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:
The Semiarians, while they on the one hand confess Christ to be a creature, on the other hand captiously declare that He is not a creature like other creatures. ‘But, they say, ‘we do call him Son—yet we say that He is created, lest we attribute suffering to the Father because of His having begotten Him. In the same way they also definitely postulate a creature in the case of the Holy Ghost. They reject the ‘identity in substance’ of the Son and prefer to say ‘similarity in substance’. Some of them, however, have rejected the similarity in substance as well.
Ἡμιάρειοι: οἱ Χριστὸν μὲν κτίσμα ὁμολογοῦντες, εἰρωνείᾳ δὲ κτίσμα αὐτὸν φάσκοντες οὐχ ὡς ἓν τῶν κτισμάτων. Ἀλλά, φασίν, υἱὸν αὐτὸν λέγομεν, διὰ δὲ τὸ μὴ πάθος προσάψαι τῷ πατρὶ διὰ τοῦ γεγεννηκέναι κτιστὸν αὐτὸν λέγομεν. Ὡσαύτως καὶ περὶ τοῦ πνεύματος τοῦ ἁγίου κτίσμα παντελῶς ὁρίζονται, παρεκβάλλοντες τοῦ υἱοῦ τὸ ὁμοούσιον, ὁμοιούσιον δὲ θέλουσι λέγειν. Ἄλλοι δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν καὶ τὸ ὁμοιούσιον παρεξέβαλον.