The Gnostic Gospels (34 page)

88.
Ibid.
, 58.31–61.2, in
NHL
295–296.

89.
Ibid.
, 63.9–14, in
NHL
297.

90.
Allogenes
52.8–12, in
NHL
446.

91.
Ibid.
, 50.19, in
NHL
445.

92.
Ibid.
, 52.15–21, in
NHL
446.

93.
Ibid.
, 53.36–37, in
NHL
447.

94.
Ibid.
, 55.31–57.34, in
NHL
447–448.

95.
Ibid.
, 59.9–37, in
NHL
449.

96.
Ibid.
, 60.13–18, in
NHL
449.

97.
Ibid.
, 60.37–61.8, in
NHL
449.

98.
Ibid.
, 61.14–16, in
NHL
440–450.

99.
Ibid.
, 61.29–31, in
NHL
450.

100.
Ibid.
, 64.16–23, in
NHL
451.

101.
Ibid.
, 67.23–35, in
NHL
451–452.

102.
Ibid.
, 68.18–19.

103.
Tertullian,
Adversus Valentinianos
1.

CONCLUSION

1.
Tertullian,
DE PRAESCR.
13.

2.
Gospel of Truth
17.10–11, in
NHL
38.

3.
Irenaeus,
AH
1.5.4.

4.
Gospel of Truth
16.1–18.34, in
NHL
37–38.

5.
Plotinus, “Against the Gnostics,”
Enneads
2.9.

6.
A. D. Nock, “Gnosticism,” in
Arthur Darby Nock: Essays on Religion and the Ancient World
, ed. Z. Stewart (Cambridge, 1972), Vol. 2, 943.

7.
Nock, “Gnosticism,” 942.

8.
Gospel of Thomas
41.27–30, in
NHL
123.

9.
Heracleon, Frag. 39, in Origen,
COMM. JO.
13.53.

10.
Gospel of Thomas
42.16–18, in
NHL
124.

11.
Testimony of Truth
68.8–12, in
NHL
414.

12.
Irenaeus,
AH
2.22.4.

13.
Ibid.
, 2.22.5–6.

14.
Gospel of Thomas
38.1–3, in
NHL
121.

15.
H. Koester, “The Structure of Early Christian Beliefs,” in
Trajectories Through Early Christianity
(Philadelphia, 1971), 231.

16.
Irenaeus,
AH
1.10.2.

17.
Luke 14:26.

18.
Mark 4:10–12,
par.

19.
Matthew 19:4–6,
par.

20.
Ibid.
, 19:13–15,
par.

21.
Mark 1:41, 3:3–5,
par.

22.
Luke 19:41–44.

23.
W. Blake, “The Everlasting Gospel,” 2a and g.

24.
F. Nietzsche,
The Antichrist.

25.
F. Dostoevsky, “The Grand Inquisitor,” in
The Brothers Karamazov
.

26.
Second Treatise of the Great Seth
61.20, in
NHL
334.

27.
A. D. Nock, “The Study of the History of Religion,” in
Arthur Darby Nock
, Vol. 1, 339.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

E
LAINE
P
AGELS
earned a B.A. in history and an M.A. in classical studies at Stanford, and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She is the author of
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent; The Origin of Satan
; and the
New York Times
bestseller
Beyond Belief
. She is currently the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University, and she lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with her husband and children.