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Irenaeus, Refutation Of All Heresies, 1.23.5

nan The successor of this man was Menander, also a Samaritan by birth, and he, too, was a perfect adept in the practice of magic. He affirms that the primary Power continues unknown to all, but that he himself is the person who has been sent forth from the presence of the invisible beings as a saviour, for the deliverance of men. The world was made by angels, whom, like Simon, he maintains to have been produced by Ennoea. He gives, too, as he affirms, by means of that magic which he teaches, knowledge to this effect, that one may overcome those very angels that made the world; for his disciples obtain the resurrection by being baptized into him, and can die no more, but remain in the possession of immortal youth.

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1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 9.24-9.27 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 9.24. וַיִּיקֶץ נֹחַ מִיֵּינוֹ וַיֵּדַע אֵת אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂה־לוֹ בְּנוֹ הַקָּטָן׃ 9.25. וַיֹּאמֶר אָרוּר כְּנָעַן עֶבֶד עֲבָדִים יִהְיֶה לְאֶחָיו׃ 9.26. וַיֹּאמֶר בָּרוּךְ יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֵי שֵׁם וִיהִי כְנַעַן עֶבֶד לָמוֹ׃ 9.27. יַפְתְּ אֱלֹהִים לְיֶפֶת וְיִשְׁכֹּן בְּאָהֳלֵי־שֵׁם וִיהִי כְנַעַן עֶבֶד לָמוֹ׃ 9.24. And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him." 9.25. And he said: Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." 9.26. And he said: Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; And let Canaan be their servant." 9.27. God enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; And let Canaan be their servant."
2. Hebrew Bible, Numbers, 11.17 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 11.17. וְיָרַדְתִּי וְדִבַּרְתִּי עִמְּךָ שָׁם וְאָצַלְתִּי מִן־הָרוּחַ אֲשֶׁר עָלֶיךָ וְשַׂמְתִּי עֲלֵיהֶם וְנָשְׂאוּ אִתְּךָ בְּמַשָּׂא הָעָם וְלֹא־תִשָּׂא אַתָּה לְבַדֶּךָ׃ 11.17. And I will come down and speak with thee there; and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone."
3. Plato, Timaeus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE) 41c. it is to be fully perfect. But if by my doing these creatures came into existence and partook of life, they would be made equal unto gods; in order, therefore, that they may be mortal and that this World-all may be truly All, do ye turn yourselves, as Nature directs, to the work of fashioning these living creatures, imitating the power showed by me in my generating of you. Now so much of them as it is proper to designate ’immortal,’ the part we call divine which rules supreme in those who are fain to follow justice always and yourselves, that part I will deliver unto you when I have sown it and given it origin.
4. Philo of Alexandria, On The Confusion of Tongues, 181, 179 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 179. Very appropriately therefore has God attributed the creation of this being, man, to his lieutets, saying, "Let us make man," in order that the successes of the intellect may be attributed to him alone, but the errors of the being thus created, to his subordinate power: for it did not appear to be suitable to the dignity of God, the ruler of the universe, to make the road to wickedness in a rational soul by his own agency; for which reason he has committed to those about him the creation of this portion of the universe; for it was necessary that the voluntary principle, as the counterpoise to the involuntary principle, should be established and made known, with a view to the completion and perfection of the universe. XXXVI.
5. Philo of Alexandria, On Flight And Finding, 71, 70 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE) 70. And he made us of the powers which were subordinate to him, not only for the reason which has been mentioned, but also because the soul of man alone was destined to receive notions of good and evil, and to choose one of the two, since it could not adopt both. Therefore, he thought it necessary to assign the origin of evil to other workmen than himself, --but to retain the generation of good for himself alone. XIV.
6. Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies, 4.89.6-90.1 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
7. Irenaeus, Refutation of All Heresies, None (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
8. Justin, First Apology, 26.4, 56.1 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
9. Justin, Dialogue With Trypho, 82.1, 113.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
10. Nag Hammadi, The Apocryphon of John, 4.23 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
11. Tatian, Oration To The Greeks, 25 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
12. Tertullian, On The Soul, 50 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
13. Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, 7.32.6 (3rd cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) 7.32.6. Anatolius was appointed his successor; one good man, as they say, following another. He also was an Alexandrian by birth. In learning and skill in Greek philosophy, such as arithmetic and geometry, astronomy, and dialectics in general, as well as in the theory of physics, he stood first among the ablest men of our time, and he was also at the head in rhetorical science. It is reported that for this reason he was requested by the citizens of Alexandria to establish there a school of Aristotelian philosophy.

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
adam	Dunderberg, Beyond Gnosticism: Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus (2008) 222
aristotelianism, as school	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 168
baptism	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 52
basilides	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 168, 170; Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 152
church, humanitys maturation in	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
church, ministry of scripture	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
death	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 52
ebionites	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 170
epicureanism, as school or sect	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 83
exegesis, in justin	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82
gnostic, gnosticism	Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 152
gnosticism, heresiological reduction and simplification of	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 170
gnosticism, succession and schools within	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 170
god, economic work	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
hairesis	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 83
hegesippus	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 170
heresy, novelty of	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82, 83
hermeneutical principles	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
holy spirit, agency of	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
homonymy, immortality	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 52
human being, creation of, adams creation	Dunderberg, Beyond Gnosticism: Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus (2008) 222
humanity, death	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
humanity, immortality	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
humanity, nature	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
humanity, nourishment	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
irenaeus, heresiological innovations	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 168, 170
irenaeus, other heresiological themes	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82, 83
irenaeus, polemical milieu of	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
irenaeus	Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 152
jewish people	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82
jewish succession	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82, 83
justin martyr	Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 152
knowledge and wisdom	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
magi, as part of heretical succession	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 168
magi, criticism as heresy	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82, 83
marcion	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
mark the magician	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 168
martyr, justin, use of greek models for heresy	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82, 83
menander	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82, 83, 168, 170; Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 152; Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 52
paradise, nourishment in	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
plato	Dunderberg, Beyond Gnosticism: Myth, Lifestyle, and Society in the School of Valentinus (2008) 219, 222
portrayal in acts, reception of	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 52
resurrection, as removal of ignorance about god	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 52
resurrection, as separation of body from soul	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 52
resurrection, competing definitions of	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 52
rousseau, a.	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 52
satorninos/saturnilus	Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 152
saturninus	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 168, 170
scriptures, as nourishment	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
serpent, agent of god	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
simon	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 52
simon magus	Corrigan and Rasimus, Gnosticism, Platonism and the Late Ancient World (2013) 152
simon of samaria	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82, 83, 168, 170
simonians (sect)	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 168
soul, definition of'	Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 52
succession, authentic succession	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82, 168
succession, heretical succession	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82, 83, 168, 170
succession, previous notions of	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82, 168
succession	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82, 83
tatian	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 83; Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
tree of knowledge, goodness of	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
tree of knowledge, scripture and	Graham, The Church as Paradise and the Way Therein: Early Christian Appropriation of Genesis 3:22–24 (2022) 128
valentinians	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 170; Mcglothlin, Resurrection as Salvation: Development and Conflict in Pre-Nicene Paulinism (2018) 52
διαδοχή	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82, 83, 168
διατριβή	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 83
διάδοχος	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82, 168
μαθήτης	Boulluec, The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries (2022) 82