Re: RI January 2025

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