Note 320 — Chapter IX · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: VALENTINUS

So Irenaeus, loc. cit., p. 203, Harvey, makes the Basilidians say that they were neither Jews nor Christians: Et Judaeos quidem jam non esse dicunt, Christianos autem nondum—or, as Epiphanius, loc. cit., more strongly puts it: Ἰουδαίους μὲν ἑαυτοὺς μηκέτι εἶναι φάσκουσι, Χριστιανοὺς δὲ μηκέτι γεγενῆσθαι.