Philumene
historical figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
a certain virgin Philumene · a monstrous prostitute · that Philumene · that angel of Philumene's · that virgin · the Apellesian virgin Philumene · the virgin Philumene
in the texts
De Carne Christi
A virgin whose visions, attributed to an angel, influenced Apelles' doctrine that Christ's flesh was solid but unborn.
" We have come, then, as the saying is, "from the lime-kiln into the charcoal-pit," from Marcion to Apelles, who, after he had been brought low in the flesh by a woman, lapsing from Marcion's discipline, and then was overturned in spirit by the virgin Philumene, took up from her the proclamation that Christ's body was solid, but without birth.
Likewise, "Even though an angel from heaven should preach the gospel to you otherwise than we, let him be accursed," he directs against the offspring of the Apellesian virgin Philumene's frenzy.
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
A virgin to whom a deceiving angel appeared, source of Apelles's heresy.
The Holy Spirit had already then foreseen that in a certain virgin Philumene there would be an angel of seduction, transfiguring himself into an angel of light, by whose signs and tricks Apelles, being led on, introduced a new heresy.
Returning thence after some years, no better — except only in that he was now no longer a Marcionite — he ran upon another woman, that virgin Philumene whom we set forth above, but afterwards a monstrous prostitute, by whose frenzy circumvented he wrote the Phaneroseis ("Revelations") which he learned from her.
Adversus Marcionem
Figure said to have persuaded Apelles and other deserters from Marcion that Christ's flesh, though real, was not born.
For that Philumene too rather persuaded Apelles and the rest of Marcion's deserters that Christ did indeed, in good faith, carry about flesh, but of no nativity — having, namely, borrowed it from the elements.