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When Irenaeus described teachers such as Basilides as ‘Gnostics’, he was identifying as their defining characteristic their claim to be better informed than everyone else. ‘Tradition they scorn, insisting that they know things that neither the elders of the Church knew, nor even the apostles – for they alone have identified the unadulterated truth.’
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
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