Chapter XXXIV: Section IX: Reflections Upon Gnosticism (5)

687 Tertull. _de Resur. Carnis_, 2, states this as the opinion of
Valentinus, and _de Carne Christi_, 15. In the fragment, (Clem.
Alex. _Strom._ III. 7. § 59,) Valentinus says that Jesus attained to
divinity by his purity; which was such that his food did not corrupt
within him.

688 I. vii. 2.

689 Ibid. 1.

690 _De Præscr._ 38.

691 Matt. xi. 27. See IV. vi. 1. But his followers preferred the Gospel
of St. John (III. xi. 7), and some of them forged what they called
the _Gospel of the Truth_. Ibid. 9.

692 _De Præscr._ 30.

693 I. i. 3. iii. viii.

694 _Strom._ II. 8. § 36. 20. § 114. III. 7. § 59. IV. 13. § 91. VI. 6.
§ 52.

695 Ibid. II. 20. § 114.

696 I. Præf. 2.

697 Epiphan. _Hær._ xxxi. 1.

698 I. xi. 2.

699 Clem. Alex. _Strom._ III. ii. § 5.

700 See Massuet, _Diss. Præv._ I. § 80.

701 Epiphan. xxxi. 1. xxxii. 3. Theodoret. _Hær. Fab._ I. 5.

702 Ibid.

703 I. xi. 3.

704 I. Præf. 2. viii. 5.

705 _Hær._ xxxiii. 1. Ὁ Πτολεμαῖος καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ. The passage he
quotes is I. xii. 1.

706 _Hær._ xxxv. 1.

707 _Hær. Fab._ I. 12.

708 I. xii. 3.

709 I. xiii. 1. Magistri emendatorem se esse glorians.

710 _Adv. Valent._ 4.

711 I. xiii. 5. See p. 202, note 9.

712 Ibid.

713 I. xiv. 1.

714 Ibid.

715 I. xv. 3.

716 I. xiii. 3.

717 I. xiii. 2.

718 Ibid. 3.

719 I. xiii. 5. See p. 202, note 9.

720 Ibid. 6.

721 Ibid. 5. 7.

722 I. xxi. 1.

723 Ibid. 2.

724 Ibid. 1.

725 Ibid. 2.

726 Ibid. 1.

727 Ibid. 3.

728 I. xxi. 4.

729 Ibid. 5.

730 Irenæus (I. xxviii. 1) expressly says that they thought marriage to
be pollution and whoredom, and (xxiv. 2) that it and its natural
consequences were from Satan.

731 I. vi. 1, 2.

732 I. v. 2.

733 I. vi. 4. III. xv. 2.

734 I. vi. 1.

735 I. vi. 1.

736 I. vi. 2, 4.

737 I. vii. 1.

738 I. xxv. 5.

739 I. vi. 2.

740 _Strom._ II. 20. § 114.

741 I. xiii. 2.

742 I. xxv. 6.

743 III. ii. 1.