Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those malignant-minded people, whom I have listed above, have any existence previous to the initiators and inventors of their perversity.

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.

Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.

The glory of God is the human person fully alive.

The Virgin Mary, being obedient to his word, received from an angel the glad tidings that she would bear God.

Prior to Valentinus, those who follow Valentinus had no existence. Nor did those from Marcion exist before Marcion. Nor, in short, did any of those malignant-minded people, whom I have listed above, have any existence previous to the initiators and inventors of their perversity.