Library Theodoret Compendium of Heretical Fables

On Apelles and others

For Apelles added to the unbegottens of Marcion yet another, Fiery. This man also composed another book and named it the Prophecy of Philumene. And he also clothed Christ with a body, not human, but from the substance of the world. Potitus and Blastus and Syneros and Prepon and Python stood at the head of various teachings; and all these have had their starting points from the blasphemy of Marcion. Very many, however, wrote against this impiety. For Justin the philosopher and martyr, and Theophilus the bishop of the Antiochenes, and Philip the bishop of Gortyna, and Irenaeus, of whom we made mention before, bishop of Lugdunum, and Modestus, and Origen, and Rhodon, and Adamantius, and Hippolytus, and Eusebius of Emesa, and all most excellently and most wisely refuted the frenzy of the blasphemy.

Greek: Theodoret of Cyrus, Haereticarum fabularum compendium / Αἱρετικῆς κακομυθίας ἐπιτομή (CPG 6223; PG 83, 336–556). English: study translation for BWAB Library—not a modern copyrighted translation. The full five books are hosted here.