At that time also another perversity took its beginning, the heresy called that of the Elkesaites, which also was quenched as soon as it began. Origen mentions it in a homily delivered in public on the eighty-second Psalm, saying somewhat as follows: 「Someone has come at the present time greatly priding himself on being able to champion an ungodly and most impious opinion, called that of the Elkesaites, newly arisen against the churches. What evil things that opinion says, I will set before you, that you may not be carried away. It rejects certain portions from every Scripture; again, it makes use of texts from every Scripture, both of the Old Testament and of the Gospels; the apostle it utterly rejects. And it says that to deny is a matter of indifference, and that the one who understands will, in times of necessity, deny with his mouth, but not with his heart. And they produce a certain book which they say fell from heaven, and that whoever has heard it and believes will receive forgiveness of sins—a forgiveness other than that which Christ Jesus granted.」 And the things concerning these matters are such as these.