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Against All Heresies (Appendix)

Tertullian · c. 200–220 AD

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Ante-Nicene

A catalogue of heresies, listing and briefly refuting each heretical school, transmitted as an appendix to Tertullian's Prescription Against Heretics. It is not Tertullian's own work; some ascribe it to Victorinus of Pettau.

Table of Contents

1Earliest Heretics: Simon Magus, Menander, Saturninus, Basilides, Nicolaus2Ophites, Cainites, Sethites3Carpocrates, Cerinthus, Ebion4Valentinus, Ptolemy and Secundus, Heracleon5Marcus and Colarbasus6Cerdo, Marcion, Lucan, Apelles7Tatian, Cataphrygians, Cataproclans, Catæschinetans8Blastus, Two Theodoti, Praxeas