As many other so-called heretics (Heresy/Heretical), Cerinthus is known to us only through writings of those Christian teachers who had nothing good to say about him. Furthermore, none of these critics was contemporary to this disputed figure of the early 2nd-century CE Christianity in Asia Minor. In retrospection of later centuries, Simon Magus (Acts 8:5–25) and Nicolaus (Acts 6:5; Rev 2:6; 2:14; 2:20–24) were considered the earlies…