[678] Cf. Clement’s account of Basilides’ conception of faith in contrast to his own, Strom. 5. 1.
[679] Orig. c. Cels. 5. 65.
[680] Cf. Ptolemæus ad Floram, c. 7, ed. Pet.
[681] See instances in Harn. Dogm. p. 134.
[682] Thus Basilides, ap. Hippol. 7. 20, preferred to follow a tradition from Matthias, who was said to have been specially instructed by the Saviour. The Naassenes, ib. 10. 9, traced their doctrine to James, the Brother of the Lord. Valentinus, Clem. Alex. Strom. 7. 17, was said to be a hearer of Theudas, who was a pupil of Paul. Hippol. 1, proœm, argued against all heretics that they had taken nothing from Holy Scripture, and had not preserved the τινος ἁγίου διαδοχήν. Cf. Tert. c. Marc. 1. 21. But see the very remarkable statement of Origen as to the cause of heresies, c. Cels. 3. 12; cf. Clem. Al. Strom. 7. 17.
[683] Cf. Clem. Alex. Strom. 7. 17, μία ... παράδοσις, and the contention of Tert. de præsc. hær. 32, Sicut apostoli non diversa inter se docuissent, ita et apostolici non contraria apostolis edidissent; Harnack, pp. 183 ff., especially note 2, pp. 134-136. Eusebius, H. E. 4. 7, mentions that very many contemporary church writers had written in behalf τῆς ἀποστολικῆς καὶ ἐκκλησιαστικῆς δόξης, against Basilides, especially Agrippa Castor.
[684] Adamantius (Origen, ed. Delarue, i. 809) says that the Marcionites had ἐπισκόπων, μᾶλλον δὲ ψευδεπισκόπων διαδοχαί.
[685] For the παράδοσις ἐκκλησιαστική, especially of “ecclesiæ apostolicæ,” cf. Tert. de præsc. hær. cc. 21. 36; Iren. 3. 1-3; Orig. de princ.; præf. 2: for the κανὼν τῆς πίστεως, Iren. 1. 9. 4; Tert. adv. Marc. 1. 21 (regula sacramenti); de Virg. vel. 1; adv. Prax. 2; de præsc. hær. cc. 3. 12. 42; de monog. 2. In general, see Weingarten, Zeittafeln, s. 17. 19.
[686] De præsc. hær. cc. 25. 26.
[687] 4. 20.