What is contained in all our creation is set forth in the three books mentioned above: the first, the second, and the third, which three books we have divided into seven sections; in each section there is a certain number of heresies and schisms; and there are eighty of them all together. Their names and teachings are as follows: barbarism, Scythianism, Hellenism, Judaism, Samaritanism. From them later descended the rest of the sects. Before the coming of Christ, the following descended from barbarism and Scythian superstition, Hellenism, and others: the Pythagoreans, the Peripatetics, the Platonists, the Stoics, and the Epicureans. In addition, from Judaism came the Samaritan heresy and its four branches: the Horophins, the Sebuites, the Dositheans, and the Essenes. Follows the above-mentioned Judaism, which received its distinctive feature from Abraham and spread by means of the law given to Moses, and from Judah, the son of Jacob or Israel through David, who reigned over them and inherited the name of Judaism from the same tribe. From this Judaism came the following seven heresies: the scribes, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Imerobaptists, the Ossenes, the Nazarenes, and the Herodians. Following these heresies, in the course of time, there appeared the salvific dispensation of our Lord Jesus Christ, or His coming in the flesh, the teaching of the Gospel and the preaching of the kingdom, this only source of salvation and the true faith of the universal and apostolic Church.

Now, going back and sorting out the heresies in the book, I will show in this table of contents how many of these eighty heresies are contained in the first book, then in order in the second and in the third; and also with regard to each of the seven sections contained in the three books, how many heresies are placed in them. Namely, in the first book there are three divisions, and there are forty-six heresies with their names, I mean barbarism, Scythianism, Hellenism, Judaism, and Samaritanism. In the second book there are two sections, and there are twenty-three heresies. In the third book there are two sections, and there are twelve heresies.

In the second part of the first book of heresies, the thirteen are as follows: the Simonians; Menandrians; Satornilians; the Basilidians; Nicolaitanes; the Gnostics, who are also stratiotics, are the same and the Thebionites, called by some Secundians, by others Socrates, and by others Zacchaeus; carpocratites; the Cerinthians, who are also the Meranthians; Nazarenes; the Ebionaeans; Valentina; the Secundians, with whom Epiphanius and Isidore are in contact; Ptolemies. In the third section of the same first book of heresies there are thirteen as follows: the Marcosia; colorvasia; the Heraklionites; Ophites; Kayans; the Sethians; archontics; Cerdonians; Marcionites; Apellians; Lucianists; Severians; Tatiana. Here is the table of contents of the three sections of the first book. In the second book there are two parts.

In the second part of the same second book, and according to the above reckoning in the fifth, there are five heresies as follows: Paul of Samosata; the Manichaeans, who are also the Aquanites; hierakites; the Meletians, who caused a schism in Egypt; Arians. Here is the table of contents of the sections of the second book. In the same way, in the third book there are two sections. In the first part of the third book, and in the sixth in the sequence we have said above, there are seven heresies: the Abdians; Photinians; Marcellians; semi-Arians; the Doukhobors, who blaspheme the Holy Spirit of God; Aerians; Aetians, they are also Anomoeans.

Finally, the defense of the true faith and truth with an abbreviated word about what the holy, universal and apostolic Church is.

Here is the table of contents and a description of the entire work on the octogenarian heresies and the defense of the truth, that is, the one universal Church. The proposed work is composed of three books and is divided into seven sections. Let us now make another table of contents for the first section of the first book, which contains a denunciation of the twenty heresies. First of all, the heresies of the progenitor, and the original names from which the others are derived, are as follows:

Barbarism. This heresy persisted from the days of Adam in ten generations until Noah. And it is called barbarism because the people of that time did not have any principle of leader or one consent, but everyone disposed of himself, and the law for him consisted in the preference of his own will.

Scythia, which existed from the days of Noah, and after that, until the building of the pillar and Babylon, and after the pandemonium, a few years, that is, until Peleg and Ragau (Gen. 11:18 ff.). Having deviated into the country of Europe, the Scythians settled in the Scythian region among the tribes there, from the time of Terah (v. 26), from whom the Thracians were descended, and later.

The Egyptians, and with them the Babylonians, Phrygians, and Phoenicians, became the first founders of this worship of God, the making of idols, and the celebration of the sacraments; from them the greater part of the institutions passed to the Greeks from the time of Cecrops and after him. And later, and much later, they proclaimed Kronos, Rhea, Zeus, Apollo and others gods. The Greeks received their name from a certain Greek, one of the inhabitants of Hellas, who gave the name to the country itself; and others say from the olive tree (ἐλαία) that grew in Athens. The leaders of the Greeks, as true history shows, were the Ionians, named after Jonah [8], the son of one of those who built the pillar. Because of the division (μεμερισμένη) of the languages, they are also called meropes. Subsequently, much later times, Hellenism passed into heresies, I mean the Pythagoreans, the Stoics, the Platonists, the Epicuraeans, and others. But at the same time, among these peoples there existed a worship of God, and a natural law, from the foundation of the world to the end of times, preserved in a special separate form among barbarism, Scythianism, and Hellenism, until they entered into unity with the godliness of Abraham. After this, Judaism, from the time of Abraham, having acquired a special character and having spread through Moses, seven from Abraham, by means of the law given to it by God, from Judah, the fourth son of Jacob, called Israel, through David, the first king of the tribe of the same Judah, inherited its full name.

The various sects among the Greeks are as follows:

Pythagoreans or Peripatetics. They taught about the monad and providence, forbade sacrificing to the gods, eating animate creatures and drinking wine. It was asserted that from the moon upwards everything is immortal, and that which is below is mortal. They taught about the transmigration of souls from one body to another, even into the bodies of animals and wild beasts. Their teacher Pythagoras, who remained silent, called himself a god.

The Platonists believed that there is a God, a substance, and a species; that the world is produced and subject to corruption, and the soul is unborn, immortal and divine; that it has three parts: reasonable, irritable, and lustful. They taught that wives should be common among all, and that no one should have one wife of his own, but that those who wished should enter into an alliance with those who would do so. They also taught about the transmigration of souls into different bodies, even into the bodies of wild beasts, as well as about the fact that many gods descended from one.

The Stoics teach that everything is a body, and this sensible world is recognized as God. Some assert that His nature consists of a fiery essence. They teach that God is the mind and, as it were, the soul of all existing space, heaven and earth; that His body, as I have said, is the universe, and His eyes are the luminaries; that the flesh of every one perishes, and the soul of every one passes from body to body.

The Epicureans asserted about atoms and indivisible bodies consisting of such an indefinite number of parts, that they are the beginning of all things; taught that the highest bliss is in pleasure, and that neither God nor Providence governs the universe.