Note 562 — Chapter VI · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: SIMON MAGUS
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The question was discussed and resolved, as far as it could be in the then state of our information, by Salmon in Smith’s Dictionary of Christian Biography, s.v. Clementines. Mgr. Duchesne, Early History of the Christian Church, Eng. ed. 1909, p. 96, n. 2, sums up in favour of their ultimate derivation from the Preaching of Peter composed at the end of the IInd or beginning of IIIrd cent. He thinks the Clementines orthodox save for a slight Arian tendency.