ON THE ORIGIN OF THE BOGOMILS

...at times they were called Encratites Greek for "the self-controlled," a sect practicing strict asceticism., at other times Marcionists (not Marcianists, as Arnold Gottfried Arnold (1666–1714), a German theologian whose History of Heresies was influential but sometimes criticized for its accuracy. incorrectly records on page 206 of his History of Heresies; for he could have learned, to say nothing of others, from Cotelerius Jean-Baptiste Cotelier (1629–1686), a French scholar of early Church manuscripts. in Volume III of his Monuments, page 639, that these names are not to be confused). Sometimes they were known as Phundaites, which is established by the testimony of Euthymius Euthymius Zigabenus, a 12th-century Byzantine monk and the primary source for Bogomil history. from the passage mentioned; at other times they were called Martyrians and Euphemites, Adelphians, Lampetians, Lycopetrians, Satanists, Choreutae From the Greek for "dancers.", Cauchitae, Eustathians, and, if the Augustinian manuscripts are to be believed, they were called Psalmians. This has been proven from antiquity partly by Tollius in his notes on Euthymius, partly by Daneau Lambert Daneau (1530–1595), a French Calvinist theologian. in his commentary on Augustine’s Book of Heresies, chapter 59, and partly by Cotelerius in his notes to Volume I of the Monuments, page 78 and following.

I conclude by no empty conjecture that these names were common to the Bogomils, for the most part if not in every respect; not only because they seem to have been cast into a fellowship of names just as they were into a fellowship of doctrines, but also because several of these names are customarily attributed to them in the explicit words of those writers. Thus, Euthymius, in the place cited, joins the name of the Massalians and the Bogomils as being of the same kind of heretics, not only in the title but also in the short work itself on page 112.

Furthermore, we are not permitted to doubt that they were called Phundaitas, Phundaiatas, and Phundagiatas These names derive from the Greek phunda, meaning a pouch or bag, likely referring to the traveling bags carried by these wandering preachers., according to what is read in Peter Lambeck's Librarian of the Imperial Library in Vienna (1628–1680). Commentary on the Imperial Library, Book III, Codex VII, and Book V, Codices 213 to 268. These entries discuss a certain letter of Euthymius written against the Bogomils, the title of which is as follows:

A Letter of Euthymius, Monk of the Illustrious Monastery original Greek: "της Περιβλέπτου μονής" (the Peribleptos Monastery in Constantinople)., sent from Constantinople to his own homeland, exposing the heresies of the most godless and impious deceivers, namely the Phundagiatas, also called Bogomils and Massalians, as well as the profane and abominable heresy of the Armenians, and other lawless and utterly profane heresies.

That is, as Tollius translates it: The Letter of Euthymius, a Monk of the Illustrious Cloister, sent from Constantinople to his homeland, refuting the Phundagia... The text cuts off here, continuing the translation of the letter's title on the next page.