Opposed by Irenaeus, Tertullian, others.Ĩ. was not the false god of wrath of the O.T. The most notorious of the Gnostics, he rejected all of the Bible except parts of Luke and Paul said that the true God of the N.T. His famous, humble martydom was written about in The Martyrdom of Polycarp by the Church of Smyrna.ħ. Wrote an Epistle to Philippians in Greek. Bishop of Smyrna, knew the Apostle John, friend of Papias. Only fragments of his writings remain his main work was An Exposition of the Oracles of Our Lord in Greek.Ħ. A Bishop and friend of Polycarp, lived in Hierapolis, Asia Minor, and possibly a friend of the Apostle John. Wrote The Shepherd,an allegory that some considered to be Scripture.ĥ. Was a Christian slave who was freed, lived in Rome. Some say that the Apostle John wrote his Gospel and/or epistles to counter Cerinthus.Ĥ. He taught that the world was created by a lesser god (the ‘Demiurge’) Jesus was a mere man who was exalted by receiving ‘the Christ’ at his Baptism but lost it just before the Crucifixion. One of the earliest Gnostic heretics (some say Simon Magus of Acts 8 was the first). Famous for his eager willingness to accept martyrdom.ģ. Wrote seven epistles: To Ephesians, To Magnesians, To Romans, To Philadelphians, To Smyrnans, To Trallesians, and to Polycarp, in Greek. Lived in Rome, where he was Bishop, considered the fourth Pope by Romanism.
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