Note 35 — Chapter VII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS

The lesser heresiologists, such as Philaster of Brescia, St Augustine, the writer who is known as Praedestinatus, the author of the tract Adversus omnes Haereses wrongly ascribed to Tertullian, and the other writers included in the first volume of Oehler’s Corpus Haereseologici, Berlin, 1856, as well as writers like Eusebius, all copy from one or other of these sources. The Excerpta Theodoti appended to the works of Clement of Alexandria are on a different footing, but their effect at the time spoken of in the text was not appreciated. Cf. Salmon in Dict. Christian Biog. s.v. Valentinus.