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- Adversus_Valentinianos comment "Adversus Valentinianos, or Against the Valentinians, is a famous refutation of Valentinianism by Tertullian, an orthodox contemporary of the Gnostics and one of the first to investigate them. The work satirized the bizarre elements that appear in Gnostic mythology, ridiculing the Gnostics for creating elaborate cosmologies, with multi-storied heavens like apartment houses.Though an enemy of Valentinus, Tertullian nevertheless spoke of him as a brilliant and eloquent man.".