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CONTENTS.
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8. How the Valentinians pervert the Scriptures to support their own impious opinions, 31
9. Refutation of the impious interpretations of these heretics, 38
10. Unity of the faith of the church throughout the whole world, 42
11. The opinions of Valentinus, with those of his disciples and others, 45
12. The doctrines of the followers of Ptolemy and Colorbasus, 49
13. The deceitful arts and nefarious practices of Marcus, 51
14. The various hypotheses of Marcus and others. Theories respecting letters and syllables, 56
15. Sige relates to Marcus the generation of the twenty-four elements and of Jesus. Exposure of these absurdities, 64
16. Absurd interpretations of the Marcosians, 69
17. The theory of the Marcosians, that created things were made after the image of things invisible, 72
18. Passages from Moses, which the heretics pervert to the support of their hypothesis, 74
19. Passages of Scripture by which they attempt to prove that the Supreme Father was unknown before the coming of Christ, 78
20. The apocryphal and spurious Scriptures of the Marcosians, with passages of the Gospels which they pervert, 79
21. The views of redemption entertained by these heretics, 81
22. Deviations of heretics from the truth, 84
23. Doctrines and practices of Simon Magus and Menander, 86
24. Doctrines of Saturninus and Basilides, 89
25. Doctrines of Carpocrates, 93
26. Doctrines of Cerinthus, the Ebionites, and Nicolaitanes, 97
27. Doctrines of Cerdo and Marcion, 98
28. Doctrines of Tatian, the Encratites, and others, 100
29. Doctrines of various other Gnostic sects, and especially of the Barbeliotes or Borborians, 101
30. Doctrines of the Ophites and Sethians, 104
31. Doctrines of the Cainites, 113
BOOK II.
Preface, 116
1. There is but one God: the impossibility of its being otherwise, 117
2. The world was not formed by angels, or by any other being, contrary to the will of the most high God, but was made by the Father through the Word, 120