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AGAINST THE PROTESTANT GNOSTICS This page intentionally left blank AGAINST THE PROTESTANT GNOSTICS Philip J. Lee OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS New York Oxford To Roberta Oxford University Press Oxford New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Kuala Lumpur Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi Dar es Salaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland Madrid and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 1987 by Oxford University Press First published in 1987 by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016-4314 First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1993. Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-m-Publication Data Lee, PhilipJ. Against the Protestant Gnostics. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Gnosticism. 2. Protestantism—20th century. I. Title. BT1390.L35 1986 280'.4 85-48304 ISBN 0-19-504067-8 ISBN 0-19-508436-5 (PBK.) Scripture quotations are from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible (Toronto: Canadian Bible Society, 1952, 1971) unless otherwise indicated. Quotations from Irenaeus, Against Heresies, are from the translation edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson in The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325, American Edition, Vol. 1: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus, revised and arranged by A. Cleveland Coxe (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1977), except when other translations are indicated.
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