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Irenaeus, Against Heresies I 23, 1-4; Tertullian, Against Heresies I 3-4, About the Soul 34, 57, About Idols 9,6; Hippolytus, Refutation of Heresies VI 2-18; and Epiphanius, Medicine Chest XXI.

Justin Martyr, Apology I, 26; Dialogue with Trypho 120.

Ferreiro, “Simon Magus,” p. 162

Ferreiro, “Simon Magus,” p. 160

Ferreiro, “Simon Magus,” n. 29.

See Alberto Ferreiro, “Simon Magus: The Patristic-Medieval Traditions and Historiography,” Apocrypha: Revue Internationale des Littératures Apocryphes 7 (1996), pp. 147-156; quotation from p. 156.

For an English translation of the Passion of Sts. Peter and Paul (or Ps-Linus), see The Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 8, pp. 477ff, under the title Acts of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.

Schneemelcher, New Testament Apocrypha, vol. 2, p. 535.

Pseudo-Clementine Homilies II, 16-17, in Wilhelm Schneemelcher, New Testament Apocrypha (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1992), vol. 2, pp. 535-536.

Quotations from the Acts of Peter (often abbreviated APt) are those of J.K. Elliott, The Apocryphal New Testament (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1993).