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	Origen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In his commentary on John he constantly considered the exegesis of the Valentinian Heracleon (probably at the instance of Ambrose), and in many other places he implied or expressly cited Gnostic views and refuted them.
		In his attempt to amalgamate the system evolved by Greek thought with Christianity, Origen found his predecessors in the Platonizing Philo of Alexandria and even in the Gnostics.
		His exegesis does not differ generally from that of Heracleon, but in the canon of the New Testament and in the tradition of the Church, Origen possessed a check which kept him from the excesses of Gnostic exegesis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Origen (4921 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnosticism
		But the most important were Ptolemy and Heracleon.
		Origen devotes a large part of his commentary on St. John to combating Heracleon's commentary on the same Evangelist.
		Heracleon called the source of all being Anthropos, instead of Bythos, and rejected the immortality of the soul -- meaning, probably, the merely psychic element.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06592a.htm (10663 words)

	The Development of the Canon of the New Testament - Origen
		The first is a report of its use by Heracleon, the Valentinian:
		Now there is much to adduce from the words quoted by Heracleon from the so-called Preaching of Peter, and regarding them inquiry has to be made concerning the book, whether it is genuine or not genuine or mixed.
		But for that very reason we would willingly pass it by and merely refer to the fact that it states that Peter taught: (God) should not be worshipped in the manner of the Greeks, who take material things and serve sticks and stones.
	www.ntcanon.org /Origen.shtml (1934 words)

	Origen of Alexandria [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Foremost among these sects was the group of schools loosely labelled 'gnostic.' The Valentinian school (founded by Valentinus, an outstanding teacher and philosopher who was at one point a candidate for bishop of Rome) was the most philosophically accomplished of the Christian Gnostic sects.
		In his Commentary on John, Origen refutes the doctrines of a Valentinian Gnostic named Heracleon, who had earlier written a commentary on the same Gospel.
		While Origen's opposition to Gnosticism precluded any doctrinal influence, he saw in Gnosticism the value of a system, for it was precisely by virtue of their elaborate and self-consistent systems that the Gnostics were successful in gaining adherents.
	www.iep.utm.edu /o/origen.htm (5005 words)

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