Note 92 — Chapter VIII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE OPHITES
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ἑαυτοὺς γνωστικοὺς ὀνομάζοντες. Hippolytus, loc. cit. Eusebius, H. E. Bk IV. c. 7, says that Carpocrates was the father of the heresy of the Gnostics and contemporary with Basilides.