The sources of De Praescriptionibus Hereticorum

1. Epistle to the Galatians Paul 2 authority 2 citations · 3 passages

   ch. 1 3 passages anchored here

   Explicitly named as a letter of Paul invoked for its teaching on heresy.

   Nor longer on this, since it is the same Paul who elsewhere too numbers heresies among carnal crimes, writing to the Galatians, and who suggests to Titus that a heretical man, after a first correction, is to be refused, because such a one is perverse and offends, being self-condemned.

2. Aristotle 1 refuted 1 citation

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   Explicitly named and criticized as the philosophical method source of heretical contentiousness.

   who taught them dialectic, that craftsman of building up and pulling down, shifty in its propositions, forced in its conjectures, harsh in its arguments, a worker of contentions, a burden even to itself, retracting everything so as to have treated nothing at all.

3. Epistle to Titus Paul 1 authority 1 citation

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   Explicitly named as a Pauline letter providing the rule on dealing with heretics.

   Nor longer on this, since it is the same Paul who elsewhere too numbers heresies among carnal crimes, writing to the Galatians, and who suggests to Titus that a heretical man, after a first correction, is to be refused, because such a one is perverse and offends, being self-condemned.

4. Epistle to the Colossians Paul 1 authority 1 citation

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   Explicitly named as the source of the warning against philosophical seduction.

   Hence those fables and endless genealogies and unfruitful questions and discourses creeping like a cancer, from which the apostle, restraining us, expressly attests that philosophy must be guarded against, writing to the Colossians:

5. First Epistle of John John 1 authority 1 citation

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   Explicitly invoked as authoritative scriptural statement on apostasy.

   "They went forth from us," it says, "but they were not of us.

6. First Epistle to the Corinthians Paul 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   ch. 1 2 passages anchored here

   Paul's letter to the Corinthians is cited multiple times as scriptural evidence for the argument.

   Paul, in his first epistle to the Corinthians, marks the deniers and doubters of the resurrection.

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

ch. 1 27 sources

Acts of the Apostles · Apocalypse (Revelation) · Apostolic episcopal registers/succession lists · Doctrine of Hermogenes (unborn matter) · Epistle of John (on antichrists) · Epistle to Timothy · First and Second Epistles to Timothy · Gospel saying (angel from heaven preaching otherwise) · Gospel sayings of Christ (Seek, and you shall find / Ask and it shall be given / Knock and it shall be opened) · Gospel sayings of the Lord (pearl before swine, lamp under a bushel, parable of the minas) · Gospel teaching on false prophets and wolves in sheep's clothing · Homerocentones · Marcionite doctrine (separation of Old and New Testament, second God) · Marcionite doctrine (the better god) · Medea · Phaneroseis (Revelations) · Pinax of Cebes (as reworked from Virgil) · Prophecy of necessary heresies ("there must be heresies") · Prove all things, hold fast that which is good (Pauline epistle) · Search the Scriptures (Gospel of John) · Valentinian aeon doctrine · Valentinian doctrine (aeons, trinity of man, origin of God) · sayings on Paul's universal accommodation (1 Corinthians) · sayings on mission to the lost sheep of Israel (Gospel of Matthew) · sayings on the Spirit of truth (Gospel of John) · sayings on the eyes of the Lord and man's judgment (Psalms/Proverbs) · the psalm of David (Psalms)