76, 140, 37a:--27.
[528] P.117.
[529] Traditional Text, p.

113, where the references are given.
[530] Who quoted Arius' words:--'Subsistit ante tempora et aeones _plenus Deus, unigenitus,_ et immutabilis.' But I cannot yet find Tischendorf's reference.
[531] The reading [Greek: Huios] is established by unanswerable evidence.
[532] The Gnostics Basilides and Valentinus were the direct precursors of Apolonius, Photinus, Nestorius, &c., in assailing the Catholic doctrine of the Incarnation.

Their heresy must have been actively at work when St.John wrote his first (iv.

1, 2, 3) and second (ver.

7) Epistles.
[533] Rev.xxii.