[79]. “Eorum qui ante adventum Christi Haereseos arguuntur.” Philastrius, Ep. Brixiensis, de Haeresibus Liber, c. I. vol. I. p. 5, Oehler.
[80]. Augustinus, de Haeresibus (cf. ad Quod vult deum) Liber, c. XVII. I. p. 200, Oehler.
[81]. Pseudo-Tertullianus, Adversus omnes Haereses, cc. V., VI. p. 273, Oehler. The writer was probably Victorinus of Pettau.
[82]. Pseudo-Hieronymus, Indiculus de Haeresibus, c. III., vol. I. p. 285, Oehler.
[83]. Acts vi. 5. It will be noted that Epiphanius, who himself belonged to the sect in his youth, interposes only the Basilidians between them and the followers of Saturninus, the “heresy” of which last he derives directly from that of Simon Magus.
[84]. Rev. ii. 6, 15.
[85]. Origen, cont. Celsum, Bk VI. c. 28. Possibly the Euphrates called “the Peratic” or Mede by Hippolytus (op. cit. Bk IV. c. 2, p. 54, Cruice).
[86]. Hippolytus, op. cit. Bk V. c. 7, p. 141, Cruice. This Mariamne is doubtless the sister of Philip mentioned in the Apocryphal Acta Philippi (c. XXXII., Tischendorf), which have, as is said later, a strong Gnostic or Manichaean tinge. Celsus knew a sect which took its name from her. See Origen, cont. Cels. Bk V. c. 62.
[87]. The Canonical Apocalypse is not earlier than 70 A.D., and was probably written soon after the fall of the Temple of Jerusalem. Hippolytus and Origen wrote 130 years later.
[88]. Naassene is evidently derived from the Hebrew or Aramaean נחש “Serpent,” cf. Hipp. op. cit. Bk V. c. 6, p. 139, Cruice, and exactly corresponds to the Greek ὀφίτης and the Latin serpentinus (Low Latin serpentarius). “Worshipper of the Serpent” seems to be the patristic gloss on the meaning of the word.