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... still born from Mary (in the manner of gLuke). See http://historical-jesus.info/gospels.html then "find" on >> Basilides (120-140) << Cerdo might have been the very first complete Docetist. And of course Marcion was also a Docetist. So I gave an approximate date of 140 CE which could ...

... of Hegesippus's Chronicle that enjoyed widespread circulation. Irenaeus wanted Marcion to exist. He is takes the place of a shadowy figure called 'cerdo' (= fox) who is also known to near contemporary Jewish literature. The fox was crafty and crafty wisdom was 'fox wisdom' cerdaleophyon. Notice ...

... beside the Creator; they affirm that Christ was not in the substance of flesh; they say there is to be no resurrection of the flesh. Chapter VI.-Cerdo, Marcion, Lucan, Apelles. [1] To this is added one Cerdo. He introduces two first causes,68 that is, two Gods-one good, the other cruel:69 the ...

... us count Marcion as an apostle (how unless the two figures are one snd the same?). Then he's got multiple names (just like Saul/Paul), Marcion, Cerdo (obviously no predessessor but another name), Scythian. Why Cerdo, not sure. Marcion, little Mark, because Hypolytus thinks his gospel is a version ...

The clearest explanation of the name Cerdo is that is the most generic appellation. CERDO (κέρδων), a name applied to slaves or lower class of workmen (Juv. 4.153, 8.182; Pers. 4.51), sometimes with the additional name of the trade, as sutor ...

... parallel between Marcion and Marcellina both of whom derive their origins from Hegesippus ultimately. Behind Marcion stands the description of Cerdo, behind Marcellina Carpocras. It is odd the way when you go through all the sources both Marcion and Marcellina stand in the midst of a largest ...

... author. Reproduced is Epiph's own treatise on Marcion’s canon, from which he gives a number of quotations. Epiph takes reports of Marcion's and Cerdo's teachings as interchangeable, since he regards the latter as Marcion's master. The earliest mention of Marcion is found at Justin Apol. 1.26.5. ...

... seized with jealousy since he could not obtain high rank besides entry into the church, he reflected and took refuge in the sect of that fraud, Cerdo. And he began—at the very beginning, as it were, and as though at the starting-point of the questions at issue—to put this question to the elders ...

... he is really "eighth.' We read in Wace "In the place already cited from the first book of Irenaeus, in which he speaks of the coming of Cerdo to Rome, all the MSS. agree in describing Hyginus as the ninth bishop from the apostles; and this reading is confirmed by Eusebius (H. E. iv. ...

... ? or other texts [as well]? A search for 'Marcion' in Irenaeus's Against Heresies produced the following - Against Heresies Book I, Chapter 27 1. Cerdo was one who took his system from the followers of Simon, and came to live at Rome in the time of Hyginus, who held the ninth place in the episcopal ...