντα καὶ υἱὸν ὄντως ἐνυπόστατον γεγεννημένον καὶ τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ, πνεῦμα ὂν ἐνυπόστατον, καὶ * σωτήριον τῆς οἰκονομίας τῆς ἐνσάρκου πραγματείας, διὰ τοῦ τροπαίου τοῦ κατὰ θανάτου, τοῦ σταυροῦ φημι, τὴν κεφαλὴν τούτου ῥήξαντες τοῦ ζητήματος τῶν νέων Ἰουδαίων, ἐπὶ τὰς ἑξῆς ἴωμεν, ὦ ἀγαπητοί. ∆ρυΐνας γάρ τις ἔχις οὕτω καλουμένη τούτῳ ἔοικε τῷ αἱρεσιάρχῃ· ὡς δρυΐνας λέγεται μὲν εἶναι ἔχις, παρὰ δὲ τὰς πόας ἢ καὶ δρύας ἐμφωλεύει συνεχέστατα· διὸ καὶ δρυΐνας καλεῖται, ἀπὸ τοῦ φιλόδενδρον αὐτὸ εἶναι καὶ ἑαυτὸ παρεικάζειν ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ἐκ τῶν δένδρων ῥιπτομένων φύλλων τῇ ἑκάστου χλωρότητι. οὐ τοσοῦτον δὲ εἶναι ὀδυνηρὸν τὸ ζῷον, ἐὰν δὲ ἐπιμείνῃ, θάνατον ἐμποιεῖν. οὕτως γὰρ καὶ οὗτος καὶ ἡ ἀπ' αὐτοῦ αἵρεσις πιστῶν ἀριθμῷ ἑαυτὸν ἀπεικάζεται, Χριστοῦ μὲν ὄνομα ἐνδεδυμένος, Ἰουδαίων δὲ τὸ φρόνημα ἐπανῃρημένος, Λόγον Χριστὸν ὁμολογῶν, οὐκ ὄντα δὲ τοῦτον διανοούμενος, καὶ ἐν πολλοῖς ἑαυτὸν θριαμβεύων οὐκ αἰσχύνεται· οὗ καὶ τὴν δοκοῦσαν διδασκαλίαν, πλάνην δὲ οὖσαν, ἐν τῷ ὑποδήματι τοῦ Χριστοῦ καταπεπατηκότες καὶ τῇ σμίλῃ τῇ ἰατρικῇ τοῦ εὐαγγελίου τοὺς δεδηγμένους ἀμύξαντες τόν τε ἰὸν ἀπ' αὐτῶν ἐκκρίναντες, ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν ἑξῆς διήγησιν, ὡς προεῖπον, ἐλευσόμεθα. - - - Κατὰ Μανιχαίων ˉμˉ, τῆς δὲ ἀκολουθίας ˉξˉ. 1. Μανιχαῖοι, οἱ καὶ Ἀκουανῖται λεγόμενοι, διά τινα οὐέτρανον ἀπὸ τῆς μέσης τῶν ποταμῶν ἐλθόντα, Ἀκούαν οὕτω καλούμενον, ἐν τῇ Ἐλευθεροπόλει ἐνέγκαντα ταύτην τὴν τοῦ δηλητηρίου τούτου πραγ3.14 ματείαν, οὗτοι κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν ἐκεῖνον τῷ βίῳ αὐτῶν ἐκήρυξαν, μέγα τῷ κόσμῳ κακὸν μετὰ τὴν Σαβελλίου ἐπαναστάντες αἵρεσιν· ἐν χρόνοις γὰρ οὗτοι Αὐρηλιανοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως γεγόνασι, περὶ ἔτος τέταρτον τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας. ἔστι δὲ ἡ αἵρεσις αὕτη πολυθρύλητος καὶ ἐν πολλοῖς μέρεσι τῆς γῆς φημιζομένη, ἐκ Μάνη τινός, ὡς ἔφην, λαβοῦσα τὸ πλατυνθῆναι ἐν μέρεσι τῆς γῆς. Μάνης δὲ οὗτος ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν Περσῶν ὡρμᾶτο γῆς. Κούβρικος μὲν τὸ πρῶτον καλούμενος, ἐπονομάσας δὲ ἑαυτῷ τοῦ Μάνη ὄνομα, 3.15 τάχα οἶμαι ἐκ τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ οἰκονομίας τὸ μανιῶδες ἑαυτῷ ἐπισπασάμενος ὄνομα. καὶ ὡς μὲν αὐτὸς ᾤετο, κατὰ τὴν τῶν Βαβυλωνίων γλῶτταν δῆθεν σκεῦος ἑαυτῷ τὸ ὄνομα ἐπέθετο· τὸ γὰρ Μάνη ἀπὸ τῆς Βαβυλωνίας εἰς τὴν Ἑλληνίδα μεταφερόμενον σκεῦος ὑποφαίνει τοὔνομα· ὡς δὲ ἡ ἀλήθεια ὑποφαίνει, τῆς μανίας τὸ ἐπώνυμον κέκτηται, δι' ἣν ἐνεβροντήθη ὁ ἐλεεινὸς τῷ κόσμῳ ὑποσπεῖραι κακοδιδασκαλίαν. ἦν δὲ οὗτος ὁ Κούβρικος χήρας τινὸς δοῦλος, ἥτις ἄπαις τελευτήσασα κατέλειψεν αὐτῷ χρημάτων ἀσυνείκαστον πλῆθος, χρυσοῦ τε καὶ ἀργύρου καὶ ἀρωμάτων καὶ ἄλλων. καὶ αὐτὴ δὲ τῆς κληρονομίας τὴν διαδοχὴν 3.16 ἔσχεν ἐκ Τερβίνθου τινός, δούλου καὶ αὐτοῦ ὑπάρξαντος, μετονομασθέντος δὲ Βουδδᾶ κατὰ τὴν τῶν Ἀσσυρίων γλῶτταν, ὃς καὶ αὐτὸς δοῦλος ὑπῆρχε Σκυθιανοῦ τινος. ἀπὸ τῆς Σαρακηνίας ὁρμωμένου, κατὰ δὲ τὰ τέρματα τῆς Παλαιστίνης τουτέστιν ἐν τῇ Ἀραβίᾳ, ἀνατραφέντος. οὗτος ὁ Σκυθιανὸς ἐν τοῖς προειρημένοις τόποις παιδευθεὶς τὴν Ἑλλήνων γλῶσσαν καὶ τὴν τῶν γραμμάτων αὐτῶν παιδείαν δεινός τε γέγονε περὶ τὰ μάταια τοῦ κόσμου φρονήματα. ἀεὶ δὲ στελλόμενος τὴν πορείαν ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν Ἰνδῶν χώραν πραγματείας χάριν πολλὴν ἐμπορίαν ἐποιεῖτο. ὅθεν πολλὰ κτησάμενος ἐν τῷ