Note 561 — Chapter VI · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: SIMON MAGUS
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Cowley in Encyc. Bibl. s.v. Samaritans, col. 4260. According to Renan, Les Évangiles, p. 451, the Samaritans at the beginning of our era were divided into a great number of sects, all more or less attached to Simon. The authorities he quotes are, however, too late to establish this satisfactorily.