31:1
Ἐν τούτῳ καὶ ὁ Μανεὶς τὰς φρένας, ἐπώνυμός τε τῆς δαιμονώσης αἱρέσεως, τὴν τοῦ λογισμοῦ παρατροπὴν καθωπλίζετο, τοῦ δαίμονος, αὐτοῦ δήπου τοῦ θεομάχου σατανᾶ, ἐπὶ λύμῃ πολλῶν τὸν ἄνδρα προβεβλημένου. βάρβαρος δῆτα τὸν βίον αὐτῷ λόγῳ καὶ τρόπῳ, τήν τε φύσιν δαιμονικός τις ὢν καὶ μανιώδης, ἀκόλουθα τούτοις ἐγχειρῶν, Χριστὸν αὐτὸν μορφάζεσθαι ἐπειρᾶτο, τοτὲ μὲν τὸν παράκλητον καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον· αὐτὸς ἑαυτὸν ἀνακηρύττων, καὶ τυφούμενός γε ἐπὶ τῇ μανίᾳ, τοτὲ δὲ, οἷα Χριστὸς, μαθητὰς δώδεκα κοινωνοὺς τῆς καινοτομίας αἱρούμενος.
At this time also Manes, mad in his wits, and namesake of the demon-possessed heresy, was arming the perversion of his reason—the demon, namely Satan himself the adversary of God, having put the man forward for the ruin of many. Barbarous indeed in his life, in both speech and manner, and demonic and frenzied in his nature, he attempted accordingly to fashion himself as Christ, and at times proclaimed himself to be the Paraclete and the Holy Spirit itself, puffed up with madness; and at times, like Christ, he chose twelve disciples as partners of his innovation.
也在這時候，那心智瘋狂、與那被鬼附之異端同名的摩尼，正裝備他理性的悖謬——乃是那鬼，就是與神為敵的撒但自己，把這人推出來，為要敗壞許多人。他生平確是粗野的，言語舉止皆然，本性又是鬼魔似的、瘋狂的；他便照此妄為，試圖把自己裝扮成基督，有時自稱是保惠師、是聖靈本身，因瘋狂而自高自大；有時又像基督一般，揀選十二個門徒作他標新立異的同夥。
31:2
δόγματά γε μὴν ψευδῆ καὶ ἄθεα ἐκ μυρίων τῶν πρόπαλαι ἀπεσβηκότων ἀθέων συμπεφορημένα καττύσας, ἐκ τῆς Περσῶν ἐπὶ τὴν καθ ἡμᾶς οἰκουμένην ὥσπερ τινὰ θανατηφόρον ἰὸν ἐξωμόρξατο, ἀφ οὗ δὴ τὸ Μανιχαίων δυσσεβὲς ὄνομα τοῖς πολλοῖς εἰσέτι νῦν ἐπιπολάζει. τοιαύτη μὲν οὖν ἡ καὶ τῆσδε τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως ὑπόθεσις, κατὰ τοὺς δεδηλωμένους ὑποφυείσης χρόνους,
Patching together false and godless doctrines collected from countless godless men long since extinct, he wiped them off, like some deadly poison, from the land of the Persians upon our part of the world; from which the impious name of the Manichaeans is even now prevalent among the multitude. Such, then, was the basis of this falsely-named knowledge as well, which sprang up secretly in the times indicated;
他把從早已絕跡、無數無神之人那裡蒐集來的虛假無神的道理拼湊起來，如同某種致命的毒液，從波斯之地抹到我們這邊的世界上來；由此「摩尼派」這不敬虔的名稱，直到如今仍在眾人中流行。這冒名為「知識」之說的根基便是如此，它在前所指明的那些時候暗暗滋生出來；