Editing Simon Magus (section)

===Epiphanius===
Epiphanius writes that there were some Simonians still in existence in his day (c. AD 367), but he speaks of them as almost extinct. Gitta, he says, had sunk from a town into a village. Epiphanius further charges Simon with having tried to wrest the words of [[Saint Paul|St. Paul]] about the [[armour of God]]<ref>({{Bibleverse|Ephesians|6:14–16}})</ref> into agreement with his own identification of the {{Transliteration|grc|Ennoia}} with Athena. He tells us also that he gave [[barbaric name]]s to the "principalities and powers", and that he was the beginning of the Gnostics. The Law, according to him, was not of God, but of "the sinister power". The same was the case with the prophets, and it was death to believe in the Old Testament.<ref name=EB1911/>