[1128] Pseudo-Matthew, chap, XXII.-XXIV. and Lal. Vist. chap. VIII.
[1129] Pseudo-Matthew, XIII. Cf. Dig. Nik. 14 and Maj. Nik. 123. Neumann's notes on the latter give many curious medieval parallels.
[1130] See Gospel of James, XVIII. and Lal. Vist. VII. ad init.
[1131] See Rhys Davids, Buddhist Birth stories, 1880, introduction; and Joseph Jacobs, Barlaam and Josaphat, 1896.
[1132] Nos. 12 and 537.
[1133] As is also the idea that γνὣσις implies a special ascetic mode of life, the βίος γνωστικός.
[1134] Irenæus, I. XXV.
[1135] It appears in the Pistis Sophia which perhaps represents the school of Valentinus. Basilides taught that "unto the third and fourth generation" refers to transmigration (see Clem. Al. fragm. sect. 28 Op., ed. Klotz, IV. 14), and Paul's saying "I was alive without the law once" (Rom. vii. 9), to former life as an animal (Orig. in Ep. ad Rom. V. Op. iv. 549).
[1136] For Gnosticism, see Buddhist Gnosticism, J. Kennedy in J.R.A.S. 1902, and Mead, Fragments of a faith Forgotten.
[1137] Chavannes et Pelliot, "Un traité Manichéen retrouvé en Chine," J.A. 1911, I, and 1913, II.