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Heracleonite
Heracleonite He*rac"le*on*ite, n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Heracleon of Alexandria, a Judaizing Gnostic, in the early history of the Christian church.

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- Heracleon was a Gnostic who flourished about AD 175, probably in the south of Italy. He is the author of the earliest known commentary on a book that...
- voluminous writings by Christian heresiologists. Notable Valentinians included Heracleon, Ptolemy, Florinus, Marcus and Axionicus. Valentinus professed to have...
- middle region, above the heavens and below the Pleroma. The Valentinian Heracleon interpreted the devil as the principle of evil, that of hyle (matter)...
- On Righteousness, mentioned in Clement of Alexandria (Str. III, ii). Heracleon, Fragments from his Commentary on the Gospel of John, mentioned in Origen...
- presents individual teachers such as Simon, Valentinus, Secundus, Ptolemy, Heracleon, Marcus and Colorbasus. Tertullian (c. 155 – c. 230) from Carthage wrote...
- Pleroma or spiritual counterpart (to pleroma autes of the Samaritan woman,—Heracleon, ap. Origen, xiii. p. 205). It thus expressed the various thoughts which...
- fragments of Heracleon (ap. Origen. in Joann. tom. x. 19). The name Achamoth, on the other hand, is wanting both in Hippolytus and in Heracleon. One school...
- also to re****e the interpretations of the Valentinian Gnostic teacher Heracleon, who had used the Gospel of John to support his argument that there were...
- school who especially treasure the Fourth Gospel – namely Ptolemy and Heracleon (Hillolytus Ref. 6. 35)? To be sure, Justin's disciple Tatian placed the...
- Athenagoras of Athens (c. 133 – c. 190) Dionysius of Corinth (fl. c. 171) Heracleon (fl. c. 175) Apollinaris Claudius (fl. c. 177) Ptolemy (fl. c. 180) Pantaenus...