More about John the Baptist, (at last some time to answer properly),
According to a Dutch book on the early desert fathers, Clemens of Alexandria
depicted Job and Abraham as the great examples for a solitary life. But he
mentions the prophets and John the Baptist too. The same ideas were phrased
by Origen. See for this: W. Voelker, Der wahre Gnostiker nach Clemens
Alexandrinus, Texte und Untersuchungen nr. 57, Berlin/Leipzig 1952.
Bram van den Hoven van Genderen, University of Utrecht
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