On the Alexandrian Heretical Gospel (of Mark?)

I have an important thing to work on for my 'real job' but I have to say this before I go ...

I have been demonstrating that Irenaeus' curious mention of something being in Mark which is no longer Mark in my mind tips the scales - ever so slightly - in favor of the authenticity of Secret Mark.

It's not just that Irenaeus 'makes a mistake' - he can't be 'mistaken,' his testimony is VERY specific - it is the fact that the 'mistake' draws us into a nexus of Alexandrian 'heresies.'

In short, the 'heretical' reading of "No man KNEW the Son but the Father, nor the Father but the Son, and those to whomsoever the Son shall reveal Him" necessarily comes from Alexandria. It is a safe bet to think that THE GOSPEL FROM WHICH THIS VARIANT READING ORIGINATED was specifically Alexandrian. That Irenaeus feels compelled to say effective - Mark rejected this reading - implies to me at least that it came from an Alexandrian gospel of Mark.

Just look at the names associated with this reading - the Marcosians, the Marcionites, Clement, Origen and Eusebius.

What's the common denominator? Again, I think it is Alexandria.

The fact that the Marcionite canon had a letter to the Alexandrians and the Catholics did not implies to me again that Alexandria was WITHIN THE FOLD of the Marcionite ecclesia FROM THE BEGINNING.

Alexandria did not become 'Catholic' until the late second century.

Indeed even in the late period the Arians still clung to the original Alexandrian - i.e. HERETICAL - reading of the material from the gospel.

We will likely never know if their gospels reflected the aorist 'no man KNEW the Father.' But the 'heretical spirit' associated with the material was not easily removed