30. Doleo bona fide, Platonem omnium haereticorum
condimentarium factum. Tertullian. de Anima, c. 23. Petavius
(Dogm. Theolog. tom. iii. proleg. 2) shows that this was a
general complaint. Beausobre (tom. i. 1. iii. c. 9, 10) has
deduced the Gnostic errors from Platonic principles; and as,
in the school of Alexandria, those principles were blended
with the Oriental philosophy (Brucker, tom. i. p. 1356), the
sentiment of Beausobre may be reconciled with the opinion of
Mosheim (General History of the Church, vol. i. p. 37).