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CONTENTS.
| CHAP. | PAGE | ||
| 19. | Absurdities of the heretics as to their own origin; their opinions respecting the Demiurge shown to be equally untenable and ridiculous, | 184 | |
| 20. | Futility of the arguments adduced to demonstrate the sufferings of the twelfth Æon, from the parables, the treachery of Judas, and the passion of our Saviour, | 190 | |
| 21. | The twelve apostles were not a type of the Æons, | 194 | |
| 22. | The thirty Æons are not typified by the fact that Christ was baptized in His thirtieth year: He did not suffer in the twelfth month after His baptism, but was more than fifty years old when He died, | 196 | |
| 23. | The woman who suffered from an issue of blood was no type of the suffering Æon, | 203 | |
| 24. | Folly of the arguments derived by the heretics from numbers, letters, and syllables, | 204 | |
| 25. | God is not to be sought after by means of letters, syllables, and numbers; necessity of humility in such investigations, | 212 | |
| 26. | "Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth," | 215 | |
| 27. | Proper mode of interpreting parables and obscure passages of Scripture, | 217 | |
| 28. | Perfect knowledge cannot be attained in the present life: many questions must be submissively left in the hands of God, | 219 | |
| 29. | Refutation of the views of the heretics as to the future destiny of the soul and body, | 228 | |
| 30. | Absurdity of their styling themselves spiritual, while the Demiurge is declared to be animal, | 231 | |
| 31. | Recapitulation and application of the foregoing arguments, | 239 | |
| 32. | Further exposure of the wicked and blasphemous doctrines of the heretics, | 242 | |
| 33. | Absurdity of the doctrine of the transmigration of souls, | 247 | |
| 34. | Souls can be recognised in the separate state, and are immortal although they once had a beginning, | 250 | |
| 35. | Refutation of Basilides, and of the opinion that the prophets uttered their predictions under the inspiration of different gods, | 253 | |
| BOOK III. | |||
| Preface, | 257 | ||
| 1. | The apostles did not commence to preach the gospel, or to place anything on record, until they were endowed with the gifts and power of the Holy Spirit. They preached one God alone, Maker of heaven and earth, | 258 | |
