7. The Stoics: they teach that everything is the body, and they recognize this sensible world as God. Some asserted that God has His nature from the fiery essence. They determine that God is the mind and, as it were, the soul of all things in heaven and on earth; but the universe is His body, as I have said, and the luminaries are His eyes. The flesh perishes, and the soul of all is transmigrated from body to body.

8. The Epicureans: they asserted that atoms and indivisible bodies, composed of similar parts and infinite in number, are the beginning of all things, and taught that the end of bliss is pleasure, and that neither God nor Providence governs things.

9. Samaritanism, and from it the Samaritans. It came from the Jews before the Hellenes had heresies, and before their teachings were composed; but after the appearance of the Hellenic religion, it received its foundation among Judaism from the time of Nebuchadnezzar and the captivity of the Jews. The Assyrians who were carried into Judah, having received the Pentateuch of Moses, because the king had sent it to them from Babylon with a priest named Ezra, were like the Jews in all things, except that they abhorred the Gentiles and did not touch them, and besides denying the resurrection of the dead and other prophecies that came after Moses.

There are four interpretations of the Samaritans.

10. Gorphini: Celebrate feasts at different times from those of the Jebusites.

11. The Jebusites: they differ from the Gorfins in regard to feasts.

12. The Essenes: they do not oppose either one or the other, but indifferently celebrate with whom they have to.

13. Dosphinians: they follow the same customs as the Samaritans, they use circumcision, and the Sabbath, and other statutes, and the Pentateuch, they observe the rule of abstaining from animate things more strictly than others, as in other things, and they spend their lives in unceasing fasts. They also have virginity, but some of them abstain from it; and others believe in the resurrection of the dead, which is alien to the Samaritans.

The Jews have seven heresies.

14. Scribes: they were lawyers and interpreters of the traditions of their elders, and with excessive zeal they observed the rites which they had learned not from the law, but which they recognized for themselves as objects of respect and works of justification according to the law.

15. The Pharisees, in the meaning of the word, are renegades: they lead the highest life and are supposedly more tested than others. They, like the scribes, recognize the resurrection of the dead, the existence of angels and the Holy Spirit. And their life is different; [they observe] for the time being, abstinence and virginity, fasting through the Sabbath, cleansing of jars, dishes and cups, as with the scribes, tithes, first-fruits, unceasing prayers, zealous garments consisting of garments and dalmatics, or garments without sleeves, with the expansion of the storehouses, i.e. stripes of scarlet, crimsons and buttons on the criments of the robe, which served as a sign of the abstinence observed by them until the time of abstinence, They introduced the doctrine of birth and fate.

16. The Sadducees, in the meaning of the name, are the most righteous: the family was descended from the Samaritans, and also from a priest named Zadok; they denied the resurrection of the dead, did not receive either an angel or the Spirit; but in all [the rest] there were Jews.

17. The Imerovaptists: they were Jews in all things, but they asserted that no one would attain eternal life unless he was baptized every day.

18. The Ossinians, which means "the most audacious": they did everything according to the law, but after the law they also used other writings, while most of the later prophets were rejected.