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| The Heresy of Cerdon.
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XXV.—The Heresy of Cerdon.
But one Cerdon897
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Irenæus, i. 27; Eusebius (who here gives Irenæus’
Greek), Hist. Ecclesiast., iv. 2; Epiphanius, c. xli.;
Theodoret, Hær. Fab., i. 24; and Philastrius, c.
xliv. | himself also, taking occasion in like
manner from these (heretics) and Simon, affirms that the God preached
by Moses and the prophets was not Father of Jesus Christ. For (he
contends) that this (Father) had been known, whereas that the Father of
Christ898
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Hippolytus follows Irenæus but introduces some alterations. | was unknown,
and that the former was just, but the latter good. And Marcion
corroborated the tenet of this (heretic) in the work which he attempted
to write, and which he styled Antitheses.899
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᾽Αντιθέσεις.
This is the emendation proposed by the Abbe Cruice. The textual
reading is ἀντιπαραθέσεις
(comparisons). | And he was in the habit, (in this
book,) of uttering whatever slanders suggested themselves to his mind
against the Creator of the universe. In a similar manner likewise
(acted) Lucian,900
| 900 See
[ut supra, p. 353], Tertullian, Præscript., c. li.,
and Epiphanius, Hær., c. xliii. | the disciple of this
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