1313.) This Gnostic practice has a singular affinity with the private worship of Alexander Severus, (Lampridius, c.29.Lardner, Heathen Testimonies, vol.iii.p.

34.)] [Footnote 4: See this History, vol.ii.p.

261; vol.ii.p.

434; vol.
iii.p.

158-163.] [Footnote 5: (Concilium Nicenum, ii.