and Magn. 10.3; for the “Judaism” of the Johannine letters cf. Robinson, “Destination,” 130–32), and an indifference to right conduct (including love) as a characteristic of the Hellenistic adherents (see 1 John 3:10–11; 2 Pet 2:19; Ignatius Smyrn. 6.2; for ethical libertinism, combined with eschatological skepticism, as a feature of gnostic thought, see C. H. Talbert, VC 20 [1966] 141–45). Gnosticizing tendencies in the early Church were derived from a dualist view of existence. Because esoteric