Philosophumena; Or, the Refutation of All Heresies, Formerly Attributed To
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Do not assume that just because we believe a book to be in the public domain for users in Canada, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other countries. Whether a book is still in copyright varies from country to country. Please do not assume that a book's appearance in 'The Builder' library means it can be used in any manner anywhere in the world. Copyright infringement liability can be quite severe. The Webmaster Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2009 witii funding from University of Toronto littp://www.arcli ive.org/details/pliilosopliumenaor02liipp TRANSLATIONS OF CHRISTIAN LITERATURE General Editors : W. J. SPARROW SIMPSON, D.D. \y. K. LOWTHER CLARKE, B.D. SERIES I GREEK TEXTS PHILOSOPHUMENA OR THE REFUTATION OF ALL HERESIES : PHILOSOPHUMl A OR THE REFUTATION OF ALL HERESIES FORMERLY ATTRIBUTED TO ORIGEN, RUT NOW TO HIPPOLYTUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR, WHO FLOURISHED ABOUT 220 A.D. TRANSLATED FROM THE TEXT OF CRUICE BY F. LEGGE, F.S.A. VOL. II. LONDON SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE NEW YORK: THE M ACM ILL AN CO, 1921 Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, paris garden, stamford st., s.e. 1, and bunoav, suffolk. /9-e/ y, CONTENTS BOOK VI : SIMON MAGUS, VALENTINUS, AND THEIR FOLLOWERS .... 1-57 SIMON .... VALENTINUS 17 SECUNDUS AND El'IPIIANES , PTOLEMY ... 39 MARCUS ... 40 BOOK VII: BASILIDES, SATURNILUS, AND OTHERS 5S-97 I. BASII.IDES 59 SATURNILUS ........ 8o MARCION . ... .82 4- CARPOCRATES 90 5- CERINTHUS 92 6. EIUONAEI ......... 93 7- THEODOTUS THE BYZANTIAN 93 8. ANOTHER THEODOTUS 94 9- CERDO AND LUCIAN ....... 95 10. APELLES 96 BOOK VIII: THE DOCETAE, MONOIMUS, AND OTHERS .... 98-116 1. THE DOCETAE 99 2. MONOIMUS . 106 3. I'A ITAN III 4. HERMOOENES III 5. THE QUARTODECIMANS 112 ' 6. THE PHRYGIANS . "3 7. THE ENCRATITES . 114 vi CONTENTS lACiE BOOK IX: NOETUS, CALLISTUS, AND OTHERS 117-148 1. NOETUS 118 2. CALLISTUS I24 3. THE ELCHESAITES 1 32 4. THE JEWS 138 BOOK X : SUMMARIES. AND THE WORD OF TRUTH 149-178 1. THE SUMMARY OF THE PHILOSOPHERS . 150 2. TPIE SUMMARY OF THE HERESIES .... 153 ' 3. THE WORD OF TRUTH . • 171 INDEX 179 PHILOSOPHUMENA BOOK VI SIMON MAGUS, VALENTINUS, A\D THEIR FOLLOWERS 1. These are the contents of the 6th (book) of the p 242 Rcfiitaiion of all Heresies. Cruicc. 2. What Simon has dared, and that his doctrine is confirmed (by quotations) from magicians and poets. 3. What Valentinus has laid down, and that his doctrine is not framed from the Scriptures, but from those of the Platonists and Pythagorists. 4. And what is tliought by vSecundus, Ptolemy and Heracleon, and how they have used as their own, but with different words, the thoughts of those whom the Greeks (think) wise. 5. ^V'hat has been held by Marcus and Colarbasus [and tlieir disciples] and that some of them gave heed to magic arts and Pythagorean numbers. 6. Now such opinions as belong to those who have taken their principles from the serpent^ and, when the time arrived, of their own accord brought their doctrines into light, we have set forth in the Book before this, being the Vth of the Refutation of all Heresies. Here, however, I w'ill p. 243 not keep silence as to the opinions of those who come after (ihem),'-^ but will leave not one unrefuted, if it be possible 1 lie (if course refers to llie Ophites, whence it is clear tliat he inchided Justinus among ihein. His language may imply that all these serpent-worshipping sects had been in existence some time before, but (lid not begin to write their doctrines until they had taken on a veneer of Clni^tianity. This is very probable, but there is not as yet any C(mvincing pr(jof that this was the case. - Here again it is very difhcult to say whether tUv aKoKovdwv means IJlose wlio follow in point of lime or in tiie page^ of the book. 2 PHILOSOPHUMENA to keep them all in mind, together with their secret rites which are justly to be called orgies, inasmuch as those who dare such things are not far from God's wrath ^ — to use the word in its etymological sense. I. About Simon. 7. It seems then right now to set forth also the (doings) of Simon, 2 the man of Gitto,^ a village of Samaria, whereby we shall show that those also who followed (him) taking hints from other names have ventured upon like things. ^ iipyia, " secret rites" and opy-li, "wrnth," is the pun here. ^ Simon Mnt;us, the convert of I'liilip the Evanj^elist, is said liy all patristic writers to be at once the fust teacher and the founder of all (poH-Chri ilian) Gnosticism ; hut until the discovery of our text our l<no\\ledi;e of liis doctrines hardly went further than the statements of St. Irenreus and Epiphanius that he claimed to he the Supreme Being, Tlie only other liglit on th.- subject came from Theodoret, who, writing in the fifth century, discloses in a few brief words the assertion by Simon of a system of a.'ons or inferior powers emanating from the Divinity by pairs. It is plain that in tliis, Theodoret must have either borrowed from, or used the same material as, our author, and it is now seen that Simon's a>ons were said by him to be six in number, the sources of all subsequent being, and to be considered under a double aspect. On the one hand, they were names or attributes of God like the Amshaspands of Zoroastrianism or the Sephiroth of the Jewisli Cabala ; and on the other they were identified with natural objects such as Heaven and Earth, Sun and Moon, Earth and Water, thereby forming a link with the Orphic and other cosmogonies current in Circece and the East.