[15.34] Iren. Adv. hær. II. præf. III. præf.
[15.35] See the Epistle (probably authentic) of Paul to the Colossians, i. 15, &c.
[15.36] Epiph.Adv. hær. L. xxx. 1.
[15.37] An argument for the latter hypothesis is, that Simon’s sect soon changed into a school of fortune-tellers, and for the manufacture of philters and charms. Philosoph. VI. i. 20. Tertull. De Anima, 57.
[15.38] Philosophum. VI. i. 20. Cf. Orig. Contra Cels. i. 57; vi. 11.
[15.39] Hegesip. in Euseb. Hist. Eccl. iv. 22; Clem. Alex. Strom. vii. 17; Constit. apost. vi. 8, 16; xviii. 1, &c. Justin, Apol. i. 26, 56; Iren. Adv. hær. I. xxiii. init. Theod. Hær. fol. I. i. 2. Tertull. De Præscr. 47; De Anima, 50.
[15.40] The most celebrated is that of Dositheus.
[15.41] Act. viii. 9; Iren. Adv. hær. xxiii. 1.
[15.42] Philosophum. VI. i. 19–20. The author attributes these perverse doctrines only to Simon’s disciples; but if the disciples entertained them, the master must have shared them in some degree.
[15.43] We shall hereafter see what these narrations signify.