Note 4 — Chapter I · SOURCES OF EVIDENCE.

That the quotations were by Basilides himself Matthew Arnold’s reasoning seems entirely satisfactory, and “no one” he says, “who had not a theory to serve would ever dream of doubting it.” Perhaps it may be permitted to regard Matthew Arnold as a “scholar;” and see Abbot’s “Fourth Gospel,” Boston (1880), p. 86. See also post, c. 5.