Chapter II

, _supra_.

Footnote 23:

So Renan, _L’Antéchrist_, p. 300, says that the Synoptic Gospels probably first took shape in the Church at Pella. Thus he explains the so-called “little Apocalypse” of Matthew xxiv., Mark xiii., and Luke xxi. Cf. _ibid._, p. 296 and note. For the symbolic construction placed upon them by the Gnostics, see Hatch, _H. L._, p. 75.

Footnote 24:

Hegesippus, who probably wrote about 150 A.D., speaks of Thebuthis, Dositheus, and others as leaders of early sects. Eusebius, _Hist. Eccl._ Bk IV. c. 22, and Origen (_cont. Cels._ Bk VI. c. 11) make this last a contemporary of Simon Magus. The _Clementine Homilies_ (Bk II. c. 24), from whom both authors may have derived their information, have a long story about Dositheus being with Simon a follower of John the Baptist, and disputing with Simon the headship of the sect. From presumably other sources, Hegesippus speaks of the Essenes, the Masbothoeans and the Hemero-baptists, for which last see