Chapter XIII: Part III: The Lost Pauline Gospels (4)

500 The cuneiform text in Lenormant, Textes cuneiformes inédits, No. 30.
The translation in Lenormant: Les premières civilizations, 1. pp.
87‐89.

501 Clem. Alex. Stromata, i. f. 304; iii. f. 438; vii. f. 722.

502 Rom. vii. 17.

503 Iren. Haeres. i. 25.

504 Compare Rom. iii. 20. Epiphanes died at the age of seventeen.
Epiphan. Haeres. xxxii. 3.

505 Epiphan. xxxii. 4.

506 Clem. Strom. iii. fol. 526.

507 It is instructive to mark how the enunciation of the same principles
led to the same results after the lapse of twelve centuries. The
proclamation of free grace, emancipation from the Law, justification
by faith only, in the sixteenth century quickened into being
heresies which had lain dead through long ages. Bishop Barlow, the
Anglican Reformer, and one of the compilers of our Prayer‐book, thus
describes the results of the enunciation of these doctrines in
Germany and Switzerland, results of which he was an eye‐witness:
“There be some which hold opinion that all devils and damned souls
shall be saved at the day of doom. Some of them persuade themselves
that _the serpent which deceived Eve was Christ_. Some of them grant
to every man and woman two souls. Some affirm lechery to be no sin,
and that one may use another man’s wife without offence. Some take
upon them to be soothsayers and prophets of wonderful things to
come, and have prophesied the day of judgment to be at hand, some
within three months, some within one month, some within six days.
Some of them, both men and women, at their congregations for a
mystery show themselves naked, affirming that they be in the state
of innocence. Also, some hold that no man ought to be punished or
suffer execution for any crime or trespass, be it ever so horrible”
(A Dyalogue describing the orygynall ground of these Lutheran
faccyons, 1531). We are in presence once more of Marcosians,
Ophites, Carpocratians. Had these sects lingered on through twelve
centuries? Possibly only; but it is clear that the dissemination of
the same doctrines caused the production of these obscene sects by
inevitable logical necessity, whether an historical filiation be
established or not.

508 Matt. xvi. 21, 22; Mark vii. 31.

509 Ideas reproduce themselves singularly. There is an essay by De
Quincy advocating the same view of the character and purpose of
Judas.

510 Epiphan. Haeres. xxxviii. 1.

511 Iren. Adv. Haeres. i. 31.

512 Etudes, p. 176.

513 Epiphan. Haeres. xxxviii. 2.

514 2 Cor. xii. 4.

515 Reprinted in the Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record,
p. 372.