These are indeed dismissed in 'Supernatural Religion' as 'unsupported references.' But we may well ask, what support they need.

The references are made in evident good faith.

He says, for instance [Endnote 302:4], that Heracleon's exegesis of John i.

3, 'All things were made by Him,' excluding from this the world and its contents, is very forced and without authority.

Again, he has misinterpreted John i.