mentions a
publication by Irenaeus, "On Sovereignty, or on the Truth that _God is
not the Author of Evil_," and another by Maximus on "_The Origin of
Evil_." Euseb. v. 20, 27.

[431:3] Irenaeus, "Contra Haeres." lib. i. c. 24, Sec. 7.

[433:1] Irenaeus, lib. i. c. 24. According to Clemens Alexandrinus,
Basilides flourished in the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius.
"Stromata," lib. vii. Opera, p. 764.

[433:2] [Greek: Buthos kai ennoia, nous kai aletheia, logos kai zoe].

[433:3] According to some, Valentine was the disciple of Marcion.
Clemens Alexandrinus states that Marcion was his senior. "Strom." lib.
viii. Tertullian says expressly that Valentine was at one time the
disciple of Marcion. "De Carne Christi," c. 1.

[434:1] See Neander's "General History," by Torrey, ii. pp. 171, 174,
notes.

[434:2] See Kaye's "Clement of Alexandria," pp. 316, 317.

[435:1] The Ophites carried this feeling so far as to maintain that the
serpent which deceived Eve was no other than the divine Aeon Sophia, or
Wisdom, who thus weakened the power of Ialdabaoth, or the Demiurge.

[435:2] See Mosheim, "De Caussis Suppositorum Librorum inter Christianos
Saeculi Primi et Secundi." "Dissert, ad Hist. Eccl. Pertin." vol. i.
221.

[437:1] His great text was Rev. xx. 6, 7. Hence some now began to
dispute the authority of the Apocalypse.

[437:2] Others, who do not appear to have been connected with Montanus,
but who lived about the same time, held the same views on the subject of
marriage. Thus, Athenagoras says--"A second marriage is by us esteemed a
specious adultery."--_Apology_, Sec. 33.

[437:3] "Nam idem (Praxeas) tunc Episcopum Romanum, agnoscentem jam
prophetias Montani, Priseae, Maximillae, et ex ea agnitione pacem
ecclesiis Asiae et Phrygiae inferentem, falsa de ipsis prophetis et
ecclesiis eorum adseverando et praecessorum ejus auctoritates defendendo
coegit et litteras pacis revocare jam emissas et a proposito
recipiendorum charismatum concessare."--_Tertullian, Adv. Praxean._, c. i.

[438:1] Euseb. v. 16.

[438:2] It would appear, however, that it maintained a lingering
existence for several centuries. Even Justinian, about A.D. 530, enacts
laws against the Montanists or Tertullianists.

[438:3] Isaiah xlv. 5, 7.

[439:1] Augustin, "Contra Epist. Fundamenti," c. 13.

[439:2] On the ground that their oil is _the food of light_! Schaff's
"History of the Christian Church," p. 249.

[441:1] We find Tertullian,