The Basilidians or Basilideans were a Gnostic sect founded by Basilides of Alexandria in the 2nd century. Basilides claimed to have been taught his doctrines by Glaucias, a disciple of St. Peter, thou
Fra Angelico's Baptism of Christ. Sonship, or divine filiation, is the condition of being a child of God.
In the account given by Irenaeus, but contradicted by Hippolytus, it was Simon of Cyrene who was crucified in Jesus' stead.
Against Heresies is a work of Christian theology written in Greek by Irenaeus, the bishop of Lugdunum. Due to its reference to Eleutherus as the current bishop of Rome, the work is usually dated c. 18
P. Oxyrhynchus 405 – fragment of Against Heresies from c. 200 AD