The Four Classes of Samaritans.
The Gorthenes celebrate their feasts at other times than Sebyaeans.
The Sebyaeans differ from the Gorthenes by reason of their feasts.
The Seven Heresies of the Jews.
Thus far the summary of the thirteen heresies contained in the second part of Book II.
The following belong to this third part, in which thirteen heresies are contained:
Thus far for the eighteen heresies of the fourth part of Book II.
The following five heresies are contained in the fifth part of Book II:
Thus far the five heresies of the fifth part of Book II.
The following seven heresies are contained in the first part of Book III:
Thus far similarly the seven heresies of the first part of Book III.
In the second part of Book III there are four heresies:
What is more, they also avoid manual labor as not befitting Christians. And they are especially inhuman in their treatment of the poor, declaring that it is not proper that they who have renounced all worldly goods or who are entirely devoted to the doing of. good should help public beggars, or abandoned widows, or those in straightened circumstances, or the mutilated, or the diseased, or those suffering from harsh creditors or from the incursions of thieves or barbarians, or such as have met with any misfortune of the sort. Rather, they say that they themselves should be furnished with everything, because they are the truly poor in spirit.
Ἔτι δὲ ἀποστρέφονται καὶ τὴν ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν ἐργασίαν ὡς οὐ πρέπουσαν χριστιανοῖς. Κατὰ μέρος δὲ καὶ τὴν περὶ τοὺς πτωχοὺς ἀπανθρωπίαν εἰσάγοντες φάσκοντες, ὡς οὐχὶ τοῖς δημοσίᾳ προσαιτοῦσιν ἢ ταῖς καταλελειμμέναις χήραις οὐδὲ τοῖς διαφόροις περιστάσεσι χρησαμένοις ἢ λώβῃ σωμάτων ἢ νόσοις ἢ πικροῖς δανεισταῖς ἢ λῃστῶν ἢ βαρβάρων ἐπιδρομαῖς ἤ τισι τοιαύταις συμφοραῖς περιπεπτωκόσιν ἐπαρκεῖν ἁρμόττον τοὺς ἀποταττομένους ἢ τοὺς ὅλως ἀγαθοεργεῖν ἀρχομένους, ἀλλ' αὐτοῖς ἅπαντα χορηγεῖν: ἑαυτοὺς γὰρ ἔφασκον εἶναι τοὺς ἀληθῶς πτωχεύοντας τῷ πνεύματι.