Note 602 — Chapter VI · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: SIMON MAGUS
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Irenaeus, Bk I. c. 16, § 2, p. 192, Harvey. Theodoret, Haer. Fab. Bk I. c. 5, echoes the statement, and Hippolytus, Bk VI. c. 1, § 19, p. 263, Cruice, gives what is probably the original Greek of Irenaeus. Hatch, H. L. pp. 185, 186, points out that Philo held not only that the angels were God’s instruments in making the worlds, but the patterns after which they were made. Cf. Philo, de Monarch. Bk II. c. 6.