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Chapter XI.—The
Quartodecimans.
And certain other (heretics), contentious by
nature, (and) wholly uninformed as regards knowledge, as well as in
their manner more (than usually) quarrelsome, combine (in maintaining)
that Easter should be kept on the fourteenth day944
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They were therefore called “Quartodecimans.”
(See Eusebius, Hist. Ecclesiast., v. c. xxii. xxv.; Epiphanius,
Hær., l.; and Theodoret, Hær. Fab., iii.
4.) | of the first month, according to the
commandment of the law, on whatever day (of the week) it should
occur. (But in this) they only regard what has been written in
the law, that he will be accursed who does not so keep (the
commandment) as it is enjoined. They do not, however, attend to
this (fact), that the legal enactment was made for Jews, who in times
to come should kill the real Passover.945
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[Bunsen, i. p. 105.] The chapter on the Quartodecimans
agrees with the arguments which, we are informed in an extract from
Hippolytus’ Chronicon Paschale, as preserved in a
quotation by Bishop Peter of Alexandria, were employed in
his Treatise against all Heresies. This would seem
irrefragable proof of the authorship of the Refutation of all
Heresies. | And this (paschal sacrifice, in its
efficacy,) has spread unto the Gentiles, and is discerned by faith, and
not now observed in letter (merely). They attend to this one
commandment, and do not look unto what has been spoken by the
apostle: “For I testify to every man that is circumcised,
that he is a debtor to keep the whole law.”946
In other respects, however, these
consent to all the traditions delivered to the Church by the
Apostles.947
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