Note 651 — Chapter VI · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: SIMON MAGUS
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Tertullian, Scorpiace, c. 1. Eusebius, H. E. Bk II. c. 1, says, speaking of his own times, that those who follow Simon’s most scoundrelly (μιαρωτύτην) heresy were baptized into the Church, and kept their own doctrines in secret till detected and expelled. Cf. Origen, c. Cels. Bk VI. c. 11.