Note 329 — Chapter IX · POST-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: VALENTINUS

Clem. Alex. Strom. Bk II. c. 20; Bk IV. cc. 9, 138; Bk VI. c. 6. So Origen, to whose frequent quotations from the Valentinian Heracleon we owe all that we know of that shrewd Biblical critic. See A. E. Brooke, Fragments of Heracleon, Cambridge Texts and Studies, vol. Ι. p. 4. De Faye’s opinion that Clement and Origen were the only Fathers who treated Gnosticism with intelligence and sometimes judicially has been quoted above.