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 Eutychians, who get their name from the heresy of Eutyches, say that our Lord Jesus Christ did not take His flesh from the blessed Virgin Mary, but contend that He became incarnate in a more divine manner. For they could not conceive how God the Word could unite to Himself from the Virgin Mary this man, who was subject to the sin of his first father Adam, to the effect that ‘despoiling the principalities and powers, he hath exposed them confidently in open shew,’ as has been written, ‘triumphing on the cross’ over those very things which He had put on because of the fall of the first man.
Εὐτυχιανισταί, οἱ ἀπὸ Εὐτυχέως τοὔνομα τῆς αἱρέσεως ἐσχηκότες, οἱ μὴ λέγοντες ἐκ τῆς ἁγίας παρθένου Μαρίας εἰληφέναι τὴν σάρκα τὸν κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν Χριστόν, ἀλλὰ θειότερόν πως σεσαρκῶσθαι ἀποφαινόμενοι, μὴ εἰληφότες κατὰ νοῦν, ὅτι τὸν τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ τοῦ προπάτορος αὐτῶν Ἀδὰμ ὑπεύθυνον τυγχάνοντα ἄνθρωπον, τοῦτον ἥνωσεν ἑαυτῷ ὁ θεὸς λόγος ἐκ τῆς παρθένου Μαρίας, ἐξ οὗ καὶ »τὰς ἀρχὰς καὶ τὰς ἐξουσίας ἀπεκδυσάμενος ἐδειγμάτισεν ἐν παρρησίᾳ«, ὡς γέγραπται, »θριαμβεύσας« ἐπὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ, ἃς διὰ τῆς παραβάσεως τοῦ πρωτοπλάστου ἦν ἐνδεδυκώς.