- The
Perates or
Peratae (Gr****: Περατής, "to p**** through"; πέρας, "to penetrate") were a
Gnostic sect from the 2nd
century AD. The
Philosophumena of Hippolytus...
- This book
contains sections on
several other Ophite systems, that of the
Peratae,
Sethians and of Justinus.
Irenaeus (died c. 202) gives, in what seems...
- proceed. The name of this
Berossian Thalatth meets us
again among the
Peratae of the
Philosophumena (Hippolytus, Philosophum. v. 9) and is sometimes...
-
Ophite heresies. The
author in
particular identifies the Na****enes, the
Peratae, the Sethians, and the
beliefs of a heretic, Justinus. The
Ophite error...
