The story of the discovery of the book here translated so resembles a romance as to appear like a flower in the dry and dusty field of patristic lore. A short treatise called Philosophumena , or "Philosophizings," had long been known, four early copies of it being in existence in

Books about The Refutation of All Heresies

Books about The Refutation of All Heresies

1. These are the contents of the 6th (book) of the Refutation of all Heresies . 2. What Simon has dared, and that his doctrine is confirmed (by quotations) from magicians and poets. 3. What Valentinus has laid down, and that his doctrine is not framed from the Scriptures, but

Books about The Refutation of All Heresies