{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030299.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030299.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030299.htm","text":"Chapter XXXIII.\u2014Present Heresies (Seedlings of the Tares Noted by the Sacred Writers) Already Condemned in Scripture. This Descent of Later Heresy from the Earlier Traced in Several Instances.\nBesides all this, I add a review of the doctrines themselves, which, existing as they did p. 259 in the days of the apostles, were both exposed and denounced by the said apostles. For by this method they will be more easily reprobated, 2191 when they are detected to have been even then in existence, or at any rate to have been seedlings 2192 of the (tares) which then were. Paul, in his first epistle to the Corinthians, sets his mark on certain who denied and doubted the resurrection. 2193 This opinion was the especial property of the Sadducees. 2194 A part of it, however, is maintained by Marcion and Apelles and Valentinus, and all other impugners of the resurrection. Writing also to the Galatians, he inveighs against such men as observed and defend circumcision and the (Mosaic) law. 2195 Thus runs Hebion\u2019s heresy. Such also as \u201cforbid to marry\u201d he reproaches in his instructions to Timothy. 2196 Now, this is the teaching of Marcion and his follower Apelles. (The apostle) directs a similar blow 2197 against those who said that \u201cthe resurrection was past already.\u201d 2198 Such an opinion did the Valentinians assert of themselves. When again he mentions \u201cendless genealogies,\u201d 2199 one also recognises Valentinus, in whose system a certain \u00c6on, whosoever he be, 2200 of a new name, and that not one only, generates of his own grace 2201 Sense and Truth; and these in like manner produce of themselves Word 2202 and Life, while these again afterwards beget Man and the Church. From these primary eight 2203 ten other \u00c6ons after them spring, and then the twelve others arise with their wonderful names, to complete the mere story of the thirty \u00c6ons. The same apostle, when disapproving of those who are \u201cin bondage to elements,\u201d 2204 points us to some dogma of Hermogenes, who introduces matter as having no beginning, 2205 and then compares it with God, who has no beginning. 2206 By thus making the mother of the elements a goddess, he has it in his power \u201cto be in bondage\u201d to a being which he puts on a par with 2207 God. John, however, in the Apocalypse is charged to chastise those \u201cwho eat things sacrificed to idols,\u201d and \u201cwho commit fornication.\u201d 2208 There are even now another sort of Nicolaitans. Theirs is called the Gaian 2209 heresy. But in his epistle he especially designates those as \u201cAntichrists\u201d who \u201cdenied that Christ was come in the flesh,\u201d 2210 and who refused to think that Jesus was the Son of God. The one dogma Marcion maintained; the other, Hebion. 2211 The doctrine, however, of Simon\u2019s sorcery, which inculcated the worship of angels, 2212 was itself actually reckoned amongst idolatries and condemned by the Apostle Peter in Simon\u2019s own person.\nComp. Tertull. De Resur. Carnis, xxxvi.\n259:2195 259:2196 259:2197 259:2198 259:2199 259:2200 259:2201 259:2202 259:2203\nDe qua prima ogdoade. [See Iren\u00e6us, Vol. I. p. 316, etc. this Series.]\n259:2204 259:2205\nNon natam, literally, \u201cas being unbegotten.\u201d\n259:2206 259:2207 259:2208 259:2209\nGaiana. So Oehler; the common reading being \u201cCaiana.\u201d\n259:2210 259:2211 259:2212\nReferred to perhaps in Col. ii. 18.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part II: Presen...","type":"page"}