Note 260 — Chapter VIII · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE OPHITES

Origen’s testimony on this point can be the better relied on, because his good faith, unlike that of writers like Epiphanius, is above suspicion. He and Clement of Alexandria are the only two writers on Gnosticism among the Fathers to whom M. de Faye (Introd. p. 1) will allow “intelligence” and “impartialité.”