Tatian Used Nothing But Water In The Consecration Of The Chalice, His Disciples Were Called Hydro-Parastati, Or Aquarii
5. Tatian was born in Assyria, and was a disciple of St.
Justin Martyr. He was the founder of the sect called Encratics,
or Continent; he taught, with Valentine, that matter was un
created and eternal ; he attributed the creation to God, but
through the instrumentality of an inferior Eon, who said let
there be light, not by way of command, but of supplication, and
thus light was created. He denied, with Valentine, the resurrection of the dead, and human flesh, he said was too unworthy
to be united with the divinity in the person of Christ. He
deprived man of free will, saying he was good and spiritual, or
bad and carnal, by necessity, according as the seed of divine
grace was infused or not into him ; and he rejected the law of
Moses, as not instituted by God, but by the Eon who created the
world. Finally, he condemned matrimony, prohibited the use of
flesh-meat and wine, and, because he used nothing but water in
the consecration of the chalice, his disciples were called Hydro-parastati, or Aquarii (10).
(10) Orsi, t. 2, /. 4, n. 11 ; Fleury, t,
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