Irenaeus Against Heresies, v1
BOOK I
- PREFACE.
- CHAP. I.—ABSURD IDEAS OF THE DISCIPLES OF
VALENTINUS AS TO THE ORIGIN, NAME, ORDER, AND CONJUGAL PRODUCTIONS OF
THEIR FANCIED AEONS, WITH THE PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE WHICH THEY ADAPT TO
THEIR OPINIONS.
- CHAP. II.—THE PROPATOR WAS KNOWN TO MONO-GENES
ALONE. AMBITION, DISTURBANCE, AND DANGER INTO WHICH SOPHIA FELL; HER
SHAPELESS OFFSPRING: SHE IS RESTORED BY HOROS. THE PRODUCTION OF CHRIST
AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, IN ORDER TO THE COMPLETION OF THE AEONS. MANNER
OF THE PRODUCTION OF JESUS.
- CHAP. III.—TEXTS OF HOLY SCRIPTURE USED BY THESE
HERETICS TO SUPPORT THEIR OPINIONS.
- CHAP. IV.—ACCOUNT GIVEN BY THE HERETICS OF THE
FORMATION OF ACHAMOTH; ORIGIN OF THE VISIBLE WORLD FROM HER
DISTURBANCES.
- CHAP. V.—FORMATION OF THE DEMIURGE; DESCRIPTION
OF HIM. HE IS THE CREATOR OF EVERYTHING OUTSIDE OF THE PLEROMA.
- CHAP. VI.—THE THREEFOLD KIND OF MAN FEIGNED BY
THESE HERETICS: GOOD WORKS NEEDLESS FOR THEM, THOUGH NECESSARY TO
OTHERS: THEIR ABANDONED MORALS.
- CHAP. VII.—THE MOTHER ACHAMOTH, WHEN ALL HER
SEED ARE PERFECTED, SHALL PASS INTO THE PLEROMA, ACCOMPANIED BY THOSE
MEN WHO ARE SPIRITUAL; THE DEMIURGE, WITH ANIMAL MEN, SHALL PASS INTO
THE INTERMEDIATE HABITATION; BUT ALL MATERIAL MEN SHALL GO INTO
CORRUPTION. THEIR BLASPHEMOUS OPINIONS AGAINST THE TRUE INCARNATION OF
CHRIST BY THE VIRGIN MARY. THEIR VIEWS AS TO THE PROPHECIES. STUPID
IGNORANCE OF THE DEMIURGE.
- CHAP. VIII.—HOW THE VALENTINIANS PERVERT THE
SCRIPTURES TO SUPPORT THEIR OWN PIOUS OPINIONS.
- CHAP. IX.—REFUTATION OF THE IMPIOUS
INTERPRETATIONS OF THESE HERETICS.
- CHAP. X.—UNITY OF THE FAITH OF THE CHURCH
THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD.
- CHAP. XI.—THE OPINIONS OF VALENTINUS, WITH
THOSE OF HIS DISCIPLES AND OTHERS.
- CHAP. XII.—THE DOCTRINES OF THE FOLLOWERS OF
PTOLEMY AND COLORBASUS.
- CHAP. XIII.—THE DECEITFUL ARTS AND NEFARIOUS
PRACTICES OF MARCUS.
- CHAP. XIV.—THE VARIOUS HYPOTHESES OF MARCUS AND
OTHERS. THEORIES RESPECTING LETTERS AND SYLLABLES.
- CHAP. xv.—SIGE RELATES TO MARCUS THE
GENERATION OF THE TWENTY-FOUR ELEMENTS AND OF JESUS. EXPOSURE OF THESE
ABSURDITIES.
- CHAP. XVI.—ABSURD INTERPRETATIONS OF THE
MARCOSIANS.
- CHAP. XVII.—THE THEORY OF THE MARCOSIANS, THAT
CREATED THINGS WERE MADE AFTER THE IMAGE OF THINGS INVISIBLE.
- CHAP. XVIII.—PASSAGES FROM MOSES, WHICH THE
HERETICS PERVERT TO THE SUPPORT OF THEIR HYPOTHESIS.
- CHAP. XIX.—PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE BY WHICH THEY
ATTEMPT TO PROVE THAT THE SUPREME FATHER WAS UNKNOWN BEFORE THE COMING
OF CHRIST.
- CHAP.XX.—THE APOCRYPHAL AND SPURIOUS SCRIPTURES
OF THE MARCOSIANS, WITH PASSAGES OF THE GOSPELS WHICH THEY PERVERT.
- CHAP. XXI.—THE VIEWS OF REDEMPTION ENTERTAINED
BY THESE HERETICS.
- CHAP. XXII.—DEVIATIONS OF HERETICS FROM THE
TRUTH.
- CHAP. XXIII.—DOCTRINES AND PRACTICES OF SIMON
MAGUS AND MENANDER.
- CHAP. XXIV. — DOCTRINES OF SATURNINUS AND
BASILIDES.
- CHAP. XXV.—DOCTRINES OF CARPOCRATES.
- CHAP. XXVI.—DOCTRINES OF CERINTHUS, THE
EBIONITES, AND NICOLAITANES.
- CHAP. XXVII.—DOCTRINES OF CERDO AND MARCION.
- CHAP. XXVIII.—DOCTRINES OF TATIAN, THE
ENCRATITES, AND OTHERS.
- CHAP. XXIX.—DOCTRINES OF VARIOUS OTHER GNOSTIC
SECTS, AND ESPECIALLY OF THE BARBELIOTES OR BORBORIANS.
- CHAP. XXX.—DOCTRINES OF THE OPHITES AND
SETHIANS.
- CHAP. XXXI.—DOCTRINES OF THE CAINITES.
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