Book of Heresies 0.1–36.5
Latin text: Marx, CSEL 38 (1898) (Latin text: F. Marx, CSEL 38 (1898), digitized by Open Greek and Latin (csel-dev, University of Leipzig), CC BY-SA 4.0).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Book of Heresies 0.1
0.1CSEL 38:1
De hereseon diuersa pestilentia, uariisque erroribus qui ab origine mundi emerserint et sub Iudaeis defluxerint et ex quo uenit dominus noster Iesus saluator in carne pullulauerint, dicere oportet numerumque earum paulatim exponere inimicumque humani generis [diabolum] perdici fuisse a sancto propheta non inmerito comparatum agnoscere:
Concerning the various plague of heresies, and the various errors that arose from the beginning of the world, that flowed down among the Jews, and that have sprung up since our Lord Jesus the Saviour came in the flesh, it is necessary to speak and to set out their number little by little, and to recognize that the enemy of the human race [the devil] was not undeservedly compared by the holy prophet to a partridge:
Jer 17:11 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Philastrius opens his catalogue of heresies by comparing the devil to the prophet's partridge.
- “[the devil]”: the word diabolum is bracketed by Marx. The comparison is to Jer 17:11, quoted in 0.3.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 0.1 (CSEL 38:1; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/0-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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0.2CSEL 38:1
qui cum infecunditatem patiatur saepius [perdix, ** aliorumque furtim fetus incubans quasi suos iam fouet ac uindicat filios usque ad tempus aliquod; cumque eis iam tempus aetatis discernens adcreuerit, tunc amissis falsis parentibus, iura parentum sensu proprio recordantes, palamque oculis intuentes, sequi eos amplius non demorantur. Quorum causa nobis similitudo haec nuntiata est?
for since it often suffers barrenness, [the partridge] … secretly sits on the brood of others and cherishes and claims them as its own young, until a certain time; but when the age of discernment has come upon them, then, leaving their false parents, recalling by their own sense the rights of their parents and seeing them plainly with their eyes, they no longer delay to follow them. For what reason was this likeness announced to us?
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: The partridge hatches others' eggs, but the young leave it when they recognize their true parents.
- “[the partridge]”: bracketed by Marx (the closing bracket is missing in the digital text). The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 0.2 (CSEL 38:1; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/0-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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0.3CSEL 38:1
Quod diabolo relicto impietatis causa eius qui. orbem terrarum sui sub dicione ac potestate cum tenere putaret, *** postque uero Christo parente a nobis uiso et recognito, amissa falsitate parentis mendacissimi, iam ueri parentis Christi uestigia sequi omnis homo non moratur agnoscens. Cottidie per aenigma enim compleri cognoscimus prophetiam Hieremiae beatissimi ita dicentem: Clamauit perdix, collegit quae non parturiit, faciens sibi diuitias non cum sapientia, in medio dierum derelinquent eum, et in postremo erit insipiens,
Because, leaving the devil, by reason of the impiety of him who supposed that he held the whole world under his rule and power, … but afterwards, when Christ the parent has been seen and recognized by us, every man, having lost the falsehood of that most lying parent, does not delay, recognizing him, to follow the footsteps of the true parent, Christ. For we see daily fulfilled, as in a riddle, the prophecy of the most blessed Jeremiah, which says: “The partridge cried out, it gathered what it did not bring forth, making riches for itself not with wisdom; in the midst of its days they will forsake it, and at the last it will be a fool,”
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Jer 17:11 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The parable means that people leave the devil once they recognize Christ, fulfilling Jeremiah's saying about the partridge.
- The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”). The quotation is Jer 17:11 in a Latin form following the Greek (“cried out … gathered”).
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 0.3 (CSEL 38:1; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/0-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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0.4CSEL 38:1–2
quod nunc deserentes cottidie omnes gentes idolatriam mortiferam inimici, Christum iam uerum deum de lege et prophetis audientes eumque cum patre semper esse credentes ac recordantes, aeque ad eum modis omnibus supplices properant peruolare, ut compleatur prophetia: Recordabuntur et conuertentur ad dominum Christum omnes fines orbis terrarum. HIC ITAQVE HERETICORUM EST NUMERUS A MUNDI INITIO ATQVE ORIGINE:
which is now seen, as all nations daily forsake the deadly idolatry of the enemy, hearing from the law and the prophets that Christ is now the true God, and believing and recalling that he is always with the Father, and likewise hasten in every way as suppliants to fly to him, so that the prophecy may be fulfilled: “All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord Christ.” THIS, THEN, IS THE NUMBER OF THE HERETICS FROM THE BEGINNING AND ORIGIN OF THE WORLD:
Ps 22:27 (21:28 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The nations turning from idols to Christ fulfil the psalm, and the list of heresies begins.
- Ps 22:27 (21:28 LXX/Vulg.), with “Christ” added by Philastrius.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 0.4 (CSEL 38:1–2; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/0-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 1
1.1CSEL 38:2
PRIMI sunt Ofitae, qui dicuntur et Serpentini. Isti serpentem id est colubrem uenerantur, dicentes quod hic prior initium nobis scientiae boni et mali adtulerit. Unde ei deum inuidisse adserunt, quia scientiam, inquit, primus detulit mulieri bonae rei atque malae, perque illam ita ad genus omne hominum permanauerit;
FIRST are the Ophites, who are also called Serpentines. They worship the serpent, that is, the snake, saying that it first brought us the beginning of the knowledge of good and evil. Hence they assert that God envied it, because, they say, it was the first to bring the woman the knowledge of good and evil, and through her this passed thus to the whole human race;
Gen 3:1–5 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Ophites worship the serpent as the bringer of knowledge.
Topics: Heresy, Gnosticism
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 1.1 (CSEL 38:2; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/1-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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1.2CSEL 38:2
propter quod et de caelo primo deiectus est, inquit, in alterum; unde eum et de caelo aiunt aduenturum, et uelut aliquam dei uirtutem esse eundem aestimant, atque eum adnuntiant adorandum.
and for this reason, they say, it was cast down from the first heaven into another; hence they also say that it will come from heaven, and they consider it to be a certain power of God, and proclaim that it must be worshipped.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Ophites hold that the serpent was cast from the first heaven and will return.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 1.2 (CSEL 38:2; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/1-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 2
2.1CSEL 38:2
Alii sunt Caiani, qui Cain laudant fratricidam, primogenitum patris nostri ac beati Adae protoplasti, dicentes ex altera
Others are the Cainites, who praise Cain the fratricide, the firstborn of our father, blessed Adam the first-formed, saying that from one
Gen 4:8 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Cainites praise Cain.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 2.1 (CSEL 38:2; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/2-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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2.2CSEL 38:2
uirtute, id est diaboli, Cain factum, ex altera autem Abel beatissimum natum, et uirtutem maiorem, quae erat in ipso Cain, inualuisse, inquit, ut suum interficeret fratrem.
power, that is, the devil's, Cain was made, but from another the most blessed Abel was born, and that the greater power, which was in Cain himself, prevailed, they say, so that he killed his brother.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Cainites say Cain came from a stronger power than Abel and so prevailed.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 2.2 (CSEL 38:2; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/2-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 3
3.1CSEL 38:2–3
Alia autem est heresis Sethianorum, quae Seth filium Adae postea genitum hocque appellatum: nomine uenerantur, qui post interfectionem Abel beatissimi natus est; ex quo et Sethiani appellantur, colentes eum ac dicentes quod duobus creatis hominibus initio et angelis in dissensione constitutis tenuit uirtus. in caelo feminea; apud eos enim masculi et feminae, dii deaeque esse putantur.
Another heresy is that of the Sethians, who venerate Seth, the son of Adam born later and so named, who was born after the killing of the most blessed Abel; from him they are called Sethians. They worship him and say that when two men had been created at the beginning and the angels were in discord, a female power in heaven prevailed; for among them males and females are thought to be gods and goddesses.
Gen 4:25 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Sethians venerate Seth and speak of a female heavenly power.
Topics: Heresy, Gnosticism
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 3.1 (CSEL 38:2–3; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/3-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.2CSEL 38:3
Quod peruidens, inquit, mater, quia occisus est Abel iustus, cogitauit ut pareret iustum Seth, in quem et collocauit magnae uirtutis spiritum, ut possint destrui, inquit, uirtutes inimicae.
Seeing this, they say, the mother, because the righteous Abel had been killed, planned to bear the righteous Seth, in whom she also placed the spirit of great power, so that, they say, the hostile powers might be destroyed.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Sethians say the heavenly mother placed great power in Seth.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 3.2 (CSEL 38:3; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/3-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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3.3CSEL 38:3
De Seth autem ipso Christum deum genus deducere aiunt. Quidam autem ex eis non solum genus de eo deducere, sed etiam ipsum Christum esse adserunt atque opinantur.
They say that Christ God derives his descent from Seth himself. Some of them, however, assert and hold not only that he derives his descent from him, but that he is Christ himself.
Notes and citation
Summary: Some Sethians identify Seth with Christ.
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 3.3 (CSEL 38:3; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/3-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 4
4.1CSEL 38:3
Dositheus quidam postea, Iudaeus genere, ausus est dicere secundum carnem solum esse uiuendum, in lege dei deque ea resurrectionem non sperans futuram
A certain Dositheus later, a Jew by birth, dared to say that one should live according to the flesh alone, not hoping from the law of God for a resurrection to come
Notes and citation
Summary: Dositheus taught living by the flesh and denied the resurrection.
Topics: Heresy, Resurrection of the body
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 4.1 (CSEL 38:3; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/4-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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4.2CSEL 38:3
nec dei spiritum nec angelum esse credens nec futurum iudicium de lege atque prophetis expectans.
nor believing that there is a Spirit of God or an angel, nor expecting from the law and the prophets a judgment to come.
Notes and citation
Summary: Dositheus denied the Spirit, angels and the judgment.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 4.2 (CSEL 38:3; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/4-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 5
5.1CSEL 38:3
Sadducei post ipsum, a Saddoc homine Iudaeo qui hoc nomine uocabatur — qui discipulus fuit illius, qui et confirmauit hanc heresim, ut ex eo Sadducei dicerentur — secundum carnem aeque solum praedicant uiuendum, circumcidendum, corpusque baptizandum,
After him the Sadducees, from Saddoc, a Jewish man who was called by this name — he was a disciple of that man, and he also established this heresy, so that from him they were called Sadducees — likewise preach that one should live only according to the flesh, be circumcised, and have the body washed,
Notes and citation
Summary: The Sadducees, named after Saddoc, a disciple of Dositheus, live by the flesh alone.
- baptizandum: ritual washing of the body.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 5.1 (CSEL 38:3; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/5-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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5.2CSEL 38:3
de lege autem diuina non aliud expectantes, Epicuream dementiam potius quam diuinae legis iura sectantes. De quibus et in euangelio scriptum est docente domino contraque hanc heresim pestiferam praedicante.
but expecting nothing else from the divine law, following the madness of Epicurus rather than the ordinances of the divine law. Of them it is also written in the gospel, when the Lord taught and preached against this pestilent heresy.
Matt 22:23–33 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Sadducees follow Epicurus rather than the law, and the Lord preached against them.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 5.2 (CSEL 38:3; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/5-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 6
6.1CSEL 38:3
Alia autem est Pharisaeorum, quae resurrectionem futuram confitetur, legem accipit et prophetas, Christum autem expectant ut iustum hominem.
Another is that of the Pharisees, which confesses a resurrection to come and accepts the law and the prophets, but they expect Christ as a righteous man.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Pharisees accept the resurrection but expect Christ as a mere man.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 6.1 (CSEL 38:3; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/6-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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6.2CSEL 38:3–4
Hi iudaizant et euangelia non accipiunt, et quaedam tempora Christo domino nostro esse contraria adserunt.
They Judaize and do not accept the gospels, and assert that certain times are opposed to Christ our Lord.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Pharisees reject the gospels.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 6.2 (CSEL 38:3–4; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/6-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 7
7.1CSEL 38:4
Alii autem Samaritani sunt a Samareo rege ita nuncupati. Alii autem aiunt a filio Canaan, qui hoc nomine Samareus uocabatur, a quo Samaritani sunt appellati. Isti legem accipiunt Mosi, id est quattuor solum libros, iudicium futurum non expectantes, resurrectionem negantes, Christum deum dei filium in lege et prophetis nuntiatum ante non credentes,
Others are the Samaritans, so called from King Samareus. Others say they are named from a son of Canaan who was called by this name, Samareus, from whom the Samaritans were named. These accept the law of Moses, that is, only four books, not expecting a judgment to come, denying the resurrection, not believing that Christ God, the Son of God, was announced beforehand in the law and the prophets,
Notes and citation
Summary: The Samaritans accept only part of the law and deny the resurrection and judgment.
- “only four books”: so the text; other heresiologists credit the Samaritans with the five books of Moses.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 7.1 (CSEL 38:4; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/7-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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7.2CSEL 38:4
animam etiam inmortalem habere hominem iuxta legem non sentientes, solum autem hoc in corpore uiuendum esse putantes, resurrectionemque futuram in procreatione filiorum, quae in hoc saeculo fit cottidie, hanc aestimantes eamque praedicantes uanitatem, insensatis quippe pecudibus comparati, ut scriptum est in propheta: Homo in honore constitutus non intellexit, comparatus pecudibus insensatis, et similis eis factus est.
not holding, according to the law, that man has an immortal soul, but thinking that one lives only in this body, and supposing and preaching this vanity: that the resurrection to come is in the begetting of children, which takes place daily in this age; being compared indeed to senseless cattle, as it is written in the prophet: “Man, being set in honour, did not understand; he is compared to senseless cattle, and has become like them.”
Ps 49:20 (48:21 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Samaritans deny the soul's immortality and are like the senseless cattle of the psalm.
- Ps 49:12, 20 (48:13, 21 LXX/Vulg.).
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 7.2 (CSEL 38:4; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/7-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 8
8.1CSEL 38:4
Alia est heresis Iudaeorum qui dicuntur Nazorei, quae legem et prophetas accipit, carnaliter tamen uiuendum adfirmat, omnemque iustificationem in carnali obseruantia consi-
Another is the heresy of the Jews who are called Nazoreans, which accepts the law and the prophets, yet affirms that one should live in a carnal way, and supposes that all justification consists
Notes and citation
Summary: The Nazoreans hold that justification lies in carnal observance.
Topics: Heresy, Justification
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 8.1 (CSEL 38:4; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/8-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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8.2CSEL 38:4–5
stere suspicatur, crines etiam nutrientes capitis omnemque uirtutem iustitiae in eo putantes consistere, quasi a Samson illo iudice sibi hoc praesumentes indicii quia Nazorei uocabantur: a quo postea pagani fortes uiros ex illius figura usurpantes Hercules nuncuparunt.
in carnal observance; they also let the hair of the head grow, thinking that all the power of righteousness consists in it, as though presuming this for themselves from the sign of that judge Samson, because they were called Nazirites; from whom the pagans later, taking over brave men after his pattern, named them Hercules.
Judg 16:17 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Nazoreans grow their hair after Samson, whom the pagans imitated in Hercules.
- The word consistere is split between 8.1 and 8.2 in the digital text.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 8.2 (CSEL 38:4–5; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/8-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 9
9.1CSEL 38:5
Esseni autem alii sunt, qui hoc nomine appellantur. Hi monachorum uitam exercent, escas deliciosas non sumentes nec studium in uestimentis gerentes nec possidentes aliquid, lec.
Others again are the Essenes, who are called by this name. They practise the life of monks, not taking delicate foods, taking no care over clothing, owning nothing,
Notes and citation
Summary: The Essenes live like monks.
Topics: Heresy, Monastic life
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 9.1 (CSEL 38:5; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/9-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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9.2CSEL 38:5
tioni autem et bonis operibus insistentes, in locis etiam separatis habitantes, Christum autem deum dei filium non expectantes, nec in lege atque prophetis eum dominum agnoscentes adnuntiatum, sed ut prophetam aut iustum hominem solum credentes expectant.
but devoting themselves to reading and good works, living also in separate places; yet they do not expect Christ God, the Son of God, nor recognize him as the Lord announced in the law and the prophets, but believe in and expect him only as a prophet or a righteous man.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Essenes do good works but expect Christ only as a prophet.
- The word lectioni (“reading”) is split between 9.1 and 9.2 in the digital text.
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 9.2 (CSEL 38:5; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/9-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 10
10.1CSEL 38:5
Alii autem sunt Heliognosti, qui et Deinuictiaci dicuntur, solem adorantes, atque dicentes solem scire omnia quae dei sunt, homines etiam non alium nisi solem inluminare, solemque eis praebere omnia nutrimenta, non cognoscentes quod in seruitute positus cursum suum peragrat a deo patre per Christum dominum in sancto spiritu statutum cottidie, de quo scriptum est: Qui dicit soli oriri, et oritur, et non oriri, et non oritur.
Others are the Heliognostics, who are also called Deinvictiaci, worshipping the sun and saying that the sun knows all the things of God, that no one but the sun gives men light, and that the sun supplies them with all nourishment; not knowing that, set in servitude, it runs its course daily as appointed by God the Father through Christ the Lord in the Holy Spirit, of which it is written: “Who commands the sun to rise, and it rises, and not to rise, and it does not rise.”
Job 9:7 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The sun-worshippers do not know that the sun serves God's command.
- Deinvictiaci: perhaps “worshippers of the unconquered god” (Sol Invictus); the name is uncertain. Quotation: Job 9:7.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 10.1 (CSEL 38:5; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/10-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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10.2CSEL 38:5
Quem Hermes ille uanus paganus Trismegistus docuit post deum omnipotentem non alium nisi solem debere ipsum et homines adorare; qui cum ad Celtarum prouinciam perrexisset, ipse eos dinoscitur docuisse, atque huic errori ut succumberent isdem suasisse. Quem solem Iudaei captiuati adorabant, ut Hiezechiel propheta eosdem Iudaeos incusando condemnat, ac reos criminis maiestatis declarat et arguit contestando, sicut scriptum est.
That vain pagan Hermes Trismegistus taught that after the almighty God men ought to worship none but the sun itself; and when he had gone to the province of the Celts, he is known to have taught them himself and persuaded them to yield to this error. This sun the captive Jews worshipped, as the prophet Ezekiel condemns those same Jews, accusing them, and declares and convicts them, with solemn witness, as guilty of the crime of treason, as it is written.
Ezek 8:16 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Hermes Trismegistus taught sun-worship, which the Jews practised according to Ezekiel.
Extrabiblical texts: Corp. herm. (Hermetic writings; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 10.2 (CSEL 38:5; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/10-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 11
11.1CSEL 38:5–6
Alii sunt qui ranas colunt quas sub Faraone ira dei tunc temporis Aegyptiorum terrae manauit, ut putore Aegyptios
Others are those who worship frogs, which the wrath of God at that time under Pharaoh poured out upon the land of the Egyptians, to wear out the Egyptians with their stench,
Exod 8:1–14 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Some worship the frogs of the Egyptian plague.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 11.1 (CSEL 38:5–6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/11-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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11.2CSEL 38:6
defatigent, inque hoc scelere adhuc perseuerant, putantes dei iram ex hac uana obseruantia posse placare.
and they still persist in this wickedness, thinking that by this vain observance they can appease the wrath of God.
Notes and citation
Summary: The frog-worshippers think they appease God's wrath.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 11.2 (CSEL 38:6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/11-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 12
12.1CSEL 38:6
Alii sunt Musiritae nomine, qui sorices colunt, qui sub Heli quondam sacerdote, cum fuisset capta arca testamenti ab allofilis atque ex ira dei produxisset terra sorices ut eorum fruges deperirent, admoniti a suis fecerunt aureos mures atque eos cum arca et sedibus aureis remiserunt quinque, eamque ab eis desiit pestilentia.
Others are called Musiritae, who worship mice: under Eli the priest, when the ark of the covenant had been captured by the Philistines and, by the wrath of God, the land had brought forth mice so that their crops perished, they, warned by their own people, made golden mice and sent them back, five, with the ark and golden seats, and the plague ceased from them.
1 Sam 6:4–5 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The mouse-worshippers derive their cult from the Philistines' golden mice.
- “golden seats”: the Latin sedes renders the golden tumours (Vulg. anos) of 1 Sam 6:4–5 in an Old Latin form.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 12.1 (CSEL 38:6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/12-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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12.2CSEL 38:6
Legem itaque et prophetas isti accipientes non cognoscunt hoc esse uanum et abominabile quod ab uniuersis contemnitur et modis omnibus deridetur.
These, then, accepting the law and the prophets, do not recognize that this is vain and abominable, which is despised by all and mocked in every way.
Notes and citation
Summary: The mouse-worshippers accept the law but do not see the folly of their cult.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): uniuersie → uniuersis.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 12.2 (CSEL 38:6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/12-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 13
13.1CSEL 38:6
Alii sunt qui muscam Accaron colunt in ciuitate ita dicta, ut in Regnorum libro scriptum est sicuti rex Ozias Iudaeorum languens miserat ad muscam Accaron ciuitatem, si sanus fieri posset de languore corporis;
Others are those who worship the fly of Accaron, in the city so called, as it is written in the book of Kingdoms how Ozias, king of the Jews, being sick, had sent to the fly of the city of Accaron, to learn whether he could be healed of his bodily sickness;
2 Kgs 1:2 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Some worship the fly-god of Ekron, consulted by the sick king.
- Accaron = Ekron; the fly is Baal-zebub. The king in 2 Kgs 1 is Ahaziah of Israel; Philastrius writes Ozias.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 13.1 (CSEL 38:6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/13-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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13.2CSEL 38:6
cuius causa beatus Helias iratus zelo diuino propheta, quia non a deo Christo salutem Iudaeorum rex sperare maluit, sed a musca potius et Accaron ciuitate, iratus in hoc beatus propheta non eum euasurum, sed moriturum in lecto suo ilico diuino spiritu pronuntiauit.
for which reason blessed Elijah the prophet, angered with divine zeal, because the king of the Jews chose to hope for health not from God, from Christ, but rather from the fly and the city of Accaron, the blessed prophet, angered at this, at once pronounced by the divine Spirit that he would not escape but would die in his bed.
2 Kgs 1:3–4 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Elijah foretold the king's death for seeking help from the fly-god.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 13.2 (CSEL 38:6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/13-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 14
14.1CSEL 38:6
Sunt Troglodytae, qui ita dicuntur in Iudaeis, qui in speluncis habitantes abditis idola colere non desinebant, ut ait Hiezechiel propheta, monstrante domino quomodo in speluncis absconditis seniores populi tenentes turabula idolis sacrificabant, atque ea caecis mentibus adorabant.
There are the Troglodytes, as they are called among the Jews, who, living in hidden caves, did not cease to worship idols, as the prophet Ezekiel says, when the Lord showed how the elders of the people, holding censers in hidden caves, sacrificed to idols and worshipped them with blind minds.
Ezek 8:11–12 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Troglodytes worshipped idols in caves, as Ezekiel saw.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 14.1 (CSEL 38:6; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/14-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 15
15.1CSEL 38:6–7
Alia est heresis in Iudaeis, quae Reginam, quam et Fortunam Caeli nuncupant * quam et Caelestem uocant in Africa, eique sacrificia offerre non dubitant, ut etiam prophetae Hieremiae Iudaei tunc dicerent ex aperto, cum moneret eos recedere ab idolis et seruire domino, solumque eum adorare eos debere:
There is another heresy among the Jews, which [worships] the Queen, whom they also call the Fortune of Heaven … whom they also call Caelestis in Africa, and they do not hesitate to offer sacrifices to her, so that the Jews of that time even said openly to the prophet Jeremiah, when he warned them to turn from idols and serve the Lord, and that they ought to worship him alone:
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Jer 44:17–18 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Some Jews worshipped the Queen of Heaven, called Caelestis in Africa.
- The asterisk marks a gap; the verb (“worships”) is supplied from the sense.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 15.1 (CSEL 38:6–7; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/15-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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15.2CSEL 38:7
irati exclamant, dicentes, ex quo illi, inquit, Fortunae Caeli siue Reginae non sacrificant, ex eo cuncta illis mala et pericula contigisse. Propter quod beatus Hieremias exiens de populo deque ciuitate eorum Lamentationes illius causa impietatis in libro conscripserat, casumque illis atque ciuitati aduenturum non multo post nuntiabat.
they cried out in anger, saying that since they had not sacrificed to the Fortune of Heaven or the Queen, from that time all evils and dangers had befallen them. For this reason blessed Jeremiah, going out from the people and from their city, wrote the Lamentations in a book because of that impiety, and announced that ruin would come upon them and the city not long after.
Jer 44:18 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Jeremiah wrote Lamentations because of the people's worship of the Queen of Heaven.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 15.2 (CSEL 38:7; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/15-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 16
16.1CSEL 38:7
Alii sunt in eis, qui Bahal nomen regis Tyriorum detinentes memoria atque ipsius idolum adorantes eidem sacrificabant, ut in Regnorum libro continetur, cum rex Israhelitarum Achab et Hiezabel uxor eius illi idolo sacrificare non desinerent. In quo, zelo ductus diuino, beatus Helias propheta missus a Christo domino, ait eis, sub nomine Iudaismi legem confitentibus, impietati autem perniciosae paganae seruientibus, et omni populo ita dixit:
Others among them, keeping in memory the name of Baal, king of the Tyrians, and worshipping his idol, sacrificed to him, as is contained in the book of Kingdoms, when Ahab, king of the Israelites, and Jezebel his wife did not cease to sacrifice to that idol. At this blessed Elijah the prophet, led by divine zeal, sent by Christ the Lord, said to them, who confessed the law under the name of Judaism but served deadly pagan impiety, and spoke thus to all the people:
1 Kgs 16:31–32 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Baal-worship under Ahab and Jezebel drew Elijah's rebuke.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 16.1 (CSEL 38:7; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/16-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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16.2CSEL 38:7
Ut quid uos claudicatis in utrisque poplitibus uestris? aut deo, deo, aut Bahal, Bahal. Et nihilominus fauens lucorum sacerdotibus rex atque regina diuersis poenis et cruciatibus perierunt. Populus etiam non recedens ab idolis crebris captiuitatibus interiit.
“How long will you limp on both your knees? Either God, God, or Baal, Baal.” And nonetheless the king and queen, favouring the priests of the groves, perished by various punishments and torments. The people also, not turning from idols, perished in repeated captivities.
1 Kgs 18:21 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Elijah called the people to choose between God and Baal.
- 1 Kgs 18:21 in an Old Latin form.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 16.2 (CSEL 38:7; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/16-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 17
17.1CSEL 38:7–8
Alii sunt qui Asthar hominem et Camoth abominationem Cananeorum et Sidoniorum id est idola hominum ac mulierum, uenerabantur, atque isdem diuersa offerebant sacrificia, quorum causa et captiuitas illis regibus et populo tunc temporis permittente domino saepius aduentabat, sicut in Regnorum libris continetur.
Others are those who venerated Asthar, a man, and Camoth, the abomination of the Canaanites and Sidonians, that is, idols of men and women, and offered them various sacrifices; because of them captivity often came upon those kings and the people at that time, the Lord permitting it, as is contained in the books of Kingdoms.
1 Kgs 11:5–7 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Some worshipped Astarte and Chemosh, bringing captivity on Israel.
- Asthar = Astarte (Ashtoreth); Camoth = Chemosh.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark): sacrificia., → sacrificia,.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 17.1 (CSEL 38:7–8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/17-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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17.2CSEL 38:8
Praeter Dauid beatum regem et Ezechiam sanctum et Iosiam et Iehu filium Namessi alii omnes permittebant populos sacrificare idolis, ac saepius cum illorum interitu * et ipsi uersabantur, non ea destruentes, sed magis impietatis eorum fautores fieri properantes, ut reges ceteri, sicuti libri Regnorum contestantur.
Except for David the blessed king, the holy Hezekiah, Josiah, and Jehu son of Nimshi, all the others allowed the peoples to sacrifice to idols, and often … they themselves were involved in their ruin, not destroying them but rather hastening to become patrons of their impiety, like the other kings, as the books of Kingdoms bear witness.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Almost all the kings except a few allowed idolatry.
- The asterisk marks a gap in the text (“…”).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 17.2 (CSEL 38:8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/17-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 18
18.1CSEL 38:8
Alia est heresis in Iudaeis, de qua dominus per prophetas incusabat eos. Deque ea beatus Stephanus martyr increpabat, dicens: Numquid immolationes et sacrificia mihi quadraginta annis obtulistis, domus Israhel, dicit dominus omnipotens? Et nunc suscepistis tabernaculum Moloch et sidus dei Remfam, formas fixorum idolorum et sculptilium? Propter quod dicit dominus:
There is another heresy among the Jews, for which the Lord accused them through the prophets. And of it blessed Stephen the martyr rebuked them, saying: “Did you offer me slain victims and sacrifices for forty years, house of Israel, says the Lord almighty? And now you have taken up the tent of Moloch and the star of the god Rephan, the forms of fixed idols and graven images? For this reason the Lord says:
Acts 7:42–43 (quotation, high confidence) · Amos 5:25–27 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Stephen rebuked the Jews for the worship of Moloch and Rephan.
- Acts 7:42–43, quoting Amos 5:25–27.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 18.1 (CSEL 38:8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/18-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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18.2CSEL 38:8
Transmigratione uos faciam captiuari in terram Babyloniae atque Persarum et interiora loca alia et arida et in postrema terrarum omnium.
I will cause you to be taken captive in a deportation into the land of Babylonia and of the Persians, and to other inner and dry places, and to the farthest parts of all the earth.”
Acts 7:43 (quotation, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Lord threatened exile for this idolatry.
- The quotation of Acts 7:43 is expanded with additions of Philastrius's own.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 18.2 (CSEL 38:8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/18-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 19
19.1CSEL 38:8
Alii sunt qui aram collocantes ita dictam Tafeth nomine alicuius, in ualle filii Ennom, ibidem suos filios et filias [Iudaei] daemoniis immolabant. De quibus dicit dominus per prophetam Hiezechiel:
Others are those who, setting up an altar called Topheth after someone's name, in the valley of the son of Hinnom, sacrificed their sons and daughters there [the Jews] to demons. Of them the Lord says through the prophet Ezekiel:
Jer 7:31 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Some sacrificed their children to demons at Topheth.
- “[the Jews]”: bracketed by Marx.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 19.1 (CSEL 38:8; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/19-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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19.2CSEL 38:8–9
Ecce fili hominis, uide quid facit populus Israhel: iste filios et filias suas in ualle Tafeth immolat daemoniis, quibus ego non mandaui hanc facere iniquitatem in Israhel populo.
“Behold, son of man, see what the people of Israel does: it sacrifices its sons and daughters to demons in the valley of Topheth, to whom I did not command this iniquity to be done among the people of Israel.”
Jer 7:31 (quotation, medium confidence) · Ezek 16:20–21 (allusion, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The prophet condemns child sacrifice at Topheth.
- The words resemble Jer 7:31 and 19:5 (with Ezek 8 phrasing); Philastrius attributes them to Ezekiel.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 19.2 (CSEL 38:8–9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/19-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 20
20.1CSEL 38:9
Alii sunt Puteoritae, qui puteos colunt in altum fodentes deque eis haurientes quasi aquam salutis, in ea sperantes aliqua, cum dicat dominus per prophetam monendo: Me dereliquerunt fontem aquae uiuae, et foderunt sibi lacos detritos, qui non possunt capere aquam salutarem.
Others are the Puteoritae, who worship wells, digging deep and drawing from them as if the water of salvation, hoping for something from it, though the Lord says through the prophet in warning: “They have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and dug for themselves broken cisterns, which cannot hold saving water.”
Jer 2:13 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The well-worshippers ignore God, the fountain of living water.
- Jer 2:13.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 20.1 (CSEL 38:9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/20-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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20.2CSEL 38:9
Quod ergo ante dicebat per prophetam, in sua diuina complebat praesentia, dicens: Omnis qui ex hac aqua terrestri biberit, rursus sitiet: de aqua autem quam ego ei dabo, si biberit, non sitiet in aeternum, sed erit ei saliens in uitam aeternam. Quippe erat gratia Christiana baptismi salutaris humano generi concessa a domino saluatore.
What he said before through the prophet, therefore, he fulfilled in his divine presence, saying: “Everyone who drinks of this earthly water will thirst again; but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will not thirst for ever, but it will be in him springing up to eternal life.” This was indeed the Christian grace of saving baptism granted to the human race by the Lord the Saviour.
John 4:13–14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ's living water, the grace of baptism, fulfils the prophecy.
- John 4:13–14.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 20.2 (CSEL 38:9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/20-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 21
21.1CSEL 38:9
Alia est heresis in Iudaeis quae serpenti sacrificabat et usque ad Ezechiam regem Iudaeorum beatissimum eandem impietatem celebrabat <ser>penti<s sicuti legimus in libris Regnorum quod usque ad Ezechiam sacrificabat serpenti aereo populus Iudaeorum, quem Moses beatus facere iussus fuerat in exitu Israhel de Aegypto, cum a serpentibus morderentur Iudaei murmurantes atque deperirent:
There is another heresy among the Jews which sacrificed to the serpent and celebrated this same impiety up to Hezekiah, the most blessed king of the Jews, [the impiety of the] serpent, as we read in the books of Kingdoms that up to Hezekiah the people of the Jews sacrificed to the bronze serpent which blessed Moses had been ordered to make at the departure of Israel from Egypt, when the murmuring Jews were bitten by serpents and were perishing:
2 Kgs 18:4 (allusion, high confidence) · Num 21:6 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Some Jews sacrificed to Moses's bronze serpent until Hezekiah.
- The words in angle brackets (“<ser>penti<s”) are the editor's restorations; the clause is translated by sense.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 21.1 (CSEL 38:9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/21-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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21.2CSEL 38:9
inque hoc iussit dominus ut faceret Moses serpentem aereum, ac suspenderet eum in medio populi supra lignum; et qui intuebantur in eum, saluabantur a plagis atque diuersis uulneribus. Illi ergo serpenti aereo usque ad regem Ezechiam sacrificabat Iudaeorum populus; formationes etiam in lapide magno uelut obelisco, qui erat in templo positus pro columna, et in eo incisiones et impressiones manu hominum et ut litterarum quarundam sculpentes Iudaei, et formulas diuersas tollentes et ponentes in lammina baiulabant in collo:
and for this the Lord commanded Moses to make a bronze serpent and hang it on a pole in the midst of the people; and those who looked at it were saved from the plagues and various wounds. To that bronze serpent, then, the people of the Jews sacrificed up to King Hezekiah; they also carved figures on a great stone like an obelisk, which was set in the temple as a pillar, and the Jews cut on it engravings and impressions by human hand, like certain letters, and, taking up various little forms and putting them on a metal plate, they carried them on their necks:
Num 21:8–9 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The bronze serpent became an object of worship, along with engraved amulets.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 21.2 (CSEL 38:9; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/21-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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21.3CSEL 38:9–10
incantationes etiam docentes et uelut filacteria habentes, immo potius exercentes ut maleficia, eadem percolebant, atque inde alligaturas et tutamina suo portabant et portant in corpore, quae dominus ubique in lege uetuerat fieri quia paganae caecitatis haec erat impietas.
teaching incantations too, and having as it were phylacteries, or rather practising them as sorcery, they cultivated these things diligently, and from this they carried, and still carry, bindings and protective charms on their bodies, which the Lord had everywhere forbidden in the law to be made, because this was the impiety of pagan blindness.
Deut 18:10–11 (allusion, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: They used charms and amulets that the law forbade.
Topics: Heresy, Magic, divination, and astrology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 21.3 (CSEL 38:9–10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/21-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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21.4CSEL 38:10
Has igitur beatissimus Ezechias rex impressiones siue sculptiones deleri iussit atque ferro radi penitus atque excindi, aereum etiam serpentem deponi atque frangi praecepit: pro quo merito est liberatus a domino de obsidione tanta Persarum et Assyriorum, tunc temporis qui uenerant captiuare Iudaeorum populum atque ciuitatem, ut illa nocte, qua time-
These impressions or carvings, then, the most blessed King Hezekiah ordered to be destroyed and thoroughly scraped away with iron and cut out, and he commanded that the bronze serpent too be taken down and broken: for this he was deservedly delivered by the Lord from the great siege of the Persians and Assyrians, who had come at that time to take the people and city of the Jews captive, so that on that night, when King Hezekiah feared
2 Kgs 18:4 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Hezekiah destroyed the bronze serpent and was delivered from the Assyrians.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 21.4 (CSEL 38:10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/21-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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21.5CSEL 38:10
bat barbaros rex Ezechias, angelus domini de caelo descenderet centumque et octoginta quinque milia alienigenarum obsidentia ciuitatem nocte silenti percuteret, atque omnes homines exanimes atque mortuos mane regi omnique Iudaeorum populo demonstraret.
the barbarians, an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and in the silent night struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand of the foreigners besieging the city, and in the morning showed all the men lifeless and dead to the king and all the people of the Jews.
2 Kgs 19:35 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: An angel struck down the besieging army.
- The word timebat is split between 21.4 and 21.5 in the digital text.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (l for I)): ludaeorum → Iudaeorum.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 21.5 (CSEL 38:10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/21-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 22
22.1CSEL 38:10
Alia est heresis, ut Hiezechiel propheta dei iussu peruidit sub terra in spelunca stantes septuaginta uiros seniores
There is another heresy, as the prophet Ezekiel, at God's command, saw beneath the earth in a cave seventy men, elders
Ezek 8:11 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Ezekiel saw seventy elders worshipping in a cave.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 22.1 (CSEL 38:10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/22-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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22.2CSEL 38:10
Iudaeorum, tenentes turabula, diuersisque formarum sculptilibus sacrificantes eosdem atque eadem adorantes.
of the Jews, standing and holding censers, sacrificing to various carved images and worshipping them.
Notes and citation
Summary: The elders offered incense to carved images.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 22.2 (CSEL 38:10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/22-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 23
23.1CSEL 38:10
Alia est heresis Iudaeorum, quam sub spelunca iussu dei cogitur peruidere propheta, mulieres sedentes et plangentes quendam Thamuz nomine, qui filius regis gentilium fuit cuius
There is another heresy of the Jews, which the prophet is made to see, at God's command, in a cave: women sitting and mourning a certain man named Tammuz, who was the son of a king of the gentiles, whose
Ezek 8:14 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Ezekiel saw women mourning Tammuz.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 23.1 (CSEL 38:10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/23-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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23.2CSEL 38:10
Iudaeae mulieres simulacrum cum fletibus adorabant impietatemque gentilium colentes ei offerre sacrificia non desinebant. Thamuz enim et Farao ille dicebatur rex Aegyptiorum qui sub beato Mose Aegyptiis praesidebat illo in tempore.
image the Jewish women worshipped with weeping, and, cultivating the impiety of the gentiles, did not cease to offer him sacrifices. For Tammuz was also what that Pharaoh was called, the king of the Egyptians who ruled the Egyptians in the time of blessed Moses.
Notes and citation
Summary: The women worshipped Tammuz, whom Philastrius identifies with Moses's Pharaoh.
- The identification of Tammuz with the Pharaoh of the Exodus is Philastrius's own.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 23.2 (CSEL 38:10; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/23-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 24
24.1CSEL 38:10–11
Alia est heresis in Iudaeis, quae, multorum quasi hominum multarumque mulierum, percolentes idola Bahalitarum, speluncis absconditis isdem offerre sacrificia non desinebant, scriptura dicente quasi multorum atque multarum fuisse numerum:
There is another heresy among the Jews, which, worshipping the idols of the Baalites as of many men and many women, did not cease to offer them sacrifices in hidden caves, the Scripture saying that there was a number of many men and many women:
Judg 2:11 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Some Jews worshipped the Baals as many gods and goddesses.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 24.1 (CSEL 38:10–11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/24-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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24.2CSEL 38:11
hoc autem *** aut a Belo rege, qui orientem potenti regimonio multo tempore detinuit ac de ipsius uxore et filiis filiabusue ita ex parentibus editis omnem eorum progeniem processisse monstrabat, ut ex eis Bahalitae pluraliter appellarentur.
but this … or from King Belus, who held the East for a long time in mighty rule, and it showed that from his wife and his sons or daughters, thus born of these parents, all their offspring proceeded, so that from them they were called in the plural Baalites.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Baalites take their name from King Belus and his descendants.
- The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 24.2 (CSEL 38:11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/24-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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24.3CSEL 38:11
Nam ut est genus aut Graecorum aut Aniciorum et aliorum, ita ex parentibus suis omnis illorum emerserit progenies, ex uno nomine impia generatio ut Bahalitae dicerentur. Itaque mortui, cum in monumentis ponerentur, et progenies illorum itidem sepulta in eo loco hoc nomine a suo populo meruit a posteris nuncupari, ut Bahalitae appellarentur a sua generatione pristina.
For as there is the family of the Greeks or of the Anicii and others, so from their parents all their offspring arose, an impious generation from one name, so that they were called Baalites. And so, when they died and were laid in tombs, their offspring, buried likewise in that place, came to be called by this name by their own people in later times, so that they were called Baalites after their ancient lineage.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Baalites were named like a family after their ancestor.
- The Anicii were a leading Roman senatorial family of Philastrius's day.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 24.3 (CSEL 38:11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/24-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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24.4CSEL 38:11
Belus autem siue a proprio nomine, siue a fortitudine belli, quia multos superabat tunc temporis, hoc nomen aut cognomen habere sortitus est: deque hac re Iudaeorum populus impietatem gentilium sequendo a diuina scriptura accusatur, quod sacrificantes illis, id est regibus et eorum filiis omnique cognationi illorum sequenti diuersis captiuitatibus tradebantur.
Belus, whether from his own name or from strength in war, because he overcame many at that time, obtained this name or surname; and on this account the people of the Jews, following the impiety of the gentiles, is accused by the divine Scripture, because, sacrificing to them, that is, to the kings and their sons and all their following kindred, they were handed over to various captivities.
Notes and citation
Summary: Israel was punished with captivity for worshipping Belus and his family.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 24.4 (CSEL 38:11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/24-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 25
25.1CSEL 38:11
Alia est heresis in Iudaeis, quae Bahal idolum ** aut Balaam pseudopropheta, qui de Mesopotamia aduenerat contra Mosen beatissimum, asserunt nomen accepisse, quia Balac tunc temporis rex Moabitarum illum rogauerat, ut ad eum iret et malediceret populo Iudaeorum.
There is another heresy among the Jews, which [worships] the idol Baal … they assert that it took its name from Balaam the false prophet, who had come from Mesopotamia against the most blessed Moses, because Balak, king of the Moabites at that time, had asked him to go to him and curse the people of the Jews.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Num 22:5–6 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Some say the idol Baal is named after Balaam.
- The asterisks mark a gap; the verb is supplied from the sense.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 25.1 (CSEL 38:11; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/25-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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25.2CSEL 38:11–12
Et quia ut propheta in scripturis ante dicebatur, contempto autem praecepto domini ad pseudoprophetae postea descendit interitum contra dei populum cogitando, Iudaei, ut pagani sub hoc uocabulo idolum facientes ipsius, colere illud non desinebant.
And because he was earlier called a prophet in the Scriptures, but later, despising the Lord's command, sank to the ruin of a false prophet by plotting against God's people, the Jews, like the pagans, made an idol of him under this name and did not cease to worship it.
Num 31:16 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Balaam became a false prophet and an idol was made of him.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 25.2 (CSEL 38:11–12; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/25-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 26
26.1CSEL 38:12
Alia est heresis *** de Pythonissa, quod cooperientes uestimentis mulierem ab ea quaedam responsa sperabant posse consequi. Unde et aiunt Pythonissam illam beati Samuhelis animam ab inferis excitasse atque inde maxime credi (id> posse homines usque hodie plurimi suspicantur, quia quae dixerat regi Sauli superstes propheta beatissimus, ea etiam in excitatione quasi dei iterum responsa dixisse cognoscitur uera;
There is another heresy … concerning the Pythoness, in that, covering a woman with garments, they hoped to obtain certain answers from her. Hence they say that the Pythoness raised the soul of blessed Samuel from the underworld, and very many people still suspect today that it can be believed most of all from this, because what the most blessed prophet, while alive, had said to King Saul, he is known to have said truly again at his raising, as if answers from God;
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
1 Sam 28:7–19 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Some believe the medium of Endor truly raised Samuel's soul.
- The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”). Pythoness: the medium of Endor (1 Sam 28).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): superstcs → superstes.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 26.1 (CSEL 38:12; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/26-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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26.2CSEL 38:12
cumque plurimi huic adquiescere mendacio malunt, in perpetuum descendunt in interitum, cum propheta dicat: Iustorum animae in manu domini, et non tangit eas mors. Quomodo itaque anima impia piam sanctamque animam, et prophetae maxime, poterat ab inferis excitare? Sed quia ignorant quod recedentes animae a fide Christi domini deditas iam se impietati faciunt atque ei omni se studio subiciunt, quia arbitrii sui est omnis homo, quod uelit ut eligat facere permittente deo, iam ut **« quia recessit a domino, ut immundus spiritus iam ei dominaretur, dubiis et claudicantibus in lege diuina quod dixit beatus Helias: Aut deo, deo, aut Bahal, Bahal.
and since very many prefer to assent to this lie, they go down for ever to destruction, since the prophet says: “The souls of the righteous are in the hand of the Lord, and death does not touch them.” How, then, could an impious soul raise a pious and holy soul, and above all a prophet's, from the underworld? But they do not know that souls that depart from faith in Christ the Lord make themselves now devoted to impiety and subject themselves to it with all zeal, because every man has free choice, to choose to do what he wills, God permitting; so that now, as … because he departed from the Lord, an unclean spirit now ruled him, as blessed Elijah said to those doubting and limping in the divine law: “Either God, God, or Baal, Baal.”
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
1 Kgs 18:21 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: An impious medium cannot raise a righteous soul; Saul, departing from God, was ruled by an unclean spirit.
- Wis 3:1, cited as “the prophet”; 1 Kgs 18:21. The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Extrabiblical texts: Wis 3:1 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation)
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 26.2 (CSEL 38:12; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/26-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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26.3CSEL 38:12–13
Qui enim adheret Christo, unum corpus est, et qui immundo spiritui, unus consensus est. Et Achab rex Iudaeorum cum crederet Sedeciae et aliis falsis prophetis uerumque prophetam domini Micheam contemneret, interrogat dominus inmundum spiritum, adhuc bonitatis loco regi concesso a Christo domino usque ad tempus aliquod, ut, si uellet credere prophetae uero, procellam periculi deuitaret, si nollet magisque crederet pseudoprophetis, sine dubio deperiret.
For he who cleaves to Christ is one body, and he who cleaves to an unclean spirit is one consent. And Ahab, king of the Jews, when he believed Zedekiah and the other false prophets and despised the true prophet of the Lord, Micaiah, the Lord questions the unclean spirit, a place for goodness being still granted to the king by Christ the Lord until a certain time, so that, if he wished to believe the true prophet, he might avoid the storm of danger; if he would not, and believed the false prophets instead, he would without doubt perish.
1 Cor 6:17 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Kgs 22:6–12 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Ahab believed false prophets rather than Micaiah, though given time to repent.
- Cf. 1 Cor 6:16–17.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 26.3 (CSEL 38:12–13; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/26-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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26.4CSEL 38:13
Ita enim interrogat dominus inmundum spiritum, dicens: Quis seducet, inquit, regem Achab Israhelitarum, ut uadat in pugnam et ibi interficiatur? Et ecce inmundus spiritus aduenit dicens: Ego uadam et faciam. Et ait dominus ad immundum spiritum: quomodo id facies? Et ait inmundus spiritus ad dominum: Facio me quasi angelum lucis et uerba similia eloquar, et ducam eum in proelium, atque ibi eum deseram, et sic morietur. Et ait dominus ad eum: Vade, sic facies. Ideoque et apostolus ait: Non magnum est, si et satanas transfigurat se uelut angelum lucis, cum ipsius satellites transfigurantur.
For thus the Lord questions the unclean spirit, saying: “Who will deceive Ahab, king of the Israelites, so that he goes into battle and is killed there?” And behold, the unclean spirit came, saying: “I will go and do it.” And the Lord said to the unclean spirit: “How will you do it?” And the unclean spirit said to the Lord: “I will make myself like an angel of light and speak words that seem true, and lead him into battle, and there I will desert him, and so he will die.” And the Lord said to him: “Go, so you shall do.” Therefore the apostle too says: “It is no great thing if Satan also transforms himself as an angel of light, since his servants are transformed.”
1 Kgs 22:20–22 (quotation, medium confidence) · 2 Cor 11:14–15 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The lying spirit sent to Ahab shows how Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
- A free paraphrase of 1 Kgs 22:20–22, then 2 Cor 11:14–15.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): dpminus → dominus.
Topics: Heresy, The devil and demons
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 26.4 (CSEL 38:13; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/26-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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26.5CSEL 38:13
Et ita decipiunt multos uisu, uerbo aut persuasione non alterius rei quippe, nisi quasi similis et ueri; ut, cum uerbis ueluti similibus et uisibus quasi bonis et non malis in tempore uolunt credere atque eis inherere homines, ineuitabilem aeternae mortis incurrant sententiam, diuersisque post exitum corporis poenis et cruciatibus pessumdentur. Quod et regi Iudaeorum illo tempore periculum superuenit, quod falsis magis quam ueris dei prophetis credere maluisset.
And so they deceive many by sight, word or persuasion of nothing else but what seems like the truth; so that, when men are willing to believe and cleave to them for a time because of words that seem alike and sights that seem good and not evil, they incur the inevitable sentence of eternal death, and after leaving the body are ruined by various punishments and torments. This danger also came upon the king of the Jews at that time, because he preferred to believe false prophets rather than the true prophets of God.
Notes and citation
Summary: Demons deceive by appearances of truth, as Ahab was deceived.
Topics: Heresy, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 26.5 (CSEL 38:13; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/26-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 27
27.1CSEL 38:13–14
Est heresis in Iudaeis quae Asthar et Astharoth post Mosi defunctionem successionemque Hiesu filii Naue colentes ad captiuitatem gentilium tradebantur. Nam Asthar et Astharoth homines et feminas figurasque eorum colebant, quae nomina regum Syrorum fuerunt et Aegyptiorum: quorum filii filiaeque cum a suis populis colerentur, post etiam templa illis facientes, post mortem illorum progeniem ibidem sepelientes deorum dearumque eis nomina offerebant cum sacrificiis itidem.
There is a heresy among the Jews which, worshipping Asthar and Astaroth after the death of Moses and the succession of Joshua son of Nun, was handed over to captivity by the gentiles. For they worshipped Asthar and Astaroth, men and women and their images, which were the names of kings of the Syrians and Egyptians: when their sons and daughters were worshipped by their peoples, and later temples were made for them, and after their death their offspring were buried there, they gave them the names of gods and goddesses, with sacrifices likewise.
Judg 2:13–14 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Worship of Ashtaroth after Joshua led to captivity; such gods were deified kings.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): faeientes → facientes.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 27.1 (CSEL 38:13–14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/27-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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27.2CSEL 38:14
Nam Astartium est in Syria ** aliaque diuersa et plurima, quae de gente Cananeorum omnis haec illo tempore exarsit impietas, quam Moses gentem cum omni suo populo eradicare iubebatur a domino.
For there is the Astartium in Syria … and various other and very many things, since all this impiety blazed up at that time from the race of the Canaanites, which race Moses, with all his people, was commanded by the Lord to root out.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Deut 7:1–5 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: This impiety came from the Canaanites, whom Moses was told to root out.
- The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 27.2 (CSEL 38:14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/27-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 28
28.1CSEL 38:14
Alii Herodiani sunt, ab Herode rege Iudaeorum ita appellati. Isti resurrectionem confitentur, legem et prophetas accipiunt, Herodem autem regem Iudaeorum, percussum ab angelo, ipsum ut Christum sperantes expectant.
Others are the Herodians, so called from Herod, king of the Jews. They confess the resurrection and accept the law and the prophets, but they hope for and expect Herod, king of the Jews, who was struck by an angel, as the Christ himself.
Acts 12:23 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Herodians expected Herod as the Christ.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letter): expectant. I → expectant..
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 28.1 (CSEL 38:14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/28-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 29
29.1CSEL 38:14
POST PASSIONEM AUTEM CHRISTI DOMINI NOSTRI ET ASCENSIO- NEM IN CAELUM Simon quidam fuit Magus, genere Samaritanus, Githeus, de loco quae uilla est in Samaria ita uocitata: qui magicis uacans artibus multos fallebat, dicens se esse uirtutem quandam dei, quae supra omnes, inquit, uirtutes est.
AFTER THE PASSION OF CHRIST OUR LORD AND HIS ASCENSION INTO HEAVEN there was a certain Simon Magus, a Samaritan by birth, a Gittite, from a place that is a village in Samaria so called: he, devoting himself to magic arts, deceived many, saying that he was a certain power of God, which, he said, is above all powers.
Acts 8:9–10 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Simon Magus, a Samaritan magician, claimed to be the highest power of God.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): NOSTBI → NOSTRI.
Topics: Heresy, Magic, divination, and astrology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 29.1 (CSEL 38:14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/29-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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29.2CSEL 38:14
Quem Samaritani quasi patrem uenerantur et suae hereseos institutorem perniciosae extollunt, multisque eum praeferre laudibus enituntur.
The Samaritans venerate him as a father and exalt him as the founder of their pernicious heresy, and strive to set him above others with many praises.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Samaritans honour Simon as their founder.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 29.2 (CSEL 38:14; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/29-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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29.3CSEL 38:14–15
Qui baptizatus a beatis apostolis recessit a fide eorum, sceleratamque et perniciosam heresim seminauit, dicens se transformatum putatiue, id est quasi per umbram, et ita se passum fuisse, cum non, inquit, pateretur.
Baptized by the blessed apostles, he departed from their faith and sowed a wicked and pernicious heresy, saying that he had been transformed in appearance, that is, as through a shadow, and had thus suffered, though, he said, he did not suffer.
Acts 8:13 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Simon, baptized by the apostles, fell away and taught that he suffered only in appearance.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 29.3 (CSEL 38:14–15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/29-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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29.4CSEL 38:15
Qui et audebat dicere mundum ab angelis factum, angelos autem factos a <se> quibusdam sensibus de caelo praedito, eosque fefellisse *** genus hominum.
He also dared to say that the world was made by angels, and that the angels were made by [him] through certain thoughts endowed from heaven, and that they deceived … the human race.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Simon taught that angels made the world.
- The angle brackets around se are the editor's supplement; the asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 29.4 (CSEL 38:15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/29-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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29.5CSEL 38:15
Intellectum autem quendam alium adserit esse, qui descendit in mundum salutis causa hominum, Helenam illam, inquit, quae in Troiano bello a poetis uanissimis edita nuntiatur.
He asserts that there is a certain other Thought, which came down into the world for the salvation of men: that Helen, he says, whom the most vain poets proclaim in the Trojan War.
Notes and citation
Summary: Simon identified his Thought with Helen of Troy.
Extrabiblical texts: Homer, Il. (Homer, Iliad; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 29.5 (CSEL 38:15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/29-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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29.6CSEL 38:15
Et uirtutes, inquit, quae mundum fecerant, concupiscentia ductae illius Helenae seditionem monebant. Ista enim dans, inquit, concupiscentiam..
And the powers, he says, which had made the world, led by desire for that Helen, stirred up strife. For she, he says, giving desire
Notes and citation
Summary: The world-making powers fought out of desire for Helen.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark): inquit I, → inquit,; dans, II inquit → dans, inquit.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 29.6 (CSEL 38:15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/29-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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29.7CSEL 38:15
piscentiam illis uirtutibus, et in figura feminea apparens, ascendere in caelum non poterat, quia uirtutes in caelo quae erant non eam permittebant ascendere; expectabat autem uirtutem aliam, id est Magi ipsius Simonis praesentiam, quae eam saluaret adueniens.
to those powers, and appearing in female form, could not ascend into heaven, because the powers that were in heaven did not allow her to ascend; but she was waiting for another power, that is, the presence of Magus, Simon himself, which would save her by its coming.
Notes and citation
Summary: Helen awaited Simon to save her.
- The word concupiscentiam is split and partly repeated between 29.6 and 29.7 in the digital text.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 29.7 (CSEL 38:15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/29-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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29.8CSEL 38:15
Ligneum etiam equum, quem poetae uanissimi dicunt in Troiano bello fuisse, per allegoriam adserit quod illa machina ignorantia erat uniuersarum gentium impiarum, cum constet illam Helenam, quae cum Mago erat, de Tyro meretricem fuisse, hancque eundem Simonem Magum fuisse secutum, et cum eadem diuersas magias diuersaque scelera perpetrasse.
He also asserts by allegory that the wooden horse, which the most vain poets say was in the Trojan War, that machine, was the ignorance of all the impious nations; although it is established that the Helen who was with Magus was a prostitute from Tyre, and that she followed this same Simon Magus and with him committed various acts of magic and various crimes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Simon allegorized the Trojan horse; his Helen was a prostitute from Tyre.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 29.8 (CSEL 38:15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/29-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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29.9CSEL 38:15
Qui cum fugeret beatum Petrum apostolum de Hierusolimitana ciuitate Romamque deueniret, ibique pugnaret cum beato apostolo apud Neronem regem, deuictus undique oratione beati apostoli atque percussus ab angelo sic meruit interire, ut eius magia euidens ac mendacium cunctis hominibus patefieret.
When he fled from blessed Peter the apostle from the city of Jerusalem and came to Rome, and fought there with the blessed apostle before the emperor Nero, defeated on every side by the prayer of the blessed apostle and struck by an angel, he deserved so to perish that his magic and lie became evident to all men.
Notes and citation
Summary: Simon was defeated by Peter at Rome and perished.
- The contest with Peter before Nero follows the apocryphal Acts of Peter tradition.
Extrabiblical texts: Acts Pet. (Acts of Peter; allusion)
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 29.9 (CSEL 38:15; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/29-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 30
30.1CSEL 38:15–16
Post hunc Menandrus quidam nomine * qui discipulus factus ipsius, impietatem est eius secutus in omnibus.
After him a certain Menander by name … who, having become his disciple, followed his impiety in all things.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Menander followed Simon.
- The asterisk marks a gap in the text (“…”).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 30.1 (CSEL 38:15–16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/30-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 31
31.1CSEL 38:16
Post istum Saturnilus quidam et ipse sumens inde fomenta doctrinae mortiferae adserebat dicens mundum ab angelis factum, et distare angelos a uirtute illa et mundum esse diuisum per ordinem angelis, et cogitasse eos ut facerent hominem.
After him a certain Saturnilus, himself taking from there the fuel of deadly teaching, asserted, saying that the world was made by angels, that the angels are distinct from that power, that the world was divided in order among the angels, and that they planned to make man.
Notes and citation
Summary: Saturnilus taught that angels made the world and planned to make man.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 31.1 (CSEL 38:16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/31-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.2CSEL 38:16
Fecerunt itaque hominem, et opus ipsorum, inquit, erat homo; de uirtute enim superna lumen fuisse dimissum, quod inluminauit mundum istum et ad concupiscentiam adduxit angelos, statimque ascendit in caelum.
So they made man, and man, he says, was their work; for a light was sent down from the power above, which illumined this world and drew the angels to desire, and at once went up into heaven.
Notes and citation
Summary: A light from above stirred the angels' desire and returned to heaven.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 31.2 (CSEL 38:16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/31-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.3CSEL 38:16
At illi cupidi luminis ipsius facti uirtutem eius uidere cupiebant; non praeualentes autem adinuicem dixerunt: Faciamus hominem ad imaginem et similitudinem nostram. Et facto homine, quia inpotens erat, saluari non potuit.
But they, having become desirous of that light, longed to see its power; not prevailing, they said to one another: “Let us make man in our image and likeness.” And when man had been made, because he was powerless, he could not be saved.
Gen 1:26 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The angels made man after the light's image, but he was powerless.
- Gen 1:26, as used by Saturnilus.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 31.3 (CSEL 38:16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/31-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.4CSEL 38:16
Videns itaque uirtus superna quod illi hoc fecerunt, misit scintillam, quae correxit hominem et suscitauit et fecit eum uiuere.
So the power above, seeing that they had done this, sent a spark, which set man right, raised him up, and made him live.
Notes and citation
Summary: The higher power sent a spark to give man life.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 31.4 (CSEL 38:16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/31-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.5CSEL 38:16
Scintillam itaque uolunt saluari, alia autem uirtutibus illis quae fecerunt dimitti ac derelinqui suspicantur.
So they hold that the spark is saved, but suppose that the rest is let go and left behind to those powers that made it.
Notes and citation
Summary: Only the spark is saved.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 31.5 (CSEL 38:16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/31-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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31.6CSEL 38:16
Christum autem umbraliter apparuisse adfirmant, non carnem hominis ueram et animam accepisse, atque omnem oeconomiam mysterii saluatoris ita complesse.
They affirm that Christ appeared as a shadow, not having taken true human flesh and a soul, and that he thus fulfilled the whole economy of the Saviour's mystery.
Notes and citation
Summary: Saturnilus held that Christ only appeared to have flesh.
- The digital text reads saluato ris Iris; corrected to saluatoris (the stray letters are debris).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word and stray letters): saluato ris Iris → saluatoris.
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 31.6 (CSEL 38:16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/31-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 32
32.1CSEL 38:16
Post istos Basilides, ** qui et heresiarches dicitur a multis, quia de lege et prophetis et apostolis proponendo et loquendo, sentiendo autem aliter, iura uiolabat Christianae ueritatis.
After them Basilides … who is also called a heresiarch by many, because, setting forth and speaking from the law, the prophets and the apostles, but thinking otherwise, he violated the ordinances of Christian truth.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Basilides spoke from Scripture but violated Christian truth.
- The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 32.1 (CSEL 38:16; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/32-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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32.2CSEL 38:16–17
Qui cum uenisset Aegyptum, docebat ita definiens: de innato et solo deo natum fuisse Intellectum, de Intellectu Verbum, de Verbo Sensum, de Sensu autem Virtutem et Sapientiam, de Virtute autem et Sapientia Principatus et Potestates et angelos factos diuersos.
When he came to Egypt, he taught, defining thus: that from the unbegotten and only God was born Mind, from Mind the Word, from the Word Thought, from Thought Power and Wisdom, and from Power and Wisdom were made Principalities and Powers and various angels.
Notes and citation
Summary: Basilides taught a chain of emanations from the unbegotten God.
Topics: Heresy, Gnosticism
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 32.2 (CSEL 38:16–17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/32-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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32.3CSEL 38:17
Ipsi enim angeli fecerunt, inquit, caelum, post illos alii angeli fecerunt caelum *, ita ex aliis alii prolati fecerunt tertium caelum. Qui secundum ordinem: et alii, inquit, fecerunt trecentos sexaginta quinque caelos.
For these angels, he says, made a heaven; after them other angels made a [second] heaven, and so others produced from others made a third heaven. And thus in order, he says, others made three hundred and sixty-five heavens.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Basilides taught that successive angels made 365 heavens.
- The asterisk marks a gap; “second” is supplied from the sense.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 32.3 (CSEL 38:17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/32-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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32.4CSEL 38:17
Et imponit uirtutibus illis nomina angelica, et ipse magiis uacans itidem multos imperitos decipit. Hominem autem ab angelis factum adserit: deum etiam uerum omnipotentem, et eum audet angelum dicere, et accepisse genus Iudaeorum in hereditatem, et eduxisse eos de terra Aegypti.
And he gives those powers angelic names, and, himself devoting himself to magic in the same way, deceives many unlearned people. He asserts that man was made by angels; and he dares to call even the true almighty God an angel, and says that he received the race of the Jews as his inheritance and led them out of the land of Egypt.
Notes and citation
Summary: Basilides called the God of the Jews an angel.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 32.4 (CSEL 38:17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/32-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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32.5CSEL 38:17
Hic ergo audacior factus, elatus est, inquit, aduersus ceteros angelos, et uolens in subiectionem habere alios, habuit contrarias gentes, quas commouerunt uirtutes inimicae eius.
This one, then, grown bolder, was lifted up, he says, against the other angels, and wishing to have the others in subjection, he had hostile nations, which the powers hostile to him stirred up.
Notes and citation
Summary: The God of the Jews, in Basilides' account, provoked the other angels.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 32.5 (CSEL 38:17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/32-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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32.6CSEL 38:17
Ideo et contra Iudaeos diuersae gentes, inquit, surrexerunt. Christum autem dicit quasi per umbram putatiue passum fuisse. Simonem etiam Cyreneum pro eo ad passionem uenisse adfirmat. Ipse enim, inquit, portauit crucem.
Therefore, he says, various nations rose up against the Jews. He says that Christ suffered in appearance, as through a shadow. He also affirms that Simon of Cyrene came to the passion in his place. For he, he says, carried the cross.
Mark 15:21 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Basilides taught that Simon of Cyrene suffered in Christ's place.
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 32.6 (CSEL 38:17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/32-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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32.7CSEL 38:17
Hic etiam male permittit uiuere, et dat licentiam uitiis saecularibus inherere. Prohibet etiam pati martyrium homines pro nomine Christi domini, dicens ita: Ignoras quid desideras. Non enim passus est, inquit, Christus, neque crucifixus est.
He also permits living wickedly, and gives licence to cleave to worldly vices. He also forbids men to suffer martyrdom for the name of Christ the Lord, saying thus: “You do not know what you desire. For Christ did not suffer, he says, nor was he crucified.
Notes and citation
Summary: Basilides permitted vice and forbade martyrdom.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 32.7 (CSEL 38:17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/32-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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32.8CSEL 38:17
Quomodo itaque potes, inquit, confiteri hunc crucifixum, cum non sit crucifixus, et ignoras qui passus sit?
How then can you confess this one as crucified, when he was not crucified, and you do not know who suffered?”
Notes and citation
Summary: Basilides argued that one cannot confess a crucified Christ.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 32.8 (CSEL 38:17; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/32-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 33
33.1CSEL 38:17–18
Videamus et Nicolaus Antiochenus aduena qua est deceptus amentia. Qui sub apostolis fuit atque ab eis est electus diaconus septimus, ut scriptum est in Actibus Apostolorum, posteaque recedens ab eis atque a sana doctrina diuersis erroribus et fallaciis pessumdatus est.
Let us see also by what madness Nicolaus, the proselyte of Antioch, was deceived. He lived under the apostles and was chosen by them as the seventh deacon, as it is written in the Acts of the Apostles, and later, departing from them and from sound doctrine, was ruined by various errors and deceits.
Acts 6:5 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Nicolaus, one of the seven deacons, fell from sound doctrine.
Topics: Heresy, Church office
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 33.1 (CSEL 38:17–18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/33-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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33.2CSEL 38:18
Qui fuit primum cum apostolis et Stephano beatissimo martyre, qui dicit et ipse uirtutes esse plurimas; unde et Gnostici, qui scire se aliquid putant, maxime emerserunt. Isti Barbelo uenerantur et Noram
He was at first with the apostles and Stephen the most blessed martyr; he too says that there are very many powers; from whom also the Gnostics, who think they know something, chiefly arose. These venerate Barbelo and Nora
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Summary: The Gnostics, who venerate Barbelo, arose from Nicolaus.
- The sentence continues in 33.8, which is out of place in the digital text (there is no 33.3).
Topics: Heresy, Gnosticism
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 33.2 (CSEL 38:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/33-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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33.4CSEL 38:18
Ante, inquit, erant solum tenebrae et profundum et aqua, atque ex his diuisio facta est in medio, et spiritus separauit haec elementa. Tunc ergo tenebrae inruentes in spiritum genuerunt quattuor Aeonas, et isti quattuor genuerunt alios quattuor Aeonas.
In the beginning, he says, there were only darkness and the deep and water, and from these a division was made in the middle, and the spirit separated these elements. Then the darkness, rushing upon the spirit, begot four Aeons, and these four begot four other Aeons.
Gen 1:2 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Nicolaitans taught that darkness begot the Aeons.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 33.4 (CSEL 38:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/33-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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33.5CSEL 38:18
Hoc autem dextra atque sinistra, lux, inquit, sunt et tenebrae. Quendam etiam concubuisse cum illa muliere et uirtute dicunt, de qua nati sunt dii. et
This, then, is right and left, they say: light and darkness. They also say that someone lay with that woman and power, from whom were born gods and
Notes and citation
Summary: From a union with the power were born gods.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 33.5 (CSEL 38:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/33-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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33.6CSEL 38:18
homines, et angeli, et septem spiritus daemoniorum Addunt etiam prophetas quosdam natos de ea, speciosum nomine et Barcaban.
men, and angels, and seven spirits of demons. They also add that certain prophets were born of her, Speciosus by name, and Barcaban.
Notes and citation
Summary: From her were born men, angels, demons and prophets.
- Speciosus and Barcaban (Barcabbas) are names of Gnostic prophets; the text may be damaged.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 33.6 (CSEL 38:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/33-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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33.7CSEL 38:18
Alii autem euangelium consummationis et uisiones inanes et plenas fallaciae et somnia uidere diuersa adserunt delirantes.
Others say, raving, that they see a gospel of the consummation, and empty visions full of deceit, and various dreams.
Notes and citation
Summary: Some claim a gospel of the consummation and visions.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 33.7 (CSEL 38:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/33-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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33.8CSEL 38:18
quandam mulierem, alii autem ex eis Ialdabaoth quendam, alii autem Calacaun hominem. Dicunt autem et dogma ponentes ista:
a certain woman; others of them Ialdabaoth, a certain one; others the man Calacau. And setting forth their doctrine they say these things:
Notes and citation
Summary: Some Gnostics venerate Ialdabaoth or Caulacau.
- This section continues the sentence of 33.2 (“Barbelo and Nora, a certain woman”) and introduces the doctrine of 33.4; the digital text places it out of order.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 33.8 (CSEL 38:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/33-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 34
34.1CSEL 38:18
Alii autem ab Iuda traditore instituerunt heresim, dicentes bonum opus fecisse Iudam quod tradiderit saluatorem. Hic enim, inquit, nobis omnis scientiae bonae auctor extitit, per quem caelestia nobis mysteria manifestata sunt.
Others founded a heresy from Judas the traitor, saying that Judas did a good work in betraying the Saviour. For he, they say, became for us the author of all good knowledge, through whom the heavenly mysteries were revealed to us.
Notes and citation
Summary: Some praise Judas for betraying the Saviour.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (l for I)): ludam → Iudam.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 34.1 (CSEL 38:18; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/34-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.2CSEL 38:18–19
Virtutibus etenim in caelo nolentibus, inquit, pati Christum, et scientibus quod, si fuerit passus, uitam hominibus donaturus est, hoc sciens, inquit, Iudas, quod, si fuerit passus Christus, salutem hominibus adlaturus est, hinc tradidit saluatorem.
For since the powers in heaven, they say, did not want Christ to suffer, knowing that if he suffered he would give life to men, Judas, they say, knowing this, that if Christ suffered he would bring salvation to men, therefore betrayed the Saviour.
Notes and citation
Summary: They say Judas betrayed Christ so that he might suffer and save men.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (l for I)): ludas → Iudas.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 34.2 (CSEL 38:18–19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/34-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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34.3CSEL 38:19
Hoc autem malum adsertionis impiae quibusdam uanis et uaecordibus quasi uerisimile uidetur esse interdum, cum sit in omnibus contrarium et exsecrabile, cum propheta eum Dauid beatus ante et dominus saluator damnauerit, et beati apostoli sententiam domini aduersus eum confirmauerint edocentes.
This evil of an impious assertion sometimes seems as if plausible to certain vain and senseless people, though it is contrary and accursed in every respect, since blessed David the prophet condemned him beforehand, and the Lord the Saviour, and the blessed apostles confirmed the Lord's sentence against him in their teaching.
Ps 109:8 (108:8 LXX) (allusion, medium confidence) · Matt 26:24 (allusion, medium confidence) · Acts 1:20 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The praise of Judas is accursed, since prophet, Lord and apostles condemned him.
- Cf. Ps 109:8 (108:8 LXX/Vulg.) as applied in Acts 1:20; Matt 26:24.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 34.3 (CSEL 38:19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/34-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 35
35.1CSEL 38:19
Post istum Carpocras nomine surrexit, et ipse dicens unum principium, de quo principio, id est de deo, prolationes factae sunt, inquit, angelorum atque uirtutum: quae autem uirtutes deorsum sunt, fecerunt creaturam istam uisibilem ubi nos, inquit, consistimus.
After him there arose one named Carpocras, who also says that there is one first principle, from which principle, that is, from God, emanations were made, he says, of angels and powers; and the powers that are below made this visible creation where, he says, we dwell.
Notes and citation
Summary: Carpocras taught that lower powers made the visible world.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 35.1 (CSEL 38:19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/35-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.2CSEL 38:19
Christum autem dicit non de Maria uirgine et diuino spiritu natum, sed de semine Ioseph hominem natum arbitratur, deque eo natum carnaliter, sicut omnes homines, suspicatur.
He says that Christ was not born of the Virgin Mary and the divine Spirit, but holds that he was born a man of the seed of Joseph, and supposes that he was born of him carnally, like all men.
Notes and citation
Summary: Carpocras held that Christ was Joseph's son.
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 35.2 (CSEL 38:19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/35-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.3CSEL 38:19
Qui post passionem, inquit, melior inter Iudaeos uita integra et conuersatione inuentus est;
After his passion, he says, he was found better among the Jews in uprightness of life and conduct;
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: Carpocras praised Christ only for his upright life.
- So the text: “after his passion” is odd here; perhaps “in his passion” or a corruption.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): iuquit → inquit.
Topics: Heresy, Christology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 35.3 (CSEL 38:19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/35-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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35.4CSEL 38:19
cuius animam in caelum susceptam praedicant, carnem uero in terram dimissam aestimant, animique salutem sonus, carnis autem non fieri salutem opinantur.
they preach that his soul was taken up into heaven, but consider that his flesh was left on earth, and they hold that there is salvation of the soul alone, but no salvation of the flesh.
Notes and citation
Summary: Carpocratians deny the salvation of the flesh.
- The digital text reads sonus, probably for solius (“alone”); translated by sense.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letter): carnemI → carnem.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 35.4 (CSEL 38:19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/35-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 36
36.1CSEL 38:19
Cerinthus successit huius errori et similitudini uanitatis, docens de generatione itidem saluatoris deque creatura angelorum, in nullo discordans ab eo, nisi quia ex parte solum legi consentit, quod a deo data sit, et ipsum deum Iudaeorum esse aestimat qui legem dedit filiis Israhel.
Cerinthus succeeded to his error and the likeness of his vanity, teaching likewise about the Saviour's birth and the creation by angels, differing from him in nothing except that he agrees with the law only in part, that it was given by God, and he considers the God of the Jews to be the one who gave the law to the children of Israel.
Notes and citation
Summary: Cerinthus followed Carpocras but partly accepted the law.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 36.1 (CSEL 38:19; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/36-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.2CSEL 38:19–20
Docet autem circumcidi et sabbatizari, et Christum nondum surrexisse a mortuis, sed resurrecturum adnuntiat.
He teaches that one should be circumcised and keep the sabbath, and proclaims that Christ has not yet risen from the dead, but will rise.
Notes and citation
Summary: Cerinthus taught circumcision and denied that Christ had yet risen.
Topics: Heresy, Circumcision
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 36.2 (CSEL 38:19–20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/36-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.3CSEL 38:20
Apostolum Paulum beatum non accipit, Iudam traditorem honorat, et euangelium secundum Matheum solum accipit, tria euangelia spernit, Actus Apostolorum abicit, beatos martyres blasphemat.
He does not accept the blessed apostle Paul; he honours Judas the traitor; he accepts only the gospel according to Matthew and spurns the three gospels; he rejects the Acts of the Apostles; he blasphemes the blessed martyrs.
Notes and citation
Summary: Cerinthus rejected Paul, Acts and three gospels.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (l for I)): ludam → Iudam.
Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 36.3 (CSEL 38:20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/36-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.4CSEL 38:20
Hic sub apostolis beatis quaestionem seditionis commouit, dicens debere circumcidi homines, cuius causa contra illum et heresim eius decreuerunt in suis Actibus beati apostoli sententiam:
Under the blessed apostles he stirred up a dispute and sedition, saying that men ought to be circumcised; for which reason the blessed apostles decreed a sentence in their Acts against him and his heresy:
Acts 15:1–29 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Cerinthus caused the circumcision dispute settled in Acts.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 36.4 (CSEL 38:20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/36-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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36.5CSEL 38:20
non debere iam homines Iudaismo, id est circumcisionis aliisque talibus superstitionis uanae parere carnalibus, qui de gentibus uenientes credebant in Christum dominum nostrum saluatorem.
that those who, coming from the gentiles, believed in Christ our Lord and Saviour ought no longer to submit to Judaism, that is, to circumcision and other such carnal things of vain superstition.
Acts 15:19–20 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The apostles freed gentile believers from circumcision.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): debere lam → debere iam.
Topics: Heresy, Circumcision
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 36.5 (CSEL 38:20; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/36-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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