16.  For Cerinthus Cerinthus taught that the world was not made by the supreme God, but by a separate Power ignorant of Him.  See Irenæus, Hær. I. xxvi., Euseb. E.H. iii. 28, with the notes in this Series. made havoc of the Church, and Menander Menander is first mentioned by Justin M. (Apolog. I. cap. 26):  “Menander, also a Samaritan, of the town Capparetæa, a disciple of Simon, and inspired by devils, we know to have deceived many while he was in Antioch by his magical art.  He persuaded those who adhered to him that they should never die.”  Irenæus (I. xxiii. 5) adds that Menander announced himself as the Saviour sent by the Invisibles, and taught that the world was created by Angels.  See also Tertullian (de Animâ, cap. 50.), and Carpocrates Carpocrates, a Platonic philosopher, who taught at Alexandria (125 a.d. circ.), held that the world and all things in it were made by Angels far inferior to the unbegotten (unknown) Father (Iren. I. xxv. 1; Tertullian, Adv. Hær. cap. 3)., Ebionites Irenæus, I. 26:  “Those who are called Ebionites agree that the world was made by God; but their opinions with respect to the Lord are like those of Cerinthus and Carpocrates.” also, and Marcion On Marcion, see note 5, on Cat. iv. 4., that mouthpiece of ungodliness.  For he who proclaimed different gods, one the Good, the other the Just, contradicts the Son when He says, O righteous Father John xvii. 25..  And he who says again that the Father is one, and the maker of the world another, opposes the Son when He says, If then God so clothes the grass of the field which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the furnace of fire Luke xii. 28.; and, Who maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust Matt. v. 45..  Here again is a second inventor of more mischief, this Marcion.  For being confuted by the testimonies from the Old Testament which are quoted in the New, he was the first who dared to cut those testimonies out Marcion accepted only St. Luke’s Gospel, and mutilated that (Tertullian, Adv. Marcion. iv. 2).  He thus got rid of the testimony of the Apostles and eye-witnesses, Matthew and John, and represented the Law and the Gospel as contradictory revelations of two different Gods.  For this Cyril calls him ‘a second inventor of mischief,’ Simon Magus (§ 14) being the first., and leave the preaching of the word of faith without witness, thus effacing the true God:  and sought to undermine the Church’s faith, as if there were no heralds of it.