[1603] Bousset, Hauptprobleme der Gnosis, 1911; and “Gnosticism” in EB, 11th edition.
[1604] The dating is somewhat disputed. Some of the Gnostic writings discovered in 1896 have, I believe, not yet been published, although announced to be edited by C. Schmidt in TU. Grenfell and Hunt will soon publish “a small group of 21 papyri ... among which is a gnostic magical text of some interest”: Grenfell (1921), p. 151.
[1605] The Gospel of Matthew, XXIV, 29-31. Not to mention Paul’s “angels and principalities and powers.”
[1606] St. George Stock, “Simon Magus,” in EB, 11th edition. See also George Salmon in Dict. Chris. Biog., IV, 681.
[1607] Irenaeus, Against Heresies, I, 23.
[1608] Homilies, XVIII, 1-.
[1609] Epiphanius, Panarion, A-B-XXI; Petavius, 55-60; Dindorf,
II, 6-12.
[1610] First Apology, cap. 26.
[1611] Irenaeus and Epiphanius as cited above; also Hippolytus, Philosophumena, VI, 2-15; X, 8.
[1612] See, for example, Irenaeus, Against Heresies, I, i, 3, where we are told among other things that the disciples of the Gnostic Valentinus affirm that the number of these aeons is signified by the thirty years of Christ’s life which elapsed before He began His public ministry.