Note 477 — Chapter V · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: THE ESSENES
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Hippolytus, Philosophumena, Bk IX. c. 27, pp. 465, 466, of Cruice. Later, he attributes the same doctrine to the Pharisees. His desire to show that in both cases it was derived by the Jews from the Pythagoreans or the Stoics is manifest.