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  • Re: RI January 2025

    From The Horny Goat@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Jun 23 16:54:02 2025
    On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:46:47 -0800, Paul S Person
    <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

    As to Simon Magus, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Magus> notes
    that the Early Fathers did attribute Gnosticism to him but modern
    scholars are divided on whether he actually was a Gnostic or was
    merely regarded as one by the Church Fathers. All of whom, since Simon
    Magus and Peter the Apostle were contemporaries, were writing a
    century or two after he died.

    That's what I remembered and I was therefore mystified by how Simon
    Magus could still be around in the time of Marcus Aurelius.

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@3:633/280.2 to All on Wed Jun 25 01:33:08 2025
    Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com



    On 6/22/25 23:54, The Horny Goat wrote:
    On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:46:47 -0800, Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

    As to Simon Magus, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Magus> notes
    that the Early Fathers did attribute Gnosticism to him but modern
    scholars are divided on whether he actually was a Gnostic or was
    merely regarded as one by the Church Fathers. All of whom, since Simon
    Magus and Peter the Apostle were contemporaries, were writing a
    century or two after he died.

    That's what I remembered and I was therefore mystified by how Simon
    Magus could still be around in the time of Marcus Aurelius.

    Different persons may have the same name especially when a adequate number of years come between the first and the next.

    bliss


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