Essential Insights on Julius Cassianus: A Critical Overview

Chapter 1

1 The first of these was entitled Exegetica. We learn from Clement that the first book of this dealt with the age of Moses. The title of the second work was Concerning Abstinence or Eunuchry. Two passages which Clement quotes from this work reject all sexual intercourse, and a third makes use of the Gnostic Gospel of the Egyptians. On account of his Docetism, Clement associates him with Valentinus and Marcion. It would appear that Julius Cassianus taught in Egypt about the year 170 A.D. The passage from Clement of Alexandria is linked above. Some Contemporary Texts are Dialogue Between John and Jesus, Tatian’s Address to the Greeks, Claudius Apollinaris, Apelles, Julius Cassianus, Octavius of Minucius Felix, Acts of Carpus, Melito of Sardis, and Hegesippus.