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Chapter
VIII.—Simon Magus: His History.
“For after that John the Baptist was killed,
as you yourself also know, when Dositheus had broached his
heresy,606
| 606 [Comp. i. 54. In
Homily II. 23 Simon is said to be a follower of John the Baptist, one
of the thirty chief men: so Dositheus. Here Dositheus is
represented as the head of a separate sect; so in i. 54.—R.] | with thirty other chief disciples, and one
woman, who was called Luna607
| 607 [Called
“Helena” in the Homilies, and identified apparently
with Helen, the cause of the Trojan War.—R.] | —whence
also these thirty appear to have been appointed with reference to the
number of the days, according to the course of the moon—this
Simon ambitious of evil glory, as we have said, goes to Dositheus, and
pretending friendship, entreats him, that if any one of those thirty
should die, he should straightway substitute him in room of the
dead: for it was contrary to their rule either to exceed the
fixed number, or to admit any one who was unknown, or not yet proved;
whence also the rest, desiring to become worthy of the place and
number, are eager in every way to please, according to the institutions
of their sect each one of those who aspire after admittance into the
number, hoping that he may be deemed worthy to be put into the place of
the deceased, when, as we have said, any one dies. Therefore
Dositheus, being greatly urged by this man, introduced Simon when a
vacancy occurred among the number.”
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