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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 |