(printed p. 160 — Book II)
The Samaritan heretics had their beginning in the time of Alexander the Great, as I noted above. The heresy of the Sadducees sprang up a little afterward, when Sadoc and Baiethus deserted Antigonus, the disciple of Simon the Just, who had dealt with Alexander the Great, and went over to the Samaritans, as was explained above. Therefore the Sadducees existed even before the time of Jonathan, contrary to what Abulensis, on Matthew 3, question 63, Genebrard, book 2, and Adrichomius in his Jerusalem asserted. They began, then, not long after Ezra and Alexander.