From Reformation to Reformation

Heresies   XXIX.  In those first beginnings of the Christian Church, that various seeds of heresies had already sprung up, is evident even from the Apostolic writings, in which are found diverse names of those that had fallen from the truth and faith.  To Hymenæus  and Philetus , with whom is also joined Alexander , is imputed the denial of the resurrection of the dead . [1]   But, whether by this dogma they were following in the steps of the Sadducees (for we readily admit t

When the Apostle prescribes to Titus to avoid , to reject , to repudiate a heretical man of this sort, Titus 3:10, see below Chapter XXXIII, § 21, he adds this reason for this his commandment in verse 11, εἰδὼς ὅτι ἐξέστραπται ὁ τοιοῦτος, καὶ ἁμαρτάνει, ὢν αὐτοκατάκριτος, knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself . In which a twofold, New Testament ἅπαξ λεγόμενον, hapax legomenon , occurs, namely, the verb ἐκστρέφειν, to subvert , a

2. Heresy , which words is Greek in origin from αἱρέω and αἱρέομαι, especially in the sense of choosing , and of apprehending anything with the embrace of the will. In the common and neutral sense it denotes an opinion, belief, doctrine, to which many men are addicted, or even a society of men, as the multifaceted Heresy of the ancient Philosophers was known: TERTULLIAN, de Resurrectione , chapter XI, page 331, “Among the Philosophers you have those that maintain that this