Chapter 5
BOOK II. EARLY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
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Foreword 337
13. The Book of Enoch 340
14. Philo Judaeus 348
15. The Gnostics 360
16. The Christian Apocrypha 385
17. The Recognitions of Clement and Simon Magus . 400
18. The Confession of Cyprian and Some Similar Stories 428
19. Origen and Celsus 436
20. Other Christian Discussion of Magic Before Augus-
tine 462
21. Christianity and Natural Science: Basil, Epipha-
Nius, and the Physiologus 480
22. Augustine on Magic and Astrology 504
23. The Fusion of Pagan and Christian Thought in
the Fourth and Fifth Centuries 523
