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Marcion (of Sinope) is supposed to have been influenced by Cerdo who, in turn, was supposed to have been influenced by Simon Magus (allegedly baptised by Phillip the baptist and supposedly mentioned as having a confrontation with Peter in Acts). Simon ...

... worked successfully after him in the same areas, was Saturninus .\15/ His contemporary and coreligionist in these regions was the Syrian gnostic Cerdo ,\16/ whom we later encounter in Rome as a man of such importance that he was even able to exercise some influence over the already mature Marcion. ...

... & Clement; Ammonius; Gregory Theologus and Cyril No mention of Jesus !! but 4 uses of 'Christ' Marcion of Sinope (c. 85 – c. 160) taught by Cerdo? (in Rome ?) Melito of Sardis (d. 180) - [wiki]Melito's canon[/wiki]; & Fragments of Melito of Sardis, the philosopher Polycrates_of_Ephesus ...

... congregations and teach the Christian gospel in its Marcionite version. According to anti-Marcionite sources, Marcion's teacher was the Simonian Cerdo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcion_of_Sinope Cerdo - a Syrian gnostic who was deemed a heretic by the Orthodox Church around the time of his ...

... Magus" or "Simon the Samaritan" or "Simon and Cerinthus" or "Simon and Cleobius" or 'Simon, who taught Cerdo, who taught Marcion' or 'Simon, who taught Marcion' (or indeed "Simon the Cyrenian") point to this Simon (certainly, at the very least, ...

To Peter, You wrote: Adv. Haer., 1.27.1 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 succession from the apostles downwards. He taught ...

For some more of the context, Irenaeus attributes the origin of this doctrine to Simon. He also claims that Cerdo learned his doctrines from Simon's followers and claims that Marcion learned his doctrines from Cerdo. He says that Marcion had some of his own inventions, but the ...

... One: 1. Simon the Samaritan was that magician of whom Luke, the disciple and follower of the apostles, says, 2. Marcion of Pontus succeeded him (Cerdo), and developed his doctrine. In so doing, he advanced the most daring blasphemy against Him who is proclaimed as God by the law and the prophets, ...

40. Marcion used a pre-existent antitheses from Matt 5.38 - 48 for his theology Marcion did not create his system himself. Before him, Cerdo, according to Theodoret's account (Hceret. fabulce, i. 24), proved by the Gospels that the just God of the old covenant and the good God of the new ...

More references in Epiphanius.

Cerdo - "The fool says that both the Law and the prophets belong to the inferior, contrary principle (τῆς φαύλης καὶ ἐναντίας εἶναι ἀρχῆς), but that Christ belongs to the good one."