855Chapter IV.—Account given by the heretics of the formation of Achamoth; origin of the visible world from her disturbances. 859Chapter V.—Formation of the Demiurge; description of him. He is the creator of everything outside of the Pleroma. 862Chapter VI.—The threefold kind of man feigned by these heretics: good works needless for them, though necessary to others: their abandoned morals. 865Chapter VII.—The mother Achamoth, when all her seed are perfected, shall pass into the Pleroma, accompanied by those men who are spiritual; the Demiurge, with animal men, shall pass into the intermediate habitation; but all material men shall go into corruption. Their blasphemous opinions against the true incarnation of Christ by the Virgin Mary. Their views as to the prophecies. Stupid ignorance of the Demiurge. 868Chapter VIII.—How the Valentinians pervert the Scriptures to support their own pious opinions. 873Chapter IX.—Refutation of the impious interpretations of these heretics. 876Chapter X.—Unity of the faith of the Church throughout the whole world. 879Chapter XI.—The opinions of Valentinus, with those of his disciples and others. 882Chapter XII.—The doctrines of the followers of Ptolemy and Colorbasus. 884Chapter XIII.—The deceitful arts and nefarious practices of Marcus. 888Chapter XIV.—The various hypotheses of Marcus and others. Theories respecting letters and syllables. 894Chapter XV.—Sige relates to Marcus the generation of the twenty-four elements and of Jesus. Exposure of these absurdities. 898Chapter XVI.—Absurd interpretations of the Marcosians. 901Chapter XVII.—The theory of the Marcosians, that created things were made after the image of things invisible. 903Chapter XVIII.—Passages from Moses, which the heretics pervert to the support of their hypothesis. 906Chapter XIX.—Passages of Scripture by which they attempt to prove that the Supreme Father was unknown before the coming of Christ. 907Chapter XX.—The apocryphal and spurious Scriptures of the Marcosians, with passages of the Gospels which they pervert. 909Chapter XXI.—The views of redemption entertained by these heretics. 912Chapter XXII.—Deviations of heretics from the truth. 913Chapter XXIII.—Doctrines and practices of Simon Magus and Menander. xxvii