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CONTENTS.
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| 14. | The System of the Sethians—their Triad of infinite Principles—their Heresy explained—their Interpretation of the Incarnation, | 170 | |
| 15. | The Sethians support their Doctrines by an allegorical Interpretation of Scripture—their System really derived from Natural Philosophers and from the Orphic Rites—adopt the Homeric Cosmogony, | 176 | |
| 16. | The Sethian Theory concerning "Mixture" and "Composition"—Application of it to Christ—Illustration from the Well of Ampa, | 179 | |
| 17. | The Sethian Doctrines to be learned from the "Paraphrase of Seth," | 181 | |
| 18. | The System of Justinus antiscriptural and essentially Pagan, | 182 | |
| 19. | The Justinian Heresy unfolded in the "Book of Baruch," | 183 | |
| 20. | The Cosmogony of Justinus an allegorical Explanation of Herodotus' Legend of Hercules, | 184 | |
| 21. | Justinus' Triad of Principles—his Angelography founded on this Triad—his Explanation of the Birth, Life, and Death of our Lord, | 185 | |
| 22. | Oath used by the Justinian Heretics—the Book of Baruch the Repertory of their System, | 192 | |
| 23. | Subsequent Heresies deducible from the System of Justinus, | 194 | |
| BOOK VI. | |||
| Contents, | 195 | ||
| 1. | The Ophites the Progenitors of subsequent Heresies, | 195 | |
| 2. | Simon Magus, | 196 | |
| 3. | Story of Apsethus the Libyan, | 197 | |
| 4. | Simon's forced Interpretation of Scripture—plagiarizes from Heraclitus and Aristotle—Simon's System of sensible and intelligible Existences, | 198 | |
| 5. | Simon appeals to Scripture in support of his System, | 200 | |
| 6. | Simon's System expounded in the work Great Announcement—follows Empedocles, | 200 | |
| 7. | Simon's System of a Threefold Emanation by Pairs, | 201 | |
| 8. | Further Progression of this Threefold Emanation—Co-exist ence with the Double Triad of a Seventh Existence, | 202 | |
| 9. | Simon's Interpretation of the Mosaic Hexaëmeron—his allegorical Representation of Paradise, | 203 | |
| 10. | Simon's Explanation of the First Two Books of Moses, | 205 | |
| 11. | Simon's Explanation of the Three last Books of the Pentateuch, | 206 | |
| 12. | Fire a Primal Principle, according to Simon, | 207 | |
