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Valentinians meaning
plural of Valentinian
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As such, Valentinians already have less cause to treat physical reality with contempt than might a Sethian Gnostic.
M David Litwa, "The Wondrous Exchange: Irenaeus and Eastern Valentinians on the Soteriology of Interchange," Journal of Early Christian Studies p. 324-25.
This program met with some success, particularly among soldiers loyal to the Constantinians and eastern intellectuals who had already begun to feel persecuted by the Valentinians.
To some degree the texts discovered in Nag Hammadi support his allegations, but others such as the Valentinians and the Tripartite Tractate insist on the goodness of the world and the Demiurge.