Ossins, which means the bravest. They did everything according to the law, but they also used other writings that appeared after the law; however, most of the later prophets were rejected.

The Nazarenes, which means unrestrained, forbid all meat-eating, do not eat animate at all, in the Pentateuch the holy names of the patriarchs before Moses and Joshua accept and believe in them, I mean Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the elders, as well as Moses himself, Aaron and Jesus. They teach, however, that the Pentateuch is not the Scripture of Moses, and assert that instead of this they have other writings.

The Herodians were Jews in everything, but they recognized Herod as Christ, and to the latter they gave honor and ascribed the name of Christ.

Here is the first section, which contains a denunciation of all twenty heresies; there is also a discourse on the coming of Christ and an exposition of the confession of the truth, the one and only true faith of God.

Hitherto there has been set forth a refutation of the twenty heresies that preceded Christ and a sermon on faith and the coming of Christ in the flesh. When soon followed the coming in the flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, it overtook the above-mentioned seven heresies in Jerusalem, and His power quenched and scattered these heresies. All the other heresies took place after His coming,

This God, the Word, born in Bethlehem and circumcised, was brought to Jerusalem, received there into the arms of Simeon, confessed by Anna the prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, and was carried away to Nazareth. In the following year he came (to Jerusalem) to appear before the Lord, for the sake of kinship he was carried to Bethlehem, then he was again taken to Nazareth. During the second year he again came to Jerusalem, carried by His Mother; in Bethlehem with His Mother and Joseph, already an old man, but not forsaking Mary, he entered the house, and there, in the second year after His birth, he was found (by the Magi), received the gifts, and that same night, according to a revelation from the angel to Joseph, he was taken to Egypt, and from thence again, after two years, returned when Herod died, and Archelaus became his successor.

The Saviour is born in Bethlehem of Judea; in the thirty-third year of Herod, and in the forty-second year of King Augustus, he departs to Egypt in the thirty-fifth year of Herod, and returns from Egypt after the death of Herod. For this reason, in the thirty-seventh year of the same reign of Herod, the Lord was a child of four years, when Herod, having fulfilled the age of thirty-seven, ended his life. And Archelaus reigned nine years; At the beginning of his reign, Joseph, with Mary and the Youth, hearing that Archelaus reigned, withdrew to the countries of Galilee and settled in Nazareth. Archelaus begat Herod the younger, and Herod by succession reigns in the ninth year of the reign of Archelaus' father. From the coming of Christ in the flesh, thirteen years were reckoned at that time. In the eighteenth year of Herod, who was called Agrippa, Jesus began to preach, and then he received baptism from John, and preached the year pleasantly (Luke 4:19), not meeting with reproach from anyone (Luke 2:34), neither from the Jews, nor from the Greeks, nor from the Samaritans, nor from any other people; then in the second year he preached, meeting with rebuke, when the reign of the same Herod was nineteen years, and the Saviour was thirty-second. In the twentieth year of Herod, who is called the tetrarch, salvific suffering and impassibility took place, the tasting of death on the cross, when the Lord truly suffered, but remained passionless according to Divinity. Christ who suffered for us in the flesh, says the Divine Scripture (1 Peter 4:1); and again: "He was put to death in the flesh, but was made alive in the Spirit" (1 Peter 3:18). and so on. He is nailed to the cross, buried, descends into hell with Divinity and soul, captivates captivity, and rises three days with the same holy body [9], uniting the body with the Divinity, no longer suffering, not possessed by death, as the Apostle says: "Death does not possess Him" (Romans 6:9). Also in truth the body, the same flesh, the same soul, also everything; and it was not any other body, but the same thing that the Lord clothed with power and united in one unity, in one Godhead, making the carnal incorruptible, the corporeal spiritual, the coarse subtle, the mortal immortal, who did not see corruption at all, since His soul did not leave in hell (Acts 2:31); His body did not deviate even partially to sin, His mind was not defiled by turning to the worst; on the contrary, He took upon Himself all that was human, but kept everything perfect, since the Divinity gave a place to true needs, bodily and mental, and to those who receive confirmation from the human mind, in true incarnation: hunger and thirst, weeping and sorrow, tears and sleep, fatigue and repose are understood. This is not a form of sin, but a sign of true humanity itself, whereby the Divinity, which is truly co-existent with humanity, does not tolerate that which is proper to humanity, but on the contrary, the Divinity deigns to do that which is beneficial, and is beyond sin and turning to the worst. But He also rose again, and entered through the door of the imprisoned, in order to show to the refined a coarse body, having flesh and bones. When He entered, He showed His hands and feet, and pierced ribs, bones and sinews, and so forth, to prove that what He saw was not a phantom. Thus He fulfilled by Himself the promise of our faith and hope, having accomplished all things, and eating and abiding with the disciples, not illusory, but truly; and instructing, He taught them to preach the Kingdom of Heaven in truth, giving them to understand the great and most important mystery of the disciples, and saying, "Teach the tongues" (Matt. 28:19), that is, turn the nations from vice to truth, from heresies to the one Godhead, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, in the Lord's name of the Trinity, the holy and royal seal, in order to show by this name, that there is no change in the one unity. For those who are baptized are commanded to be baptized in the name of the Father (undoubted doxology), in the name of the Son (the name of one who lacks nothing), in the name of the Holy Spirit (indissoluble unity, not alienated from the one Godhead).

He ascended to heaven with the same body and soul and mind, uniting them into one unity and into one spiritual spirit, and having accomplished their deification, He sat down at the right hand of the Father. He sent Simon Peter, Andrew his brother, James and John, the sons of Zebedee, whom he had long chosen, Philip and Bartholomew, Matthew and Thomas, Judas and Thaddeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who had become a traitor to Him, as well as seventy-two others, of whom seven were appointed to take care of widows: Stephen, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas. In addition to them, Matthias, instead of the last Judas, was numbered among the twelve apostles; and after all these Mark, Luke, Justus, Barnabas, and Apelles, Rufus, Niger, and the rest of the seventy-two. And after all these, Paul, the most holy apostle, having chosen with His own voice from heaven, sent him as an apostle and at the same time a preacher of the pagans and a celebrant of the apostolic ministry. Paul meets Luke, one of the seventy-two scattered, and makes him his companion and co-worker in evangelizing. Thus the work of evangelism has been accomplished even up to this time. With this may I conclude my discourse on the twenty heresies and on the Gospel enlightenment of the world, which has been set forth in order in the abbreviation, accomplished through Christ and His disciples. It would be possible to collect something similar to this, and to apply the prophecies and prophecies from the law and the Psalms, and other books, to discern all the consistency and connection, and to understand precisely that the coming of Christ and the teaching of the Gospel are not false, but true and foretold throughout the Old Testament, and beyond doubt. But in order that something too extensive may not come out of this work, I will be satisfied with what I have done so far.

Going further, I will also describe the opinions that have appeared in the world for an evil purpose.

This is what is contained in the second part of the first book, in which the thirteen heresies are examined. Of these, the first heresy is that of Simon the sorcerer, who appeared soon after Christ, when the apostles were still preaching, and from whom those who adhered to his heresy were called Simonians. He went out of Samaria, out of the village of Gittha, and took upon himself the name of Christ. He taught adultery, abominable copulation, without distinguishing between wives. He rejected the resurrection of the body and said that the world is not from God. He gave the image of himself and the prostitute Helen, who was with him, as it were Zeus and Athena, to his disciples for worship. He called himself Father to the Samaritans, and Christ to the Jews.

The Menandrians were descended from a certain Menander, who differed in some way from the Simonians and said that the world was created by angels.

The Satornilians have intensified the practice of the Simonians in Syria, but to their great amazement they preach something different against the Simonians; they originated from Satornil, who himself, like Menander, affirmed that the world was brought into existence by angels, but only by the family, contrary to the will of the Most High Father.

The Basilidians are also consecrated by Basilides, who, together with Satornilus, studied with the Simonians and Menandrians, adheres to the same way of thinking with them, but in some ways differs from them. He says that the heavens are three hundred and sixty-five, and gives them angelic names. Wherefore, he says, a year consists of so many days, and the name, Abrahams, also contains the number 365, and is a sacred name.

The Nicolaitans are from Nicholas, who was ordained by the apostles under the widows. Out of jealousy for his wife, he, together with others, taught his followers to perform a criminal deed and introduced into use the names: Kavlach, Prunik and other barbarian names.