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Nathaniel Lardner

W. Bal, 1838

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PART II	1

CHAP A D PAGB XLVII Himerius 363	3

SECT PAGE	4

Themistius 364	5

SECT PAGE	6

Libanius 390	14

Eutropius 370	42

Ammianus Marcellinus 380	45

Marcion believed there were to be two Christs	475

He allowed the truth of our Saviours miracles O ib 23 And of his death	476

And resurrection	477

And of the principal facts related concerning him	479

The manners of the Marcionites were virtuous and they had many martyrs	480

They contemned marriage and highly extolled virginity	481

They fasted on the Sabbath	482

SECT PAGE 29 They celebrated Baptism and the Eucharist but were somewhat irregular in the administration	483

Vegetius 396	61

Eunapius	62

Claudian 394	77

Macrobius 400	83

Rutilius 418	88

Olympiodorus 425	90

Zosimus	93

Hierocles of Alexandria 450	127

Proclus 464	130

XI Marinus 485	132

Damascius 540	138

Simplicius 550	148

A review of the Jewish and heathen testimonies in the several volumes of this work	154

THE STATE OF GENTILISM UNDER CHRISTIAN EMPERORS SECT PAGE 1 Imperial laws concerning gentile people and their worship	163

Valens about the year 373	182

The Petition of the Roman senate to Valentinian the younger in the year 384 that the Altar of Victory which had been re moved by Gratian might be ...	199

An image of Hercules destroyed by the christians at Suffecta	244

Rome besieged taken and sacked by Alaric the Goth in	250

The Correspondence between the people of Madaura and Augus	266

Observations of Orosius and Augustine upon the treatment given	273

HISTORY OF HERETICS	293

SECT PAGE	307

They respected the apostles and apostolic traditions	331

The seeds of these Heresies were sown in the days of the apostles	344

The account of him as given by Irenæus and other ancient authors	350

SECT PAGE 5 He believed the world was made by angels the chief of whom presided over the Jews	355

His opinions concerning the person of Christ	356

Of the story of Simon the Cyrenian and whether he believed that Christ suffered	357

Beausobres view of the sentiments of Basilides concerning Christ	360

He believed the baptism of Jesus	361

He is said to have partaken of the things offered to idols and to have denied the necessity or reasonableness of suffering mar tyrdom	362

He believed that the soul only would be saved	363

A probable account of the foundation of this charge	366

He is also accused of using magic and incantations	367

Of the meaning of Caulacau and his definition of faith and hope	369

Of the name Abraxas which he is said to have given to the prince of the heavens	370

Of the number costliness and heathenish origin of those gems called Abraxæi	371

Of the derivation and meaning of the word Abraxas and to what the Basilideans applied it	372

It probably referred to their philosophical Arcana	374

The gems called Abraxæi were used by the heathens as charms	375

The christians accused by Adrian of worshipping Serapis	376

An examination of Montfaucons figures	377

These gems were undoubtedly of heathenish origin	382

From hence came the superstitious custom of writing Abrasadabra as a charm	383

Farther observations on Chifflet	385

Of the names of angels found on those gems	386

Of the scriptures received by Basilides	387

He did not pay great regard to the Old Testament ib 2 He received the whole or at least the greater part of the New	388

Of the gospel of Basilides	389

Of the prophets Barcabbas and Barcoph	390

And are said to have used magical arts	396

What scriptures they received	403

Observations tending to illustrate his history	409

CHAP V	417

of the time and general character of Prodicus and his followers	423

He is accused of being a magician	429

SECT PAGE	431

They received the scriptures both of the Old and New Testament	437

CHAP IX	444

CHAP X	448

Of the time in which he lived	450

The history of him as given by Epiphanius	452

The story of his deceiving a young woman doubtful	453

Several observations tending to show its incredibility	454

Some reason to suspect it was the invention of Epiphanius	456

He began to propagate his errors in his own country for which he was expelled by his father	457

He had a great number of followers	458

Of his opinions and the number of principles which he held	459

His notion of the creator and the world formed by him and the God superior to him	461

The Marcionite idea of the difference between good and just	463

The good God was the maker of beings spiritual and invisible ib 14 The Marcionites erroneous in dividing the Deity	465

They were believers in a future judgment and in the necessity of human actions	466

They thought the soul but not the bodies of the virtuous would be happy in a future state	467

The belief of a transmigration ascribed to them by Epiphanius	469

Some account of their notion that Christ delivered the wicked but left the good	470

Marcions opinion of the person of Christ that he was not a real man	471

Tertullians arguments against this notion	474

Marcion wholly rejected the Old Testament	484

He also objected to the appointment of sacrifices	485

He mutilated the New Testament wherever it contained quotations from the Old	486

He framed antitheses to show the opposition of the law to the gospel	487

Marcion received but eleven books of the New Testament and of the gospels only that of St Luke and this mutilated	489

He rejected the genealogy and baptism of our Saviour	490

He also rejected the history of the temptation	491

An account of many other alterations made by him in St Lukes gospel	492

There is a sufficient number of texts remaining to confute his errors	498

The catholic christians asserted the antiquity of the unmutilated gospel	499

Marcion rejected the Acts of the Apostles	500

And received only ten epistles of St Paul and most of these altered	502

Of the alterations and omissions of Marcion in the epistle to the Galatians	503

la the first epistle to the Corinthians	505

In the second epistle to the Corinthians	506

In the epistle to the Romans	507

In the first epistle to the Thessalonians	508

In the epistle to the Ephesians called by him the epistle to the Laodiceans	509

He probably did not much alter the epistle to the Colossians	512

Nor at all that to Philemon	513

Some general account of him from ancient authors with observa tions thereun	514

SECT PAGE 2 Of the time when he lived	517

Of his opinions	518

Some observations on his notion about the souls of brutes and the resurrection of them	519

A belief in another kind of resurrection ascribed to him by Ter tullian	520

Some general account of his writings	521

Some observations on the assertion of Mr Jones that Leucius was a Manichee	523

Leucius was the author of the History of the Nativity of the Vir gin Mary	524

The writer of it not a Jew	525

The Protevangelion or Gospel of James was composed by Leucius	526

A current tradition that Joseph was a widower and had children by a former wife	527

Passages in Epiphanius referring to the Gospel of the Nativity and the Protevangelion	528

Observations on some of the contents of these two Gospels	529

Leucius is thought to have interpolated the Gospel of the infancy	530

He was the forger of the Gospel of Nicodemus	531

Two other Gospels ascribed to Leucius	532

Of the traditions of Matthias It is rather uncertain what they were	534

Leucius was the author of the forged Acts or Journeying of the apostles	535

Some account of the contents of this book	537

These forgeries prove the truth of the canonical scriptures	538

Of his connection with Philumene	539

No foundation for the story of his incontinence	540

Unjustly accused of discouraging inquiry	541

Of his writings	543

SECT PAGE	544

His sentiments about the New Testament probably not very dif	550

By Christ who descended upon Jesus they probably meant	557

OF THE CAIANS OR CAINITES	560

Very different representations given of these people by Epiphanius	566

Of the time when he lived	572

SECT PAGE 3 He is accused of denying Christ in a time of persecution	574

Two observations on what Epiphanius says about him	575

There were several of the same name in the second century	577

Theodotus the banker is generally supposed to be the author of the sect of the Melchisedechians	578

CHAP XVIII	579

What authors say of him and by whom he is omitted	580

Some account of him and those who wrote against him	581

Some account of his opinions concerning the eternity of matter	582

He believed one supreme God unchangeably good	583

He ascribed to matter an irregular motion but introduced no æons	584

No distinct account of his opinion concerning the person of Jesus Christ	585

He never set up a separate communion a	586

He received both the Old and New Testament	587

No account of any writings of his	588

CHAP XIX	589

From whence they derived their name and of the extent and con tinuance of their opinions	590

Where Montanus was born and of certain reproaches cast on him and his followers	591

Of his companions and assistants and of their prophecies	592

of his pretensions and manner of prophesying	593

SECT PAGE	595

Of their testimony to the scriptures	601

He would not allow that the Father suffered	607

Of his opinions country and philosophical speculations	613

SECT PAGE	616

Of the time when he flourished according to modern authors	622

There never was any such heresy	628

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Titre	The Works of Nathaniel Lardner, D.D. with a Life by Dr. Kippis ... Volume 8 de The Works of Nathaniel Lardner, D.D. with a Life by Dr. Kippis, Nathaniel Lardner
Auteur	Nathaniel Lardner
Éditeur	W. Bal, 1838
Original provenant de	l'Université du Michigan
Numérisé	21 sept. 2007

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