583 The writer of the Appendix to Tertull. _de Præscrip. Hær._ 48. Epiphan. _Hær._ xxviii. 2. See also Lampe, _Proleg. in Joan._ II. 3. 2. p. 184, quoted in Burton’s _Bampton Lectures_, note 75. 584 I. xxv. 3. 585 Ibid. 4. 586 At least this is implied in § 4. 587 He said (§ 2) that they were in the same sphere as Jesus, who (§ 1) was from the same as the Father. 588 I. xxv. 4. 589 Ibid. 1. 590 Ibid. 2. 591 Ibid. 5. 592 I. xxv. 6. 593 Ibid. 594 Ibid. 595 III. iii. 4. See p. 60. 596 I. xxvi. 1. 597 I. xxvii. 1. The Author of the Appendix to Tertullian’s Treatise _de Præs._ (§ 51.) makes these two Primary Beings; but Irenæus declares that the former was unknown, the latter known; the former good, the latter merely just. 598 III. iv. 3. 599 Clement of Alexandria mentions Marcion as being in _time_ the successor of Simon Magus, (_Strom._ VII. 17. § 107,) and predecessor of Basilides and Valentinus; contemporary, but older. 600 I. xxvii. 2. 601 Ibid. 3. His opinions concerning Cain became the nucleus of another sect, the Cainites. 602 Ibid. 2. The writer in the name of Tertullian, as quoted above, note 5, asserts that he received only some of St. Paul’s Epistles. 603 Tertull. l. c. 604 I. xxviii. 1. 605 From this treatise, which is still extant, we learn that he was an Assyrian by birth, had been a heathen, and had been initiated into most of the heathen mysteries, but had been converted (a rare instance) by the reading of the Scriptures (§§ 64 & 46). In this treatise he opposes the idea that matter had no beginning, and declares that it was created by the (personal) Word of God (§ 8). Perhaps he may be thought to lean to Gnosticism where he says that the soul is naturally mortal, and that the unenlightened soul perishes with the body. § 21, 22. 606 I. xxviii. 1. 607 See above, note 9. 608 I. xxxi. 1. 609 I. xxix. 1. 610 Ibid. 2. 611 I. xxix. 3. 612 I read _Harmogenes_ for _Monogenes_, because the latter name has not occurred as the name of any of these supposed Beings, and because Harmogenes is the first of them who is said to have an _attendant_, which is the idea implied in _Angelos_, the word used by Irenæus. Massuet suggests _Autogenes_, but gives no reason. 613 I. xxix. 4. 614 See pp. 286, 288. 615 I. xxx. 1. 616 Ibid. 2. 617 Ibid. 3. 618 I. xxx. 4. 619 Some of them said that Wisdom herself took the form of a serpent. § 15. 620 I. xxx. 5. 621 In some degree; for he was totally emptied of it by a different process. See below, p. 291. 622 I. xxx. 6. 623 Those who called Wisdom the serpent, say that she inspired them with knowledge. 624 I. xxx. 7. 625 Ibid. 8.