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Irenaeus of LyonsEstimated Range of Dating: 175-185 C.E.Book IPreface.Chapter I.-Absurd Ideas of the Disciples of Valentinus as to the Origin, Name,Order, and Conjugal Productions of Their Fancied Aeons, with the Passages ofScripture Which They Adapt to Their Opinions.Chapter II.-The Propator Was Known to Mono-Genes Alone. Ambition, Disturbance, andDanger into Which Sophia Fell; Her Shapeless Offspring: She is Restored by Horos.The Production of Christ and of the Holy Spirit, in Order to the Completion of theAeons. Manner of the Production of Jesus.Chapter III.-Texts of Holy Scripture Used by These Heretics to Support TheirOpinions.Chapter IV.-Account Given by the Heretics of the Formation of Achamoth; Origin ofthe Visible World from Her Disturbances.Chapter V.-Formation of the Demiurge; Description of Him. He is the Creator ofEverything Outside of the Pleroma.Chapter VI.-The Threefold Kind of Man Feigned by These Heretics: Good WorksNeedless for Them, Though Necessary to Others: Their Abandoned Morals.Chapter VII.-The Mother Achamoth, When All Her Seed are Perfected, Shall Pass intothe Pleroma, Accompanied by Those Men Who are Spiritual; The Demiurge, with AnimalMen, Shall Pass into the Intermediate Habitation; But All Material Men Shall Gointo Corruption. Their Blasphemous Opinions Against the True Incarnation of Christby the Virgin Mary. Their Views as to the Prophecies. Stupid Ignorance of theDemiurge.Chapter VIII.-How the Valentinians Pervert the Scriptures to Support Their OwnPious Opinions.Chapter IX.-Refutation of the Impious Interpretations of These Heretics.Chapter X.-Unity of the Faith of the Church Throughout the Whole World.Chapter XI.-The Opinions of Valentinus, with Those of His Disciples and Others.Chapter XII.-The Doctrines of the Followers of Ptolemy and Colorbasus.Chapter XIII.-The Deceitful Arts and Nefarious Practices of Marcus.Chapter XIV.-The Various Hypotheses of Marcus and Others. Theories RespectingLetters and Syllables.Chapter XV.-Sige Relates to Marcus the Generation of the Twenty-Four Elements andof Jesus. Exposure of These Absurdities.Chapter XVI.-Absurd Interpretations of the Marcosians.Chapter XVII.-The Theory of the Marcosians, that Created Things Were Made Afterthe Image of Things Invisible.Chapter XVIII.-Passages from Moses, Which the Heretics Pervert to the Support ofTheir Hypothesis.Chapter XIX.-Passages of Scripture by Which They Attempt to Prove that the SupremeFather Was Unknown Before the Coming of Christ.Chapter XX.-The Apocryphal and Spurious Scriptures of the Marcosians, withPassages of the Gospels Which They Pervert.Chapter XXI.-The Views of Redemption Entertained by These Heretics.Chapter XXII.-Deviations of Heretics from the Truth.Chapter XXIII.-Doctrines and Practices of Simon Magus and Menander.Chapter XXIV.-Doctrines of Saturninus and Basilides.Chapter XXV.-Doctrines of Carpocrates.Chapter XXVI.-Doctrines of Cerinthus, the Ebionites, and Nicolaitanes.Chapter XXVII.-Doctrines of Cerdo and Marcion.Chapter XXVIII.-Doctrines of Tatian, the Encratites, and Others.Chapter XXIX.-Doctrines of Various Other Gnostic Sects, and Especially of theBarbeliotes or Borborians.Chapter XXX.-Doctrines of the Ophites and Sethians.Chapter XXXI.-Doctrines of the Cainites.________________________________________
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