Note 31 — Chapter VII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS
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Celsus apud Origen (op. cit. Bk III. cc. 10, 11) says: “Christians at first were few in number, and all held like opinions, but when they increased to a great multitude, they were divided and separated, each wishing to have his own individual party; for this was their object from the beginning”—a contention which Origen rebuts.