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.63–9.Our Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ, through his holy disciples and apostles, handed down to us the pure mystery of the faith, and said that in the last days there would come many false apostles and false prophets, and warned us to keep away from such people.Likewise Paul, the herald of God, when writing to Timothy warned that‘in the last days some will abandon the faith and follow a spirit of error and the doctrines of demons who give false teaching, in pretence, whose conscience is branded; they will forbid marriage and enjoin abstention from foods which God created for the faithful and those who have knowledge of God to partake of with thanksgiving; since everything God has created is good when taken with thanksgiving.It is hallowed through the word of God and prayer’.4 And again, ‘there will be some of these who sneak into houses and take captive women who have sinned, ensnared with various desires, who are quite incapable of learning and coming to the knowledge of the truth of God’.5Since our God and Saviour gave us forewarning and in the apostle preached this, let us be on our guard, beloved, in accordance with these prophecies, now that we have come to the last days.The heresy of the Messalians or Bogomils, confused and many-named,6 is now prevalent in every city and countryside and province, and those who introduce it do not cease to destroy the simpler folk.These enemies of Christ call themselves Christians, and by the good sound of the name are confused with the orthodox; without being recognized as hiding the wolf under the sheep’s clothing, they make the beginning of their empty preaching, starting from the scriptures which we venerate; and when they have been accepted in this mask and the listeners begin to attend to them, they spew forth their poison.Now that they have become familiar, they vomit forth the foul teachings of Satan, which together with them we subject to anathema as being foul and spurious and alien to the Catholic Church.To Peter, the leader of the heresy of the Messalians or Lycopetrians, 4 1 Tim.4.1–5.5 1 Tim.3.6.6 The confusion between Manichaeans, Messalians and Bogomils is widespread in the sources.It may reflect the use of archaic descriptions of heretics, but sometimes there Pis also confusion in the doctrines attributed to more recent heresy.See [23] below.136CDH113611/28/97, 10:49 AMTHE SYNODIKON OF ORTHODOXYPhoundatai or Bogomils, who called himself Christ and promised that he would rise again from the dead, and for this reason was called Lycopetrus [wolf–Peter], because when he was justly buried under stones through his infinite sorceries and foul deeds, he promised his wretched followers that he would rise again after three days: as they surrounded his abominable remains, after three days he appeared there like a wolf emerging from the heap of stones, anathema.7To Tychicus his fellow-initiate and disciple,8 who destroyed and misinterpreted other holy scriptures, especially the whole of the gospel of St Matthew, misinterpreting all the sayings which concern God the Father as well as those about the Holy Spirit, applying them to his spiritual father, and so perverted the glory of God to the leaders of his abominable sect, anathema.9To Dadoes, Sabas, Adelphius, Hermas, Simeon and the rest who vomited forth the poison of such heresy and led astray the more rustic people, both men and women, and plunged them into the pit of destruction, anathema.10To those who say of the holy and life-giving Trinity – that is God the Father and the incarnate Word, the son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, and the most Holy Spirit – that there is some other trinity, or again a superior power seated on the uppermost of the seven heavens, in accordance with their abominable apocryphal ‘Vision of Isaiah’, anathema.11To those who introduce other scriptures besides those uttered by the Holy Spirit and handed down to us by the holy fathers, anathema [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]