[297]. Ibid. Bk XVI. c. 34.
[298]. Matter, Hist. du Gnost. t. I. p. 398.
[299]. Eusebius, Eccl. Hist. Bk IV. c. 6.
[300]. Clem. Alex. Strom. Bk I. c. 15.
[301]. Cf. Hadrian’s letter to Servian, Chapter II, vol. I. p. 86, supra.
[302]. Amélineau, Le Gnosticisme Égyptien, p. 30. Its early shape was probably more magical and less ethical than its later developments, because, as the same author (P.S.B.A. 1888, p. 392) says, for several centuries it was only the lowest classes in Egypt that became Christians.
[303]. Irenaeus, Bk I. c. 18, p. 197, Harvey. Hippolytus, op. cit. Bk VII. c. 28, p. 369, Cruice.
[304]. So Hippolytus, loc. cit., who copies Irenaeus’ statement word for word. But something has evidently slipped out of the text. If Christ and Satan were both the enemies of Yahweh, we should have the συμφώνησις or fellowship declared impossible by St Paul in 2 Cor. vi. 15.
[305]. Matter, Hist. du Gnost. t. I. p. 349.
[306]. Irenaeus, Bk I. c. 18, p. 197, Harvey; Hippolytus, Bk VII. c. 28, p. 367, Cruice; Epiphanius, Haer. XXIII. c. 1, p. 135, Oehler.