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The unity of the Old and New Testaments against the heretics

1. Preface
   In sending out to thee, dearly-beloved, this fourth Book of our treatise...
2. Chapter 1
   So much then being firm and fixed, that no other is set...
3. Chapter 2
   Moses accordingly, summing up in Deuteronomy the whole Law, which he had...
4. Chapter 3
   Whereas they in their evil constructions say, Why, if the Heaven is...
5. Chapter 4
   And of Jerusalem, and of the Lord, they make bold also to...
6. Chapter 5
   It is therefore one only and the same God, Who folds the...
7. Chapter 6
   I mean, where our Lord, declaring Himself to His Disciples, how He...
8. Chapter 7
   Wherefore Abraham also, by the Word knowing the Father, Who made Heaven...
9. Chapter 8
   Vain too is Marcion, and his set, driving out Abraham from his...
10. Chapter 9
    Of one therefore and the same kind of subsistence are all things,...
11. Chapter 10
    Well therefore doth John also make mention of the Lord saying to...
12. Chapter 11
    Moreover, the Lord hath made it manifest that many Prophets and righteous...
13. Chapter 12
    For the tradition of those elders, which they pretended to observe according...
14. Chapter 13
    And that the Lord did not abolish, but extend and fulfil, the...
15. Chapter 14
    Thus God formed Adam at first, not as standing in need of...
16. Chapter 15
    Therefore the Law was both a discipline to them, and a prophecy...
17. Chapter 16
    As to Circumcision, that God gave it also not as conveying perfect...
18. Chapter 17
    But that God in the Law commanded certain observances, not as needing...
19. Chapter 18
    Therefore the offering of the Church, which the Lord hath taught to...
20. Chapter 19
    But all gifts, and oblations, and sacrifices, the People received by way...
21. Chapter 20
    In respect of His Greatness, then, one cannot know God, for it...
22. Chapter 21
    Now that in Abraham also our faith was prefigured, and that he...
23. Chapter 22
    But in the last times, when the fulness of the time of...
24. Chapter 23
    Therefore the Lord said to the disciples, Behold, 1 say unto you,...
25. Chapter 24
    On this account also Paul, being the Apostle of the Gentiles, saith,...
26. Chapter 25
    For so it behoved the sons of Abraham, whom God raised up...
27. Chapter 26
    If a man therefore read the Scriptures attentively, he will find in...
28. Chapter 27
    As I have heard from a certain Presbyter, who had heard from...
29. Chapter 28
    Both here therefore and there is the same righteousness of God in...
30. Chapter 29
    But “God,” say they, “hardened the heart of Pharaoh and of his...
31. Chapter 30
    Those again who upbraid and charge us with the circumstance, that the...
32. Chapter 31
    By statements of this kind touching the ancients did that Elder console...
33. Chapter 32
    In the same way also did that Elder, the Apostles’ disciple, reason...
34. Chapter 33
    Such a truly spiritual disciple, receiving the Spirit of God, Who from...
35. Chapter 34
    But we will say in reply to all Heretics, and first to...
36. Chapter 35
    Again, in reply to the Valentinians and the other Gnostics falsely so...
37. Chapter 36
    For which of them does not the Lord refute, to the effect...
38. Chapter 37
    And in that He saith, How often would I have gathered thy...
39. Chapter 38
    But if a man say “How is this? Could not God render...
40. Chapter 39
    And man did receive the knowledge of good and evil, how it...
41. Chapter 40
    There is then one and the same Father, who for those who...
42. Chapter 41
    In that He hath called some, Angels of the Devil, for whom...