The sources of Adversus Valentinianos

1. Refutations of heresy (unnamed volumes) Justin 3 authority 3 citations · 1 passage

   adversus valentinianos

   Explicitly named as an author whose works refute the heresies

   Nor shall we be said in any quarter to have ourselves invented the materials which so many men already, distinguished by holiness and excellence—not only our own predecessors, but the contemporaries of the very heresiarchs—have both published and beaten back in most well-furnished volumes:

2. Homer 1 neutral 1 citation

   adversus valentinianos

   Homer is named as a possible source text for Ennius's image, reported without endorsement or refutation

   First of all, Ennius, the Roman poet, spoke simply of "the great dining-halls of heaven," by the name of an elevated situation, or because he had read in Homer of Jupiter banqueting there.

3. Metamorphoses Ovid 1 neutral 1 citation

   adversus valentinianos

   Named work explicitly invoked for satirical comparison

   They are all refounded into Nuses, into Anthropoi, into Theleti—the females equally into Siges, into Zoes, into Ecclesias, into Fortunatas—so that Ovid would have deleted his own Metamorphoses, had he known a greater one today.

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

adversus valentinianos 18 sources

Apostolic teaching against fables and endless genealogies · Demiurge's scriptural self-declaration ('I am God, and beside me there is none') · Doctrine that God made all things out of pre-existing matter · Epicurean philosophy (teaching on divine tranquility and the void) · Genesis (implied, via 'flesh is grass' and creation narrative) · Gospel saying on serpents and doves · Natural philosophy attributed to Hermes Trismegistus · Pauline epistle (unspecified) · Poem referencing heaven's 'dining-halls' · Ptolemy's teaching / school · Refutations of heresy (unnamed volumes, likely Adversus Haereses) · Secundus's doctrine of the Ogdoad · Valentinian teaching (Ptolemy's version of the Aeon doctrine) · Wisdom of Solomon (or Solomonic wisdom tradition) · doctrine of the Ogdoad (unnamed master's teaching) · the annals · the prophets (prophetic writings) · unspecified Valentinian scriptures/writings regarding the bridegroom