Note 429 — Chapter IX · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: VALENTINUS

Courdaveaux, R.H.R. Jan.-Fev. 1892, p. 293 and n. 7. Mgr Duchesne, op. cit. pp. 244, 245, agrees that Clement looked upon the Son as a creature only. Nor does there seem much difference between Valentinus’ view of the relation between the Demiurge and the Unknown Father, and Clement’s remarks about the Son whom he calls timeless and unbegotten and says that it is from Him that we must learn the “remote cause the Father of the Universe”: Strom. Bk VII. c. 1. Cf. Justin Martyr, c. Trypho. c. 56.