A Vindication of Certain Passages in a Discourse On Occasion of the Death of Dr
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154. Valenlinus held, with itspect to the superangelic nature of Clu-ist, that he was one of the Mom ; and according to his genealogy, Christ and the Holy Spirit were the offspring of Monogeiies, which came from Logos and Zoe, as these were the oftspring of Noils and Veritas, ami these of Bylhus aud Sige. Ibid. P. 179. 46 LETTER IV. nor suffered, like other men, but only seemed to do so. These were called Docetae. This was the heresy of the apostolic age*. The apostle Paul alludes to it, when h...e cautions Timothy against the illusions of science, falsely so calledf : for the Gnos- tics pretended to superior knowledge : and when he warns him not to give heed to endless genealogies |, there being great disputes among the Gnostics con- cerning the pedigrees of the ^ons. The apostle John certainly refers to the Docetae, when he repre- sents those as Antichrists, who deny that Jesus is the Christy, or that Jesus Christ is come in the fleshU, or in other words, that he is a real man. The Gnostic heresy appears to have been silenced by the authority of the apostles, till the time of the Emperor Adrian, when it burst out again with in- creased violence, was embraced by luultitudes in Asia and Egypt, and was split into a great variety of subordinate sects**.
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