Valentinians
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the Valentinians · the heretics · Valentinian faction · Valentinian gods · Valentinian heretics · adepts · the followers of Valentinus · the school of Valentinus · those from Valentinus
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Stromata
Followers of Valentinus, hold a doctrine of marriage rooted in divine emanations.
The followers of Valentinus, who derive the conjugal pairs from above, from the divine emanations, approve of marriage;
" For if these men, like the followers of Valentinus, posited spiritual communions, perhaps one might accept their supposition;
But those from Valentinus, assigning faith to us, the simple, but knowledge to themselves, wish it to be inherent, by the advantage of a superior seed, in those who are saved by nature — knowledge far separated from faith, as they say the spiritual is from the natural.
Letters
Named as an example of a heretical sect.
But heresies are such as those of the Manichaeans, the Valentinians, the Marcionists, and these very Pepuzeni;
Adversus Valentinianos
A heretical Christian sect deriving from Valentinus, marked by secrecy and elaborate mythological teaching
We know, I say, very well their origin too, and we know why we call them Valentinians, although they may seem not to be such.
Or, if the heresies are not at all, so that those who drive them away are believed to have invented them, then the apostle will be a liar, who is their herald.
The Valentinians, plainly the most crowded guild among the heretics—because the greater part of them are apostates from the truth, and because they are easily inclined to fables and are not deterred by discipline—care for nothing more than to conceal what they preach;
De Anima
Followers of Valentinus, whose tripartite anthropology and Pleroma doctrine are traced to Platonism and refuted.
I turn to the part of the intellectual faculties, and how Plato commended them to the heretics as separate from corporeal things, having attained their cognition before death.
But if the nature of the soul was uniform from the beginning in Adam, before so many talents, then it is not manifold through so many talents, nor in any way triform — that the Valentinian trinity may be cut down even now, which is not itself recognized in Adam.
De Carnis Resurrectione
The Valentinians, named as heretics who err on the form of believing versus unbelieving flesh.
And the Valentinians themselves have learned to err here;
De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum
Followers of Valentinus, treated as a distinct heretical sect holding that the resurrection has already occurred.
Liberating truth was waiting for some Marcionites and Valentinians.
He likewise touches those who would say that the resurrection had already taken place.
The same was permitted to the Valentinians as to Valentinus, the same to the Marcionites as to Marcion — to innovate the faith out of their own judgment.
Scorpiace
Followers of Valentinus, named alongside the Gnostics as heretics who discourage martyrdom.
When, therefore, faith seethes and the Church is burnt up, as by the figure of the bush, then the Gnostics burst forth, then the Valentinians creep out, then all the opponents of martyrdoms boil up, themselves too hot to wound, to sting, to slay.