Book of Heresies 80.1–101.4
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).
Chapter 80
80.1CSEL 38:42
Alia autem est heresis, quae dicit mundum non mutari, sed in eo statu semper manere, etiam post domini nostri Iesu Christi de caelis praesentiam, cum ipse dicat: Omnia transibunt et mutabuntur.
Another heresy is that which says that the world is not changed, but always remains in that state, even after the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ from heaven, though he himself says: “All things will pass away and be changed.”
Matt 24:35 (allusion, medium confidence) · Ps 102:26 (101:27 LXX) (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Some deny that the world will be changed.
- The saying is not found in this form; cf. Matt 24:35 and Ps 102:26 (101:27 LXX/Vulg.).
Topics: Heresy, Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 80.1 (CSEL 38:42; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/80-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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80.2CSEL 38:42
Hoc autem non intellegunt mutationis causa elementorum dictum fuisse a domino, ut his mutatis noua creatura reformetur, quod et Dauid docet: Ipsi peribunt, inquit, tu autem ipse es in aeternum. Et dominus: Caelum et terra transibunt, uerba autem mea non transibunt.
But they do not understand that this was said by the Lord because of the change of the elements, so that when these are changed a new creation may be formed, as David also teaches: “They will perish,” he says, “but you yourself are for ever.” And the Lord: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.”
Ps 102:26–27 (101:27-Ps LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 24:35 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The elements will be changed into a new creation.
- Ps 102:26–27 (101:27–28 LXX/Vulg.); Matt 24:35.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 80.2 (CSEL 38:42; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/80-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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80.3CSEL 38:42
Et: Ego faciam nouum caelum et nouam terram, dicit dominus. Restauranda potius ergo, non pereunda adnuntiat elementa, et quamuis inpossibile deo non est, ut, qui fecit ex nihilo omnia, iterum delere possit omnia: quod ait Iob beatissimus:
And: “I will make a new heaven and a new earth, says the Lord.” So he announces that the elements are to be restored rather than to perish; although it is not impossible for God, who made all things out of nothing, to be able to destroy all things again, as the most blessed Job says:
Isa 65:17 (quotation, high confidence) · Rev 21:1 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The elements will be restored, though God could destroy them.
- Isa 65:17 (cf. Rev 21:1).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip (l for I)): lob → Iob.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 80.3 (CSEL 38:42; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/80-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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80.4CSEL 38:42
Si autem destruxerit uniuersa, quis ei dicet, quid fecisti? Si ergo ita senseris, omnipotentiam domini Christi cognoscis, siue ea restauranda quis aestimat, sequenter intellegit. Nam etsi pereunda semina scriptura demonstrat, id est ipsum mundum ad nihilum deuenire posse, tamen **# quia, quod fecit, non deperit.
“If he destroys all things, who will say to him: What have you done?” If, then, you think thus, you recognize the almightiness of the Lord Christ; or if one considers that these are to be restored, he understands consistently. For even if Scripture shows that the seeds are to perish, that is, that the world itself can come to nothing, yet … because what he made does not perish.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Job 9:12 (quotation, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God's power could destroy the world, but what he made does not perish.
- Cf. Job 9:12; 11:10. The asterisks and # mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 80.4 (CSEL 38:42; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/80-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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80.5CSEL 38:42
Fecit enim, ut ait Salomon, ex nihilo omnia ut possent esse quae non erant. Et in resurrectione hominum non pereunda semina, sed ad gloriam maiorem uenientia demonstrat, ut ait apostolus: Seminatur corpus animale, surgit corpus spiritale: seminatur in corruptione, surgit in incorruptionem. Et ipse iterum apostolus beatissimus:
For he made, as Solomon says, all things out of nothing, so that what did not exist might exist. And in the resurrection of men he shows that the seeds do not perish but come to greater glory, as the apostle says: “A natural body is sown, a spiritual body rises; it is sown in corruption, it rises in incorruption.” And again the most blessed apostle himself:
1 Cor 15:42–44 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: As in the resurrection of the body, what God made comes to greater glory.
- The words ascribed to Solomon are uncertain (cf. Wis 1:14; 11:17; 2 Macc 7:28). 1 Cor 15:44, 42.
Topics: Eschatology, Resurrection of the body
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 80.5 (CSEL 38:42; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/80-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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80.6CSEL 38:42–43
Expectatio enim creaturae reuelationem filiorum dei expectat: uanitati enim creatura subiecta est non uolens, sed propter eum qui subiecit in spe futurae gloriae dignitatis. Propter quod et ipsa creatura, inquit, liberabitur a seruitute corruptionis in libertatem gloriae filiorum dei, ostendens itaque ad gloriam filiorum <dei> processura elementa, id est homines cum hac ipsa uisibili creatura, cum dicit dominus:
“For the expectation of the creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God: for the creation was subjected to vanity, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope of future glory and honour. Therefore the creation itself too,” he says, “will be set free from the bondage of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the sons of God”; showing therefore that the elements will go forward to the glory of the sons <of God>, that is, men together with this very visible creation, as the Lord says:
Rom 8:19–21 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul teaches that creation will share the glory of God's children.
- Rom 8:19–21. The angle brackets around dei are the editor's supplement.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letter): gloriaeIfiliorum → gloriae filiorum.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 80.6 (CSEL 38:42–43; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/80-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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80.7CSEL 38:43
Sol tunc septempliciter lucebit. Transeuntia ergo erunt elementa ad maiorem iam gloriam, inque ea permanenda cum hominibus, quamuis et ad nihilum possit adducere qui fecit omnia dominus.
“The sun will then shine sevenfold.” So the elements will pass into a greater glory, and remain in it with men, although the Lord who made all things can also bring them to nothing.
Isa 30:26 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The elements will pass into greater glory.
- Isa 30:26.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): nihiluih → nihilum.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 80.7 (CSEL 38:43; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/80-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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80.8CSEL 38:43
Sed in hoc est eminens Christi maiestas et potentia, quod ad gloriam maiorem eadem elementa transire promittit. Nam et apostolus elementa haec liquescere et ad nihilum uenire nuntiat pariter et prophetat.
But in this the majesty and power of Christ is pre-eminent, that he promises that these same elements will pass into greater glory. For the apostle too announces and prophesies alike that these elements will melt and come to nothing.
2 Pet 3:10–12 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ's power appears in the glorifying of the elements.
- Cf. 2 Pet 3:10, 12, ascribed to “the apostle”.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 80.8 (CSEL 38:43; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/80-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 81
81.1CSEL 38:43
Alia est heresis quae excalciatos ambulare debere homines adserit, quod Mosi, inquit, dictum est: Solue calciamenta tua, et quod Esaias beatus ita ambulauerit tribus annis: quae magis humana ac uanae superstitionis sunt, non traditionis sanctorum ac domini nostri Iesu Christi iussionis et imperii eius ac potestatis.
Another heresy asserts that men ought to walk barefoot, because, it says, it was said to Moses: “Loose your sandals,” and because blessed Isaiah walked so for three years: but these things are rather human and of vain superstition, not of the tradition of the saints nor of the command, rule and authority of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Exod 3:5 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 20:2–3 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Some walk barefoot after Moses and Isaiah.
- Exod 3:5; Isa 20:2–3.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 81.1 (CSEL 38:43; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/81-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 82
82.1CSEL 38:43–44
NOUATIANI SURREXERUNT POST PERSECUTIONEM POSTREMAM a Nouato quodam, qui sicut ecclesia catholica credebant antea, uetus testamentum et nouum accipientes.
THE NOVATIANS AROSE AFTER THE LAST PERSECUTION, from a certain Novatus, who earlier believed as the catholic church does, accepting the Old and New Testament.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Novatians arose from Novatus.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slips): PEKSECUTIONEM POSTREMAH → PERSECUTIONEM POSTREMAM.
Topics: Heresy, Novatianism
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 82.1 (CSEL 38:43–44; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/82-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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82.2CSEL 38:44
In persecutione autem, quia lapsi sunt multi fideles et in paenitentiam suscepti sunt a catholica ecclesia, irati, immo potius praesumptione ducti ac
But because in the persecution many of the faithful lapsed and were received into penance by the catholic church, they were angered, or rather, led by presumption and
Notes and citation
Summary: The Novatians objected to the readmission of the lapsed.
- paenitentia here is the church's discipline of penance.
Topics: Heresy, Persecution, The lapsed, Novatianism
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 82.2 (CSEL 38:44; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/82-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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82.3CSEL 38:44
superbia, uanam doctrinam conati sunt seminare, separantes se ab ecclesia catholica atque a Christi bonitate ac misericordia dissonantes, atque dicentes, non esse fideli post baptismum locum aliquem paenitentiae, ignorantes quod per prophetam clamat: Viuo ego, dicit dominus:
pride, they tried to sow a vain doctrine, separating themselves from the catholic church and departing from the goodness and mercy of Christ, and saying that there is no place of repentance for a believer after baptism, not knowing that he cries through the prophet: “As I live, says the Lord:
Notes and citation
Summary: The Novatians deny repentance after baptism.
Topics: Heresy, Baptism, Novatianism, Repentance
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 82.3 (CSEL 38:44; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/82-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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82.4CSEL 38:44
si uolo mortem peccatoris, quantum ut reuertatur et uiuat? Si ergo dixerint de his qui baptizandi sunt dixisse scripturam, non tamen fidelibus, audiant saluatorem post baptismum aquae dicentem de baptismo alio, paenitentiae scilicet passionis. Ait ita: Baptisma, inquit,
do I will the death of the sinner, rather than that he turn back and live?” If, then, they say that Scripture said this of those who are to be baptized, not of the faithful, let them hear the Saviour, after the baptism of water, speaking of another baptism, namely that of the repentance of the passion. He says thus: “I have a baptism
Ezek 33:11 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The prophet and Christ speak of a second baptism of repentance.
- Ezek 33:11 (cf. 18:23).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (joined words): dehis → de his.
Topics: Baptism, Repentance
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 82.4 (CSEL 38:44; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/82-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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82.5CSEL 38:44
habeo baptizari, et quam festino si sciretis, ostendens utique nobis post baptismum, quod per aquam ante dederat, aliud etiam passionis paenitentiae humano generi ab ipsius bonitate et clementia labentibus concedendum atque ab eodem domino tribuendum.
to be baptized with, and how I hasten, if you knew,” showing us indeed that after the baptism which he had given earlier through water, another, of the passion and of repentance, is to be granted to the human race when it falls, by his goodness and clemency, and bestowed by the same Lord.
Luke 12:50 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ's baptism of the passion shows that repentance is granted after baptism.
- Luke 12:50, freely cited.
Topics: Baptism, Repentance
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 82.5 (CSEL 38:44; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/82-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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82.6CSEL 38:44
Quod apostoli intellegentes de passione eius saluberrima post illam primam gratiam humano generi etiam hoc eum contulisse praedicabant. Ut prouisor enim et omnipotens et peccantibus concedit per paenitentiam, ut, qui lapsus est, surgens ac pugnans iterum, inque ea perseuerans, speret se posse a domino desiderandam uictoriam adipisci.
The apostles, understanding this of his most saving passion, preached that after that first grace he conferred this too on the human race. For as provider and almighty he grants to sinners too, through repentance, that one who has fallen, rising and fighting again and persevering in it, may hope to obtain from the Lord the longed-for victory.
Notes and citation
Summary: Through repentance the fallen may rise and win.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; stray marks): illam!! → illam; praedicrbant → praedicabant.
Topics: Repentance
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 82.6 (CSEL 38:44; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/82-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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82.7CSEL 38:44–45
In Christo enim et eius clementia et iustitia et bonitas propter peccantes et paenitentes abundat cottidie, ut Paulus beatus tristatus de illis est qui peccati causa non egerant paenitentiam, ut dixit in sua epistola: Quis infirmatur, et ego non infirmor? et rursum: Ne ueniam ad uos, et iterum me humiliet dominus propter quosdam, qui non egerunt paenitentiam. Et Petrus beatus apostolus mago Simoni dixerat:
For in Christ his clemency, justice and goodness abound daily for sinners and penitents, so that blessed Paul grieved over those who had not repented because of sin, as he said in his letter: “Who is weak, and I am not weak?” and again: “Lest I come to you and the Lord humble me again because of some who have not repented.” And the blessed apostle Peter had said to Simon Magus:
2 Cor 11:29 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 12:21 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul grieved over the unrepentant.
- 2 Cor 11:29; 2 Cor 12:21.
Topics: Repentance
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 82.7 (CSEL 38:44–45; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/82-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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82.8CSEL 38:45
Age paenitentiam, si quo modo dimittatur tibi quod fecisti. Et Paulus quem abiecerat eum suscipi post tempus iterum iubebat. Amissionem itaque dignitatis possunt perpeti tales, non detrimentum salutis, ut ait dominus: Multae mansiones sunt apud patrem meum.
“Repent, if somehow what you have done may be forgiven you.” And Paul commanded that the one he had cast out be received again after a time. So such people may suffer the loss of rank, not the loss of salvation, as the Lord says: “There are many dwellings with my Father.”
Acts 8:22 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 2:6–8 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Cor 5:5 (allusion, medium confidence) · John 14:2 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Peter and Paul offered repentance; the lapsed may lose rank but not salvation.
- Acts 8:22; 1 Cor 5:5 and 2 Cor 2:6–8; John 14:2.
Topics: The lapsed
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 82.8 (CSEL 38:45; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/82-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 83
83.1CSEL 38:45
Alii sunt Montenses, qui rebaptizant si quos seduxerint homines, et supra baptismum ecclesiae catholicae alium suum baptisma insaniunt promittentes: qui et Donatiani dicuntur a quodam Donato in Africa constituto, qui hanc heresim seminauit: qui et Parmeniani nunc appellantur a Parmeniano quodam, qui eorum nuper successit erroribus atque falsitati.
Others are the Montenses, who rebaptize any people they lead astray, and madly promise a baptism of their own above the baptism of the catholic church; they are also called Donatists, from a certain Donatus living in Africa, who sowed this heresy; and they are now called Parmenians from a certain Parmenian, who recently succeeded to their errors and falsehood.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Donatists rebaptize.
Topics: Heresy, Baptism, Donatism, Rebaptism
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 83.1 (CSEL 38:45; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/83-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 84
84.1CSEL 38:45
Alii sunt in Gallis et Hispanis et Aquitania ueluti abstinentes, qui et Gnosticorum et Manicheorum particulam perniciosissimam aeque secuntur, eademque non dubitant praedicare, separantes persuasionibus coniugia hominum, et escarum abstinentiam promittentes, quae non ex legis praecepto,
Others are in Gaul, Spain and Aquitaine, as it were Abstinents, who likewise follow a most pernicious portion of the Gnostics and Manichees and do not hesitate to preach the same things, separating people's marriages by persuasion and promising abstinence from foods, which not by a precept of the law,
Notes and citation
Summary: Abstinents in Gaul and Spain separate married couples.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (hyphenation and OCR slip): absti- Dentes → abstinentes.
Topics: Heresy, Marriage, Asceticism
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 84.1 (CSEL 38:45; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/84-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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84.2CSEL 38:45
sed promotionis caelestis et dignitatis causa uoluntati hominum talis a Christo concessa est gratia. Dicit enim dominus Petro: Non omnes capiunt hoc uerbum. Et iterum idem dominus ait:
but for the sake of heavenly advancement and honour, such a grace was granted by Christ to the will of men. For the Lord says to Peter: “Not all receive this word.” And again the same Lord says:
Matt 19:11 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Continence is a voluntary grace, not a command.
- Matt 19:11 (spoken to the disciples).
Topics: Marriage
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 84.2 (CSEL 38:45; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/84-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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84.3CSEL 38:45–46
Qui dimiserit uxorem suam sine causa criminis, facit eam moechari. **« Aliud est itaque consensu communi hoc fieri laudis causa maioris consequendae a domino, et aliud contra legem suadere, contraque amborum facere uoluntatem.
“Whoever puts away his wife without the cause of a crime makes her commit adultery.” … It is one thing, then, for this to be done by common consent for the sake of obtaining greater praise from the Lord, and another to urge it against the law and to act against the will of both.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Matt 5:32 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 7:5 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Separation is lawful only by mutual consent, not imposed against the law.
- Matt 5:32 (cf. 19:9), with “without the cause of a crime” for the exception. The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”). Mutual consent: cf. 1 Cor 7:5.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark): laudis! → laudis.
Topics: Marriage, Divorce and remarriage
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 84.3 (CSEL 38:45–46; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/84-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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84.4CSEL 38:46
Et iterum: Qui non manducat, manducantem non spernat, et qui manducat, non manducantem non iudicet. Quod ex uoluntate est itaque, laudis est et amplioris, immo potius mercedis caelestis est desiderium:
And again: “Let not him who does not eat despise him who eats, and let not him who eats judge him who does not eat.” What is of the will, then, is praiseworthy, and is a desire for an ampler, or rather a heavenly, reward:
Rom 14:3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Abstinence is praiseworthy when voluntary.
- Rom 14:3.
Topics: Fasting
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 84.4 (CSEL 38:46; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/84-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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84.5CSEL 38:46
quod autem extra legem est, non a deo Christo est traditum, sed inani hominum praesumptione et errore inuentum. Scriptum est enim: Dedi uobis omnia edere sicut faenum.
but what is outside the law was not handed down by God, by Christ, but was invented by the empty presumption and error of men. For it is written: “I have given you all things to eat like grass.”
Gen 9:3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God gave all foods to eat.
- Gen 9:3.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 84.5 (CSEL 38:46; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/84-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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84.6CSEL 38:46
Hoc autem ideo faciunt, ut escas paulatim spernentes dicant eas non esse bonas, et ita non a deo hominibus escae causa fuisse concessas, sed a diabolo factas ut adserant, ita sentiunt inque hoc iam creaturam non a deo creatam, sed a diabolo eam factam ut praedicent enituntur perque hoc mendacio multorum animas captiuarunt.
They do this so that, gradually despising foods, they may say that they are not good, and so may assert that foods were not granted to men by God but made by the devil; this is how they think, and in this they now strive to preach that creation was not created by God but made by the devil, and by this lie they have taken captive the souls of many.
Notes and citation
Summary: They aim to teach that creation is the devil's work.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 84.6 (CSEL 38:46; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/84-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 85
85.1CSEL 38:46
Alii sunt in Africa Circuitores qui ita dicuntur. Hi circumeunt terram, et quos inueniunt in uia, cogunt eos ut interficiantur ab illis, dicentes se desiderare pati martyrium, et sub causa hac multi latrocinantur interdum.
Others in Africa are the so-called Circumcellions. These go around the country, and those whom they find on the road they force to kill them, saying that they desire to suffer martyrdom; and under this pretext many sometimes turn to robbery.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Circumcellions seek violent death as martyrdom.
- Circuitores: “those who go around”, the Circumcellions.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word): latro cinantur → latrocinantur.
Topics: Heresy, Martyrdom, Donatism
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 85.1 (CSEL 38:46; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/85-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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85.2CSEL 38:46–47
Quidam autem ex his ueluti biothanati moriuntur sese dantes ad praecipitium, diuersumque subeunt calamitatis interitum. Qui cum sine causa perire ita properant, honestae mortis sustinent detrimenta, et iudicio dei futuro se potius inplicant quam soluunt.
Some of them die as suicides, throwing themselves over precipices, and undergo various kinds of ruinous death. Since they thus hasten to perish without cause, they suffer the loss of an honourable death, and entangle rather than free themselves before the judgment of God to come.
Notes and citation
Summary: Their suicides bring them judgment, not glory.
- biothanati: those who die a violent death, here suicides.
Topics: Heresy, Martyrdom, Donatism
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 85.2 (CSEL 38:46–47; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/85-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 86
86.1CSEL 38:47
Alii autem sunt qui cum hominibus non sument escas, praesumptione ducti inani, putantes melius quid facere, quia et prophetae hoc, inquit, faciebant, ignorantes diuersam oeconomiam Christi domini dispositione esse statutam hominibus. Hi de patre et filio bene sentiunt, de spiritu autem non recte accipiunt, creatum credentes esse et factum sanctum spiritum, non deum, sicut scripturae nuntiant et ecclesia catholica praedicat.
Others are those who will not take food with men, led by empty presumption, thinking they do something better, because, they say, the prophets also did this, not knowing that a different economy has been established for men by the disposition of Christ the Lord. These think rightly about the Father and the Son, but do not hold rightly about the Spirit, believing that the Holy Spirit was created and made, not God, as the Scriptures announce and the catholic church preaches.
Notes and citation
Summary: Some refuse to eat with others and deny the Spirit's divinity.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray marks): praedicat.l\\ → praedicat..
Topics: Heresy, Trinity, The Holy Spirit
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 86.1 (CSEL 38:47; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/86-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 87
87.1CSEL 38:47
Alia est heresis quae adserit cum Iudaeis <nos> debere facere pascham. Isti in Galatia et Syria et Frigia commorantur et Hierosolimis, et cum Iudaeos secuntur, simul cum eis errore depereunt.
Another heresy asserts that <we> ought to keep Pascha with the Jews. These live in Galatia, Syria and Phrygia and at Jerusalem, and since they follow the Jews, they perish in error together with them.
Notes and citation
Summary: Some keep Pascha with the Jews.
- The angle brackets around nos are the editor's supplement.
Topics: Heresy, Easter and the church year
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 87.1 (CSEL 38:47; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/87-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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87.2CSEL 38:47
Inque hoc et suum Iudaei confirmant mendacium, cum peruident quosdam Christianos indoctos legis eorum sequi uanitatem quam regulam catholicae ueritatis. Et nihilominus et illi cum istis concelebrant, ut consortes Iudaeorum criminis et sceleris manifestantur atque ab omnibus dinoscuntur.
And by this the Jews also confirm their own lie, when they see certain unlearned Christians following the vanity of their law rather than the rule of catholic truth. And nonetheless those people celebrate together with these, so that they are shown and known by all to be partners of the Jews' crime and wickedness.
Notes and citation
Summary: Keeping Pascha with the Jews strengthens their error.
- Philastrius's polemic against the Jews is translated as written.
Topics: Heresy, Easter and the church year
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 87.2 (CSEL 38:47; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/87-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 88
88.1CSEL 38:47
Alia est heresis, quae Apocryfa, id est secreta, habet solum prophetarum et apostolorum, <non> accipit scripturas canonicas, id est legem et prophetas, uetus et nouum scilicet testamentum.
Another heresy is that which has only the Apocrypha, that is, the secret books, of the prophets and apostles, and does <not> accept the canonical Scriptures, that is, the law and the prophets, namely the Old and New Testament.
Notes and citation
Summary: Some use only apocryphal books and reject the canonical Scriptures.
- The angle brackets around non are the editor's supplement.
Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon, Canon of Scripture
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 88.1 (CSEL 38:47; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/88-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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88.2CSEL 38:47–48
Et cum uolunt solum illa apocrifa legere studiose, contraria scripturis canonicis sentiunt, atque paulatim dogmatizant, contra eas dantes sententias, contra legem et prophetas contraque dispositiones beatissimorum apostolorum consulta ponentes:
And since they want to read only those apocrypha diligently, they think things contrary to the canonical Scriptures, and gradually make dogmas, giving opinions against them, setting decrees against the law and the prophets and against the dispositions of the most blessed apostles:
Notes and citation
Summary: Readers of the apocrypha teach against the canonical Scriptures.
Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon, Canon of Scripture
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 88.2 (CSEL 38:47–48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/88-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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88.3CSEL 38:48
e quibus sunt maxime Manichei, Gnostici, Nicolaitae, Valentiniani, et alii quam plurimi, qui apocrifa prophetarum et apostolorum, id est Actus separatos habentes, canonicas legere scripturas contemnunt.
among them are chiefly the Manichees, the Gnostics, the Nicolaitans, the Valentinians and very many others, who, having the apocrypha of the prophets and apostles, that is, separate Acts, despise reading the canonical Scriptures.
Notes and citation
Summary: Manichees and Gnostics prefer apocryphal Acts to the canon.
Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon, Canon of Scripture
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 88.3 (CSEL 38:48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/88-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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88.4CSEL 38:48
Propter quod statutum est ab apostolis beatis eorum successoribus non aliud legi in ecclesia debere catholica nisi legem et prophetas et euangelia, et Actus apostolorum et Pauli tredecim epistolas, et septem alias, Petri duas, Iohannis tres, Iudae unam, et unam Iacobi, quae septem Actibus apostolorum coniunctae sunt.
For this reason it was established by the blessed apostles and their successors that nothing else should be read in the catholic church but the law and the prophets and the gospels, and the Acts of the apostles and the thirteen letters of Paul, and seven others: two of Peter, three of John, one of Jude and one of James, which seven are joined to the Acts of the apostles.
Notes and citation
Summary: Philastrius lists the books to be read in the catholic church.
- Hebrews and the Revelation of John are not in this list; on Hebrews see 89.1–8.
Topics: Scripture and canon, Canon of Scripture
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 88.4 (CSEL 38:48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/88-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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88.5CSEL 38:48
Scripturae autem absconditae, id est apocryfa, etsi legi debent morum causa a perfectis, non ab omnibus debent, quia non intellegentes multa addiderunt et tulerunt quae uoluerunt heretici.
The hidden Scriptures, that is, the apocrypha, though they ought to be read for the sake of morals by the mature, ought not to be read by all, because heretics, not understanding, added and took away much as they wished.
Notes and citation
Summary: The apocrypha may be read by the mature but not by all.
Topics: Scripture and canon, Canon of Scripture
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 88.5 (CSEL 38:48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/88-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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88.6CSEL 38:48
Nam Manichei apocryfa beati Andreae apostoli, id est Actus quos fecit ueniens de Ponto in Greciam * quos conscripserunt tunc discipuli sequentes beatum apostolum, unde et habent Manichei et alii tales Andreae beati et Iohannis Actus euangelistae beati, et Petri similiter beatissimi apostoli, et Pauli pariter beati apostoli:
For the Manichees [have] the apocrypha of the blessed apostle Andrew, that is, the Acts which he did coming from Pontus into Greece … which the disciples who followed the blessed apostle then wrote; hence the Manichees and others like them have the Acts of blessed Andrew and of blessed John the evangelist, and likewise of Peter the most blessed apostle, and also of Paul the blessed apostle:
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Manichees use apocryphal Acts of Andrew, John, Peter and Paul.
- The asterisk marks a gap in the text (“…”).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Iohannjs → Iohannis.
Extrabiblical texts: Acts Andr. (Acts of Andrew; allusion); Acts John (Acts of John; allusion); Acts Pet. (Acts of Peter; allusion); Acts Paul (Acts of Paul; allusion)
Topics: Heresy, Scripture and canon, Canon of Scripture
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 88.6 (CSEL 38:48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/88-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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88.7CSEL 38:48
in quibus quia signa fecerunt magna et prodigia, ut et pecudes et canes et bestiae loquerentur, etiam et animas hominum tales uelut canum et pecudum similes inputauerunt esse heretici perditi.
in which, because they performed great signs and wonders, so that even cattle, dogs and beasts spoke, the lost heretics claimed that the souls of men too are of this kind, like those of dogs and cattle.
Notes and citation
Summary: From the talking animals of these Acts heretics concluded that human souls are like animals'.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): bestiaq → bestiae.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 88.7 (CSEL 38:48; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/88-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 89
89.1CSEL 38:48–49
Sunt alii, qui epistolam beati Pauli ad Hebreos non adserunt esse ipsius, sed dicunt aut Barnabae esse beati apostoli aut Clementis de urbe Romae episcopi,
There are others who do not assert that the letter of blessed Paul to the Hebrews is his, but say that it is either by Barnabas the blessed apostle or by Clement, bishop of the city of Rome,
Notes and citation
Summary: Some ascribe Hebrews to Barnabas or Clement.
Topics: Scripture and canon, Canon of Scripture
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 89.1 (CSEL 38:48–49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/89-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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89.2CSEL 38:49
alii autem Lucae beatissimi euangelistae aiunt: epistolam etiam ad Laudicenses scriptam beati apostoli quidam uolunt legere. Et quia addiderunt in ea quaedam non bene sentientes, inde non legitur in ecclesia, et si legitur a quibusdam, non tamen in ecclesia legitur populo nisi tredecim epistolae ipsius et ad Hebreos interdum.
while others say it is by Luke the most blessed evangelist; some also wish to read a letter to the Laodiceans written by the blessed apostle. And because some who did not think rightly added certain things to it, it is not read in the church; and even if it is read by some, yet nothing is read to the people in the church but his thirteen letters and, at times, that to the Hebrews.
Notes and citation
Summary: Some ascribe Hebrews to Luke; the letter to the Laodiceans is not read in church.
Topics: Scripture and canon, Canon of Scripture
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 89.2 (CSEL 38:49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/89-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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89.3CSEL 38:49
Et in ea quia rhetorice scripsit, sermone plausibili, inde non putant esse eiusdem apostoli; et quia et factum Christum dicit in ea, inde non legitur; de paenitentia autem propter Nouatianos aeque.
And because he wrote it rhetorically, in a pleasing style, they do not think it is by the same apostle; and because in it he also says that Christ was made, it is not read on that account; and likewise because of what it says on repentance, because of the Novatians.
Heb 3:2 (allusion, medium confidence) · Heb 6:4–6 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Hebrews is doubted for its style, its word “made”, and its teaching on repentance.
- Cf. Heb 3:2 (“faithful to him who made him”) and Heb 6:4–6.
Topics: Scripture and canon, Canon of Scripture
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 89.3 (CSEL 38:49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/89-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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89.4CSEL 38:49
Cum ergo factum Christum dicit, corpore dicit, non diuinitate dixit factum, cum doceat ibidem quod diuinae sit paternae substantiae filius: Qui est splendor gloriae, inquit, et imago substantiae eius.
When, then, he says that Christ was made, he says it of the body; he did not say he was made in his divinity, since he teaches in the same place that the Son is of the divine substance of the Father: “Who is the radiance of his glory,” he says, “and the image of his substance.”
Heb 1:3 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Hebrews calls Christ “made” in his body, not his divinity.
- Heb 1:3.
Topics: Scripture and canon, Christology, Canon of Scripture
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 89.4 (CSEL 38:49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/89-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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89.5CSEL 38:49
Paenitudinem etiam non excludit docendo, sed diuersum gradum dignitatis ostendit inter hunc qui integrum custodiuit et illum qui peccauit. Dignitatis est igitur detrimentum in eo qui peccauit, non damnum salutis.
Nor does he exclude repentance in his teaching, but shows a different degree of rank between one who kept himself whole and one who sinned. In one who sinned, then, there is loss of rank, not loss of salvation.
Notes and citation
Summary: Hebrews does not exclude repentance but distinguishes ranks.
Topics: Repentance
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 89.5 (CSEL 38:49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/89-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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89.6CSEL 38:49
Nam si fortiter quis pugnauerit per martyrium, recipiet pristinam sanitatem, aut si condigne in hoc saeculo uixerit, inpetrat quod desiderat adipisci.
For if someone fights bravely through martyrdom, he will recover his former soundness; or if he lives worthily in this age, he obtains what he desires to attain.
Notes and citation
Summary: Martyrdom or a worthy life restores the penitent.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 89.6 (CSEL 38:49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/89-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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89.7CSEL 38:49
Nam in epistola ipsa rebaptizatores excludit, non baptismum paenitentiae abnegat conferendum, quod interdum in multis infructuosum inuenietur paenitentibus:
For in that letter he excludes rebaptizers; he does not deny that a baptism of repentance is to be conferred, which is sometimes found fruitless in many penitents:
Notes and citation
Summary: Hebrews excludes rebaptism, not repentance.
- paenitentia here is the church's discipline of penance.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 89.7 (CSEL 38:49; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/89-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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89.8CSEL 38:49–50
quod postea fide, uita, bono opere et in hoc saeculo a domino conlaudati sunt: perseuerantes iam in rebus bonis et operibus fructuosis, quod dominus dixerat per prophetam: Non ero memor malorum eius, sed bonorum potius, si iam in bonis permanserit operibus.
for afterwards, by faith, life and good work, they were commended by the Lord even in this age, persevering now in good things and fruitful works, as the Lord had said through the prophet: “I will not remember his evils, but rather his good deeds, if he now remains in good works.”
Ezek 18:21–22 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: God forgets the past sins of those who persevere in good works.
- A free paraphrase of Ezek 18:21–22 (cf. 33:16).
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 89.8 (CSEL 38:49–50; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/89-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 90
90.1CSEL 38:50
Melitiani sunt alii a Melitio quodam in Aegypto, qui de parte fuerat Arriana, et abiectus est ab ecclesia catholica: qui postea quasi uerum sequendo susceptus est, et discipuli eius cum eo pariter.
Others are the Meletians, from a certain Meletius in Egypt, who had been of the Arian party and was cast out of the catholic church; afterwards, as if following the truth, he was received, and his disciples with him.
Notes and citation
Summary: Meletius, once Arian, was received back into the church.
- Philastrius's account of Meletius differs from other sources.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): An-iana → Arriana.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 90.1 (CSEL 38:50; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/90-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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90.2CSEL 38:50
Atque iterum indifferenter post haec agere cupientes communicabant et hereticis et ecclesiae catholicae. Quorum cum cognouisset indifferentiam, exortes eos suae communionis effecit ecclesia catholica.
And again, wishing after this to act indifferently, they communicated both with heretics and with the catholic church. When the catholic church learned of their indifference, it put them out of its communion.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Meletians communicated with both heretics and catholics and were excluded.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word and OCR slip): indift erenter → indifferenter.
Topics: Heresy, Schism and unity
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 90.2 (CSEL 38:50; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/90-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 91
91.1CSEL 38:50
Alii sunt in Aegypto et Alexandria a Retorio quodam nomine, qui omnes laudabat hereses, dicens omnes bene sentire, et neminem errare ex eis sed ambulare bene omnes illos: et male eos credere non sentiebat. Si itaque omnes laudabat, quem uituperabat?
Others are in Egypt and Alexandria, from one named Rhetorius, who praised all heresies, saying that all think rightly and none of them errs, but that all of them walk well; and he did not think that they believe wrongly. If, then, he praised all, whom did he blame?
Notes and citation
Summary: Rhetorius praised all heresies.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 91.1 (CSEL 38:50; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/91-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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91.2CSEL 38:50
Ergo non tenet quod uerum est. Et Fotinus ergo laudandus est et hereticus, qui Christum deum negat esse ante saecula cum patre, et omnis heresis quae blasphemat aut in patrem aut in filium aut in spiritum.
So he does not hold what is true. Then Photinus too is to be praised, the heretic who denies that Christ is God before the ages with the Father, and every heresy that blasphemes either against the Father or the Son or the Spirit.
Notes and citation
Summary: Rhetorius's view would praise even Photinus.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 91.2 (CSEL 38:50; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/91-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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91.3CSEL 38:50–51
Cur itaque blasphemos hereticos laudet, cum eos Christus dominus ex hoc iam saeculo damnauerit, dicens non dimitti hominibus blasphemiam in spiritum sanctum blasphemantibus et perseuerantibus, neque hic neque in futurum? Propter quod constat et istum esse hereticum, immo potius nihil scire, qui eos laudandos, non uituperandos et abiciendos iudicauerit.
Why then would he praise blasphemous heretics, when Christ the Lord has already condemned them from this age, saying that blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is not forgiven to men who blaspheme and persist, neither here nor in the future? For this reason it is clear that he too is a heretic, or rather knows nothing, who judged that they are to be praised, not blamed and cast out.
Matt 12:32 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ's word on blasphemy against the Spirit condemns Rhetorius.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark): constat! → constat.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 91.3 (CSEL 38:50–51; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/91-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 92
92.1CSEL 38:51
Alia est heresis quae dicit diuinitatem doluisse, cum caro pateretur in cruce coniuncta diuinitati, errantes, quod non solum diuinitas pati non potest naturaliter nec teneri neque uideri, uerum etiam nec anima hominis, quae a deo facta est, dicente domino:
Another heresy says that the divinity felt pain when the flesh joined to the divinity suffered on the cross; they err, since not only can the divinity not by nature suffer, nor be held, nor be seen, but not even the soul of man, which was made by God, as the Lord says:
Notes and citation
Summary: Some say Christ's divinity suffered pain on the cross.
Topics: Heresy, Christology, Passion and death of Christ
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 92.1 (CSEL 38:51; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/92-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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92.2CSEL 38:51
Nolite timere eos qui occidunt corpus, animam autem non possunt occidere, sed timete hunc potius, qui potest animam et corpus perdere in gehennam. Errant itaque modis omnibus qui dicunt diuinitatem Christi esse natura passibilem, et impie sentiunt aut doluisse aut fleuisse aut ingemuisse; passio enim Christi est carnalis, < carne > naturaliter, non diuinitate dolente.
“Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; but fear rather him who can destroy soul and body in Gehenna.” So they err in every way who say that the divinity of Christ is by nature passible, and impiously think that it felt pain or wept or groaned; for Christ's passion is fleshly, <in the flesh> by nature, not with the divinity feeling pain.
Matt 10:28 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ suffered in the flesh, not in his divinity.
- Matt 10:28. The angle brackets around carne are the editor's supplement.
Topics: Christology, Passion and death of Christ
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 92.2 (CSEL 38:51; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/92-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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92.3CSEL 38:51
Ideoque non cognoscebatur a Iudaeis qui erat in carne passibili loquendo, qui de lege eis et prophetis deus uerus nuntiabatur, palamque in carnem uenturus praedicabatur, dicente propheta: Deus palam ueniet, et iterum idem propheta Dauid: Dominus pars hereditatis meae, et calicis mei. Qui est enim calix nisi eius passio?
And so he was not recognized by the Jews while he spoke in passible flesh, who was announced to them as true God from the law and the prophets, and was preached as coming openly into the flesh, as the prophet says: “God will come openly”; and again the same prophet David: “The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup.” For what is the cup but his passion?
Ps 50:3 (49:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 16:5 (15:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The prophets foretold God's coming and his cup of suffering.
- Ps 50:3 (49:3 LXX/Vulg.); Ps 16:5 (15:5 LXX/Vulg.).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): deus ueras → deus uerus.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 92.3 (CSEL 38:51; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/92-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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92.4CSEL 38:51
qui tantae bonitatis munus et clementiae humano generi conferens ab Iudaeorum iniquissimo ignorabatur populo. Passus itaque est carne passibili, non diuinitate naturaliter inpassibili, qui et agnoscitur et creditur non absente tamen diuinitate, sed coniuncta cum corpore pariter propter mysterium consummationis statutum ac definitum antea.
He who conferred the gift of such great goodness and clemency on the human race was not known by the most iniquitous people of the Jews. He suffered, then, in passible flesh, not in his divinity, impassible by nature; he is recognized and believed, the divinity not being absent, but joined with the body alike for the sake of the mystery of fulfilment appointed and defined beforehand.
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ suffered in his flesh while his divinity remained united to it.
- Philastrius's polemic against the Jews is translated as written.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letters): iiqui → qui.
Topics: Christology, Passion and death of Christ
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 92.4 (CSEL 38:51; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/92-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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92.5CSEL 38:51–52
Quod sciens apostolus non separauit in cruce diuinitatem a carne dicens: Si enim cognouissent, numquam dominum maiestatis crucifixissent. Paulus itaque beatus coniunxit utrumque ut Christi bonitatem et misericordiam nobis manifestaret plenissimam. Petrus autem beatus apostolus quod natura est passibile et quod est inpassibile docuit ex aperto, dicens: Mortuus quidem est corpore, uiuificatus autem spiritu.
Knowing this, the apostle did not separate the divinity from the flesh on the cross, saying: “For if they had known, they would never have crucified the Lord of majesty.” So blessed Paul joined both, to show us the fullest goodness and mercy of Christ. But the blessed apostle Peter taught openly what is passible by nature and what is impassible, saying: “He died indeed in the body, but was made alive in the spirit.”
1 Cor 2:8 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Pet 3:18 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Paul joins Christ's divinity and flesh at the cross; Peter distinguishes them.
- 1 Cor 2:8; 1 Pet 3:18.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 92.5 (CSEL 38:51–52; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/92-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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92.6CSEL 38:52
Neque ergo caro a diuinitate nec diuinitas a carne aberat cum caro pateretur humana naturaliter, et in hoc ipso permittente Christi diuinitate mysterium nostrae causa salutis consummabatur a domino, ut plena deuictio fieret inimici, ut, in quo uidebatur ut homo pati, qui deus erat in carne, non sibi sed nobis iam uinceret inimicum, nobisque ante deuictis in sui passione in eum credentibus uincendi potentiam aperiret eumque sequentibus caelestem gloriam ministraret.
So neither was the flesh absent from the divinity nor the divinity from the flesh when the human flesh suffered by nature; and in this, the divinity of Christ permitting it, the mystery was fulfilled by the Lord for our salvation, so that there might be a full defeat of the enemy, so that, in that he was seen to suffer as man, he who was God in the flesh might conquer the enemy, not for himself but for us, and, we having been defeated before, might open by his passion to those who believe in him the power to conquer, and bestow heavenly glory on those who follow him.
Notes and citation
Summary: In Christ's passion the united God-man defeated the enemy for us.
Topics: Christology, Passion and death of Christ
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 92.6 (CSEL 38:52; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/92-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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92.7CSEL 38:52
Non ergo dei naturalis passio et dolor talis in diuinitate eius gignebatur, sicut quidam aestimant: alioquin homo solum erat, non deus et homo, ut scriptum est: sed mysterium nostrae causa salutis aeternae consummabatur, quod ante fuerat nuntiatum a lege pariter et prophetis.
So there was not produced in his divinity a natural passion and pain of God, as some think: otherwise he would have been man only, not God and man, as it is written; but the mystery was being fulfilled for the sake of our eternal salvation, which had been announced beforehand by the law and the prophets alike.
Notes and citation
Summary: The divinity did not suffer; the passion fulfilled the prophesied mystery.
Topics: Christology, Passion and death of Christ
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 92.7 (CSEL 38:52; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/92-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 93
93.1CSEL 38:52
ALIA EST HERESIS QVAE DICIT ueluti triformem DEUM esse et compositum, ut quaedam pars patris, quaedam filii, quaedam spiritus sancti sit, atque ita credi debere adserunt, et hoc dicentes nesciunt nec intellegunt diuinae scripturae sententiam.
ANOTHER IS THE HERESY THAT SAYS that GOD is as it were three-formed and composite, so that one part is the Father's, one the Son's, one the Holy Spirit's, and they assert that it should be believed so; and saying this they neither know nor understand the meaning of divine Scripture.
Notes and citation
Summary: Some make God a composite of three parts.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 93.1 (CSEL 38:52; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/93-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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93.2CSEL 38:52
Triformem enim quandam dicentes substantiam multis blasphemant peius ignorantes, quod alter est qui misit, alter qui missus est. Ergo est uera persona patris, quae misit filium, et est uera persona filii quae aduenit de patre, et est uera persona spiritus quae a filio et patre missa est.
For by speaking of a kind of three-formed substance they blaspheme, worse than many, not knowing that the one who sent is other than the one who was sent. So there is a true person of the Father, who sent the Son, and a true person of the Son, who came from the Father, and a true person of the Spirit, who was sent by the Son and the Father.
Notes and citation
Summary: There are three true persons, the sender and those sent.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 93.2 (CSEL 38:52; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/93-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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93.3CSEL 38:52–53
Trium itaque harum personarum una est ueritas, maiestas et substantia aequalis et diuinitas sempiterna. Qualis est enim inmensa inenarranda patris persona, talis est et filii, talis est et sancti spiritus, ut in distinctione nominum ac trium personarum non sit aliqua naturae diuersitas.
Of these three persons, then, there is one truth, majesty and equal substance and everlasting divinity. For as the infinite, ineffable person of the Father is, so is that of the Son, so is that of the Holy Spirit, so that in the distinction of the names and of the three persons there is no diversity of nature.
Notes and citation
Summary: The three persons share one equal substance and divinity.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (punctuation slip): filii. talis → filii, talis.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 93.3 (CSEL 38:52–53; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/93-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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93.4CSEL 38:53
Inmensibilis est igitur haec trinitas et inuisibilis et inenarrabilis, quae fide solum cognoscitur, tamen expositione humanae uocis ac sensu mortali condigne non expromitur.
This Trinity, then, is immeasurable, invisible and ineffable, known only by faith, yet not worthily expressed by the exposition of the human voice and by mortal sense.
Notes and citation
Summary: The Trinity is known by faith and exceeds human speech.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 93.4 (CSEL 38:53; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/93-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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93.5CSEL 38:53
Cum enim dicit mittere patrem filium et filium mittere sanctum spiritum, personarum causa dicit, non loci separatione disiunctos ostendit, propter Sabellium scilicet et Fotinum hereticos, qui condigne de deo intellegere noluerunt, dicente domino: Cui me similem facitis, dicit dominus, et cui similis ero? *** Sicut enim caelum distat a terra, ita distant sensus uestri et cogitationes et consilia uestra a sensibus et cogitationibus meis, dicit dominus.
For when he says that the Father sends the Son and the Son sends the Holy Spirit, he says it for the sake of the persons; he does not show them separated by distance of place, because of the heretics Sabellius and Photinus, who would not understand worthily about God, as the Lord says: “To whom do you make me like, says the Lord, and to whom shall I be like?” … “For as heaven is distant from earth, so your thoughts, reasonings and counsels are distant from my thoughts and reasonings, says the Lord.”
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Isa 40:25 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 55:8–9 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Sending distinguishes the persons without separating them in place.
- Isa 40:25 (cf. 46:5); Isa 55:8–9. The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; leaked number): 11 Cum → Cum; cagitationibus → cogitationibus.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 93.5 (CSEL 38:53; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/93-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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93.6CSEL 38:53
Cum ergo dicit misisse patrem, et missum fuisse filium, personarum causa dicit, ne quis aut ipsum <missum> patrem aut ipsum filium misisse aestimans *** quod ita non sentiens delirat Sabellius. Et ne iterum missus filius de caelo aestimetur non esse ubique cum patre, dixit quidem se missum a patre, ubique tamen se esse cum patre ostendit dicens: Pater, qui me misit, mecum est.
When, then, he says that the Father sent and the Son was sent, he says it for the sake of the persons, lest anyone, thinking that the Father himself was <sent> or the Son himself sent, … which Sabellius, not thinking so, raves about. And again, lest the Son sent from heaven be thought not to be everywhere with the Father, he said indeed that he was sent by the Father, yet showed that he is everywhere with the Father, saying: “The Father who sent me is with me.”
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
John 8:29 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The Son sent by the Father remains everywhere with him.
- John 8:29 (cf. 16:32). The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”); the angle brackets around missum are the editor's supplement.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 93.6 (CSEL 38:53; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/93-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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93.7CSEL 38:53–54
Non ergo separationem loci dixit, cum omnia et ipse filius compleat contineat cum patre et sancto spiritu: sed ut patris ueram personam, et filii talem qualem patris, et sancti spiritus sicut filii, ueram credamus personam harumque trium personarum unam qualitatis substantiam, maiestatem et potentiam cognoscamus, haec ita docere dignatus est:
So he did not speak of a separation of place, since the Son himself, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, fills and contains all things; but so that we might believe the true person of the Father, and that of the Son such as the Father's, and that of the Holy Spirit as the Son's, a true person, and might know one substance of quality, majesty and power of these three persons, he deigned to teach these things thus:
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ taught three true persons of one substance.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 93.7 (CSEL 38:53–54; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/93-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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93.8CSEL 38:54
et in carne maxime constitutus, in quo et eius humilitas enituit saeculo et inenarranda resplenduit bonitas et condescensio fragilitatis humanae, in tanta copiosa clementia ac liberalitate ut generi manifestaretur humano, haec ita dignatus est operari atque loqui pro nostra salute, ut nos scire de deo et capere et intellegere aliqua ex parte ualeamus.
and above all when set in the flesh, in which both his humility shone out to the world and his ineffable goodness and condescension to human frailty shone forth, in such abundant clemency and generosity that he might be manifested to the human race, he deigned so to act and speak for our salvation, that we might be able in some part to know, grasp and understand about God.
Notes and citation
Summary: In the flesh Christ condescended so that we might know God in part.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 93.8 (CSEL 38:54; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/93-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 94
94.1CSEL 38:54
Alia est heresis quae de caelorum diuersitate ambigit. Scriptura enim in primo die caelum et terram factam declarat duo haec elementa, secundo die firmamentum aquae factum, et nihilominus et ipsum firmamentum caelum appellatum fuisse testatur.
Another heresy is in doubt about the diversity of the heavens. For Scripture declares that on the first day heaven and earth were made, these two elements, and that on the second day the firmament of the water was made, and nonetheless testifies that the firmament itself was called heaven.
Gen 1:1 (allusion, high confidence) · Gen 1:6–8 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Genesis speaks of heaven made on the first day and the firmament called heaven.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 94.1 (CSEL 38:54; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/94-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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94.2CSEL 38:54
Dauid autem dicit de caelis ita: Laudate dominum deum caeli caelorum, et aquae quae super caelos sunt. Siue ergo sex caelos, secundum Dauid, et septimum hoc firmamentum accipere quis uoluerit, non errat: nam Salomon tres caelos dicit ita: Caelum et caelum caeli.
David speaks of the heavens thus: “Praise the Lord God, heaven of heavens, and the waters that are above the heavens.” So if anyone wishes to accept six heavens, according to David, and this firmament as the seventh, he does not err: for Solomon speaks of three heavens thus: “Heaven and the heaven of heaven.”
Ps 148:4 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Kgs 8:27 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: David and Solomon speak of several heavens.
- Ps 148:4; 1 Kgs 8:27.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 94.2 (CSEL 38:54; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/94-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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94.3CSEL 38:54
Paulus aeque beatus apostolus usque ad tertium caelum se raptum confitetur. Siue ergo septem quis acceperit, ut Dauid beatus, siue tres, siue duo, non errat, quia et dominus ait: Pater qui in caelis est.
Paul, the blessed apostle likewise, confesses that he was caught up to the third heaven. So whether one accepts seven, like blessed David, or three, or two, he does not err, because the Lord too says: “Father who is in the heavens.”
2 Cor 12:2 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 6:9 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Any of these counts of heavens is acceptable.
- 2 Cor 12:2; Matt 6:9.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 94.3 (CSEL 38:54; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/94-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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94.4CSEL 38:54–55
Nam et pagani uanissimi unum caelum et polus profitentur interdum. Dauid ergo beatus quod plenum est docuit; Salomon autem quod ex parte est et beatus Paulus aeque. Liber autem Geneseos duos caelos nobis nuntiauit.
For the most vain pagans too sometimes profess one heaven and the pole. So blessed David taught what is full; Solomon what is in part, and blessed Paul likewise. The book of Genesis announced two heavens to us.
Notes and citation
Summary: Scripture's different counts of heavens are complementary.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 94.4 (CSEL 38:54–55; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/94-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 95
95.1CSEL 38:55
Alia est heresis quae de terra ambigit, dicens hanc esse solam, et aliam non esse, ignorans quod alia est, quae ueluti matrix est omnium rerum uniuersaque continet quaeque quasi TAH, id est materia, repperitur in scripturis, quae est inuisibilis et inconposita, quae a deo facta est in primo die.
Another heresy is in doubt about the earth, saying that this alone exists and there is no other, not knowing that there is another, which is as it were the womb of all things and contains all, and which is found in the Scriptures as hyle, that is, matter, which is invisible and unformed, which was made by God on the first day.
Gen 1:2 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Philastrius distinguishes a first, invisible earth, the matter of all things.
- The digital text has TAH, apparently the Greek ΥΛΗ (hyle) misread. Gen 1:2 (“invisible and unformed”, the Greek and Old Latin wording).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray marks): dicens!! → dicens.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 95.1 (CSEL 38:55; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/95-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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95.2CSEL 38:55
Haec autem, in qua habitamus, super aquam fundata ostenditur, ut dixit Dauid; Qui fundasti terram super aquam.
But this earth, on which we live, is shown to be founded upon the water, as David said: “You who founded the earth upon the water.”
Ps 136:6 (135:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Our earth is founded on the water.
- Ps 136:6 (135:6 LXX/Vulg.).
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 95.2 (CSEL 38:55; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/95-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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95.3CSEL 38:55
Nam matrix omnium rerum terra inmensa est illa prior quae in primo die facta est, quae continet aquam et hanc terram quae habitatur a nobis, quae et humano generi et uolatilibus serpentibus pecudibus ceterisque aliis fruges et fructus exhibet opulenter, iussa a Christo domino saluatore, sicut scriptum est in libro Geneseos < id est> creaturae.
For that first, immense earth, made on the first day, is the womb of all things, containing the water and this earth which is inhabited by us, which abundantly provides crops and fruits for the human race and for birds, serpents, cattle and all the others, at the command of Christ the Lord the Saviour, as it is written in the book of Genesis, <that is,> of creation.
Gen 1:11–12 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The first earth contains the water and our fruitful earth.
- The angle brackets around id est are the editor's supplement.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): teha → terra; humapo → humano.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 95.3 (CSEL 38:55; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/95-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 96
96.1CSEL 38:55
Alia est heresis quae de aqua ambigit, quod non facta sit a deo, sed semper esse eam ex semetipsa adserunt, ignorantes, quod si maius elementum factum est, id est terra, quanto magis et minus, id est aqua, quae continetur a terra, dicente propheta Iona: Ego seruus sum dei, qui fecit mare et terram.
Another heresy is in doubt about water, asserting that it was not made by God but always existed of itself, not knowing that if the greater element was made, that is, the earth, how much more the lesser, that is, water, which is contained by the earth; as the prophet Jonah says: “I am a servant of God, who made the sea and the earth.”
Jonah 1:9 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Water too was made by God.
- Jonah 1:9.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 96.1 (CSEL 38:55; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/96-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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96.2CSEL 38:55–56
Et Dauid idem dicit factam aquam a domino et tres pueri itidem. Alia itaque est terra quae continet uniuersa, et alia est terra quae super aquam fundata est, quippe ista quae habitatur a nobis, de qua ait propheta Qui fundasti terram super aquam. *** non illam utique primam.
And David says the same, that water was made by the Lord, and the three young men likewise. So the earth that contains all things is one, and the earth founded upon the water is another, namely this one which is inhabited by us, of which the prophet says: “You who founded the earth upon the water.” … certainly not that first one.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Ps 148:4–5 (allusion, medium confidence) · Ps 136:6 (135:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: David and the three young men confirm that water was made.
- Ps 148:4–5; Song of the Three Young Men (Dan 3 Greek) 60; Ps 136:6. The asterisks mark a gap in the text (“…”).
Extrabiblical texts: Pr Azar (Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Young Men [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 96.2 (CSEL 38:55–56; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/96-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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96.3CSEL 38:56
Hanc itaque renouari et purgari necesse est, quam et moueri saepe cognoscimus terrae motu, de qua ait dominus: Ego facio nouum caelum, et nouam terram. Et iterum dominus ait caelum et terram transire in euangelio.
This earth, then, must be renewed and purified, which we know is often moved by earthquake, of which the Lord says: “I make a new heaven and a new earth.” And again the Lord says in the gospel that heaven and earth pass away.
Isa 65:17 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 24:35 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: This earth will be renewed.
- Isa 65:17; Matt 24:35.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 96.3 (CSEL 38:56; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/96-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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96.4CSEL 38:56
Haec terra itaque ueluti de radicibus illius prioris cognoscitur habere substantiam, quae supra aquam subsistere iussa est, quae copiose humano generi exhibet alimenta.
So this earth is known to have its substance as it were from the roots of that former one, and was commanded to stand above the water, and it abundantly provides food for the human race.
Notes and citation
Summary: Our earth draws its substance from the first earth.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 96.4 (CSEL 38:56; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/96-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 97
97.1CSEL 38:56
Alia est heresis, quae dicit ante corpus fuisse hominis factum, non animam, et quod imago dei corpus sit non anima hominis, et quod secundum praedestinationem dixerit dominus, ita arbitrantur, cum dicat scriptura: Et fecit deus hominem. Ad imaginem suam fecit eum, masculum et feminam fecit eos; ignorantes, propheta quid dixerit.
Another heresy says that man's body was made first, not the soul, and that the image of God is the body, not man's soul, and they think that the Lord spoke according to predestination, since Scripture says: “And God made man. In his image he made him; male and female he made them”; not knowing what the prophet said.
Gen 1:27 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Some say the body was made first and is God's image.
- Gen 1:27.
Topics: Heresy, The image of God
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 97.1 (CSEL 38:56; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/97-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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97.2CSEL 38:56
Cum dicit enim Faciamus, promittit facturum se, cumque dicit Fecit deus, iam opus factum demonstrat, et factam non carnem, sed animam, quae rationabilis est, declarauit.
For when he says, “Let us make,” he promises that he will make; and when he says, “God made,” he shows the work already done, and declared that what was made was not flesh but the soul, which is rational.
Gen 1:26–27 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Genesis 1 speaks of the making of the rational soul.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): oumque → cumque.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 97.2 (CSEL 38:56; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/97-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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97.3CSEL 38:56
Nam quod caro sine anima non possit eloqui non est dubium; ergo caro organum animae est rei rationabilis. Masculum et feminam cum primum <factum> dicit scriptura, non hic corporum sexum, sed animae dominantis et subiacentis declarat indicium.
For there is no doubt that flesh without a soul cannot speak; so the flesh is the instrument of the soul, a rational thing. When Scripture says that male and female were first <made>, it does not here declare the sex of bodies but signifies the ruling and the subject soul.
Notes and citation
Summary: “Male and female” in Gen 1 signifies ruling and subject soul.
- The angle brackets around factum are the editor's supplement.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 97.3 (CSEL 38:56; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/97-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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97.4CSEL 38:56–57
Et quod non corpora ante sint facta iacentia, sicut quidam aestimant inprudentes, non est ambiguum, cum caro Adae ac mulieris postea facta sit; nam septimo die dicit scriptura de Adam ita: Et accepit dominus terram de limo, et plasmauit hominem quem fecit.
And it is not doubtful that bodies were not made first, lying there, as some imprudent people think, since the flesh of Adam and of the woman was made afterwards; for on the seventh day Scripture says of Adam thus: “And the Lord took earth from the clay and formed the man whom he had made.”
Gen 2:7 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Adam's body was formed later, from the clay.
- Gen 2:7 in a free form. Philastrius places this on the seventh day.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip and stray letters): lacentia, li sicut → iacentia, sicut.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 97.4 (CSEL 38:56–57; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/97-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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97.5CSEL 38:57
Vides ergo quomodo factum hominem, id est animam ante ostendit rationabilem et inmortalem esse creatam a domino, quae utique imago dei est appellata. Terram autem de limo acceptam adiunctam animae, id est exteriorem hominem, corpus fragile die sequenti manifestauit plasmatum, ac sic immisso sopore in Adam posteaque de costa eius accepisse dominum et fecisse mulierem scriptura testatur ac praedicat.
You see, then, how he shows first that the man was made, that is, that the soul, rational and immortal, was created by the Lord, which indeed is called the image of God. And he showed that the earth taken from the clay and joined to the soul, that is, the outer man, the fragile body, was formed on the following day; and so Scripture testifies and preaches that, after sleep had been sent upon Adam, the Lord then took from his rib and made the woman.
Gen 2:21–22 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The soul was made first, then the body, then the woman from the rib.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark): dominum. et fecisse → dominum et fecisse.
Topics: The soul
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 97.5 (CSEL 38:57; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/97-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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97.6CSEL 38:57
Et <quod> primum sit anima facta, id est sexto die, die autem septimo corpus de terra plasmatum Adae, sic de uiri corpore, id est de latere eius, factam feminam demonstrauerit, non est ambiguum et quod anima ante facta sit, caro autem postea plasmata, et sic postea inspiratione infusa dei spiritalis in fine conlata sit gratia, ut sic iam capax homo legis diuinae non inpotens a domino monstraretur, euidens est ratio ueritatis: quod et beatus dicebat Dauid, factam animam.
And it is not doubtful <that> the soul was made first, that is, on the sixth day, and on the seventh day the body of Adam was formed from the earth, and so he showed that the woman was made from the man's body, that is, from his side; and that the soul was made first and the flesh formed afterwards, and that so afterwards, by the breathing in of God, the spiritual grace was conferred at the end, so that man might now be shown by the Lord capable of the divine law and not powerless — this is the evident reason of the truth; which blessed David too said, that the soul was made
Notes and citation
Summary: The order is soul, body, woman, then the inbreathed grace of the Spirit.
- The angle brackets around quod are the editor's supplement; the digital text repeats a syllable (plasmata. mata).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (repeated syllable): plasmata. mata, → plasmata,.
Topics: The soul
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 97.6 (CSEL 38:57; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/97-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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97.7CSEL 38:57
primum, sic corpus plasmatum: Manus tuae, inquit, fecerunt et plasmauerunt. Ac sic postea fuisse infusum spiritum declarauit: dicens: Et spiritum sanctum tuum ne auferas a me.
first, then the body formed: “Your hands,” he says, “made and formed.” And so he declared that the Spirit was poured in afterwards, saying: “And do not take your Holy Spirit from me.”
Ps 119:73 (118:73 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 51:11 (50:13 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: David's psalms confirm this order.
- Ps 119:73 (118:73 LXX/Vulg.); Ps 51:11 (50:13 LXX/Vulg.).
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 97.7 (CSEL 38:57; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/97-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 98
98.1CSEL 38:57
Alia est heresis, quae dicit inspirationem animam esse, non inspirationem in animam datam fuisse, ignorantes quod, si inspiratio anima est, quomodo diiudicari potest quod de deo est infusum proprie? cum non adtendant quod inspiratio diuini spiritus est quaedam gratia et prouectio dignitatis, ut possit homo capax legis caelestis existere.
Another heresy says that the soul is the inbreathing, not that the inbreathing was given into the soul; not knowing that, if the inbreathing is the soul, how can what is properly poured in from God be discerned? For they do not attend to the fact that the inbreathing of the divine Spirit is a certain grace and advancement in rank, so that man may be capable of the heavenly law.
Gen 2:7 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The inbreathing is a grace given to the soul, not the soul itself.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 98.1 (CSEL 38:57; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/98-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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98.2CSEL 38:57–58
Et quod habenti animam Adae patri nostro data est inspiratio, non anima inspirata in eum sit, ostendit dominus in euangelio. Sicut ante enim in Adam inspirauerat, ipse et postea apostolis habentibus animam post resurrectionem diuini spiritus maiorem gratiam inspirauit, dicens: Accipite spiritum sanctum et cetera. Et non dixit animam accipite, sed spiritum sanctum.
And that the inbreathing was given to Adam our father when he already had a soul, not that a soul was breathed into him, the Lord shows in the gospel. For as he had breathed into Adam before, so afterwards he himself breathed the greater grace of the divine Spirit into the apostles, who had souls, after the resurrection, saying: “Receive the Holy Spirit,” and so on. And he did not say, receive a soul, but the Holy Spirit.
John 20:22 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Christ breathing the Spirit on the apostles shows the inbreathing is grace.
- John 20:22.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 98.2 (CSEL 38:57–58; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/98-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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98.3CSEL 38:58
Qui ergo inspirauit facto homini habenti animam Adae, ipse et postea inspirauit beatis apostolis habentibus animam, ut cognoscatur quod per ipsum cuncta facta sint et sine ipso nihil factum sit.
He, then, who breathed into the made man Adam, who had a soul, also breathed afterwards into the blessed apostles, who had souls, so that it may be known that all things were made through him and without him nothing was made.
John 1:3 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The same Christ breathed into Adam and the apostles.
- John 1:3.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 98.3 (CSEL 38:58; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/98-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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98.4CSEL 38:58
Nullius rationis est itaque ut uelit quis aestimare inspirationem esse animam, cum facta cognoscitur anima, quae sub legis condicione posita iudicio obnoxia repperitur, de qua ait: Nolite timere eos qui occidunt corpus. animam autem non possunt occidere, sed hunc timete, qui potest animam et corpus perdere in gehennam.
There is no reason, then, for anyone to wish to think that the inbreathing is the soul, since the soul is known to be made, and is found placed under the condition of the law and liable to judgment, of which he says: “Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul, but fear him who can destroy soul and body in Gehenna.”
Matt 10:28 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The soul is made and subject to judgment, so it is not the divine breath.
- Matt 10:28.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slips; split word): ratioms est ltaque → rationis est itaque; cognos citur → cognoscitur.
Topics: The soul
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 98.4 (CSEL 38:58; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/98-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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98.5CSEL 38:58
Inspiratio itaque non est anima, sed gratia dignitatis, de diuino spiritu a deo Christo perueniens omnibus, quam habentes et custodientes adiectionem accipiunt gratiarum, ut apostoli et prophetae et omnes iusti.
So the inbreathing is not the soul but the grace of rank, coming to all from the divine Spirit by God, by Christ; those who have and keep it receive an increase of graces, like the apostles, prophets and all the righteous.
Notes and citation
Summary: The inbreathing is a grace that grows in the righteous.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 98.5 (CSEL 38:58; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/98-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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98.6CSEL 38:58
Iniusti autem neglegentes ac contemnentes amittunt tantum meritum dignitatis, ut Saul ille, de quo dictum est: Recessit ab eo spiritus domini, et inmundus spiritus fatigabat eum. Et quod in malignam animam non intrabit; spiritus sapientiae scriptura testatur.
But the unrighteous, neglecting and despising it, lose so great a merit of rank, like that Saul of whom it was said: “The Spirit of the Lord departed from him, and an unclean spirit troubled him.” And Scripture testifies that the spirit of wisdom will not enter into a malicious soul.
1 Sam 16:14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The wicked lose this grace, like Saul.
- 1 Sam 16:14; Wis 1:4.
Extrabiblical texts: Wis 1:4 (Wisdom of Solomon [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 98.6 (CSEL 38:58; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/98-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 99
99.1CSEL 38:58–59
Alia est heresis quae dicit hominis animam non factam a deo ita appellari animam, sed ante, inquit, intellectus uocabatur, et erat in caelo: postea autem, quia terrena desiderauit, discessisse eam de caelo, et ex eo eam animam nuncupatam arbitrantur, ignorantes quod in principio facta a deo et creata post angelos anima est appellata a domino, hocque nomen proprietatis accepit a deo, ut anima, non intellectus uocaretur, dicente scriptura: Anima eius in bonis demorabitur.
Another heresy says that man's soul, not having been made by God, is called soul thus: but before, it says, it was called mind and was in heaven; afterwards, because it desired earthly things, it departed from heaven, and they think that from this it was named soul; not knowing that in the beginning, made by God and created after the angels, it was called soul by the Lord, and received this proper name from God, so that it should be called soul, not mind, as Scripture says: “His soul will dwell among good things.”
Ps 25:13 (24:13 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The soul was named soul by God from its creation, not after a fall from heaven.
- Ps 25:13 (24:13 LXX/Vulg.).
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 99.1 (CSEL 38:58–59; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/99-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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99.2CSEL 38:59
Et iterum: Quod non derelinquis animam meam in infernum. Et iterum: Conuertere anima mea in requiem tuam. Et iterum: Anima mea conturbata est ualde.
And again: “For you will not leave my soul in the underworld.” And again: “Return, my soul, to your rest.” And again: “My soul is greatly troubled.”
Ps 16:10 (15:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 116:7 (114:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 6:3 (6:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The psalms speak of the soul.
- Ps 16:10 (15:10); Ps 116:7 (114:7); Ps 6:3 (6:4).
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 99.2 (CSEL 38:59; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/99-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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99.3CSEL 38:59
Et iterum: Ita desiderat anima mea ad te, deus. Et iterum: Benedictus dominus, qui fecit animam meam. Illud itaque filosoforum inanes sententiae aderunt, non scriptura diuina ita praedicat.
And again: “So my soul longs for you, O God.” And again: “Blessed is the Lord, who made my soul.” So those are the empty opinions of the philosophers that assert this; divine Scripture does not preach so.
Ps 42:1 (41:2 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The theory of a soul fallen from heaven is philosophers', not Scripture's.
- Ps 42:1 (41:2 LXX/Vulg.). The second quotation is unidentified. The digital text reads aderunt, apparently for adserunt (“assert”); translated by sense.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word and stray marks): me am. II Illud → meam. Illud.
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 99.3 (CSEL 38:59; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/99-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude from the Latin of Marx, CSEL 38 (1898), digital text (OCR slips corrected by logged corrections; words in Marx's square brackets translated and marked). No public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Latin.
Chapter 100
100.1CSEL 38:59
Alia est heresis quae pecudes, serpentes et aues rationabiles arbitratur esse ut homines, sicut Manichei et Gnostici perditi et quidam de poetis et filosofis Stoicis uanissimi suspicantur, ignorantes quod homo rationabilis intellectum habet animi de deo, id est scire posse de deo et credere, sensum autem habet corporis <.communem> cum pecudibus quippe et ceteris aliis similibus,
Another heresy thinks that cattle, serpents and birds are rational like men, as the lost Manichees and Gnostics and certain most vain poets and Stoic philosophers suppose; not knowing that man, being rational, has understanding of mind from God, that is, the ability to know about God and believe, but has bodily sense <in common> with the cattle and other similar creatures,
Notes and citation
Summary: Some say animals are rational like men.
- The angle brackets around communem are the editor's supplement.
Topics: Heresy
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 100.1 (CSEL 38:59; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/100-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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100.2CSEL 38:59
quae sensum quidem corporis habere possunt, intellectum autem animi de deo habere nullo modo possunt, aut animam inmortalem ac rationabilem, ut homo, qui imago est appellatus <dei>, dicente scriptura:
which can indeed have bodily sense, but can in no way have understanding of mind concerning God, or an immortal and rational soul, like man, who is called the image <of God>, as Scripture says:
Notes and citation
Summary: Animals lack a rational, immortal soul.
- The angle brackets around dei are the editor's supplement.
Topics: The soul
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 100.2 (CSEL 38:59; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/100-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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100.3CSEL 38:59–60
Nolite fieri sicut equus et mulus, in quibus non est intellectus. Et: Homo in honore cum esset, non intellexit, conparatus est pecudibus insensatis, et similis factus est illis.
“Do not become like the horse and mule, which have no understanding.” And: “Man, when he was in honour, did not understand; he is compared to senseless cattle and has become like them.”
Ps 32:9 (31:9 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 49:20 (48:21 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: The psalms deny understanding to animals.
- Ps 32:9 (31:9); Ps 49:20 (48:21).
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 100.3 (CSEL 38:59–60; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/100-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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100.4CSEL 38:60
Sensus itaque pecudum, auium et serpentium nobiscum communis est corpore, intellectus autem solummodo est hominum, id est inmortalis animae potentia de sancto in eam infusa spiritu, quae imago dei est appellata, quae his omnibus imperat, regit ac possidet uniuersa copiose, ut scriptum est: Dedi uobis omnia sub potestate.
So the sense of cattle, birds and serpents is common with us in the body, but understanding belongs to men alone, that is, the power of the immortal soul poured into it from the Holy Spirit, which is called the image of God, which commands, rules and possesses all these things abundantly, as it is written: “I have given you all things under your power.”
Gen 9:2 (allusion, medium confidence) · Gen 1:28 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Understanding belongs only to the human soul, which rules creation.
- Cf. Gen 1:28; 9:2.
Topics: The soul
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 100.4 (CSEL 38:60; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/100-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 101
101.1CSEL 38:60
Alia est heresis quae dicit malos reges et pseudoprophetas non a sua uenire et fieri uoluntate, sed a dei iussione eos inmitti, ignorantes quod non a deo illos fieri pseudoprophetas aut malos reges scripturae adnuntiant, sed contra dei uoluntatem sua uoluntate et inimici suggestione sic eos aduenire declarant,
Another heresy says that evil kings and false prophets do not come and arise by their own will, but are sent by God's command; not knowing that the Scriptures do not announce that they are made false prophets or evil kings by God, but declare that they come so by their own will and the suggestion of the enemy, against God's will,
Notes and citation
Summary: Some say God sends evil kings and false prophets.
Topics: Heresy, Evil and its origin
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 101.1 (CSEL 38:60; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/101-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.2CSEL 38:60
ut Iamnes et Mambres contra Mosen beatum et Aaron sacerdotes dei sub Faraone sua uenerant uoluntate, cum dicat scriptura: Regnauerunt non per me, neque per spiritum meum, dicit dominus. Et de pseudoprophetis ita: Haec dicit dominus ad pseudoprophetas: Non illos mittebam et illi ibant in nomine meo prophetare.
as Jannes and Jambres came of their own will against blessed Moses and Aaron, priests of God, under Pharaoh, since Scripture says: “They reigned, but not through me, nor through my Spirit, says the Lord.” And of false prophets thus: “Thus says the Lord to the false prophets: I did not send them, and they went to prophesy in my name.”
2 Tim 3:8 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 7:11 (allusion, medium confidence) · Hos 8:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 14:14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Scripture shows that evil kings and false prophets act by their own will.
- Jannes and Jambres: 2 Tim 3:8 (cf. Exod 7:11). Hos 8:4; Jer 14:14 (cf. 23:21).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): liegnauerunt → Regnauerunt.
Extrabiblical texts: Jan. Jam. (Jannes and Jambres; allusion)
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 101.2 (CSEL 38:60; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/101-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.3CSEL 38:60
Propter quod etiam contra illos saepe mortis et in hoc mundo condignam dominus decernit sententiam nuntiando. Non sunt itaque a deo pseudoprophetae missi, neque reges impii recedentes a domino, sed etsi excitantur mali contra malos interdum dimittente domino, hoc gignitur ut a malis mali consumantur.
For this reason the Lord also often decrees, by announcement, a fitting sentence of death against them even in this world. So false prophets are not sent by God, nor impious kings departing from the Lord; but even if evil men are sometimes raised up against evil men, the Lord permitting, this happens so that the evil may be consumed by the evil.
Notes and citation
Summary: God permits the evil to destroy the evil but does not send them.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip): retedentes → recedentes.
Topics: Evil and its origin
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 101.3 (CSEL 38:60; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/101-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.4CSEL 38:60–61
Boni etenim sustinentes persecutionem, et iustitiam habentes apud dominum, repromissionem magnam futuri expectant praemii. Mali autem ideo a malis, non solum bonis, interdum perimuntur, ut illorum iniquitas etiam in hoc saeculo ex parte puniatur.
For the good, enduring persecution and having righteousness with the Lord, await the great promise of a future reward. But the evil are sometimes destroyed by the evil, not only by the good, so that their iniquity may be punished in part even in this age.
Notes and citation
Summary: The good await reward; the wicked are partly punished now.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Philastrius, Haer. 101.4 (CSEL 38:60–61; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/philastrius-haereses/101-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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