Appendix: Against All Heresies
Tertullian
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Chapter III.—Carpocrates, Cerinthus, Ebion.
Carpocrates, furthermore, introduced the following sect. He affirms
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Appendix: Against All Heresies
Tertullian
Carpocrates, furthermore, introduced the following sect. He affirms
After him brake out the heretic Cerinthus, teaching similarly. For he, too, says that the world was originated by those angels; and sets forth Christ as born of the seed of Joseph, contending that He was merely human, without divinity; affirming also that the Law was given by angels; representing the God of the Jews as not the Lord, but an angel.
His successor was Ebion, not agreeing with Cerinthus in every point; in that he affirms the world to have been made by God, not by angels; and because it is written, “No disciple above his master, nor servant above his lord,” sets forth likewise the law as binding, of course for the purpose of excluding the gospel and vindicating Judaism.
Mundum.
Mundum.
“Ab illis” is perhaps an error for “ab angelis,” by absorption of the first syllable. So Routh has conjectured before me.
“Ab angelis:” an erroneous notion, which professed probably to derive support from John i. 17, Acts vii. 53, Gal. iii. 19, where, however, the Greek prepositions should be carefully noted, and ought in no case to be rendered by “ab.”
Al. Hebion.
Al. Hebion.
See Matt. x. 24; Luke iv. 40; John xiii. 16.
i.e., as Rig.’s quotation from Jerome’s Indiculus (in Oehler) shows, “because in so far as, Christ observed it.”