By Water & Blood

On the Quartodecimans

The heresy of the Quartodecimans has this premise. They say that the evangelist John, preaching in Asia, taught them to celebrate the feast of Pascha on the fourteenth of the moon; and, having poorly understood the apostolic tradition, they do not wait for the day of the Lord’s resurrection, but sometimes on the third, sometimes on the fifth, sometimes on the Sabbath, or however it happens, they keep festival in memory of the passion. They also use the spurious Acts of the Apostles and the other bastard writings—rather, alien to grace—which they call apocrypha. They also agree with those of Novatus; for these too turn away from the doctrine concerning repentance.