_ 137 Convivium decem virginum_, in Combefis’s Auctarium bibliothecae Graecorum patrum, p. 69. _ 138 Ibid._, p. 69. _ 139 Ibid._, p. 109. 140 τὰ λόγια. _Ap._ Euseb. H. E. iii. 39. 141 Davidson’s _Introduction to the Study of the N. Testam._ vol. x. p. 388. _ 142 Explanatio in Epist. ad Titum_, vol. iv. p. 407, ed. Benedict. _ 143 Die Valentinianische Gnosis und die heilige Schrift_, p. 75. 144 A good deal of manipulation has been needlessly employed for the purpose of placing these heretics as early as possible; but nothing definite can be extracted from Irenæus’s notices of them. Hippolytus’s use of the present tense, in speaking of them, renders it probable that they were nearly his contemporaries. 145 See the Indexes to Duncker and Schneidewin’s edition. _ 146 Bibliotheca_, cod. 232. 147 It is an unfounded assumption that Paul cited the passage by “mere accident;” on the contrary, he gives it as canonical, with “as it is written” (1 Corinth. ii. 9). It may be that the Gnostics are referred to as using the objectionable passage; but it is special pleading _to limit_ it to them, when Paul has expressly used the same, deriving it either from Isaiah lxiv. 4, or some unknown document; just as it is special pleading to identify ὁ κύριος standing beside νόμος καὶ προφῆται, with _the New Testament_. The word excludes Paul’s Epistles from the canon; nor is there any evidence to the contrary, as has been alleged, in the two Syriac epistles attributed to Clement, which Wetstein published. Comp. _Eusebius’s H. E._ iv. 22, _Photius’s Bibliotheca_, 232. Apologists have labored to prove Hegesippus an orthodox Catholic Christian, like Irenæus; but in vain. He was a Jewish Christian of moderate type, holding intercourse with Pauline Christians at the time when the Catholic Church was being formed. 148 See _Hilgenfeld’s Zeitschrift_ for 1875-1878. 149 There is ἄπεστιν instead of the Septuagint’s and Mark’s (Tischend.) ἀπέχει. _ 150 Geschichte Jesu von Nazara_, vol. 1, p. 144. 151 See Vision ii, 3, 4, with the prolegomena of De Gebhardt: and Harnack, p. lxxiii. 152 See Holtzmann in Hilgenfeld’s _Zeitschrift_ for 1875, p. 40, &c. 153 Epist. ch. iv. 154 Chapter xii. pp. 30, 31, ed. 2, Hilgenfeld. 155 See Chapter xv. end, with Hilgenfeld’s note, _Barnabae epistula ed._ _altera_, pp. 118, 119. _ 156 Epis._ p. 13 ed. Hilgenfeld. _ 157 Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Theologie_, 1871, P. 336, etc.