Simon Magus

First-century magician and heresiarch whose heresy proscribed the Old Testament, teaching it was produced by a sinister power and evil angels.

Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture

• Heresies Proscribing the Old Testament — His heresy proscribed the Old Testament; taught it was produced by a sinister power and evil angels

  "It was the heresy of Simon Magus and his followers"

Chapter I (The Six Days of Creation)

• God (Elohim): Thirteen Definitions — Listed as erring about God creating the Son

  "Simon Magus, Arius, and others err, who say that God created the Son"