Book
VIII.
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Contents.
The
following are the
contents of the eighth book of the
Refutation of all
Heresies
:—
What are the opinions of the Docetæ, and that they
have formed the doctrines which they assert from natural
philosophy.
How Monoïmus
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trifles, devoting his attention to poets,
and geometricians, and arithmeticians.
How (the system of) Tatian has arisen from the opinions
of Valentinus and Marcion, and how this heretic (from this source) has
formed his own doctrines. Hermogenes, however, availed himself of
the tenets of Socrates, not those of Christ.
How those err who contend for keeping Easter on the
fourteenth day.
What the error is of the Phrygians, who suppose that
Montanus, and Priscilla, and Maximilla, are prophets.
What the conceit is of the Encratites, and that
their opinions have been formed not from the Holy Scriptures,
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but from themselves, and the Gymnosophists
among the Indians.
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Much that
we have in this book is quite new. Hippolytus derives his article
on Tatian, and in a measure that on the Encratites, from
Irenæus. The rest is probably from original sources.
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Or,
“Noimus.”
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[Note the
honour uniformly rendered to the Holy Scriptures by the Fathers.]