_E.g._ Irenaeus, _op. cit._ Bk I. c. 1, I. p. 9, Harvey. Here he is called ὅμοιος τε καὶ ἴσος τῷ προβαλόντι, “like and equal to him who had sent him forth.” There is certainly here no allusion to “begetting” in the ordinary sense of the word. Footnote 50: As in the epithet of Persephone in the Orphic Hymn quoted above. See Chapter IV, _supra_. The unanimity with which all post-Christian Gnostics accepted the superhuman nature of Jesus seems to have struck Harnack. See his _What is Christianity?_ Eng. ed. 1904, pp. 209, 210. Footnote 51: _Iliad_ I. ll. 560 _sqq._; IV. ll. 57, 330; XIV. ll. 320 _sqq._ Footnote 52: _Odyssey_ XI. ll. 600 _sqq._; Plutarch, _Life of Pelopidas_, c. XVI. Footnote 53: Plutarch, _de Is. et Os._ c. LXXI. Footnote 54: _Ibid._ cc. XXV., XXVII., XXX. Footnote 55: Probably this was one of the reasons why the Mysteries which showed the death of a god had in Greece to be celebrated in secret. See Diodorus’ remark (Bk V. c. 77, § 3) that the things which the Greeks only handed down in secret were by the Cretans concealed from no one. Footnote 56: Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VI. c. 19, p. 265, Cruice. Footnote 57: Irenaeus, _op. cit._ Bk I. c. 19, II. p. 200, Harvey. Footnote 58: ἀμορφία. Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VII. c. 27, p. 366, Cruice. Footnote 59: Irenaeus, _op. cit._ Bk I. c. 18, p. 197, Harvey. Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VII. c. 28, p. 368, Cruice. Footnote 60: Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VIII. c. 8. Footnote 61: Irenaeus, _op. cit._ Bk I. c. 1, § 13, pp. cxli and 61, Harvey. Footnote 62: _Ibid._ Bk I. c. 1, § 31, pp. cxli and 62, Harvey. Footnote 63: Irenaeus, _op. cit._ Bk I. c. 19, § 3, p. 202, Harvey; Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk IV. c. 24, p. 225, Cruice; Tertullian, _Scorpiace_, c. I. Footnote 64: For the accusation against the Christians, see Athenagoras, _Apologia_, cc. III., XXXI.; Justin Martyr, _First Apol._ c. XXVI. For that against the Jews, Strack, _Le Sang et la fausse Accusation du Meurtre Rituel_, Paris, 1893. For that against the Freemasons, “Devil Worship and Freemasonry,” _Contemporary Review_ for 1896. Footnote 65: See n. 1, _supra_. So Eusebius speaks of the Simonians receiving baptism and slipping into the Church without revealing their secret tenets, _Hist. Eccl._ Bk II. c. 1. Footnote 66: Revillout, _Vie et Sentences de Secundus_, Paris, 1873, p. 3, n. 1. Footnote 67: Amélineau, _Le Gnosticisme Égyptien_, p. 75, thus enumerates them: the doctrine of emanation, an unknown [_i.e._ an inaccessible and incomprehensible] God, the resemblance of the three worlds, the aeonology of Simon, and a common cosmology. To this may be added the inherent malignity of matter and the belief in salvation by knowledge. See Krüger, _La Grande Encyclopédie_, _s.v._ Gnosticisme. Footnote 68: Renan, _Mare Aurèle_, p. 114. Footnote 69: