Forerunners and rivals of Christianity

by Francis Legge

[413]. See n. 2, p. [116] supra.

[414]. Irenaeus, Prooem. p. 4, Harvey.

[415]. Clem. Alex. Strom. Bk IV. c. 9.

[416]. Hippolytus, op. cit. Bk VI. c. 38, p. 302, Cruice. So Irenaeus, Bk I. c. 5, § 2, p. 101, Harvey. This appears to be hyperbole rather than dualism.

[417]. Amélineau, Gnost. Ég. p. 189.

[418]. Hippolytus, op. cit. Bk VI. c. 35, p. 296, Cruice.

[419]. Albîrûnî, Chronology of Ancient Nations, ed. Sachau, 1879, pp. 27, 189.

[420]. De Faye, Intro. etc. p. 105, n. 1; Tertullian, de Carne Christi, c. XVI.

[421]. See Hort, Bardaisan, in Dict. Christian Biog.

[422]. Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. Bk IV. c. 30, says that Bar Daisan was first a Valentinian and afterwards recanted, “but did not entirely wipe away the filth of his old heresy.”