פירוש על ברכות 114:6

They are not called "Sages" because they had not received ordination as Rabbis.

He was renowned as an ascetic; cf. Graetz, Gnosticismus and Judentum, pp.71f.

Lit. "another," the name given to Elisha b. Abuya who became a heretic. See Hagigah 15 a, ed. Streane, pp. 83 ff.