Heresies Against the Old Testament
The heretical movements that proscribed the Old Testament: Simon Magus, Marcion, the Manichaeans, Albigensians, Libertines, and Anabaptists, each on different grounds. Some taught it was produced by evil angels; others set up private reason or spiritual enthusiasm as guide.
Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture
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Heresies Proscribing the Old Testament
— Simon Magus, Marcion, Manes, the Albigensians, Libertines, and Anabaptists proscribed the Old Testament; Simon, the Manichaeans, and Marcionites taught it was produced by evil angels.
"It was the heresy of Simon Magus and his followers, then of Marcion, and of Curbicus the Persian (whom his own people called Manes and Manichaeus, as if a pourer-out of manna, by way of honor), and of the Albigensians, and recently of the Libertines, and also of certain Anabaptists, who proscribed the Old Testament together with Moses"
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Heresies Proscribing the Old Testament
— The Manichaeans described the Old Testament God as wrathful, vengeful, ignorant; the Libertines set up their own reason as guide; the Anabaptists boast of spiritual enthusiasm.
"Simon, the Manichaeans, and the Marcionites taught that the Old Testament was produced by a sinister power and evil angels"