The Four Classes of Samaritans.
The Gorthenes celebrate their feasts at other times than Sebyaeans.
The Sebyaeans differ from the Gorthenes by reason of their feasts.
The Seven Heresies of the Jews.
Thus far the summary of the thirteen heresies contained in the second part of Book II.
The following belong to this third part, in which thirteen heresies are contained:
Thus far for the eighteen heresies of the fourth part of Book II.
The following five heresies are contained in the fifth part of Book II:
Thus far the five heresies of the fifth part of Book II.
The following seven heresies are contained in the first part of Book III:
Thus far similarly the seven heresies of the first part of Book III.
In the second part of Book III there are four heresies:
The Carpocratians originated with a certain Carpocrates, who was an Asiatic. He taught the practice of every sort of immorality and the cultivation of every kind of sin. Unless, he said, one pass through everything and do the will of all the demons and angels, he cannot attain the highest heaven or pass beyond the Principalities and the Powers. He furthermore said that Jesus had assumed an intellectual soul and, when He had come to know the things above, then He proclaimed them. And he said that should one do such things as Jesus had done, then one would be the same as He. Like the heresies originating with Simon and the others thus far treated, he repudiated both the Law and the resurrection of the dead. The Marcellina who was at Rome became a disciple of his. He furthermore secretely used to make images of Jesus, Paul, Homer, and Pythagoras, and to burn incense before them and worship them.
Καρποκρατιανοί, οἱ ἀπὸ Καρποκράτους τινὸς τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ. Οὗτος ἐδίδασκε πᾶσαν αἰσχρουργίαν ἐκτελεῖν καὶ πᾶν ἐπιτήδευμα ἁμαρτίας. Καὶ εἰ μή τις, φησί, διὰ πάντων παρέλθῃ καὶ τὸ θέλημα πάντων τῶν δαιμόνων καὶ ἀγγέλων ἐκτελέσῃ, οὐ δυνήσεται ὑπερβῆναι τὸν ἀνώτατον οὐρανὸν οὐδὲ τὰς ἀρχὰς οὐδὲ τὰς ἐξουσίας παρελθεῖν. Ἔλεγεν δὲ τὸν Ἰησοῦν ψυχὴν νοερὰν εἰληφέναι, εἰδότα δὲ τὰ ἄνω ἐνταῦθα καταγγέλλειν καί, εἴ τις πράξειεν ὅμοια τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, κατ' αὐτὸν εἶναι, τόν τε νόμον σὺν τῇ τῶν νεκρῶν ἀναστάσει ἀπηγόρευσεν, ὡς αἱ ἀπὸ Σίμωνος καὶ δεῦρο αἱρέσεις. Τούτου γέγονεν ἐν Ῥώμῃ Μαρκελλίνα. Εἰκόνα δὲ ποιήσας ἐν κρυφῇ Ἰησοῦ καὶ Παύλου καὶ Ὁμήρου καὶ Πυθαγόρα, ταύτας ἐθυμία καὶ προσεκύνει.