31.  This man has had three disciples, Thomas, and Baddas, and Hermas.  Let none read the Gospel according to Thomas The Gospel of Thomas, an account of the Childhood of Jesus, is extant in three forms, two in Greek and one in Latin:  these are all translated in Clark’s Ante-Nicene Library.  The work is wrongly attributed by Cyril to a disciple of Manes, being mentioned long before Hippolytus (Refutation of all Heresies, V. 2) and by Origen (Hom. I. in Lucam):  “There is extant also the Gospel according to Thomas.”:  for it is the work not of one of the twelve Apostles, but of one of the three wicked disciples of Manes.  Let none associate with the soul-destroying Manicheans, who by decoctions of chaff counterfeit the sad look of fasting, who speak evil of the Creator of meats, and greedily devour the daintiest, who teach that the man who plucks up this or that herb is changed into it.  For if he who crops herbs or any vegetable is changed into the same, into how many will husbandmen and the tribe of gardeners be changed In the Disputation, § 9, Turbo describes these transformations:  “Reapers must be transformed into hay, or beans, or barley, or corn, or vegetables, that they may be reaped and cut.  Again if any one eats bread, he must become bread, and be eaten.  If one kills a chicken, he will be a chicken himself.  If one kills a mouse, he also will be a mouse.”?  The gardener, as we see, has used his sickle against so many:  into which then is he changed?  Verily their doctrines are ridiculous, and fraught with their own condemnation and shame!  The same man, being the shepherd of a flock, both sacrifices a sheep and kills a wolf.  Into what then is he changed?  Many men both net fishes and lime birds:  into which then are they transformed?