Refutation of the Gnostic systems by reason and argument
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Preface
As to the first Book which precedes this, detecting the knowledge falsely...
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Chapter 1
It is well then to begin from the first and chiefest head,...
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Chapter 2
But they who say that the world was framed by Angels, or...
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Chapter 3
Wherefore the Deep which they talk of is a thing incongruous; as...
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Chapter 4
We may inquire into the cause of the Divine arrangement of which...
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Chapter 5
Against them therefore who maintain that this world was made without the...
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Chapter 6
Further: how were either the Angels or the Maker of the world...
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Chapter 7
And so, whereas the Demiurge was ignorant of all, the Saviour, they...
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Chapter 8
If again they say that the one sort are the shadow of...
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Chapter 9
Now that God is the Artificer of the world, themselves also hold,...
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Chapter 10
It is therefore utterly unreasonable, passing by Him Who is truly God,...
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Chapter 11
And whereas on the one hand they refuse to believe that He...
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Chapter 12
And first concerning their use of the number 30, thus we shall...
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Chapter 13
Moreover, the first order itself of their Emanation is indefensible, as we...
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Chapter 14
Much more naturally and more elegantly concerning the origin of all things...
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Chapter 15
But let us return to the aforesaid question of emanations. And first,...
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Chapter 16
But if they will not assent to either of these statements, because...
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Chapter 17
Having then so great incongruities and perplexities in the order implied by...
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Chapter 18
Again, how is it not futile, their affirming His very Wisdom to...
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Chapter 19
And what sort of talk is it about their so-called Seed? that...
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Chapter 20
Moreover, that they bring into their device the parables and acts of...
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Chapter 21
But if they say that the twelve Apostles are the type of...
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Chapter 22
But that the whole of their doctrine about the number Thirty fails,...
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Chapter 23
Neither is their ignorance less manifest in regard of that woman, who...
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Chapter 24
And again their invention is proved false, and their device unstable, by...
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Chapter 25
But should any one say to this, “What then? doth all come...
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Chapter 26
It is better and more profitable, to be simple and scantily learned,...
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Chapter 27
The sound, and safe, and cautious, and truth-loving mind,—whatsoever things God hath...
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Chapter 28
Having therefore the very rule of Truth, and the witness concerning God...
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Chapter 29
And now let us return to what remains of their theory: how...
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Chapter 30
And this being so, they in their folly say they mount up...
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Chapter 31
The Valentinians then being overthrown, the whole multitude of the Heretics is...
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Chapter 32
Moreover the following impious maxim of theirs concerning actions is refuted by...
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Chapter 33
But their transmigration from body to body we may overthrow by this...
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Chapter 34
Moreover our Lord hath taught very fully, that souls besides their continuance...
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Chapter 35
But as for Basilides in particular, he will be forced to affirm,...
