The Encratite division

Disciplinary · 172 — unsettled · regional

Rigour about marriage, meat and wine, carried far enough to leave the communion. Tatian, Justin's own pupil, went with it.

How it ended. Rejected; the canons of Gangra in 340 legislate against the same rigour without naming it.

How it ran

  1. 172 — Tatian leaves the church for the Encratites (where it began). Tatian leaves the church for the Encratites.

After Refutation of All Heresies (Philosophumena) · Hippolytus, Refutation 8.13.