Note 547 — Chapter VI · PRE-CHRISTIAN GNOSTICS: SIMON MAGUS
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Were those who did not attain to this height in Philo’s opinion annihilated or re-incarnated? His view that for the wicked this life is the real hell (De congr. erud. grat. § XI.) would suit either theory; but in de Cherub. § I. it is plain that he contemplates the eternal punishment of the damned.