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The Refutation of All Heresies
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 day 1 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. 2 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." 3 In other respects, however, these consent to all the traditions delivered to the Church by the Apostles. 4
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They were therefore called "Quartodecimans." (See Eusebius, Hist. Ecclesiast., v. c. xxii. xxv.; Epiphanius, Haer., l.; and Theodoret, Haer. Fab., iii. 4.) ↩
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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. ↩
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Gal. v. 3. ↩
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[He regards the Christian Paschal as authorized. 1 Cor. v. 7, 8.] ↩
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Widerlegung aller Häresien (BKV)
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Andere wieder, streitsüchtiger Natur, ohne jede S. 236 wissenschaftliche Bildung und recht auf Händel erpicht, stellen auf, man müsse Ostern am vierzehnten Tag des ersten Monats halten nach der Offenbarung des Gesetzes1, auf was immer für einen Tag es falle; sie haben dabei den Spruch im Gesetze im Auge, daß verflucht sein solle, wer es nicht so halte2, wie es vorgeschrieben ist. Sie beachten nicht, daß das Gesetz für die Juden gegeben war, die das wahre Ostern aufheben sollten, das zu den Heiden gekommen ist und gläubig verstanden wird und das jetzt nicht nach dem Buchstaben gehalten wird. Sie halten sich an diese eine Vorschrift und berücksichtigen das nicht, was der Apostel gesagt hat: „Ich bezeuge jedem Menschen, der sich beschneidet, daß er Schuldner ist zur Erfüllung des ganzen Gesetzes“3. Im übrigen stimmen sie mit der apostolisch-kirchlichen Überlieferung überein.
