Exposition of the Valentinian and Gnostic heresies
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Preface
Forasmuch as there are some, who, putting the truth away from them,...
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Chapter 1
They affirm that there is in certain high places unseen and unnamed,...
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Chapter 2
To proceed. Their First Father they affirm to be known unto none...
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Chapter 3
These then are the transactions spoken of by them as taking place...
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Chapter 4
Now the transactions without the Pleroma, stated by them, are as follows....
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Chapter 5
Having now therefore these three ingredients given her, by their account: the...
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Chapter 6
There being then three principles; the material, first of all, which they...
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Chapter 7
Now when the whole seed is made perfect, Achamoth their mother, they...
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Chapter 8
Now such being their Theory, which neither Prophets proclaimed, nor the Lord...
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Chapter 9
Thou seest, dearly beloved, their craft, which they that use deceive themselves,...
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Chapter 10
For, as to the Church, dispersed as she is through the whole...
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Chapter 11
Let us now take a view also of the unstable mind of...
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Chapter 12
But Ptolemy and his set—he being, as we are told, yet more...
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Chapter 13
A certain other also there is of their party, boasting to be...
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Chapter 14
This Mark then, affirming himself most entirely by himself to have been...
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Chapter 15
Thus then doth their Silence, full of all wisdom, declare the generation...
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Chapter 16
The birth then of their Æons, and the wandering and discovery of...
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Chapter 17
I have a mind also to explain to thee, how they affirm...
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Chapter 18
Of the Creation, then, they so speak; and daily each one of...
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Chapter 19
I have thought it right to add to these such points as...
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Chapter 20
And besides all this, they privily bring in an unspeakable multitude of...
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Chapter 21
As to their tradition about the Redemption, it proves to be invisible...
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Chapter 22
But we holding the rule of Faith, i.e., that there is one...
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Chapter 23
For Simon the Samaritan, that sorcerer, of whom Luke the disciple and...
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Chapter 24
Of these Saturninus, who was of Antioch by Daphne, and Basilides, having...
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Chapter 25
But Carpocrates and his set say that the world and the things...
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Chapter 26
And a certain Cerinthus too in Asia taught that the world was...
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Chapter 27
One Cerdon too, taking his beginning from Simon and his set, sojourned...
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Chapter 28
Now from these who have been mentioned many offshoots of many heresies...
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Chapter 29
And besides these, from among those whom we have before mentioned as...
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Chapter 30
But others again utter prodigious things, that there is a kind of...
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Chapter 31
And others again say that Cain is from that higher princely nature;...
