Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume II
David Hume · en
[Footnote 197: The source of this chapter is certainly the tractate
_Adv. Omn. Haer._, formerly attributed to Tertullian and to be found
in the second volume of that author’s works in Oehler’s edition. No
other author mentions Apelles with such particularity, and all those
subsequent to Tertullian appear to have taken their information either
from Tertullian’s other works, from this tractate, or from our text.
This tractate has been discussed in the Introduction (see Vol. I,
pp. 12 and 23 _supra_) and perhaps all difficulties may be solved by
supposing it to be, not indeed the actual _Syntagma_ of Hippolytus, but
a summary of it.]
BOOK VIII
THE DOCETAE, MONOIMUS, AND OTHERS
[Sidenote: p. 396.] 1. These are the contents of the 8th [Book] of the
Refutation of all Heresies.
2. What are the opinions of the Docetae,[1] and that they teach things
which they say are from the Physicist Philosophy.[2]
3. How Monoimus speaks foolishly, giving heed to poets and
geometricians and arithmeticians.
4. How Tatian’s [heresy] sprang from the opinions of Valentinus and
Marcion wherefrom he compounded his own. And that Hermogenes has made
use of the teachings of Socrates, not of Christ.
5. How those err who contend that Easter should be celebrated on the
14th day [of the month].
6. What is the error of the Phrygians, who think Montanus and Priscilla
and Maximilla to be prophets.
[Sidenote: p. 397.] 7. What is the vain doctrine of the Encratites, and
that their teachings are compounded not out of the Holy Scriptures, but
from their own [views] and from those of the Gymnosophists among the
Indians.[3]
1. _The Docetae._