Barefoot (heretics)

Augustine in the book “De Haeresibus ad Quodvultdeum Liber Unus” (“Heresy, by the Passion of God, in one book”) about barefoot. "Smaragdus . " manuscript of the 9th century .

Barefoot ( lat. Nudis pedibus semper ambulantium - always walking barefoot ) or ekkalekata ( lat. Excalceati from lat. Ex – calceo - “to open , take off your shoes” ), or hymnopods ( lat. Gymnopodæ from other Greek γυμνός - “ naked, naked ”+ other Greek ποδός - “ leg, foot ” ) - heretics of the end of IV - beginning of the V century , described by Philastria in the book Liber de Haeresibus and Augustine in the book De Haeresibus ad Quodvultdeum Liber Unus; the first author has 81 heresy, the second author has 68 heresy. According to the teachings of barefoot people should not use shoes, but should always walk barefoot; which barefoot did. To justify their teachings, barefoot quoted from the Bible , these are the words spoken by God to Moses in the burning bush : “And God said: do not come here; take off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy ground ”( Exodus 3: 5 ); the words spoken by the Archistratig ^{[1] of the} Power of the Lord to Joshua before he took Jericho : “take off your shoes from your feet, for the place on which you stand is holy” ( Nav. 5:15 ); and the fact that the prophet Isaiah walked barefoot ( Isa. 20: 2 ). Augustine explains that if these people would walk barefoot to abstain from the body, he would not consider them heretics; but since barefoot falsely interpreted the Holy Scriptures , he carried them to heretics. The numbers of barefoot Filastria and Augustine are not reported.

At a later time, in an anonymous treatise known as “Predestinate” ( lat. Praedestinatus - “predetermined”), the author of which refers to Philastria and Augustine, this heresy is called - hymnopodarum ( Latin gymnopodarum from other Greek γυμνός - “ naked, naked ”+ other Greek. ποδός - “ leg, foot ” ).