Book of Heresies 102.1–114.2
Latin text: Marx, CSEL 38 (1898) (Latin text: F. Marx, CSEL 38 (1898), digitized by Open Greek and Latin (csel-dev, University of Leipzig), CC BY-SA 4.0).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Chapter 102
102.1CSEL 38:61
Alia est heresis quae terrae motum non dei iussione et indignatione fieri, sed de natura ipsa elementorum opinatur, cum ignorat quid dicat scriptura: Qui conspicit, inquit, terram, et eam commouet terrae motu. Et iterum adhuc: Ego mouebo caelum et terram.
Another heresy holds that earthquakes take place not by God's command and indignation but from the very nature of the elements, not knowing what Scripture says: “Who looks upon the earth,” it says, “and shakes it with earthquake.” And again further: “I will move heaven and earth.”
Ps 104:32 (103:32 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Hag 2:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Some deny that earthquakes come from God.
- Ps 104:32 (103:32 LXX/Vulg.); Hag 2:6.
Topics: Heresy, Providence
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 102.1 (CSEL 38:61; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/102-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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102.2CSEL 38:61
Non adtendentes dei potentiam, elementorum naturae audent adscribere potentiae motionem, ut quidam filosofi uaniloqui, qui rerum naturae hoc adscribentes dei potentiam non cognouerunt,
Not attending to the power of God, they dare to ascribe motion to the power of the nature of the elements, like certain idly talking philosophers, who, ascribing this to the nature of things, did not know the power of God,
Notes and citation
Summary: Philosophers ascribe earthquakes to nature.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 102.2 (CSEL 38:61; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/102-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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102.3CSEL 38:61
quod etiam in huiusmodi rebus indignatio dei et potentia operatur et suam commouet creaturam conuersionis causa et utilitatis quippe multorum peccantium ac redeuntium ad dominum saluatorem atque creatorem.
that in such things too the indignation and power of God works and moves his creation, for the sake of the conversion and indeed the benefit of many who sin and return to the Lord, the Saviour and Creator.
Notes and citation
Summary: God moves creation to bring sinners to repentance.
Topics: Providence
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 102.3 (CSEL 38:61; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/102-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 103
103.1CSEL 38:61–62
Alia est heresis quae secundum paganorum uanitatem siderum diuersa nomina profitetur, ut Hermes ille Trismegistus, qui uanus potius quam magnus iudicandus est, et poetae quidam ei consimiles, qui cometas et pogonias et Hyadas, Haedos, et alia huiusmodi adserunt nomine delirantes, cum scriptura pauca nomina siderum nobis edixerit dicente Iob beato propheta, ante quam pagani e sanctis scripturis siderum nomina transtulissent.
Another heresy, following the vanity of the pagans, professes various names of the stars, like that Hermes Trismegistus, who is to be judged vain rather than great, and certain poets like him, who, raving, assert comets and bearded stars and the Hyades, the Kids, and other names of this kind; whereas Scripture has told us few names of stars, as blessed Job the prophet says, before the pagans transferred the names of the stars from the holy Scriptures.
Notes and citation
Summary: Scripture gives few names of stars; pagans multiplied them.
Extrabiblical texts: Corp. herm. (Hermetic writings; allusion)
Topics: Heresy, Magic, divination, and astrology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 103.1 (CSEL 38:61–62; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/103-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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103.2CSEL 38:62
Dicit enim ipse Iob: Qui fecit Pliadas et Arcturum, inquit, et Hesperum et thesaurum austri et Oriona et Luciferum. Haec itaque nomina e sanctis scripturis accipimus nuntiata una: omnium siderum nomina non dixit scriptura, sed potestati dei reseruauit per prophetam declarans et dicens ita: Qui numerat multitudinem stellarum, et omnibus eis nomina uocans.
For Job himself says: “Who made the Pleiades and Arcturus,” he says, “and Hesperus and the treasury of the south and Orion and Lucifer.” These names, then, we receive as announced together from the holy Scriptures: Scripture did not give the names of all the stars, but reserved them to the power of God, declaring through the prophet and saying thus: “Who numbers the multitude of the stars, and calls them all by name.”
Job 9:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Job 38:31–32 (allusion, medium confidence) · Ps 147:4 (146:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Job names a few stars; God alone names them all.
- Job 9:9 (with Job 38:31–32); Ps 147:4 (146:4 LXX/Vulg.).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip (l for I)): ipse lob → ipse Iob; Fliadas → Pliadas.
Topics: Magic, divination, and astrology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 103.2 (CSEL 38:62; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/103-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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103.3CSEL 38:62
Haec itaque pauca nomina legentes e sanctis scripturis poetae postea falsique filosofi ausi sunt usurpantes suis mendaciis et alia plurima copulare atque impietatis semina saeculo praedicare, ut ex his sperare putarent etiam omnium siderum aut plurimorum nomina posse conprehendere, cum omnium siderum nomina non alter nisi deus Christus, per quem fecit pater uniuersa, posuerit et scierit, atque eis singula nomina uocauerit, ut scriptum est.
Reading these few names in the holy Scriptures, the poets and false philosophers afterwards dared, usurping them, to join very many others to their lies and to preach the seeds of impiety to the world, so that they thought they could hope from these to comprehend the names of all or most of the stars; whereas no one but God, Christ, through whom the Father made all things, has set and known the names of all the stars and called each by name, as it is written.
Ps 147:4 (146:4 LXX) (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Only Christ, the creator, knows the names of all the stars.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark): saeculo. praedicare → saeculo praedicare.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 103.3 (CSEL 38:62; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/103-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 104
104.1CSEL 38:62
Alia est heresis quae de lingua et linguis ambigit, cum scriptura dicat et unam linguam et linguas. Si ergo erat una ante, quia pauci erant, siue postea multae, quia multi creuerant iam nati homines in saeculo. non est adeo inutile hoc ita sentire.
Another heresy is in doubt about tongue and tongues, since Scripture speaks both of one tongue and of tongues. If, then, there was one before, because people were few, or later many, because many men had already grown up, born into the world, it is not so useless to think this.
Gen 11:1 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Scripture speaks of one language and of many.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 104.1 (CSEL 38:62; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/104-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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104.2CSEL 38:62–63
Post quintam decimam enim generationem ab Adam usque ad sanctum Heber duo milia et septingenti anni sunt, sub quo confusio missa est linguarum, propter peccatum quod fecerant aedificantes turrem et ciuitatem, et ut rebellantes a deo hoc passi sunt.
For after the fifteenth generation from Adam to holy Eber there are two thousand seven hundred years, under whom the confusion of tongues was sent, because of the sin they had committed in building the tower and the city, and they suffered this as rebels against God.
Gen 11:4–9 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The confusion of tongues came in Eber's time because of Babel.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark): ciuitatem,. et → ciuitatem, et; passi sunt.! → passi sunt..
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 104.2 (CSEL 38:62–63; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/104-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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104.3CSEL 38:63
Habentes enim angelicam gratiam, id est multarum linguarum scientiam, non agnoscebant datorem tantae sapientiae dominum, contraque eum conantes progredi perdiderant gratiam, quam sine quodam labore diuinitus habebant concessam et quod sine studio ante donatum fuerat a domino et naturaliter omnibus, ut dei imagini.
For, having an angelic grace, that is, the knowledge of many tongues, they did not recognize the Lord as the giver of such great wisdom, and, trying to advance against him, they lost the grace which they had been granted from God without any labour, and what had been given before by the Lord without study and naturally to all, as to the image of God.
Notes and citation
Summary: The builders of Babel lost the God-given knowledge of all tongues.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark): progredi! → progredi.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 104.3 (CSEL 38:63; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/104-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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104.4CSEL 38:63
Postea uero per studium et doctrinam, obliuione inmissa a domino, uix discere praeualebant non omnes, nec multas, sed uix paucas linguas, ita ut tres quis aut quattuor ualeret ediscere, atque isdem uix eloqui.
But afterwards, through study and teaching, since forgetfulness had been sent by the Lord, not all could scarcely learn, nor many tongues, but scarcely a few, so that one could learn three or four and scarcely speak them.
Notes and citation
Summary: After Babel languages had to be learned with effort.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (punctuation slip): non omnes. nec → non omnes, nec.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 104.4 (CSEL 38:63; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/104-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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104.5CSEL 38:63
Adtamen omnem scientiam linguarum, quam ante duo milia annorum et septingentos annos offendentes amiserant homines, sub beatis apostolis rursum post ascensionem suam dominus per sanctum spiritum sine quodam labore credentibus conferebat, sicut scriptum est in Actibus apostolorum.
Nevertheless, the whole knowledge of tongues which men had lost by offending two thousand seven hundred years before, the Lord, after his ascension, conferred again under the blessed apostles on believers through the Holy Spirit without any labour, as it is written in the Acts of the apostles.
Acts 2:4–11 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: At Pentecost the Lord restored the gift of tongues.
Topics: Spiritual gifts and visions
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 104.5 (CSEL 38:63; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/104-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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104.6CSEL 38:63
Angelicae enim uirtutis est linguas scire omnium hominum: per fidem autem Christi sine labore linguarum omnium credentibus subministratur scientia, sicut legimus, docente diuino spiritu apostolos atque gentes itidem credentes tunc temporis in Christum dominum saluatorem sine labore linguarum omnium donatam scientiam praedicasse,
For it belongs to angelic power to know the tongues of all men; but through faith in Christ the knowledge of all tongues is supplied to believers without labour, as we read that, the divine Spirit teaching, the apostles and likewise the gentiles who then believed in Christ the Lord the Saviour proclaimed the knowledge of all tongues given without labour,
Notes and citation
Summary: Faith in Christ gives the angelic knowledge of tongues.
Topics: Spiritual gifts and visions
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 104.6 (CSEL 38:63; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/104-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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104.7CSEL 38:63–64
ut sub Petro et Paulo et aliis factum est, cum docerent gentes uenisse spiritum dei a deo: et linguis multis eos potuisse eloqui, ut audientes homines mirarentur de gentibus, quod tantarum linguarum et ipsi per fidem Christi scientiam haberent sine doctrina concessam.
as happened under Peter and Paul and others, when they taught that the Spirit of God had come from God upon the gentiles, and that they could speak in many tongues, so that the men who heard marvelled at the gentiles, that they too through faith in Christ had the knowledge of so many tongues granted without teaching.
Acts 10:44–46 (allusion, high confidence) · Acts 19:6 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Gentile believers too received the gift of tongues.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray marks): Paulo || et → Paulo et.
Topics: Spiritual gifts and visions
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 104.7 (CSEL 38:63–64; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/104-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 105
105.1CSEL 38:64
Alia est heresis quae dicit nomen linguae de Iudaeis primum processisse, alii de paganis, cum utrique hoc ita sentientes errore non paruo decepti sunt. Homo enim factus rationis particeps fuit: *** qui ergo loquebatur ratione, quomodo rationis erat alienus?
Another heresy says that the name of language proceeded first from the Jews, others from the pagans, though both, thinking thus, were deceived by no small error. For man, when made, was a sharer in reason: … he, then, who spoke by reason, how was he a stranger to reason?
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Some say the name of language came first from the Jews or the pagans.
- The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 105.1 (CSEL 38:64; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/105-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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105.2CSEL 38:64
Plus ergo prius rationis est esse participem, et rationabilem dici, quam nomen speciale et locale habere alicuius linguae atque ex nomine hominis possidere aliquid. Ab Adam enim usque ad Heber duo milia et septingenti anni transierant.
To share in reason and be called rational, then, comes before having a special and local name of some language and possessing anything from a man's name. For from Adam to Eber two thousand seven hundred years had passed.
Notes and citation
Summary: Reason came before any named language.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 105.2 (CSEL 38:64; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/105-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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105.3CSEL 38:64
Erat ergo nomen linguae omnium hominum unum et una lingua. Ex quo autem contra deum cogitauerunt, subtracta est eis illa caelestis scientia, id est linguarum omnium. prudentia et sapientia. Et Heber quidem sanctus quia non discessit a deo secundum nomen ipsius, deus uoluit genus eius pullulare amplius hocque nomine primum in saeculo nuncupari, ut ab Heber, qui non consenserat aedificationi turris rebellantium, Hebrei nomine appellarentur.
So the name of the language of all men was one, and there was one tongue. But from the time that they plotted against God, that heavenly knowledge, that is, of all tongues, prudence and wisdom, was taken from them. And because holy Eber did not depart from God, according to his name, God willed that his race should multiply more, and be the first in the world to be called by this name, so that from Eber, who had not consented to the building of the rebels' tower, they should be called by the name of Hebrews.
Gen 11:1 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 10:21 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Hebrews are named after Eber, who did not join the builders of Babel.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 105.3 (CSEL 38:64; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/105-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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105.4CSEL 38:64
Prior itaque non solum paganis, uerum etiam et Iudaeis, id est ante septingentos annos Heber fuisse cognoscitur iustissimus, qui in deum credens et a coniuratione sceleratorum hominum separatus sui nominis primam hanc a domino nuncupationem meruit impetrare.
So the most righteous Eber is known to have been earlier not only than the pagans but also than the Jews, that is, seven hundred years before; believing in God and separated from the conspiracy of wicked men, he deserved to obtain from the Lord this first naming after his own name.
Notes and citation
Summary: Eber preceded both pagans and Jews.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark): credens! → credens.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 105.4 (CSEL 38:64; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/105-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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105.5CSEL 38:64–65
Unde et poetae uani aedificationem illam ad sua mendacia transferentes gigantas docuerunt, Haloidas illos rebellantes ascendere uoluisse in caelum per inpositionem montium usque: inde eos fuisse damnatos. Quorum deliramenta non latuerunt amplius scientiam ac peritiam Christianam.
Hence the vain poets too, transferring that building to their own lies, taught of the giants, that those Aloadae, rebelling, wished to climb into heaven by piling mountains up, and were therefore condemned. Their ravings did not remain hidden any longer from Christian knowledge and skill.
Notes and citation
Summary: The poets' myth of the giants piling mountains derives from Babel.
- The Aloadae, Otus and Ephialtes (Homer, Od. 11.305–320).
Extrabiblical texts: Homer, Od. 11.305-320 (Homer, Odyssey; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 105.5 (CSEL 38:64–65; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/105-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 106
106.1CSEL 38:65
Alia est heresis de anno adnuntiato ambigens, quod ait propheta Esaias: Adnuntiare annum dei acceptabilem, et diem retributionis. Putant ergo quidam quod ex quo uenit dominus usque ad consummationem saeculi non plus non minus fieri annorum numerum nisi trecentorum sexaginta quinque usque ad Christi domini iterum de caelo diuinam praesentiam. Quod contrarium inuenitur, si ita quis senserit.
Another heresy is in doubt about the year announced, as the prophet Isaiah says: “To proclaim the acceptable year of God and the day of recompense.” So some think that from the time the Lord came until the end of the age there will be neither more nor less than the number of three hundred and sixty-five years, until the divine presence of Christ the Lord again from heaven. This is found contrary to fact if one thinks so.
Isa 61:2 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Some reckon 365 years from Christ's coming to the end.
- Isa 61:2.
Topics: Heresy, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 106.1 (CSEL 38:65; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/106-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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106.2CSEL 38:65
Nam quadringentos iam et plus annos transisse cognoscimus <et), ex quo uenit dominus, fuisse completos. Quomodo itaque hoc erit rationis de anno, sicut sentire uoluerunt hoc ita quam plurimi?
For we know that four hundred years and more have already passed <and> been completed since the Lord came. How then will this reasoning about the year hold, as very many have wished to think so?
Notes and citation
Summary: More than four hundred years have already passed.
- The angle brackets around et are the editor's supplement.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 106.2 (CSEL 38:65; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/106-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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106.3CSEL 38:65
Dominus enim quae in uno anno gessit et docuit, haec sola praecepit conscribi, non quae ante facta sunt ab eo ac dicta primis XXX annis secundum beatum Iohannem, qui dicit mundum non capere posse, si uniuersa scriberentur quae fecerat.
For the Lord commanded that only what he did and taught in one year should be written down, not what was done and said by him before in the first thirty years, according to blessed John, who says that the world could not contain them if all that he had done were written.
John 21:25 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Only Christ's one year of ministry was written down.
- John 21:25.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): annoli → anno.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 106.3 (CSEL 38:65; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/106-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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106.4CSEL 38:65
Propheta itaque Esaias de anno illo dixit saluatoris domini in quo docuit usque ad passionem et resurrectionem et ascensionem in caelum, sicuti et <apostoli> beatissimi tradiderunt, non de trecentis sexaginta quinque annis, ut quidam arbitrantur, sed de anno illo post baptismum scilicet, in quo praedicans credentibus salutis mysteria reserabat de lege pariter et prophetis quae olim dicta sunt testando atque consummando.
So the prophet Isaiah spoke of that year of the Lord the Saviour in which he taught up to his passion, resurrection and ascension into heaven, as the most blessed <apostles> too handed down, not of three hundred and sixty-five years, as some think, but of that year after his baptism, in which, preaching to believers, he opened the mysteries of salvation, bearing witness to and fulfilling what was said of old in the law and the prophets alike.
Isa 61:2 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Isaiah's “year” is the one year of Christ's ministry.
- The angle brackets around apostoli are the editor's supplement.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 106.4 (CSEL 38:65; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/106-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 107
107.1CSEL 38:65–66
Alia est heresis quae consummationem saeculi secundum temporum definitionem a deo Christo saluatore non fuisse statutam adserunt hincque certum esse numerum consummationis suspicantur, et non plus non minus opinantur, cum prophetae undique nuntiauerint circa quingentesimum annum fieri consummationem saeculi, et sic dominum de caelis iterum aduenire.
Another heresy asserts that the end of the age has not been appointed by God, Christ the Saviour, according to a definition of times, and supposes from this that the number of the end is certain, and holds neither more nor less, although the prophets everywhere announced that the end of the age would come about the five hundredth year, and so the Lord would come again from heaven.
Notes and citation
Summary: Philastrius disputes reckonings of the end and appeals to a period of about five hundred years.
- The argument of 107.1–15 is obscure; it is translated as printed.
Topics: Heresy, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 107.1 (CSEL 38:65–66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/107-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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107.2CSEL 38:66
Danihel enim LXX septimanas numerat, audiens a Christo domino: Audi, inquit, uir desideriorum quia septuaginta septimanae statutae sunt in populum tuum usque ad Christum ducem, ut fiant omnia quae dicta sunt de ciuitate Hierusalem et populo aduentura.
For Daniel numbers seventy weeks, hearing from Christ the Lord: “Hear,” he says, “man of desires, that seventy weeks are appointed for your people until Christ the leader, so that all things may happen that were said would come upon the city of Jerusalem and the people.”
Dan 9:23–25 (quotation, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel's seventy weeks lead to Christ.
- A free form of Dan 9:23–25.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 107.2 (CSEL 38:66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/107-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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107.3CSEL 38:66
Hoc autem sicuti ante quam ueniret Christus in carnem Danihelo dictum est et paene conpletum est, sic etiam idem numerus et post incorporationem domini *** usque ad legem quam accepit Moses et usque ad terrae promissae introitum inuenies non satis longe a quingentesimo annorum distare numero.
As this was said to Daniel before Christ came in the flesh and was almost fulfilled, so too the same number after the Lord's incarnation … up to the law which Moses received and up to the entry into the promised land, you will find not far distant from the number of five hundred years.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: A similar number of years runs after the incarnation.
- The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”); the sense is unclear.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 107.3 (CSEL 38:66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/107-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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107.4CSEL 38:66
Dominus itaque cum signa diceret diuersa, fames, persecutiones, inundationes, terrae motus, pestilentias circa finem aduentura, Petro etiam dixit beato per aenigma de annorum numerositate.
So the Lord, when he spoke of various signs coming near the end — famines, persecutions, floods, earthquakes, pestilences — also spoke to blessed Peter in a riddle about the number of years.
Matt 24:7 (allusion, high confidence) · Luke 21:11 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ foretold signs of the end and spoke to Peter in a riddle.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 107.4 (CSEL 38:66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/107-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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107.5CSEL 38:66
Cum diceret Petrus: Domine quoties peccanti fratri concedam? ait dominus: Non septies, sed septuagies
When Peter said: “Lord, how often shall I forgive a brother who sins?” the Lord said: “Not seven times, but seventy times
Matt 18:21–22 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Peter asked how often to forgive.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 107.5 (CSEL 38:66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/107-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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107.6CSEL 38:66
(septies>, ostendens quidem et cottidianorum humani generis delictorum infinitum numerum debere homini dimitti ab homine et Iudaeo redeunti siue pagano, et aliis carnalibus et ad Christi fidem de impietate redeuntibus atque eius ecclesiam catholicam, cunctis omne debitum ab eis oportere concedi credentibus.
<seven>,” showing indeed that the infinite number of the daily sins of the human race ought to be forgiven to a man by a man, both to a Jew who returns and to a pagan, and that to others, carnal people returning from impiety to the faith of Christ and his catholic church, all debt ought to be forgiven to all believers by them.
Notes and citation
Summary: Seventy times seven means unlimited forgiveness.
- The angle brackets around septies are the editor's supplement.
Topics: Ethics, Forgiveness of sins
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 107.6 (CSEL 38:66; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/107-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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107.7CSEL 38:66–67
Nam et historiografi Iudaei docuerunt dicentes a Danihelo quadringentos et octoginta plus annos transisse et sic dominum aduenisse in carnem. Habes etiam in Genesi euidentissime mysterium nuntiatum, de Cain septies, de Lamech autem septuagies septies uindictam: quo duorum populorum in duobus personis unius impietatem, alterius iniquitatem sine cunctatione ** scripturam praenuntiasse non dubium est.
For the Jewish historians too taught, saying that from Daniel four hundred and eighty and more years passed, and so the Lord came in the flesh. You also have the mystery announced most plainly in Genesis: vengeance sevenfold for Cain, but seventy times seven for Lamech; in which it is not doubtful that Scripture foretold without hesitation … the impiety of one and the iniquity of the other of the two peoples in two persons.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Gen 4:24 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The vengeance of Cain and Lamech prefigures two peoples.
- Gen 4:24. The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Iud?ei → Iudaei.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 107.7 (CSEL 38:66–67; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/107-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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107.8CSEL 38:67
Lex enim spiritalis est, secundum apostolum, et haec, inquit, duo testamenta sunt. Neque enim historiam amittimus, quod LXX annos fecerit populus in Persida, neque spiritalem scientiam spernimus. Ergo et septuaginta septimanae a Danihelo dictae quadringenti nonaginta anni tunc paene completi sunt, et sic Christus aduenit in carnem: et a Christi praesentia usque ad consummationem saeculi paene eundem complendum annorum reperies numerum.
For the law is spiritual, according to the apostle, and “these,” he says, “are two covenants.” For we neither lose the history, that the people spent seventy years in Persia, nor despise the spiritual knowledge. So the seventy weeks spoken by Daniel, four hundred and ninety years, were then almost completed, and so Christ came in the flesh; and from Christ's presence to the end of the age you will find almost the same number of years to be completed.
Rom 7:14 (allusion, high confidence) · Gal 4:24 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Daniel's 490 years led to Christ, and a similar span leads to the end.
- Rom 7:14; Gal 4:24.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 107.8 (CSEL 38:67; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/107-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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107.9CSEL 38:67
Septuaginta enim septimanas, Danihel quas uidit, interpretes docuerunt illi primi sapientes, septem esse septuagies id est quadringentos nonaginta annos *** quem iubeleum in lege Iudaei — non isti, sed ueteres et periti illi — < id est annum remissionis Christi et indulgentiae, ** carnalem praesentiam per figuram ante celebrantes, summo gaudio expectabant, sicut in Leuitico continetur. Iubeleus enim minor quinquaginta annos habet non minus:
For those first wise interpreters taught that the seventy weeks which Daniel saw are seven times seventy, that is, four hundred and ninety years …, which jubilee in the law the Jews — not these, but those of old who were skilled — <that is, the year of Christ's remission and pardon, … celebrating beforehand in figure his bodily presence, awaited with the highest joy, as is contained in Leviticus. For the lesser jubilee has fifty years, not less:
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Lev 25:8–12 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The seventy weeks are 490 years, linked with the jubilee.
- Lev 25:8–12. The asterisks mark gaps in the text (“…”).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letter): habet t non → habet non.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 107.9 (CSEL 38:67; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/107-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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107.10CSEL 38:67–68
plus autem habere non potest; nam maior iubeleus quingentos annos habet *** minor iubeleus quinquaginta. Maior itaque minus decem quingentos annos habet, ut ex hoc iubeleus unus Christi praesentiam consummationemque saeculi declararet.
but it cannot have more; for the greater jubilee has five hundred years … the lesser jubilee fifty. So the greater has five hundred years less ten, so that from this one jubilee might declare Christ's presence and the end of the age.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: A greater jubilee of about five hundred years marks Christ's coming and the end.
- The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 107.10 (CSEL 38:67–68; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/107-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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107.11CSEL 38:68
Septuaginta anni < de > captiuitate populi in Persida etsi historialiter accipiuntur, et postquam redierunt in Hierusalem et usque ad Christi domini incarnationem quingenti paene inueniuntur completi, tamen hoc etiam spiritaliter intellegendum est, quod post septuagies septem, id est post quadringentos et circa nonaginta annos oportet Iudaeos... sub antichristo, cum fallax inuentus fuerit a Iudaeis ipsis, qui primum esse Christum aestimauerint.
Although the seventy years <of> the people's captivity in Persia are taken historically, and from their return to Jerusalem to the incarnation of Christ the Lord almost five hundred are found completed, yet this too is to be understood spiritually, that after seventy times seven, that is, after four hundred and about ninety years, the Jews must … under the Antichrist, when he has been found a deceiver by the Jews themselves, who will at first have thought him to be the Christ.
Notes and citation
Summary: Spiritually, the period ends with the Jews deceived by the Antichrist.
- The dots are in the digital text; something is lost.
Topics: Eschatology, Antichrist
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 107.11 (CSEL 38:68; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/107-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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107.12CSEL 38:68
Non multo post autem cognita eius perfidia atque fallacia, tunc gerentes paenitudinem qui fuerint reliqui, omnes ad Christi fidem domini peruolabunt, ac paenitentes delicta, ueniam ab ipso Christo domino sicut ceteri impetrabunt, ut impleatur quod dictum est:
But not long after, when his perfidy and deceit have been recognized, then those who remain will repent and all will fly to the faith of Christ the Lord, and, repenting of their sins, will obtain pardon from Christ the Lord himself like the rest, so that what was said may be fulfilled:
Notes and citation
Summary: The remnant of Israel will then turn to Christ.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 107.12 (CSEL 38:68; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/107-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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107.13CSEL 38:68
Amen dico uobis, iam me non uidebitis, donec dicatis: Benedictus qui uenit in nomine domini; et ut illud compleatur: Donec plenitudo gentium intret, et sic omnis Israhel saluabitur, sicut scriptum est; et: Si fuerit populus Israhel sicut arena maris, reliqui saluabuntur.
“Amen I say to you, you will not see me again until you say: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord”; and so that this may be fulfilled: “Until the fullness of the gentiles comes in, and so all Israel will be saved,” as it is written; and: “If the people of Israel is as the sand of the sea, a remnant will be saved.”
Matt 23:39 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 11:25–26 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 9:27 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 10:22 (quotation, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ and Paul foretell Israel's salvation.
- Matt 23:39; Rom 11:25–26; Rom 9:27 (Isa 10:22).
Topics: Eschatology, The church and Israel
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 107.13 (CSEL 38:68; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/107-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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107.14CSEL 38:68
Et quod Esaias beatus aperte de Christo docuerit, quod omnibus redeuntibus indulturus est, ipse dominus dixit ita: Spiritus domini super me. propterea uncxit me, euangelizare pauperibus, misit me, praedicare captiuis remissionem, caecis uisum, adnuntiare annum domini acceptabilem et diem retributionis.
And that blessed Isaiah taught openly about Christ, that he will pardon all who return, the Lord himself said thus: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; therefore he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, sight to the blind, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of recompense.”
Luke 4:18–19 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 61:1–2 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ applied Isaiah's acceptable year to himself.
- Luke 4:18–19 (Isa 61:1–2).
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 107.14 (CSEL 38:68; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/107-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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107.15CSEL 38:68–69
De quo dominus in templo cum accepisset librum scripturamque hanc peruidisset, ait apostolis et in omnibus hoc in sui praesentia nunc fuisse completum. Quod et Danihel beatissimus adtendit, quod ei dixerat dominus dicens: Audi uir desideriorum et aduerte ab exitu uerbi dei, id est a Christi incarnatione, atque eius iterum de caelo diuina praesentia atque consummatione saeculi, quae cum angelis adfutura sit.
Of this the Lord, when he had taken the book in the temple and seen this Scripture, said to the apostles and to all that it had now been fulfilled in his presence. To this the most blessed Daniel too attended, what the Lord had said to him, saying: “Hear, man of desires, and attend from the going out of the word of God,” that is, from the incarnation of Christ, and his divine presence again from heaven and the end of the age, which will come with the angels.
Luke 4:21 (allusion, high confidence) · Dan 9:23 (quotation, medium confidence) · Dan 9:25 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ declared Isaiah fulfilled; Daniel's prophecy points to his coming.
- Luke 4:21 (in the synagogue, not the temple); Dan 9:23, 25.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 107.15 (CSEL 38:68–69; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/107-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 108
108.1CSEL 38:69
Alia est heresis quae de gigantibus adserit quod angeli < miscuerint se cum feminis ante diluuium, et inde esse natos gigantas suspicantur: cum Nembroth non ab spiritu, id est non ab angelo, sed ab homine Chus, qui filius fuit Cham, inde natus sit postea: qui et in scriptura primus gigans est appellatus, quod iste coepit esse uenator, et fortis homo, ut et gigans appellaretur in terra: inde dicturi sunt, inquit, "sicut Nembroth gigans, ita fortis est", si qui ei similis in fortitudine postea uideretur.
Another heresy asserts about the giants that angels mixed with women before the flood, and they suppose that the giants were born from this; whereas Nimrod was born afterwards not of a spirit, that is, not of an angel, but of a man, Cush, who was the son of Ham; and he is the first in Scripture called a giant, because he began to be a hunter and a strong man, so that he was called a giant on the earth: hence, it says, they will say, “As Nimrod the giant, so he is strong,” if anyone was afterwards seen like him in strength.
Gen 6:2–4 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 10:8–9 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The giants were men like Nimrod, not offspring of angels.
- Gen 6:2–4; Gen 10:8–9 (Old Latin “giant” for “mighty one”). The angle bracket before miscuerint is the editor's sign.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 108.1 (CSEL 38:69; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/108-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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108.2CSEL 38:69
Homines itaque fuerunt fortes et a iuuentute rapaces, uastatores, iaculantes, cursitantes, praedationi uacantes, inde ueluti alieni non solum morum, uerum etiam uisu hominum inormes aestimati, <w £ > contra naturam aliorum hominum tanta scelera perpetrantes nuncuparentur et gigantes.
So they were strong men, and from youth rapacious, ravagers, throwers of spears, runners, devoted to plunder; hence, as if strangers not only in morals but also in appearance, they were thought enormous by men, <so that>, committing such great crimes against the nature of other men, they were also called giants.
Notes and citation
Summary: The giants were violent, outsized men.
- The editor's angle brackets here contain unreadable characters; “so that” is supplied from the sense.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): iuliuentute → iuuentute.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 108.2 (CSEL 38:69; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/108-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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108.3CSEL 38:69–70
Gigans enim per etymologiam terrae monstrum dicitur, ex duobus nominibus conpositum, siue forma, siue uita, siue uisu, siue fortitudine, siue mole membrorum. Nam ut scias gigantas non de alia natura, sed de hominum fuisse progenie editos: et ΕΞΑΚΑΚΤΥΛΟΣ in Regnorum libris habes, quos forma grandi et mole membrorum diffusos et ingenti fortitudine de genere gigantum libri Regnorum adnuntiarunt post duo milia et trecentos annos diluuii:
For “giant” by etymology means “monster of the earth”, a word compounded of two names, whether in form, life, appearance, strength or bulk of limbs. For that you may know that giants were born not of another nature but of human offspring: you have also the six-fingered ones in the books of Kingdoms, whom the books of Kingdoms announced, large in form, massive in limb and of huge strength, as of the race of giants, two thousand three hundred years after the flood:
2 Sam 21:20 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The giants of Kingdoms, such as the six-fingered man, were human.
- The Greek ἑξαδάκτυλος (“six-fingered”) is misprinted in the digital text. 2 Sam 21:20. The etymology joins Greek γῆ (earth) and a word for monster or “born”.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 108.3 (CSEL 38:69–70; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/108-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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108.4CSEL 38:70
sicut et illum Goliath, quem deiecit in pugna solus Dauid beatissimus rex et propheta, cuius et aliorum talium: Carra, inquit, instructionem portabant armorum. Quia ergo bestiali more a pueritia ad rapinam erant dediti huiusmodi homines, et ueluti a natura hominum morumque alienos scriptura nuntiauit.
like that Goliath whom the most blessed David, king and prophet, alone struck down in battle; of him and others like him [it says]: “Carts carried their equipment of arms.” Because such men were given to plunder from childhood after the manner of beasts, Scripture announced them as strangers, as it were, to human nature and morals.
1 Sam 17:49–51 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Goliath and his like were men given to violence.
- The quotation about the carts is unidentified.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letter): talium: J Carra → talium: Carra.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 108.4 (CSEL 38:70; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/108-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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108.5CSEL 38:70
Nam quod illi angeli, qui de caelo deiecti sunt, non sint humanae naturae similes, non est dubium, nisi solum quia nefanda et contraria contraque legem suggerere, sicuti et nunc hominibus faciunt, praeualebant intrantes in homines, id est suadentes;
For there is no doubt that those angels who were cast down from heaven are not like human nature, except only that they were able to suggest wicked things, contrary and against the law, as they do to men now, entering into men, that is, persuading them;
Notes and citation
Summary: Fallen angels act by entering and persuading men.
Topics: The devil and demons
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 108.5 (CSEL 38:70; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/108-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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108.6CSEL 38:70
sicut Iudaeis inimicus humani generis persuasit contra dominum contraque sanctos prophetas talia scelera perpetrare, sicut scriptum est: Intrauit, inquit, satanas in Iudam, ita igitur et ante intrantes inmundi spiritus in animas hominum ac feminarum malae persuasionis scelera in orbe terrarum diffuderant.
as the enemy of the human race persuaded the Jews to commit such crimes against the Lord and the holy prophets, as it is written: “Satan,” it says, “entered into Judas”; so, then, before too, the unclean spirits, entering into the souls of men and women, had spread the crimes of evil persuasion over the world.
Luke 22:3 (quotation, high confidence) · John 13:27 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Unclean spirits entered men's souls, as Satan entered Judas.
- Luke 22:3 (John 13:27).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (l for I)): sicut ludaeis → sicut Iudaeis; in ludam → in Iudam.
Topics: The devil and demons
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 108.6 (CSEL 38:70; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/108-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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108.7CSEL 38:70
Si qui autem putauerit esse iustum angelos ita peccasse transformatos in carne, ut in ea carne mansisse aut ita factos carnales crediderit, uiolenta ratione decernit historiam, sicuti et paganorum et poetarum mendacia adserunt deos deasque transformatos nefanda coniugia commisisse.
But if anyone thinks it right that angels so sinned, transformed into flesh, so that they remained in that flesh, or believes that they were so made fleshly, he forces the history by violent reasoning, as the lies of the pagans and poets assert that gods and goddesses, transformed, committed wicked unions.
Notes and citation
Summary: Belief in angels taking flesh is like pagan myths.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 108.7 (CSEL 38:70; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/108-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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108.8CSEL 38:70
Quod si factum est aliquando, et nunc fieri non erit ambiguum: quod autem non factum est aliquando, nec modo fieri manifestatum est. Gigans autem et in bono accipitur uirtutis causa: Exultabit enim ut gigans ad currendam uiam. Quod in Christi diuina praesentia probatum ostenditur atque consummatum.
If it happened once, it will not be doubtful that it happens now; but what never happened is not shown to happen now either. But “giant” is also taken in a good sense, because of strength: “For he will exult like a giant to run his course.” This is shown proved and fulfilled in the divine presence of Christ.
Ps 19:5 (18:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: “Giant” is used in a good sense of Christ.
- Ps 19:5 (18:6 LXX/Vulg.).
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 108.8 (CSEL 38:70; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/108-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 109
109.1CSEL 38:70–71
Alia est heresis quae dicit paganitatem a deo institutam, non ab hominum malignitate et suggestione inimici uitiorum causa et facinorum gignendorum fuisse excogitatam. Quae ergo a deo instituta est, quomodo damnatur ab eodem deo? Nam quod ab origine mundi dei patris omnipotentis et filii eius et sancti spiritus scientia nuntiata sit, non est dubium.
Another heresy says that paganism was instituted by God, not devised by men's malice and the enemy's suggestion for the sake of producing vices and crimes. What, then, was instituted by God, how is it condemned by the same God? For there is no doubt that from the origin of the world the knowledge of God the almighty Father and of his Son and of the Holy Spirit was announced.
Notes and citation
Summary: Some say God instituted paganism, but the Trinity was known from the beginning.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 109.1 (CSEL 38:70–71; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/109-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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109.2CSEL 38:71
Cum enim in libro creaturae mundi, id est in Genesi scriptum habeas: Et dixit deus, et fecit deus; et iterum: Dixit deus: Fiant luminaria *** et sexto die dixit deus: Faciamus hominem ad imaginem et similitudinem nostram.
For you have it written in the book of the creation of the world, that is, in Genesis: “And God said, and God made”; and again: “God said: Let there be lights …” and on the sixth day God said: “Let us make man in our image and likeness.”
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Gen 1:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 1:26 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Genesis shows God speaking and making.
- Gen 1:3, 14, 26. The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 109.2 (CSEL 38:71; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/109-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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109.3CSEL 38:71
Et < quod> fecit deus non angelo utique persuasore in creatione hominis, sed filii sui, Christi domini nostri et spiritus sancti, manifestatum est. Habes enim in Genesi, id est in primo libro sanctam adorandamque trinitatem ante hominibus nuntiatam. Dicit enim ita: Et pluit dominus a domino sulphur et ignem.
And it is manifest <that> God made man not, of course, with an angel as persuader, but [with] his Son, Christ our Lord, and the Holy Spirit. For you have in Genesis, that is, in the first book, the holy and adorable Trinity announced beforehand to men. For it says thus: “And the Lord rained from the Lord sulphur and fire.”
Gen 19:24 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Genesis already reveals the Trinity.
- Gen 19:24. The angle brackets around quod are the editor's supplement.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 109.3 (CSEL 38:71; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/109-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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109.4CSEL 38:71
Et iterum de spiritu in primo die: Et spiritus dei superferebatur super aquam. Et Farao rex Aegypti dicit: Quis haec interpretabitur, inquit, nobis, nisi qui dei habuerit spiritum? Et Dauid: Verbo domini caeli firmati sunt, et spiritu oris eius omnis uirtus eorum.
And again of the Spirit on the first day: “And the Spirit of God was borne over the water.” And Pharaoh, king of Egypt, says: “Who will interpret these things for us,” he says, “except one who has the Spirit of God?” And David: “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made firm, and by the Spirit of his mouth all their power.”
Gen 1:2 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 41:38 (quotation, medium confidence) · Ps 33:6 (32:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Genesis and the psalms speak of the Spirit.
- Gen 1:2; Gen 41:38 (freely); Ps 33:6 (32:6 LXX/Vulg.).
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 109.4 (CSEL 38:71; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/109-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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109.5CSEL 38:71
Postea uero uoluntas hominum praua, recedens a tanta scientia pietatis, idolorum mendaciis ac uanitatibus studiose cum properat inseruire, turpissimaeque uitae se dare maluisset, iudicio damnationis obnoxia tenebatur, ita ut ante prophetae dicerent: Sacrificans diis eradicabitur. Et iterum: Dii qui caelum non fecerunt, eradicabuntur.
But afterwards the depraved will of men, departing from such knowledge of piety, when it eagerly hastened to serve the lies and vanities of idols and chose to give itself to a most shameful life, was held liable to the judgment of condemnation, so that the prophets said beforehand: “He who sacrifices to gods will be rooted out.” And again: “The gods who did not make heaven will be rooted out.”
Exod 22:20 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 10:11 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Idolatry came from human will and was condemned by the prophets.
- Exod 22:20; Jer 10:11.
Topics: Idolatry
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 109.5 (CSEL 38:71; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/109-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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109.6CSEL 38:71–72
Et ideo et dominus non suam nouam praesentiam ostendebat dicens: Qui loquebar in prophetis, ecce adsum. Neque ergo angelos adorari praecepit alicubi dominus, neque mundi elementa, nec creaturam aliquam, neque idola, quae hominum uoluntas pessima sui sceleris et turpitudinis perpetrandi causa maluit inuenire, ut colentes ea effusam operandi mali possint habere licentiam.
And therefore the Lord showed that his presence was not new, saying: “I who spoke in the prophets, behold, I am here.” So the Lord nowhere commanded that angels be worshipped, nor the elements of the world, nor any creature, nor idols, which the most wicked will of men chose to invent for the sake of committing its crime and shamefulness, so that, worshipping them, they might have unrestrained licence to do evil.
Isa 52:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God never commanded the worship of angels, elements or idols.
- Isa 52:6.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letter): Neque ergo N angelos → Neque ergo angelos.
Topics: Idolatry
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 109.6 (CSEL 38:71–72; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/109-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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109.7CSEL 38:72
Nam et ipsud nomen idoli species doli et formae praeuaricatio de interpretatione Greca est nuncupatum. Trinitas itaque Christianitatis ab origine mundi praedicabatur, et ueritas pietatis sine intermissione ubique docebatur. Nam et Dauid: Dixit dominus domino meo; et: Spiritus tuus bonus deducet me in uiam rectam; et iterum: Spiritus domini impleuit orbem terrarum; et: Quo fugiam ab spiritu tuo, et a facie tua quo uadam?
For the very name “idol” is named, by interpretation from the Greek, an appearance of deceit and a falsification of form. So the Trinity of Christianity was preached from the origin of the world, and the truth of piety was taught everywhere without interruption. For David too: “The Lord said to my Lord”; and: “Your good Spirit will lead me in the right way”; and again: “The Spirit of the Lord has filled the world”; and: “Where shall I flee from your Spirit, and from your face where shall I go?”
Ps 110:1 (109:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 143:10 (142:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 139:7 (138:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Trinity was preached from the beginning, as the psalms show.
- Ps 110:1 (109:1); Ps 143:10 (142:10); Wis 1:7; Ps 139:7 (138:7).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark): sine. intermissione → sine intermissione.
Extrabiblical texts: Wis 1:7 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation)
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 109.7 (CSEL 38:72; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/109-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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109.8CSEL 38:72
Nam Salomon beatus docet quod idolatria ab homine instituta sit illo qui amissum filium suum cum diu fleret quondam ut pater, fecit imaginem eiusdem, et uidendo delectabatur in ea; atque ex eo traditum fuisse posteris diuersamque impietatis materiam inde humano in genere pullulasse.
For blessed Solomon teaches that idolatry was instituted by a man who, once weeping long as a father for a son he had lost, made his image and took delight in seeing it; and that from this it was handed down to posterity, and various material of impiety then sprang up in the human race.
Notes and citation
Summary: Solomon traces idolatry to a grieving father's image of his son.
- Wis 14:15, ascribed to Solomon.
Extrabiblical texts: Wis 14:15 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; allusion)
Topics: Idolatry
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 109.8 (CSEL 38:72; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/109-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 110
110.1CSEL 38:72
Alia est heresis quae dicit Christianos nuperiores et posteriores Iudaeis et paganis fuisse creatos, ignorantes quod Iudaeis et paganis natura priores creati sunt et fide, uita et tempore, sacrificio et conuersatione.
Another heresy says that Christians were created more recently and later than the Jews and pagans, not knowing that they were created earlier than the Jews and pagans in nature and faith, life and time, sacrifice and conduct.
Notes and citation
Summary: Some say Christians are newer than Jews and pagans.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 110.1 (CSEL 38:72; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/110-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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110.2CSEL 38:72–73
Fide quidem, quia ab Adam usque ad Moysen tribus annorum milibus et septingentis annis omnes iusti deum et deum, dominum et dominum colentes, etiam spiritum sanctum, ueram nuntiabant trinitatem, ita ut ipsam trinitatem integram sine labore possis cognoscere ab illis beatis prioribus et antiquis *** nobis etiam postea hoc fuisse manifestatum a domino. Cum enim dicit scriptura:
In faith indeed, because from Adam to Moses, for three thousand seven hundred years, all the righteous, worshipping God and God, Lord and Lord, and also the Holy Spirit, announced the true Trinity, so that you can without labour know the Trinity itself, whole, from those blessed and ancient forerunners … and that this was afterwards made manifest to us too by the Lord. For when Scripture says:
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: The righteous before Moses already confessed the Trinity.
- The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): colchtes → colentes.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 110.2 (CSEL 38:72–73; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/110-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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110.3CSEL 38:73
Pluit dominus a domino super Sodoma et Gomorra sulphur et ignem, quid ibi uidetur nuntiare? nonne deum patrem per filium suum, id est Christum deum cuncta signa et mirabilia perfecisse declarauit? Quod sciens Dauid dominum patrem et dominum Christum, id est uerbum eius, et sanctum spiritum < cum) nuntiabat, trinitatem quidem personarum, unius tamen maiestatis et substantiae ac diuinitatis aequalem potentiam nuntiabat.
“The Lord rained from the Lord sulphur and fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah,” what does it seem to announce there? Did it not declare that God the Father accomplished all signs and wonders through his Son, that is, Christ God? Knowing this, David announced the Lord the Father and the Lord Christ, that is, his Word, <with> the Holy Spirit, announcing indeed a Trinity of persons, yet an equal power of one majesty, substance and divinity.
Gen 19:24 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Genesis 19:24 and David announce the Trinity.
- Gen 19:24. The angle brackets around cum are the editor's supplement.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 110.3 (CSEL 38:73; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/110-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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110.4CSEL 38:73
Tamen filium de deo patre esse priore et sanctum spiritum proprie demonstrauit edocens: Verbo domini caeli firmati sunt, et spiritu oris eius omnis uirtus eorum; et iterum alibi: Dixit dominus domino meo. Et omnes prophetae de uerbo et spiritu nuntiauerunt, ubique ita dicentes: Et factum est uerbum domini ad me, et: Spiritus, inquit, domini fuit ad me.
Yet he showed that the Son is properly from God the Father, who is prior, and the Holy Spirit too, teaching: “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made firm, and by the Spirit of his mouth all their power”; and again elsewhere: “The Lord said to my Lord.” And all the prophets announced the Word and the Spirit, saying everywhere thus: “And the word of the Lord came to me,” and: “The Spirit of the Lord,” it says, “was upon me.”
Ps 33:6 (32:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 110:1 (109:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 1:4 (quotation, medium confidence) · Ezek 11:5 (allusion, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The psalms and prophets speak of the Word and the Spirit.
- Ps 33:6; Ps 110:1; e.g. Jer 1:4; Ezek 11:5.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 110.4 (CSEL 38:73; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/110-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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110.5CSEL 38:73
Ergo non est fidei causa temporalis Christianitas, sed ante Iudaeos et paganos in lege quidem studentibus et quaerentibus erat manifestata: non autem capientibus uix patris omnipotentis scientia nuntiabatur a sanctis illis doctoribus et perfectis. Vita etiam non alia priores illi sancti nisi hac, in qua nos uiuimus, utebantur.
So Christianity is not temporary as regards faith, but was made manifest before the Jews and pagans to those who studied and sought in the law; but to those who did not grasp it, the knowledge of the almighty Father was scarcely announced by those holy and perfect teachers. In life too those earlier saints lived no other life than this in which we live.
Notes and citation
Summary: Christian faith and life go back before Jews and pagans.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 110.5 (CSEL 38:73; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/110-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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110.6CSEL 38:73–74
Usque ad Abraham enim beatissimum non circumcisionem habentes, non sacrificiis gaudentes deo placebant, et iusti in omnibus ab eo nuntiabantur. Dixit enim Dauid: Sacrificium deo cor contribulatum; et: Immola deo sacrificium laudis. Et quod necessitate cilitatis cogente sacrificia temporalia, non perpetua nec uera fuerant indicta Iudaeis nec salutaria, dicit propheta ad Iudaeos: Ecce ego facio noua, et: Priusquam ueniant, adnuntiata sunt uobis.
For up to the most blessed Abraham, not having circumcision and not rejoicing in sacrifices, they pleased God and were declared righteous by him in all things. For David said: “A sacrifice to God is a contrite heart”; and: “Offer to God a sacrifice of praise.” And that temporary sacrifices, not perpetual nor true nor saving, were imposed on the Jews under the compulsion of necessity, the prophet says to the Jews: “Behold, I make new things,” and: “Before they come, they are announced to you.”
Ps 51:17 (50:19 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 50:14 (49:14 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 43:19 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 42:9 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: The righteous before Abraham pleased God without circumcision or sacrifice.
- Ps 51:17 (50:19); Ps 50:14 (49:14); Isa 43:19; Isa 42:9. The digital text reads cilitatis, possibly for ciuitatis or utilitatis; translated by sense.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark): beatissimum. non → beatissimum non.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 110.6 (CSEL 38:73–74; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/110-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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110.7CSEL 38:74
Ante ergo Iudaeis Esaias testabatur propheta: Qui enim haec exquisiuit de manibus uestris? Et iterum: Circumcidimini corda uestra, et non corpora uestra. Quale autem et sacrificium Melchisedech sub Abraham inprimis optulerit, ante quadringentos triginta annos quam *** Iudaei nominarentur aut Iudas nasceretur et antequam **• acciperent, in libro Geneseos peruides, (id est> mysterium Christianitatis, ut omnia quae in Christianitate sunt, siue fides, siue uita, siue sacramentum, non temporalia, sed ab origine mundi statuta et nuntiata et potius celebrata cognoscas.
So Isaiah the prophet testified beforehand to the Jews: “For who has required these things from your hands?” And again: “Circumcise your hearts, and not your bodies.” And what kind of sacrifice Melchizedek first offered under Abraham, four hundred and thirty years before … the Jews were named or Judah was born, and before … they received, you see in the book of Genesis, <that is,> the mystery of Christianity, so that you may know that all that is in Christianity, whether faith or life or sacrament, is not temporary, but was appointed and announced and indeed celebrated from the origin of the world.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Isa 1:12 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 4:4 (allusion, medium confidence) · Joel 2:13 (allusion, medium confidence) · Gen 14:18 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Melchizedek's offering shows that Christianity is from the beginning.
- Isa 1:12; cf. Joel 2:13 and Jer 4:4; Gen 14:18. The asterisks mark gaps in the text (“…”).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (l for I); repeated syllable; stray marks): exquisiuit uit → exquisiuit; aut ludas → aut Iudas; cognoscas.!! → cognoscas..
Topics: Eucharist
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 110.7 (CSEL 38:74; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/110-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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110.8CSEL 38:74
In Christo autem et per Christum, per quem cuncta facta sunt, oportuerat nos *** ab eo uidere et cognoscere, et, quod erat maius in lege mysterium de eo ante nuntiatum, ab ipso plenius excipere completum atque consummatum.
But in Christ and through Christ, through whom all things were made, we had to see and know … from him, and to receive from him more fully completed and fulfilled the greater mystery in the law announced beforehand about him.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: In Christ the mystery foretold in the law is fulfilled.
- The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 110.8 (CSEL 38:74; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/110-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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110.9CSEL 38:74
Nam quod et castitas similis fuerit in prophetis quam plurimis non est dubium, ut in Helia beato, Heliseo sancto, Danihelo, Hieremia, Hesdra et tribus pueris, et aliis multis beatissimis: ut in Christi praesentia et, quod supra legem erat, ante nuntiatum ab eis cognosceretur, et quod per legem coniugium erat, ipsius firmaretur diuina sententia, uoluntatique hominum et studio concessa haec gratia nosceretur.
For there is no doubt that a like chastity existed in very many prophets, as in blessed Elijah, holy Elisha, Daniel, Jeremiah, Ezra and the three young men, and many other most blessed ones: so that in Christ's presence both what was above the law, announced beforehand by them, might be known, and what was marriage according to the law might be confirmed by his divine sentence, and this grace might be known as granted to the will and zeal of men.
Notes and citation
Summary: The prophets' chastity foreshadowed virginity, while marriage remained lawful.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark): nosceretur.! → nosceretur..
Topics: Marriage, Virginity and celibacy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 110.9 (CSEL 38:74; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/110-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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110.10CSEL 38:74–75
Ideo et ipse dominus priores illos sanctos ante legem nobis et nos illis prioribus secundum fidem iustitiae copulabat, Iudaeos autem et paganos respuens, qui medio tempore inter mandatum erant et gratiam positi: qui inimica uoluntate ac perniciosa pessumdati repperiuntur in uitiis carnalibus, doctrinaeque caelesti inimici et aduersarii, aeterno poenarum iudicio reseruati.
Therefore the Lord himself joined those earlier saints before the law to us, and us to those earlier ones, according to the faith of righteousness, but rejected the Jews and pagans, who were placed in the middle time between the commandment and grace: they are found ruined by a hostile and pernicious will in carnal vices, enemies and adversaries of the heavenly teaching, reserved for the eternal judgment of punishments.
Notes and citation
Summary: Christians are joined to the saints before the law.
- Philastrius's polemic against Jews and pagans is translated as written.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (l for I)): ludaeos → Iudaeos.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 110.10 (CSEL 38:74–75; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/110-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 111
111.1CSEL 38:75
Alia est heresis quae dicit nasci paganos (nos) naturaliter, non Christianos, id est rerum natura corpus et animam hominis non a deo per Christum creari cottidie, sed per uanitatem paganam ita progredi arbitrantur, cum ab Adam usque ad Abraham, et postea usque ad Iudam, qui post Abraham quartus est in generatione, non pagani fuerint, neque Iudaei appellati, sed gentes a prouinciarum nomine et diuersitate nuncupati.
Another heresy says that we are born pagans by nature, not Christians, that is, they think that by the nature of things man's body and soul are not created daily by God through Christ, but proceed so through pagan vanity; whereas from Adam to Abraham, and afterwards up to Judah, who is the fourth generation after Abraham, they were not pagans nor called Jews, but nations named from the names and diversity of provinces.
Notes and citation
Summary: Some say we are born pagans; but the earliest peoples were neither pagans nor Jews.
- The editor's (nos) is a supplement.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (l for I)): usque ad ludam → usque ad Iudam.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 111.1 (CSEL 38:75; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/111-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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111.2CSEL 38:75
Pagani autem post Iudaeos siue a pago, id est loco, siue prouincia una dicti sunt siue Pagano rege, quod uerum esse, ut ait Hesiodus Grecus poeta, manifestatum est. Si ergo a pago, loci est indicium, sicuti et nunc dicitur (de pago illo: si autem de idolis, *** quod ea colentes sculptilia ita nominabantur pagani, id est gentiles.
Pagans, after the Jews, were so called either from pagus, that is, a place, or one province, or from King Paganus, which is shown to be true, as Hesiod the Greek poet says. If, then, from pagus, it is an indication of place, as it is said even now, “from that pagus”; but if from idols, … because those who worshipped carved images were so named pagans, that is, gentiles.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Philastrius discusses the origin of the word “pagan”.
- King Paganus is not otherwise attested; Hesiod speaks of Hellen, son of Deucalion (cf. 111.4–6). The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Extrabiblical texts: Hesiod, Cat. (Hesiod, Catalogue of Women; allusion)
Topics: Paganism
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 111.2 (CSEL 38:75; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/111-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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111.3CSEL 38:75–76
Quae non a deo idola, sed ab hominum prauissima inuenta sunt uoluntate, sicut et scriptura nostra et paganorum quam plurimae hoc nuntiarunt, homines haec inuenisse ad seductionem damnationemque animarum, quod illa aspiciens populus delectabatur epulis, in quorum uanitate suis animis interitum adferebant.
These idols were invented not by God but by the most depraved will of men, as our Scripture and very many of the pagans' writings announced, that men invented them for the seduction and damnation of souls, because the people, looking on them, took delight in feasts, in whose vanity they brought destruction on their souls.
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Summary: Idols were invented by men.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 111.3 (CSEL 38:75–76; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/111-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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111.4CSEL 38:76
Certa autem est probatio et maior, quod ipsi pagani in suis historiis referunt, quod a Pagano rege, ut ait Hesiodus Grecus poeta, pagani sunt appellati: qui postea ex rege Pagano, Deucalionis filio et Pyrrae, quasi plausibile atque amabile nomen eius habentes, immo potius colentes memoriam eius usque in hodiernum diem, hoc mendacium nominis usque nunc detinent percolentes.
But there is a certain and greater proof, which the pagans themselves report in their histories, that the pagans were named from King Paganus, as Hesiod the Greek poet says; afterwards, from King Paganus, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, holding his name as pleasing and lovable, or rather honouring his memory to the present day, they keep this lie of a name cultivating it until now.
Notes and citation
Summary: The pagans are said to be named from a king, son of Deucalion.
Extrabiblical texts: Hesiod, Cat. (Hesiod, Catalogue of Women; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 111.4 (CSEL 38:76; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/111-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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111.5CSEL 38:76
Hellen itaque, id est Grecus homo, a lingua et a nomine regis dicitur, qui fuit Deucalionis filius, qui ita appellatus est, sicut ab Italo Itali et Romani a Romulo et Latini a Latino nomen acceperunt, non ab idolorum impietate.
So Hellen, that is, a Greek man, is named from the language and from the name of the king, who was the son of Deucalion and was so called, as the Itali took their name from Italus, the Romans from Romulus and the Latins from Latinus, not from the impiety of idols.
Notes and citation
Summary: Peoples are named after kings, not idols.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray marks): dicitur,!! → dicitur,.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 111.5 (CSEL 38:76; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/111-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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111.6CSEL 38:76
Idola etenim, id est formas sculptilium, hominum postea pessima uoluntas inuenit. Linguam autem Grecam prouinciae unius proprietas declarauit, quam rex paganus ex suo nomine confirmauit, ut Romanos Romulus nuncupauit et ut ait Hesiodus a Greco rege fuisse Grecos appellatos, qui Grecus nomine filius fuit Deucalionis.
For idols, that is, the forms of carved images, the most wicked will of men invented later. But the Greek language was marked out as the property of one province, which the pagan king confirmed from his own name, as Romulus named the Romans, and, as Hesiod says, the Greeks were called after a Greek king, who, Graecus by name, was a son of Deucalion.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Greeks were named after Graecus, son of Deucalion.
- Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 5 (Graecus).
Extrabiblical texts: Hesiod, Cat. (Hesiod, Catalogue of Women; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 111.6 (CSEL 38:76; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/111-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 112
112.1CSEL 38:76–77
Alia est heresis quae dicit incertum numerum esse annorum a mundi origine, et ignorare homines curricula temporum, cum ab Adam usque ad diluuium decem sint generationes et annorum duo milia ducenti et quadraginta duo anni, et a diluuio usque ad confusionem linguarum sub Heber sancto, qui non consenserat aedificationi turris, quinta sit generatio, paene sescenti anni, quando et nomina prouinciarum diuisa sunt, ueluti septuaginta quinque linguarum et exinde usque ad Abraham beatum patriarcham quinta est generatio, anni quingenti quadraginta.
Another heresy says that the number of years from the origin of the world is uncertain and that men do not know the courses of the times; whereas from Adam to the flood there are ten generations and two thousand two hundred and forty-two years, and from the flood to the confusion of tongues under holy Eber, who had not consented to the building of the tower, is the fifth generation, almost six hundred years, when the names of the provinces were also divided, as of seventy-five tongues; and from then to Abraham the blessed patriarch is the fifth generation, five hundred and forty years.
Gen 5:1–32 (allusion, medium confidence) · Gen 11:10–26 (allusion, medium confidence)
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Summary: Philastrius sets out the chronology from Adam to Abraham.
- The figures follow the Greek Old Testament chronology.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 112.1 (CSEL 38:76–77; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/112-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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112.2CSEL 38:77
Et ab Abraham usque ad Mosen septem generationes, anni quadringenti triginta, ut ait beatus apostolus: et a Mosen usque Samuhel iudicem sescenti uiginti nouem anni: et a Samuhel et Dauid usque ad captiuitatem Iudaeorum in Persida anni paene quingenti: et a captiuitate usque ad domini nostri praesentiam anni paene quingenti: et inde a domino usque nunc anni quadringenti triginta plus minus.
And from Abraham to Moses seven generations, four hundred and thirty years, as the blessed apostle says; and from Moses to Samuel the judge six hundred and twenty-nine years; and from Samuel and David to the captivity of the Jews in Persia almost five hundred years; and from the captivity to the presence of our Lord almost five hundred years; and from the Lord to now four hundred and thirty years, more or less.
Gal 3:17 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The chronology continues to Philastrius's own time.
- Gal 3:17.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray marks): triginta,II ut → triginta, ut.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 112.2 (CSEL 38:77; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/112-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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112.3CSEL 38:77
Ergo si haec fides erat in illis prioribus sanctis nostris patribus quae in nobis est, ab illis autem ante est tradita praedicata, id est patris et filii et sancti spiritus haec quippe diuina scientia, quomodo temporalis est, ut quidam aestimant, et non ab origine mundi haec ante scientia Christiana cunctis hominibus nuntiata, quae in mandato et lege manifestata praedicata ostenditur?
If, then, this faith which is in us was in those earlier saints, our fathers, and was handed down and preached by them before, that is, this divine knowledge of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, how is it temporary, as some think, and not this Christian knowledge announced before to all men from the origin of the world, which is shown manifested and preached in the commandment and the law?
Notes and citation
Summary: The Christian faith was known from the world's beginning.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): quae m nobis → quae in nobis.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 112.3 (CSEL 38:77; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/112-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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112.4CSEL 38:77
Si autem in medio temporis sub Mosi per umbram minus dictum sit aliquid, non utique dantis erat inuidia domini, quantum non capientis populi caeleste mysterium incapax et debilis hominum et non ualentium incusabitur infirmitas.
But if, in the middle time under Moses, something was said less fully in shadow, this was certainly not from the envy of the Lord who gave, but rather the weakness of a people unable to grasp the heavenly mystery, incapable and feeble, men without strength, will be blamed.
Notes and citation
Summary: The law's shadow reflects the people's weakness, not God's envy.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 112.4 (CSEL 38:77; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/112-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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112.5CSEL 38:77
Denique ipse Christus dominus quod ante nuntiauerat per sanctos prophetas, hoc et postea firmando praeceperat, dicens: Euntes baptizate omnes gentes in nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti, ut non solum fidem pristinam ab origine mundi hanc esse declararet, uerum etiam uitam, in qua nos hodie degimus, in circumcisione cordis, non carnis iactantia conprobaret.
Finally Christ the Lord himself confirmed and commanded afterwards what he had announced before through the holy prophets, saying: “Go, baptize all nations in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” to declare not only that this is the ancient faith from the origin of the world, but also to approve the life in which we live today, in the circumcision of the heart, not in boasting of the flesh.
Matt 28:19 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 2:29 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ's baptismal command confirms the ancient faith.
- Matt 28:19; cf. Rom 2:29.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark): degimus,! → degimus,.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 112.5 (CSEL 38:77; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/112-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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112.6CSEL 38:77–78
Errant ergo nimium qui generationem hominis aut paganae impietati aut Iudaicae audent adscribere uanitati, cum Iudaeum nisi die octaua susceperit ***, Iudaeum non licet appellari, nec paganum aeque, nisi deos uanos hominem fecisse putauerit.
They err greatly, then, who dare to ascribe the birth of man either to pagan impiety or to Jewish vanity, since one may not be called a Jew unless one has received [circumcision] on the eighth day …, nor likewise a pagan, unless one has thought that vain gods made man.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: No one is born Jew or pagan by nature.
- The asterisks mark a gap in the text; “circumcision” is supplied from the sense.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 112.6 (CSEL 38:77–78; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/112-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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112.7CSEL 38:78
Ergo natura rerum deo adscribenda est, non alicui horum uanitati: doctrina autem, quae secundat post naturam, si uera fuerit, fidei dei copulanda est ac saluberrimae seruituti iungenda, non recedens ab ea quippe, sed suum potius per fidem agnoscens dominum recordansque creatorem naturaliter.
So the nature of things is to be ascribed to God, not to the vanity of any of these; but teaching, which follows after nature, if it is true, is to be joined to faith in God and united to the most saving service, not departing from it, but rather recognizing its Lord through faith and naturally remembering its Creator.
Notes and citation
Summary: Nature is from God; true teaching joins it to faith.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 112.7 (CSEL 38:78; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/112-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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112.8CSEL 38:78
Itaque non naturae animi infirmitas hominum, sed praua uoluntas est potius accusanda, dicente domino: Et nunc si uolueritis et audieritis me, bona terrae manducabitis: si autem nolueritis, nec audieritis me, gladius uos comedet. Os enim domini locutum est hoc. Et dominus: Venite ad me omnes qui onerati estis, et ego uos subleuabo.
So it is not the weakness of the soul's nature in men, but rather the depraved will that is to be blamed, as the Lord says: “And now, if you are willing and listen to me, you will eat the good things of the land; but if you are unwilling and do not listen to me, the sword will devour you. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.” And the Lord: “Come to me, all you who are burdened, and I will relieve you.”
Isa 1:19–20 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 11:28 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The fault lies in the will, which God invites to obey.
- Isa 1:19–20; Matt 11:28.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 112.8 (CSEL 38:78; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/112-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 113
113.1CSEL 38:78
Alia est heresis quae dicit nomina dierum, Solis, Lunae, Martis, Mercurii, Iouis, Veneris, Saturni, a deo haec ita posita ab origine mundi, non hominum uana praesumptione nuncupata, cum a prima origine usque ad Grecos reges et Hermen fallacissimum illum, qui haec nomina uanissima et friuola mentiendo ausus est nuncupare, si quaerere uolueris,
Another heresy says that the names of the days — of the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn — were so set by God from the origin of the world and not named by the vain presumption of men; whereas from the first origin up to the Greek kings and that most deceitful Hermes, who dared falsely to give these most vain and frivolous names, if you will inquire,
Notes and citation
Summary: Some say God named the days after the planets.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (l for I); stray marks): louis → Iouis; origine.!l usque → origine usque.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 113.1 (CSEL 38:78; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/113-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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113.2CSEL 38:78–79
inuenies multum fluxisse temporis, et sic paganos, id est Grecos haec nomina posuisse, cum haec nomina *,* etiam secundum septem stellas dixerunt hominum generationem consistere, ut ille ipse delirans hoc definit. Dierum enim numerus primus, secundus, tertius, quartus, quintus, sextus, septimus, a deo est appellatus, non in hac uanitate nuncupationis turpissimae initio nuntiatus aut traditus.
you will find that much time passed, and only then the pagans, that is, the Greeks, set these names, since with these names … they also said that the generation of men depends on the seven stars, as that raving man himself defines it. For the number of the days, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, was named by God, not announced or handed down at the beginning in this vanity of most shameful naming.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Gen 1:5 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God named the days by number; the planetary names are Greek inventions.
- The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): muenies → inuenies.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 113.2 (CSEL 38:78–79; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/113-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 114
114.1CSEL 38:79
Alia est heresis quae dicit mundos esse infinitos et innumerabiles, secundum filosoforum quorundam inanem sententiam, cum scriptura mundum unum dixerit et de uno nos edocuerit, haec etiam de apocryfis prophetarum, id est secretis, ut ipsi pagani dixerunt, sumentes;
Another heresy says that there are infinite and innumerable worlds, according to the empty opinion of certain philosophers, although Scripture has spoken of one world and taught us about one; they took these things from the apocrypha of the prophets, that is, the secret books, as the pagans themselves said;
Notes and citation
Summary: Some teach innumerable worlds.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 114.1 (CSEL 38:79; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/114-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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114.2CSEL 38:79
ut et Democritus ille, qui multos mundos esse adseruit, deque sua sapientia cum hoc praedicat, multorum animas sensusque dubios diuersis erroribus concitauit.
like that Democritus, who asserted that there are many worlds, and, preaching this from his own wisdom, stirred up the souls and doubtful minds of many with various errors.
Notes and citation
Summary: Democritus taught many worlds.
Extrabiblical texts: Democritus (Democritus (fragments); allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 114.2 (CSEL 38:79; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/114-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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