The Gnostic Gospels (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)

CHAPTER FIVE

1. For excellent discussions of gnostic polemic against orthodox Christianity, see K. Koschorke, Die Polemik der Gnostiker gegen das kirchliche Christentum (Leiden, 1978); P. Perkins, “The Gnostic Revelation: Dialogue as Religious Polemic,” in W. Haase, Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischer Welt II.22 (Berlin/New York, 1980); also P. Perkins, The Gnostic Dialogue (New York, 1980).

2. Second Treatise of the Great Seth 59.22–29, in NHL 333–334. For analysis, see J. A. Gibbons, A Commentary on “The Second Logos of the Great Seth” (New Haven, 1972).

3. Ibid., 60.21–25, in NHL 334.

4. Ibid., 53.27–33, in NHL 331.

5. Ibid., 61.20, in NHL 334.

6. Apocalypse of Peter 74.16–22, in NHL 341.

7. Ibid., 74.24–77.28, in NHL 341–342.

8. Ibid., 76.27–34, in NHL 342.

9. Ibid., 79.28–29, in NHL 343.

10. Testimony of Truth 31.24–32.2, in NHL 407.

11. Authoritative Teaching 26.20–21, in NHL 280.

12. Ibid., 32.18–19, in NHL 282.

13. Gospel of Philip 64.23–24, in NHL 139.

14. Ignatius, Smyrneans 8.1–2.

15. Ibid.,8.2.

16. Trallians 3.1.

17. Irenaeus, AH 4.33.8.

18. Loc. cit.

19. Ibid., 3.4.1.

20. Ibid., 3.15.2.

21. Ibid., 5, Praefatio.

22. Apocalypse of Peter 70.24–71.4, in NHL 340.

23. Ibid., 71.20–21, in NHL 340.

24. Ibid., 79.1–4, in NHL 343.

25. Second Treatise of the Great Seth 67.32–68.9, in NHL 337.

26. Ibid., 67.2–5, in NHL 336.

27. Ibid., 70.9, in NHL 338.

28. C. Andresen, Die Kirche der alten Christenheit (Stuttgart, 1971), 100 ff.; see also Jonas, Gnosis und spätantiker Geist (Göttingen, 1964), “Solipcismus und Brüderethik,” I.171–172.

29. Hippolytus, REF 9.7.

30. Ibid., 9.12.

31. Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos 4.

32. Tertullian, DE PRAESCR. 13.

33. Ibid., 38.

34. Ibid., 44.

35. Tertullian, De Pudicitia 21.

36. Testimony of Truth 73.18–22, in NHL 415.

37. Ibid., 69.9–10, in NHL 414.

38. Ibid., 69.18, in NHL 414.

39. Ibid., 44.30–45.4, in NHL 411. Emphasis added.

40. Ibid., 69.22–24, in NHL 414.

41. Ibid., 68.8–12, in NHL 414.

42. Authoritative Teaching 22.19 (passim), in NHL 278 ff.

43. Ibid., 23.13–14, in NHL 279.

44. Ibid., 34.19, in NHL 283.

45. Ibid., 344, in NHL 282.

46. Ibid., 34.12–13, in NHL 282.

47. Ibid., 33.4–5, in NHL 282.

48. Ibid., 34.20–23, in NHL 283.

49. Ibid., 22.28–34, in NHL 278.

50. Ibid., 34.32–35.16, in NHL 283.

51. Ibid., 33.4–34.9, in NHL 282.

52. Ibid., 33.16–17, in NHL 282.

53. Ibid., 32.30–33.3, in NHL 282.

54. Ibid., 32.30–32, in NHL 282.

55. Ibid., 27.6–15, in NHL 280.

56. Tertullian, DE PRAESCR. 7.

57. Ibid., 41.

58. Ibid., 8–11.

59. Ibid., H.

60. Irenaeus, AH 2.27.2.

61. Clemens Alexandrinus, EXCERPTA 4.1.

62. Ibid., 41.2.

63. Ibid., 24.1–2

64. Heracleon, Frag. 37–38, in Origen, COMM. JO. 13.51–13.53.

65. Irenaeus, AH 1.8.3–4.

66. Heracleon, Frag. 13, in Origen, COMM. JO. 10.33. For discussion, see E. Pagels, The Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis (Nashville, 1973), 66–74.

67. Interpretation of Knowledge 5.33, in NHL 429.

68. Ibid., 6.33–38, in NHL 429.

69. For discussion, see Koschorke, op. cit., 69–71; Koschorke, “Eine neugefundene gnostische Gemeindeordnung,” in Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche 76.1 (February 1979), 30–60; J. Turner and E. Pagels, introduction to Interpretation of Knowledge (CG XI, 1) in Nag Hammadi Studies (Leiden, 1980).

70. I Corinthians 12:14–21.

71. Interpretation of Knowledge 18.28–34, in NHL 433.

72. Ibid., 15.35–17.27, in NHL 432–433.

73. Ibid., 18.24–25, in NHL 433.