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St. Ephraim
The fifth discourse to Hypatius against False Teachings
Transcribed from the Palimpsest B.M. Add. 14623
by C. W. MITCHELL, M.A., volume 1 (1912)

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• True, unlike false, obedience will not listen to seductive Heresy.
• See how Mani, the last of the great heretics, is refuted by Ezek. viii.
• Mani's paintings.
• The "Righteous" Women, among the Manichaeans.
• Manichaean worship of the Luminaries. Mani's teaching about an all containing Space.
• Bardaisan's Hymns to Space are impious.
• Mani makes God depend upon a Luminous Earth.
• God and Space in the Heresies. Answers to the opinion of Marcion, of Mani, and of Bardaisan.
• Again, how can Mani speak of his Five Elements as coming from One Root?
• How could the Entities be in contact with one another if the Space was infinite?
• Why the False Teachers have affinities with one another.
• In Mani's teaching his two Roots are placed 'opposite one another on a level.'
• The False Teaching about HULE.
• Why did Marcion introduce HULE into his Teaching?
• The subject of HULE being common to the Teaching of the three, the refutation of one is the refutation of all.
• What madness to suppose that Good is refined and goes up!
• How the evil Constituent could be conquered.
• If the Good "goes up," how can the Evil be conquered here?
• No Power akin to the Souls could deliver them without being overwhelmed.
• If the Body is essentially Evil, Truth cannot come from Teachers clothed with such a Body?
• The orthodox teaching about the Body : it is the instrument and partner of the Soul.
• The Shadow depends on the Body, but Body and Soul are more vitally one.
• See, further, the intimacy of Soul and Body. This acuteness of the Physician's touch. Elijah's Body, taken to Heaven.
• Why did the Soul put on the Body?
• The Body ignores the Shadow: why is the Soul so intimate with the ' vile ' Body?
• Difficulties in the Teaching about the Soul's pre-existence and its entrance into the Body.
• All teachers being clothed with Bodies their teaching must have the nature of the Body's Root.
• How can diverse Souls come from a single Root?
• The pre-existent Soul and its Place.
• The Teaching about a continuous Going up of Souls leaves those remaining behind to be overwhelmed by Evil.
• The right method for separating Good and Evil.
• Instead of a Separation by a bad plan, the Evil Constituent could have been lessened by increasing the Good Constituent.
• How the Good is overwhelmed.
• Concerning the relative strength of Good and Evil when mixed.
• If all Souls are from one source how do they manifest such diverse tendencies? Is their Source divided against itself?
• The Souls, moreover, do not continue in Goodness.
• Can Freewill change its Essence.
• The Good Will could not be affected by Satan.
• Why did the Soul not resist Satan? Samson resisted his enemies. But the Soul is not only subdued but actually reviles its Father.
• Concerning the Soul's foreknowledge of its rebellion and what it would indicate.
• A Refutatory Summary.
• If the Evil One intoxicated the Souls, they must have had kinship with the intoxicating thing.
• The Evil One did not intoxicate the Soul; for it still remembers the Commandments, though it breaks them.
• The Soul and the works of Darkness.
• Why did not the Luminaries bring weapons to the Souls in their struggle?
• The Soul not intoxicated or led captive by Satan. If the Soul is strong enough to revile Satan with words, its Freewill is strong enough to resist him.
• Freewill is 'independent' and does not come from a bound Element.
• Souls are not conditioned by the nature of the Bodies in which they dwell.
• Why then are Bodies not uniformly evil?
• Refutatory Summary and Conclusion.
• Note from Vol. 1 Introduction, p. (10)
• Note of the electronic source

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Printed source	S. Ephraim's Prose Refutations of Mani, Marcion and Bardaisan. Transcribed from the Palimpsest B.M. Add. 14623 by C. W. MITCHELL, M.A., volume 1 (1912).
Source of the electronic transcription	Tertullian Project – https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/ Transcribed by Roger Pearse, Ipswich, UK, 2002.
ETML tagging	IntraText editorial staff
Publication details	Greek text is rendered using the Scholars Press SPIonic font, free from https://www.tertullian.org/support

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