The Gnostics, who have accepted the same heresies, are themselves most furiously given over to shame; in Egypt they are called Stratiotics and Thebionites, in the upper parts of Egypt they are called Secundians, and in other parts they are called Socrates, and in others they are called Zacchaeus; others call them Coddians, others call them Vorvorites.

The Carpocratians from some Asiatic Carpocrates, who taught to perform every act of sorrow and every sinful deed. If anyone, he said, does not pass through everything, and does not fulfill the will of all demons and angels, then he cannot ascend to heaven and surpass principalities and powers. He also said that Jesus took upon Himself a rational soul, knew and proclaimed here more highly; and if anyone is able to walk like Jesus, he is not inferior to him. And the law, together with the resurrection of the dead, was denied by Carpocrates, as well as by the heretics descended from Simon. His follower in Rome was Marcellina. Secretly making images of Jesus, Paul, Homer, and Pythagoras, Carpocrates burned incense and worshipped them.

The Cerinthians and Merinthians, descended from Cerinthus and Merinthus, were Jews, who boasted of circumcision and said that the world was brought into being by angels, and Jesus was called Christ because of his predence.

The Nazarites confess Jesus to be the Son of God, but in all things they live according to the law of Moses.

The Ebionites are close to the Cerinthians and Nazarites mentioned above; they are joined in some ways by the heresies of the Sampseans and Elkeshites. They say that Christ and His Holy Spirit were created in heaven, that Christ came to earth first in Adam, and from time to time He cast off this Adam and put on him again. This, they say, He did at His coming in the flesh. Being Jews, they nevertheless use the Gospels. They abhor meat-eating. Water is revered as God, and of Christ, as I have said, it is asserted that in His bodily coming He clothed Himself with man. They often wash in the waters, in summer and winter, precisely for sanctification, like the Samaritans.

The Valentinians deny the resurrection of the flesh, reject the Old Testament and the prophets, although they read it, and what can be interpreted in accordance with their heresy, they accept. But they introduce some other fables, inventing the names of the thirty aeons of both sexes, brought into existence by the Father of all things, and they are revered both as gods and as aeons. And they say of Christ that He brought a body from heaven and passed through Mary as through a trumpet.

The Secundians, with whom Epiphanes and Isidore are connected, admit the same couples, philosophizing like Valentinus, and interpreting others somewhat differently from him. In addition, they also teach studding. They also deny the Incarnation.

The Ptolemies were also disciples of Valentinus; Flora is in connection with them. And they speak of couples as Valentinus and the Secundians; but in some ways these differ from them.

Here is the table of contents of the thirteen heresies of the second part of the first book.

In the third section of the same first book there are thirteen other heresies, as follows:

Marcosia. A certain Mark was a fellow student of Colorvas. He also introduces two principles. He rejects the resurrection of the dead. Somehow ghostly, with the help of sorcery, changing the liquid in the vessels into blue and crimson, he initiated into his secrets the seduced women, Like Valentine, he also wanted to produce everything from the twenty-four elements.

Color. And this Colorvas, expounding the same thing in the same way, but somewhat and distinguishing it from other heresies, I mean the heresies of Mark and Valentinus, taught differently about the offspring of the Aeons and the Osmerits.

Heraklionites. They also talk fabulously about the Osmeritsa, but in a different way than Mark, Ptolemy, Valentinus, and others. In addition, over the heads of the dying, like Mark, they make a cleansing libation of oil, balm and water, pronouncing some Hebrew words over the head of the one being cleansed from sins.

Ophites, glorifying the serpent and honoring him as Christ. They keep the reptile in some kind of box.