Against All Heresies

Contents

1. 1The author passes over the Jewish sects and begins his list of Christian heresies with Simon Magus, Menander, Saturninus, Basilides, and Nicolaus.
2. 2The author describes the Ophites, who exalted the serpent of Eden, the Cainites, who honored Cain and Judas, and the Sethites, who identified Christ with Seth.
3. 3The author describes Carpocrates and Cerinthus, who held that Christ was a mere man born of Joseph, and Ebion, who used Matt 10:24 to bind Christians to the Law.
4. 4The author summarizes Valentinus's system of thirty Aeons, the fall of Achamoth, and his docetic Christ, and notes the variations of Ptolemy, Secundus, and Heracleon.
5. 5The author describes Marcus and Colarbasus, who built a heresy on the numerical values of the Greek letters.
6. 6The author describes Cerdo's two gods, Marcion, his disciple Lucanus, and Apelles with his starry-fleshed Christ and the prophetess Philumene.
7. 7The author describes Tatian, who denied Adam's salvation, and the Montanists (Cataphrygians) in their two branches, those of Proclus and those of Aeschines.
8. 8The author ends with Blastus, who kept the Passover on the fourteenth, the two Theodoti, who held Christ to be a mere man (one ranking him below Melchizedek), and Praxeas, who identified the Son with the Father.