Note 30 — Chapter VII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS

So Irenaeus, op. cit. Bk I. c. 26, pp. 219, 220, Harvey, says it was the desire to become a διδάσκαλος or teacher that drove Tatian, once a hearer of Justin Martyr’s, into heresy. Hegesippus, ubi cit. supra, says that Thebuthis first corrupted the Church, on account of his not being made a bishop. For the same accusation in the cases of Valentinus and Marcion, see Chapters IX and XI, infra.