Marcion
and Valentinus are roughly lumped together as types of gnostic
dualism. On the distinction between their systems see Dr.
Salmon in D.C.B. iii. 820. Marcion, said to have been
the son of a bishop of Sinope, is the most Christian of the
gnostics, and “tries to fit in his dualism with the Christian
creed and with the scriptures.” But he expressly
“asserted the existence of two Gods.” The
Valentinian ideas and emanations travelled farther
afield.