[198.] Eliphas Lévi, Histoire de la Magie, p. 275.
[199.] M. Grégoire, Histoire des Sectes religieuses. II. 407 (1828).
[200.] Matter, Histoire du Gnosticisme, III. 323.
[201.] Ibid., III. p. 120.
[202.] Jewish Encyclopædia, article on Mandæans.
[203.] Grégoire, op. cit., IV. 241.
[204.] Jewish Encyclopædia, and Hastings' Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, article on Mandæans.
[205.] Codex Nasaræus, Liber Adam appellatus, trans. from the Syriac into Latin by Matth. Norberg (1815), Vol. I. 109: "Sed, Johanne hae ætate Hierosolymæ nato, Jordanumque deinceps legente, et baptismum peragente, veniet Jeschu Messias, summisse se gerens, ut baptismo Johannis baptizetur, et Johannis per sapientiam sapiat. Pervertet vero doctrinam Johannis, et mutato Jordani baptismo, perversisque justitiæ dictis, iniquitatem et perfidiam per mundum disseminabit."
[206.] Article on the Codex Nasaræus by Silvestre de Sacy in the Journal des Savants for November 1819, p. 651; cf. passage in the Zohar, section Bereschith, folio 55.
[207.] Matter, op. cit., III. 119, 120. De Sacy (op. cit., p. 654) also attributes the Codex Nasaræus to the eighth century.