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Footnotes
[1]. Col. ii. 18.
[2]. Lightfoot, St Paul’s Epistle to the Colossians, pp. 90 sqq.
[3]. So A. Jülicher in Encyc. Bibl. s.v. Gnosis.
[4]. Irenaeus, op. cit. Bk I. c. 23, p. 214, Harvey. Salmon in Dict. of Christian Biog. s.v. Nicolaitans, thinks this an idea peculiar to Irenaeus alone and not to be found in the older source from which he drew his account of the other Gnostics.
[5]. The Canonical Apocalypse was probably written after the siege of Jerusalem by Titus in 70 A.D., while the first unmistakable mention we have of St John’s Gospel is by Theophilus of Antioch a hundred years later. Earlier quotations from it are anonymous, i.e. they give the words of the Gospel as in the A.V. but without referring them to any specified author. See Duchesne, Early Christian Church, Eng. ed. pp. 102, 192.
[6]. Hegesippus, quoted by Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. Bk IV. c. 22, says that the Church was untroubled by heresy until the reign of Trajan.
[7]. Hegesippus (see last note) in his account of the martyrdom of “James the Brother of the Lord,” op. cit. Bk II. c. 23.
[8]. See Schmiedel, Encyc. Bibl. s.v. Community of Goods. Cf. Lucian, de Mort. Peregrini, c. XIII, and Mozley’s comments in Dict. Christian Biog. s.v. Lucianus.