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Introduction | |
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Title and Authenticity | |
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Time of Composition | |
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Irenaeus's Readers | |
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Purpose and Plan of Adversus Haereses | |
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Style | |
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Scripture and Tradition | |
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Manuscript History | |
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Printed Editions | |
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Text | |
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Preface | |
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The Valentinians' Absurd Explanation of the Origin of the Aeons | |
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The Defection of Wisdom outside the Fullness and Her Restoration by Limit. The Emission of Christ and the Formation of Jesus | |
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The Valentinians Misuse the Scriptures in Support of Their Errors | |
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The Formation of Achamoth and of the Material World from Her Passion | |
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The Formation of Demiurge and of Man | |
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The Threefold Element in Persons. The Formation of Savior. Salvation is through Knowledge, Hence Good Works are Useless | |
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The Three Classes of Persons and Their Eternal Lot | |
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The Valentinians Pervert the Scriptures in Order to Prove Their Fabrications outside the Fullness | |
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Refutation of the Gnostic Use of the Scriptures | |
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The Rule of the Truth Is One in the Church Throughout the World | |
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The System of Valentinus and His Followers | |
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Tenets of the Followers of Ptolemaeus and Colorbasus | |
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The Deceitful Arts and Wicked Practices of Marcus | |
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The Marcosian System in Numbers and Letters | |
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The Account of Silence to Marcus about the Generation of the Twenty-Four Characters and of Jesus | |
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The Absurd Interpretations of the Marcosians | |
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The Marcosian Theory That Created Things Were Made after the Pattern of the Invisible Beings | |
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The Marcosians Distort Passages of the Pentateuch to Support Their Fabrications about Creation | |
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The Marcosians Allege the Scriptures Prove That First-Father Was Unknown before Christ's Coming | |
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The Marcosians Use Apocryphal and Spurious Writings, and They Pervert the Gospels | |
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The Heretical Notions about Redemption | |
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Deviations of the Heretics from the Ancient Faith | |
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The Tenets and Practices of Simon Magus and Menander | |
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The Errors of Saturninus and Basilides | |
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The Tenets of Carpocrates | |
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Tenets of Cerinthus, of the Ebionites, and of the Nicolaitans | |
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Tenets of Cerdo and Marcion | |
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Tenets of the Encratites, Tatian, and Others | |
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The Barbeliotes | |
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Tenets of the Ophites | |
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Tenets of the Cainites | |
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Conclusion | |
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Notes | |
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List of Abbreviations | |
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Notes to Introduction | |
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Notes to Text | |
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Indexes | |
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Old and New Testaments | |
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Authors | |
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General Index | |