Note 23 — Chapter VII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS

So Renan, L’Antéchrist, p. 300, says that the Synoptic Gospels probably first took shape in the Church at Pella. Thus he explains the so-called “little Apocalypse” of Matthew xxiv., Mark xiii., and Luke xxi. Cf. ibid., p. 296 and note. For the symbolic construction placed upon them by the Gnostics, see Hatch, H. L., p. 75.