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where is there an indication that Cerdo defined Two Powers? See above. Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.27.1-2: 1. Cerdo was one who took his system from the followers of Simon, and came to live at Rome in the time of Hyginus {c.140 AD}, who ...

The Wikipedia disambiguation page for Cerdo lists Kedron of Alexandria, aka Kedronos, the 4th Patriarch of Alexandria. He was said to have been among those who had been baptized by Saint Mark; and to have been arrested and martyred in the persecution ...

fwiw, modified from Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerdo_(mythology): In Greek mythology, Cerdo ( Ancient Greek: Κερδοῦς ) was the nymph- wife of King Phoroneus of Argos and mother of Apis , a king of Argos,* and of Niobe . Otherwise, the consort ...

... Since Jesus' rival Simon Magus called himself μεγάλη δύναμις (Great Power)' his descendant Cerdo's definition of Two Powers, and clarification of a "Higher Power," is most interesting to me ... . . . where is there an indication that Cerdo defined Two Powers? ...

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.27.1-2: 1. Cerdo was one who took his system from the followers of Simon, and came to live at Rome in the time of Hyginus {c.140 AD}, who held the ninth place in the episcopal succession from the apostles downwards. ...

Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.27.1-2: 1. Cerdo was one who took his system from the followers of Simon, and came to live at Rome in the time of Hyginus {c.140 AD}, who held the ninth place in the episcopal succession from the apostles downwards. ...

Cerdo's arrival at Rome has been placed as early as AD 135. Eusebius in his Chronicle ( Schöne , i. 168) places it under the last year of Hadrian, AD 137; Jerome substitutes a date three years later. So, likewise, Theodoret ...

... - Could you cite where Klinghardt makes this particular argument in the Oldest Gospel? Thanks If the remarks about Marcion's connection to Cerdo apply (no further elaboration needed here), it is quite plausible that under his influence Marcion's theology developed, and that he was made ...

... καρποὺς πονηροὺς ποιεῖν» καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς, εἰς τοῦτο φάσκων εἰρῆσθαι <ταῦτα>, τὰ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ κακῶς νοθευόμενα. / Wherefore also they [the Marcionites and Cerdonites] thus employ the evangelical parables, saying, A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, and the rest of the passage. Now Marcion alleges ...

... that current of Gnostic teaching of which the fountainhead was Simon , the Great One (perhaps originally only the Rabbi) of that land. Cerinthus, Cerdo, and Carpocrates taught that Jesus was son of Josep h and Mary. (Edwin Johnson, Antiqua Mater , p. 259, my bold) So the more economical scenario ...