According to some biblical scholars, the findings at Nag Hammadi have shown Irenaeus ' description of Gnosticism to be largely inaccurate and polemic in nature.

According to Irenaeus, the high point in salvation history is the advent of Jesus.

According to Irenaeus, Christ, being born out of the Virgin Mary, created a totally new historical situation.

According to Irenaeus, Polycarp was a companion of Papias, another " hearer of John " as Irenaeus interprets Papias ' testimony, and a correspondent of Ignatius of Antioch.

According to Irenaeus, during the time his fellow Syrian, Anicetus, was Bishop of Rome, in the 150s or 160, Polycarp visited Rome to discuss the differences that existed between Asia and Rome " with regard to certain things " and especially about the time of the Easter festivals.

According to Irenaeus, it was during his pontificate that the aged Polycarp of Smyrna, a disciple of John the Evangelist, visited Rome to discuss the celebration of Passover with Anicetus.

According to Irenaeus, the Judaistic Ebionites charged less than one hundred years after the Apostles that the Christians overruled the authority of Scripture by failing to keep the Mosaic Law ( see also Biblical law in Christianity ).

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, Melito was a Chiliast, and believed in a Millennial reign of Christ on Earth, and followed Irenaeus in his views.

According to Irenaeus the Aeon Autogenes emits the true and perfect Anthrôpos, also called Adamas ; he has a helpmate, " Perfect Knowledge ", and receives an irresistible force, so that all things rest in him.

According to Irenaeus, Polycarp told the story that John the Apostle, in particular, is said to have so detested Cerinthus that he once fled a bathhouse when he found out Cerinthus was inside, yelling " Let us flee, lest the building fall down ; for Cerinthus, the enemy of the truth, is inside!

According to Hippolytus, Basilides was apparently a pantheistic evolutionist ; and according to Irenaeus, a dualist and an emanationist.

According to the writings of Irenaeus ( d. c. 202 ), the Roman church had celebrated Easter on a Sunday at least since the time of Bishop Xystus ( Sixtus I, 115 – 125 ).

According to Hippolytus, Basilides was apparently a pantheistic evolutionist ; and according to Irenaeus, a dualist and an emanationist.

According to both Hippolytus and Irenaeus, the Basilidians denied that the God of the Jews was the supreme God.

According to Irenaeus, the Basilidians believed the God of the Jews was inferior to the 365 sets of Archons above him, as well as the powers, principalities, Dynamis and Sophia, Phronesis, Logos, Nûs, and finally the Unbegotten Father.

According to Frederik Wisse ( 1981 ) all subsequent accounts appear to be largely dependent on Irenaeus.

According to Irenaeus, the Valentinians believed that at the beginning there was a Pleroma, also known as the ‘ fullness ’.

According to it the Gallican Rite was referred to an original brought to Lyon from Ephesus by St. Pothinus and St. Irenaeus, who had received it through St. Polycarp from St. John the Divine.

According to Irenaeus, Papias was " a hearer of John and a companion of Polycarp, a man of primitive times ," who wrote a volume in " five books.

According to Pausanias, writing in the 2nd century AD, the term ' Achaean ' was originally given to those Greeks inhabiting the Argolis and Laconia.

According to this theory, the anonymous author attributed these events to Daniel, as prophecies that were witnessed by this writer in the 2nd century BCE.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd ed.

Papias does not identify his Matthew, but by the end of the 2nd century the tradition of Matthew the tax-collector had become widely accepted, and the line " The Gospel According to Matthew " began to be added to manuscripts.

According to scholar Ronald Cameron, it was originally composed some time between the middle of the 1st century and early in the 2nd century, and it was probably written shortly before the Gospel of John.

According to Pausanias ( 2nd century AD ), the torch relay, called lampadedromia or lampadephoria, was first instituted at Athens in honor of Prometheus.

According to the Ease of Doing Business ranking 2012, Thailand ranks 17th in the world and 2nd in Southeast Asia-after Singapore.

According to Jain Agams, it is the 2nd eternal city after Shikharji, which never vanishes or disappears during change of eras.

According to an ESRI report published in December 2006 is the 22nd best out of the 26 richest countries in terms of the level of its child poverty ; and the 2nd most unequal country in Europe.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed.

According to the commander of the 2nd battalion 116th RCT the tanks "... saved the day.

According to the Association for University Technology Managers, Louisiana Tech is ranked as the nation's 2nd best academic institution for innovation productivity as measured by number of new inventions generated per research dollar expended.

According to Klaus Klostermaier, it is clearly a phallic object, and dates to the 2nd century BC.

According to Lucian of Samosata in the later 2nd century, " they have laid hands on your person at Olympia, my lord High-Thunderer, and you had not the energy to wake the dogs or call in the neighbours ; surely they might have come to the rescue and caught the fellows before they had finished packing up the statue.

According to Pausanias in the later 2nd century AD, there were three original Muses: Aoidē (" song " or " voice "), Meletē (" practice " or " occasion "), and Mnēmē (" memory ").

According to a view that has featured prominently in Western theology since early in the 2nd millennium, God's justice required an atonement for sin from humanity if human beings were to be restored to their place in creation and saved from damnation.

According to the magazine L ' Etudiant, the ECP is ranked 2nd in the top-list of French engineering schools, ahead of more than 200.

According to Gnaeus Gellius ( late 2nd century BC ), Angitia was one of the three daughters of Aeëtes, along with Medea and Circe, two of the most famed sorceresses of Greek myth.

According to her website and Facebook, she will start her Mirror Ball Tour on September 2nd in Sitges ( Spain ) and after that dates in Australia.

According to the FAA, the airfield is publicly owned by the City of Park Rapids and has a physical address of 212 W. 2nd St., Park Rapids, MN 56470.

According to the 2011 Global Go To Think Tank Index, Cato is the 6th most influential US based think tank, ranking 3rd in Economic Policy and 2nd in Social Policy.

According to MENSA International, Bulgaria ranks 2nd in the world in Mensa IQ test-scores and its students rate second in the world in SAT scores.

According to the ancient geographer Ptolemy, writing in the 2nd century AD, Dunium was the main settlement of the Durotriges.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary ( 2nd Edition, 1989 ), empiric is derived from the ancient Greek for experience,, which is ultimately derived from " in " + " trial, experiment ".