Note 601 — Chapter VI · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: SIMON MAGUS

Except perhaps Marcion. But we have so little literature remaining which can with any certainty be attributed to the Marcionites that we cannot speak with any certainty as to his phraseology. In his treatise against the Valentinians (c. XX.) Tertullian gibes at that sect for “thinking the different heavens intelligent, and for making angels of them.”