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Hippolytus

Refutation of All Heresies

c. 222–235

Refutatio Omnium Haeresium

Hippolytus’s Philosophumena: Greek philosophy and heresies set against the rule of truth. Books II–III are lost. English in the Ante-Nicene Fathers.

Translated by J.H. MacMahon

English translation by J.H. MacMahon, in Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V (eds. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson; Buffalo: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886). Public domain. Digital text via New Advent Church Fathers.

Contents

• Book 1, Chapter 1: Thales; His Physics and Theology; Founder of Greek Astronomy.
• Book 1, Chapter 2: Pythagoras; His Cosmogony; Rules of His Sect; Discoverer of Physiognomy; His Philosophy of Numbers; His System of the Transmigration of Souls; Zaratas on Demons; Why Pythagoras Forbade the Eating of Beans; The Mode of Living Adopted by His Disciples.
• Book 1, Chapter 3: Empedocles; His Twofold Cause; Tenet of Transmigration.
• Book 1, Chapter 4: Heraclitus; His Universal Dogmatism; His Theory of Flux; Other Systems.
• Book 1, Chapter 5: Anaximander; His Theory of the Infinite; His Astronomic Opinions; His Physics.
• Book 1, Chapter 6: Anaximenes; His System of An Infinite Air; His Views of Astronomy and Natural Phenomena.
• Book 1, Chapter 7: Anaxagoras; His Theory of Mind; Recognises an Efficient Cause; His Cosmogony and Astronomy.
• Book 1, Chapter 8: Archelaus; System Akin to that of Anaxagoras; His Origin of the Earth and of Animals; Other Systems.
• Book 1, Chapter 9: Parmenides; His Theory of Unity; His Eschatology.
• Book 1, Chapter 10: Leucippus; His Atomic Theory.
• Book 1, Chapter 11: Democritus; His Duality of Principles; His Cosmogony.
• Book 1, Chapter 12: Xenophanes; His Scepticism; His Notions of God and Nature; Believes in a Flood.
• Book 1, Chapter 13: Ecphantus; His Scepticism; Tenet of Infinity.
• Book 1, Chapter 14: Hippo; His Duality of Principles; His Psychology.
• Book 1, Chapter 15: Socrates; His Philosophy Reproduced by Plato.
• Book 1, Chapter 16: Plato; Threefold Classification of Principles; His Idea of God; Different Opinions Regarding His Theology and Psychology; His Eschatology and System of Metempsychosis; His Ethical Doctrines; Notions on the Free-Will Question.
• Book 1, Chapter 17: Aristotle; Duality of Principles; His Categories; His Psychology; His Ethical Doctrines; Origin of the Epithet Peripatetic.
• Book 1, Chapter 18: The Stoics; Their Superiority in Logic; Fatalists; Their Doctrine of Conflagrations.
• Book 1, Chapter 19: Epicurus; Adopt's the Democritic Atomism; Denial of Divine Providence; The Principle of His Ethical System.
• Book 1, Chapter 20: The Academics; Difference of Opinion Among Them.
• Book 1, Chapter 21: The Brachmans; Their Mode of Life; Ideas of Deity; Different Sorts Of; Their Ethical Notions.
• Book 1, Chapter 22: The Druids; Progenitors of Their System.
• Book 1, Chapter 23: Hesiod; The Nine Muses; The Hesiodic Cosmogony; The Ancient Speculators, Materialists; Derivative Character of the Heresies from Heathen Philosophy.
• Book 4, Chapter 1: System of the Astrologers; Sidereal Influence; Configuration of the Stars.
• Book 4, Chapter 2: Doctrines Concerning Aeons; The Chaldean Astrology; Heresy Derivable from It.
• Book 4, Chapter 3: The Horoscope the Foundation of Astrology; Indiscoverability of the Horoscope; Therefore the Futility of the Chaldean Art.
• Book 4, Chapter 4: Impossibility of Fixing the Horoscope; Failure of an Attempt to Do This at the Period of Birth.
• Book 4, Chapter 5: Another Method of Fixing the Horoscope at Birth; Equally Futile; Use of the Clepsydra in Astrology; The Predictions of the Chaldeans Not Verified.
• Book 4, Chapter 6: Zodiacal Influence; Origin of Sidereal Names.
• Book 4, Chapter 7: Practical Absurdity of the Chaldaic Art; Development of the Art.
• Book 4, Chapter 8: Prodigies of the Astrologers; System of the Astronomers; Chaldean Doctrine of Circles; Distances of the Heavenly Bodies.
• Book 4, Chapter 9: Further Astronomic Calculations.
• Book 4, Chapter 10: Theory of Stellar Motion and Distance in Accordance with Harmony.
• Book 4, Chapter 11: Theory of the Size of the Heavenly Bodies in Accordance with Numerical Harmonies.
• Book 4, Chapter 12: Waste of Mental Energy in the Systems of the Astrologers.
• Book 4, Chapter 13: Mention of the Heretic Colarbasus; Alliance Between Heresy and the Pythagorean Philosophy.
• Book 4, Chapter 14: System of the Arithmeticians; Predictions Through Calculations; Numerical Roots; Transference of These Doctrines to Letters; Examples in Particular Names; Different Methods of Calculation; Prescience Possible by These.
• Book 4, Chapter 15: Quibbles of the Numerical Theorists; The Art of the Frontispicists (Physiognomy); Connection of This Art with Astrology; Type of Those Born Under Aries.
• Book 4, Chapter 16: Type of Those Born Under Taurus.
• Book 4, Chapter 17: Type of Those Born Under Gemini.
• Book 4, Chapter 18: Type of Those Born Under Cancer.
• Book 4, Chapter 19: Type of Those Born Under Leo.
• Book 4, Chapter 20: Type of Those Born Under Virgo.
• Book 4, Chapter 21: Type of Those Born Under Libra.
• Book 4, Chapter 22: Type of Those Born Under Scorpio.
• Book 4, Chapter 23: Type of Those Born Under Sagittarius.
• Book 4, Chapter 24: Type of Those Born Under Capricorn.
• Book 4, Chapter 25: Type of Those Born Under Aquarius.
• Book 4, Chapter 26: Type of Those Born Under Pisces.
• Book 4, Chapter 27: Futility of This Theory of Stellar Influence.
• Book 4, Chapter 28: System of the Magicians; Incantations of Demons; Secret Magical Rites.
• Book 4, Chapter 29: Display of Different Eggs.
• Book 4, Chapter 30: Self-Slaughter of Sheep.
• Book 4, Chapter 31: Method of Poisoning Goats.
• Book 4, Chapter 32: Imitations of Thunder, and Other Illusions.
• Book 4, Chapter 33: The Burning Aesculapius; Tricks with Fire.
• Book 4, Chapter 34: The Illusion of the Sealed Letters; Object in Detailing These Juggleries.
• Book 4, Chapter 35: The Divination by a Cauldron; Illusion of Fiery Demons; Specimen of a Magical Invocation.
• Book 4, Chapter 36: Mode of Managing an Apparition.
• Book 4, Chapter 37: Illusive Appearance of the Moon.
• Book 4, Chapter 38: Illusive Appearance of the Stars.
• Book 4, Chapter 39: Imitation of an Earthquake.
• Book 4, Chapter 40: Trick with the Liver.
• Book 4, Chapter 41: Making a Skull Speak.
• Book 4, Chapter 42: The Fraud of the Foregoing Practices; Their Connection with Heresy.
• Book 4, Chapter 43: Recapitulation of Theologies and Cosmogonies; System of the Persians; Of the Babylonians; The Egyptian Notion of Deity; Their Theology Based on a Theory of Numbers; Their System of Cosmogony.
• Book 4, Chapter 44: Egyptian Theory of Nature; Their Amulets.
• Book 4, Chapter 45: Use of the Foregoing Discussions.
• Book 4, Chapter 46: The Astrotheosophists; Aratus Imitated by the Heresiarchs; His System of the Disposition of the Stars.
• Book 4, Chapter 47: Opinions of the Heretics Borrowed from Aratus.
• Book 4, Chapter 48: Invention of the Lyre; Allegorizing the Appearance and Position of the Stars; Origin of the Phoenicians; The Logos Identified by Aratus with the Constellation Canis; Influence of Canis on Fertility and Life Generally.
• Book 4, Chapter 49: Symbol of the Creature; And of Spirit; And of the Different Orders of Animals.
• Book 4, Chapter 50: Folly of Astrology.
• Book 4, Chapter 51: The Hebdomadarii; System of the Arithmeticians; Pressed into the Service of Heresy; Instances Of, in Simon and Valentinus; The Nature of the Universe Deducible from the Physiology of the Brain.
• Book 5, Chapter 1: Recapitulation; Characteristics of Heresy; Origin of the Name Naasseni; The System of the Naasseni.
• Book 5, Chapter 2: Naasseni Ascribe Their System, Through Mariamne, to James the Lord's Brother; Really Traceable to the Ancient Mysteries; Their Psychology as Given in the Gospel According to Thomas; Assyrian Theory of the Soul; The Systems of the Naasseni and the Assyrians Compared; Support Drawn by the Naasseni from the Phrygian and Egyptian Mysteries; The Mysteries of Isis; These Mysteries Allegorized by the Naasseni.
• Book 5, Chapter 3: Further Exposition of the Heresy of the Naasseni; Profess to Follow Homer; Acknowledge a Triad of Principles; Their Technical Names of the Triad; Support These on the Authority of Greek Poets; Allegorize Our Saviour's Miracles; The Mystery of the Samothracians; Why the Lord Chose Twelve Disciples; The Name Corybas, Used by Thracians and Phrygians, Explained; Naasseni Profess to Find Their System in Scripture; Their Interpretation of Jacob's Vision; Their Idea of the Perfect Man; The Perfect Man Called Papa By the Phrygians; The Naasseni and Phrygians on the Resurrection; The Ecstasis of St. Paul; The Mysteries of Religion as Alluded to by Christ; Interpretation of the Parable of the Sower; Allegory of the Promised Land; Comparison of the System of the Phrygians with the Statements of Scripture; Exposition of the Meaning of the Higher and Lower Eleusinian Mysteries; The Incarnation Discoverable Here According to the Naasseni.
• Book 5, Chapter 4: Further Use Made of the System of the Phrygians; Mode of Celebrating the Mysteries; The Mystery of the Great Mother; These Mysteries Have a Joint Object of Worship with the Naasseni; The Naasseni Allegorize the Scriptural Account of the Garden of Eden; The Allegory Applied to the Life of Jesus.
• Book 5, Chapter 5: Explanation of the System of the Naasseni Taken from One of Their Hymns.
• Book 5, Chapter 6: The Ophites the Grand Source of Heresy.
• Book 5, Chapter 7: The System of the Peratae; Their Tritheism; Explanation of the Incarnation.
• Book 5, Chapter 8: The Peratae Derive Their System from the Astrologers; This Proved by a Statement of the Astrological Theories of the Zodiac; Hence the Terminology of the Peratic Heretics.
• Book 5, Chapter 9: System of the Peratae Explained Out of One of Their Own Books.
• Book 5, Chapter 10: The Peratic Heresy Nominally Different from Astrology, But Really the Same System Allegorized.
• Book 5, Chapter 11: Why They Call Themselves Peratae; Their Theory of Generation Supported by an Appeal to Antiquity; Their Interpretation of the Exodus of Israel; Their System of The Serpent; Deduced by Them from Scripture; This the Real Import of the Doctrines of the Astrologers.
• Book 5, Chapter 12: Compendious Statement of the Doctrines of the Peratae.
• Book 5, Chapter 13: The Peratic Heresy Not Generally Known.
• Book 5, Chapter 14: The System of the Sethians; Their Triad of Infinite Principles; Their Heresy Explained; Their Interpretation of the Incarnation.
• Book 5, Chapter 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.
• Book 5, Chapter 16: The Sethian Theory Concerning Mixture And Composition; Application of It to Christ; Illustration from the Well of Ampa.
• Book 5, Chapter 17: The Sethian Doctrines to Be Learned from the Paraphrase of Seth.
• Book 5, Chapter 18: The System of Justinus Antiscriptural and Essentially Pagan.
• Book 5, Chapter 19: The Justinian Heresy Unfolded in the Book of Baruch.
• Book 5, Chapter 20: The Cosmogony of Justinus an Allegorical Explanation of Herodotus' Legend of Hercules.
• Book 5, Chapter 21: Justinus' Triad of Principles; His Angelography Founded on This Triad; His Explanation of the Birth, Life, and Death of Our Lord.
• Book 5, Chapter 22: Oath Used by the Justinian Heretics; The Book of Baruch; The Repertory of Their System.
• Book 5, Chapter 23: Subsequent Heresies Deducible from the System of Justinus.
• Book 6, Chapter 1: The Ophites the Progenitors of Subsequent Heresies.
• Book 6, Chapter 2: Simon Magus.
• Book 6, Chapter 3: Story of Apsethus the Libyan.
• Book 6, Chapter 4: Simon's Forced Interpretation of Scripture; Plagiarizes from Heraclitus and Aristotle; Simon's System of Sensible and Intelligible Existences.
• Book 6, Chapter 5: Simon Appeals to Scripture in Support of His System.
• Book 6, Chapter 6: Simon's System Expounded in the Work, Great Announcement; Follows Empedocles.
• Book 6, Chapter 7: Simon's System of a Threefold Emanation by Pairs.
• Book 6, Chapter 8: Further Progression of This Threefold Emanation; Co-Existence with the Double Triad of a Seventh Existence.
• Book 6, Chapter 9: Simon's Interpretation of the Mosaic Hexaëmeron; His Allegorical Representation of Paradise.
• Book 6, Chapter 10: Simon's Explanation of the First Two Books of Moses.
• Book 6, Chapter 11: Simon's Explanation of the Three Last Books of the Pentateuch.
• Book 6, Chapter 12: Fire a Primal Principle, According to Simon.
• Book 6, Chapter 13: His Doctrine of Emanation Further Expanded.
• Book 6, Chapter 14: Simon Interprets His System by the Mythological Representation of Helen of Troy; Gives an Account of Himself in Connection with the Trojan Heroine; Immorality of His Followers; Simon's View of Christ; The Simonists' Apology for Their Vice.
• Book 6, Chapter 15: Simon's Disciples Adopt the Mysteries; Simon Meets St. Peter at Rome; Account of Simon's Closing Years.
• Book 6, Chapter 16: Heresy of Valentinus; Derived from Plato and Pythagoras.
• Book 6, Chapter 17: Origin of the Greek Philosophy.
• Book 6, Chapter 18: Pythagoras' System of Numbers.
• Book 6, Chapter 19: Pythagoras' Duality of Substances; His Categories.
• Book 6, Chapter 20: Pythagoras' Cosmogony; Similar to that of Empedocles.
• Book 6, Chapter 21: Other Opinions of Pythagoras.
• Book 6, Chapter 22: The Sayings Of Pythagoras.
• Book 6, Chapter 23: Pythagoras' Astronomic System.
• Book 6, Chapter 24: Valentinus Convicted of Plagiarisms from the Platonic and Pythagoric Philosophy; The Valentinian Theory of Emanation by Duads.
• Book 6, Chapter 25: The Tenet of the Duad Made the Foundation of Valentinus' System of the Emanation of Aeons.
• Book 6, Chapter 26: Valentinus' Explanation of the Existence of Christ and the Spirit.
• Book 6, Chapter 27: Valentinus' Explanation of the Existence of Jesus; Power of Jesus Over Humanity.
• Book 6, Chapter 28: The Valentinian Origin of the Creation.
• Book 6, Chapter 29: The Other Valentinian Emanations in Conformity with the Pythagorean System of Numbers.
• Book 6, Chapter 30: Valentinus' Explanation of the Birth of Jesus; Twofold Doctrine on the Nature of Jesus' Body; Opinion of the Italians, that Is, Heracleon and Ptolemaeus; Opinion of the Orientals, that Is, Axionicus and Bardesanes.
• Book 6, Chapter 31: Further Doctrines of Valentinus Respecting the Aeons; Reasons for the Incarnation.
• Book 6, Chapter 32: Valentinus Convicted of Plagiarisms from Plato.
• Book 6, Chapter 33: Secundus' System of Aeons; Epiphanes; Ptolemaeus.
• Book 6, Chapter 34: System of Marcus; A Mere Impostor; His Wicked Devices Upon the Eucharistic Cup.
• Book 6, Chapter 35: Further Acts of Jugglery on the Part of Marcus.
• Book 6, Chapter 36: The Heretical Practices of the Marcites in Regard of Baptism.
• Book 6, Chapter 37: Marcus' System Explained by Irenaeus; Marcus' Vision; The Vision of Valentinus Revealing to Him His System.
• Book 6, Chapter 38: Marcus' System of Letters.
• Book 6, Chapter 39: The Quaternion Exhibits Truth.
• Book 6, Chapter 40: The Name of Christ Jesus.
• Book 6, Chapter 41: Marcus' Mystic Interpretation of the Alphabet.
• Book 6, Chapter 42: His System Applied to Explain Our Lord's Life and Death.
• Book 6, Chapter 43: Letters, Symbols of the Heavens.
• Book 6, Chapter 44: Respecting the Generation of the Twenty-Four Letters.
• Book 6, Chapter 45: Why Jesus is Called Alpha.
• Book 6, Chapter 46: Marcus' Account of the Birth and Life of Our Lord.
• Book 6, Chapter 47: The System of Marcus Shown to Be that of Pythagoras, by Quotations from the Writings of Marcus' Followers.
• Book 6, Chapter 48: Their Cosmogony Framed According to These Mystic Doctrines of Letters.
• Book 6, Chapter 49: The Work of the Demiurge Perishable.
• Book 6, Chapter 50: Marcus and Colarbasus Refuted by Irenaeus.
• Book 7, Chapter 1: Heresy Compared to (1) the Stormy Ocean, (2) the Rocks of the Sirens; Moral from Ulysses and the Sirens.
• Book 7, Chapter 2: The System of Basilides Derived from Aristotle.
• Book 7, Chapter 3: Sketch of Aristotle's Philosophy.
• Book 7, Chapter 4: Aristotle's General Idea.
• Book 7, Chapter 5: Nonentity as a Cause.
• Book 7, Chapter 6: Substance, According to Aristotle; The Predicates.
• Book 7, Chapter 7: Aristotle's Cosmogony; His Psychology; His Entelecheia; His Theology; His Ethics; Basilides Follows Aristotle.
• Book 7, Chapter 8: Basilides and Isidorus Allege Apostolic Sanction for Their Systems; They Really Follow Aristotle.
• Book 7, Chapter 9: Basilides Adopts the Aristotelian Doctrine of Nonentity.
• Book 7, Chapter 10: Origin of the World; Basilides' Account of the Sonship.
• Book 7, Chapter 11: The Great Archon Of Basilides.
• Book 7, Chapter 12: Basilides Adopts the Entelecheia Of Aristotle.
• Book 7, Chapter 13: Further Explanation of the Sonship.
• Book 7, Chapter 14: Whence Came the Gospel; The Number of Heavens According to Basilides; Explanation of Christ's Miraculous Conception.
• Book 7, Chapter 15: God's Dealings with the Creature; Basilides' Notion of (1) the Inner Man, (2) the Gospel; His Interpretation of the Life and Sufferings of Our Lord.
• Book 7, Chapter 16: The System of Saturnilus.
• Book 7, Chapter 17: Marcion; His Dualism; Derives His System from Empedocles; Sketch of the Doctrine of Empedocles.
• Book 7, Chapter 18: Source of Marcionism; Empedocles Reasserted as the Suggester of the Heresy.
• Book 7, Chapter 19: The Heresy of Prepon; Follows Empedocles; Marcion Rejects the Generation of the Saviour.
• Book 7, Chapter 20: The Heresy of Carpocrates; Wicked Doctrines Concerning Jesus Christ; Practise Magical Arts; Adopt a Metempsychosis.
• Book 7, Chapter 21: The System of Cerinthus Concerning Christ.
• Book 7, Chapter 22: Doctrine of the Ebionaeans.
• Book 7, Chapter 23: The Heresy of Theodotus.
• Book 7, Chapter 24: The Melchisedecians; The Nicolaitans.
• Book 7, Chapter 25: The Heresy of Cerdon.
• Book 7, Chapter 26: The Doctrines of Apelles; Philumene, His Prophetess.
• Book 8, Chapter 1: Heresies Hitherto Refuted; Opinions of the Docetae.
• Book 8, Chapter 2: Docetic Notion of the Incarnation; Their Doctrines of Aeons; Their Account of Creation; Their Notion of a Fiery God.
• Book 8, Chapter 3: Christ Undoes the Work of the Demiurge; Docetic Account of the Baptism and Death of Jesus; Why He Lived for Thirty Years on Earth.
• Book 8, Chapter 4: Docetic Doctrine Derived from the Greek Sophists.
• Book 8, Chapter 5: Monoïmus; Man the Universe, According to Monoïmus; His System of the Monad.
• Book 8, Chapter 6: Monoïmus' Iota; His Notion of the Son of Man.
• Book 8, Chapter 7: Monoïmus on the Sabbath; Allegorizes the Rod of Moses; Notion Concerning the Decalogue.
• Book 8, Chapter 8: Monoïmus Explains His Opinions in a Letter to Theophrastus; Where to Find God; His System Derived from Pythagoras.
• Book 8, Chapter 9: Tatian.
• Book 8, Chapter 10: Hermogenes; Adopts the Socratic Philosophy; His Notion Concerning the Birth and Body of Our Lord.
• Book 8, Chapter 11: The Quartodecimans.
• Book 8, Chapter 12: The Montanists; Priscilla and Maximilla Their Prophetesses; Some of Them Noetians.
• Book 8, Chapter 13: The Doctrines of the Encratites.
• Book 9, Chapter 1: An Account of Contemporaneous Heresy.
• Book 9, Chapter 2: Source of the Heresy of Noetus; Cleomenes His Disciple; Its Appearance at Rome During the Episcopates of Zephyrinus and Callistus; Noetianism Opposed at Rome by Hippolytus.
• Book 9, Chapter 3: Noetianism an Offshoot from the Heraclitic Philosophy.
• Book 9, Chapter 4: An Account of the System of Heraclitus.
• Book 9, Chapter 5: Heraclitus' Estimate of Hesiod; Paradoxes of Heraclitus; His Eschatology; The Heresy of Noetus of Heraclitean Origin; Noetus' View of the Birth and Passion of Our Lord.
• Book 9, Chapter 6: Conduct of Callistus and Zephyrinus in the Matter of Noetianism; Avowed Opinion of Zephyrinus Concerning Jesus Christ; Disapproval of Hippolytus; As a Contemporaneous Event, Hippolytus Competent to Explain It.
• Book 9, Chapter 7: The Personal History of Callistus; His Occupation as a Banker; Fraud on Carpophorus; Callistus Absconds; Attempted Suicide; Condemned to the Treadmill; Re-Condemnation by Order of the Prefect Fuscianus; Banished to Sardinia; Release of Callistus by the Interference Of Marcion; Callistus Arrives at Rome; Pope Victor Removes Callistus to Antium; Return of Callistus on Victor's Death; Zephyrinus Friendly to Him; Callistus Accused by Sabellius; Hippolytus' Account of the Opinions of Callistus; The Callistian School at Rome, and Its Practices; This Sect in Existence in Hippolytus' Time.
• Book 9, Chapter 8: Sect of the Elchasaites; Hippolytus' Opposition to It.
• Book 9, Chapter 9: Elchasai Derived His System from Pythagoras; Practised Incantations.
• Book 9, Chapter 10: Elchasai's Mode of Administering Baptism; Formularies.
• Book 9, Chapter 11: Precepts of Elchasai.
• Book 9, Chapter 12: The Heresy of the Elchasaites a Derivative One.
• Book 9, Chapter 13: The Jewish Sects.
• Book 9, Chapter 14: The Tenets of the Esseni.
• Book 9, Chapter 15: The Tenets of the Esseni Continued.
• Book 9, Chapter 16: The Tenets of the Esseni Continued.
• Book 9, Chapter 17: The Tenets of the Esseni Continued.
• Book 9, Chapter 18: The Tenets of the Esseni Continued.
• Book 9, Chapter 19: The Tenets of the Esseni Continued.
• Book 9, Chapter 20: The Tenets of the Esseni Concluded.
• Book 9, Chapter 21: Different Sects of the Esseni.
• Book 9, Chapter 22: Belief of the Esseni in the Resurrection; Their System a Suggestive One.
• Book 9, Chapter 23: Another Sect of the Esseni: the Pharisees.
• Book 9, Chapter 24: The Sadducees.
• Book 9, Chapter 25: The Jewish Religion.
• Book 9, Chapter 26: Conclusion to the Work Explained.
• Book 10, Chapter 1: Recapitulation.
• Book 10, Chapter 2: Summary of the Opinions of Philosophers.
• Book 10, Chapter 3: Summary of the Opinions of Philosophers Continued.
• Book 10, Chapter 4: Summary of the Opinions of Philosophers Continued.
• Book 10, Chapter 5: The Naasseni.
• Book 10, Chapter 6: The Peratae.
• Book 10, Chapter 7: The Sethians.
• Book 10, Chapter 8: Simon Magus.
• Book 10, Chapter 9: Valentinus.
• Book 10, Chapter 10: Basilides.
• Book 10, Chapter 11: Justinus.
• Book 10, Chapter 12: The Docetae.
• Book 10, Chapter 13: Monoïmus.
• Book 10, Chapter 14: Tatian.
• Book 10, Chapter 15: Marcion and Cerdo.
• Book 10, Chapter 16: Apelles.
• Book 10, Chapter 17: Cerinthus.
• Book 10, Chapter 18: The Ebionaeans.
• Book 10, Chapter 19: Theodotus.
• Book 10, Chapter 20: Melchisedecians.
• Book 10, Chapter 21: The Phrygians or Montanists.
• Book 10, Chapter 22: The Phrygians or Montanists Continued.
• Book 10, Chapter 23: Noetus and Callistus.
• Book 10, Chapter 24: Hermogenes.
• Book 10, Chapter 25: The Elchasaites.
• Book 10, Chapter 26: Jewish Chronology.
• Book 10, Chapter 27: Jewish Chronology Continued.
• Book 10, Chapter 28: The Doctrine of the Truth.
• Book 10, Chapter 29: The Doctrine of the Truth Continued.
• Book 10, Chapter 30: The Author's Concluding Address.