[349] Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. I, 24, 3-4.

[350] Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. I, 1-3.

[351] Cf. Ptolemaeus, apud Epiphan., Haer. XXXIII, 3-7, Epist. ad Floram, at the beginning.

[352] Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. I, 5-8. The Valentinian idea of the triple nature of man is as old as Plato.

[353] Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. I, 24, 2-4.

[354] Ibid., I, 2, 5-6.

[355] Cf. Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. I, 23, 4; 24, 5.

[356] Τῶν κατὰ τὴν ἀληθῆ φιλοσοφἰαν γνωστικῶν ὑπομνημἀτων στρωματεῖς.

[357] Cf. also Strom. II, 19-20.

[358] Strom. I, 5, 28, 3; cf. I, 20, 97; VI, 7, 59.