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en-wikipedia-org-2747		Gnosticism - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	18785	2469	64	According to Clement of Alexandria, the disciples of Valentinus said that Valentinus was a student of a certain Theudas, who was a student of Paul,[85] and Elaine Pagels notes that Paul's epistles were interpreted by Valentinus in a gnostic way, and Paul could be considered a proto-gnostic as well as a proto-Catholic.[64] Many Nag Hammadi texts, including, for example, the Prayer of Paul and the Coptic Apocalypse of Paul, consider Paul to be "the great apostle".[85] The fact that he claimed to have received his gospel directly by revelation from God appealed to the gnostics, who claimed gnosis from the risen Christ.[86] The Naassenes, Cainites, and Valentinians referred to Paul's epistles.[87] Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy have expanded upon this idea of Paul as a gnostic teacher;[88] although their premise that Jesus was invented by early Christians based on an alleged Greco-Roman mystery cult has been dismissed by scholars.[89][note 22] However, his revelation was different from the gnostic revelations.[90]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2747.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2747.txt