Note 32 — Chapter VII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS
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Thus in Egypt it was almost exclusively the lower classes which embraced Christianity at the outset. See Amélineau, “Les Actes Coptes du martyre de St Polycarpe” in P.S.B.A. vol. X. (1888), p. 392. Julian (Cyr. VI. p. 206) says that under Tiberius and Claudius there were no converts of rank.