Section 22 (Page 3)
PRiEFATIO.
1 irXdvr) Ka& avrrjv fiev LIB. I. to -^fevSoi diro tov dXr)6ovf ij yap ovk eit iSeUvvrai, Iva fir) yv/ivwdetcra yevrjrai Kardcpoopoi' iridavw Se TrepiftXrjfiart iravovpytof Kocrfiovfievr], /cat avrrji rrj$ % \l. dXr/Oelaf dXrjOearepav kavrfjv irape^etv irape'yei^ (palvecrOai Sid rrjg e^coOev (pavratrtai rolf direiporepoir KaOws viro 3rov Kpelrrovos r)fiu>v elpr/rai ein. ruiv roiovrwv, on XiOov ct. in. xix. tov rlfiiov afiapaySov ovra, /cat iroXvrl/iriTOv tktiv, vaXos ew/3pl^ei Sia re-^yrjs irapofioiovfievr), birorav fir) Trapfj
cOevoov SoKifidaai, Kai re^vy ^Int. reyvriv^ SieXey^at rr)v irav- ^aXKOS els tov apyvpov, ovpyw? yevofievrjv orav Se eTUfiiyrj
Error enim secundum semetipsum non ostenditur, ne denudatus fiat comprehensibilis, suasorio autem cooperimonto subdole ador-
natus, et ipsa veritate (4ridiculum est et dicere) veriorem semet ipsum pra?stat, ut decipiat exteriori phantasmate rudiores: quemadrnodum a meliore nobis dictum est de hujusmodi :
Quoniam lapidem pretiosum smaragdum magni pretii apud quosdam, vitreum in ejus contumeliam per artem assimilatum, quoadusque non adest, qui potest probare, et artificium arguere, quod subdole sit factum.
Quum enim commixtum fuerit xxxix. with IV. lii. and III. xix. end, ixOpbt ydp '&i>r)p ivbpl rip IvcrT-fyrerai, and Soph.
(Ed. Col.
xxxv.) whom in early life he had seen : and heard, and of whom he had a vivid ttSs ae KaS/xelxv Xeujs KaXe? 5(Kaiur, £k 5£ twv /zdAt<T7-'tyd.
In the same way irpb tov for vpb tovtov recollection, as regards ritv xaPaKTVpa tov plov, Kai rty tov ffilifiaros IStai/ Kai not unusual.
The meaning being, tAs SidX^eis as ewoieiTO lrpbs rb Tr\fj0os, is Kai rty fieri, 'ludvvov owavaarpo<p-t}V, who not even in so gross a fiction as the k. t. \.
Bp. ad Florin .
But generally the Demiurge, can dis Gnostic theory of tinguish truth from falsehood.
Once for perhaps, Pothinus, his predecessor in may be observed, that the Latin the see of Lyons, all meant as for is it : no infallible index to the true example in citing the Iambic verses version is against the Gallican heretic Marcus, reading in the Greek. xii. 4.
It Tebtullian says of the same here I. certain that in one place he speaks of one who had received in
is Nihil magis curant quam tical cruw ; tamcn pre struction from the Apostles in another, of the disciple of apostolic men.
Com occullare quod prcedicant si ; ; dicant quod occultant. c. Vol.
I. pare IV. xlv. and hi.
The reader will observo that ne
The translator indicates the miss cessary alterations are expressed by
a Kai elireiv ye\oiov.
In the correction within brackets, the faulty text remaining unaltered. ing words
the reading of same sentence, prccstal is the Clerm. and Arund. MSS., but Massuet alters tov Kpelrrovos] Iren.eUS not un-
frequently quotes the words of some to pnrfcrt, which he found in the Voss. MS. it venerable elder.
Possibly he may some times refer to
PoLYCARP,
(compare II.
1—2
PR7EFATI0.
aKepalons [Int. dtcepaios wvj Sot/s evKoXws Swrjaerai tovtov Kifidcrat ; Iva ovv fi>] irapd t>}v q/merepav aiTiav auvapirdXwvTal Tives, u>s irpojiaTa viro \vkwv, ayvoovvTes avrovs Sid rrjv 3 etrifSovXrjv, ovs (pvXdo-o-etv e^wdev Trjs Trpoftarelov Sopds irapt)yyeXKev Kuptos, o/xota fiev XaXovvTas, ^dvdfiota Sea q^povovvras, dvayicatov ^yrjtrdfitjv, evrvxwv to?? virofiv^fiaai twv, ws avroi Xeyovcriv, OuaXevrlvov /xadr/Toov, evlots o" avTwv icat (TVfj./3aXu>v, koi tcaTaXa/36fievos Ttjv yvw/irjv avruiv, fitjvvcrai croi, dyairr}Te, ra TepardoSrj icat fSadea fivarypia, d ov irdvres 5 efcevTVKacriv, ottws 4^wpovtrtv, eirei fxt] iravres tov eytcetpaXov seramentum argento, quis facile poterit, rudis cum sit, hoc probare?
Igitur ne forte et cum nostro delicto abripiantur quidam
quasi oves a lupis. ignorantes eos propter exterius ovilis pellis superindumentum, a quibus cavere denunciavit nobis Dominus, similia quidem nobis loquentes, dissimilia vero sentientes : necessarium duxi, cum legerim Commentarios ipsorum, quemadmodum ipsi dicunt, Valentini discipulorum, quibusdam autem ipsorum et congressus, et apprehendens sententiam ipsorum, manifestaro tibi, Dilectissime, portentuosissima et altissima mysteria, quae non omnes capiunt, quia non omnes cerebrum habent, ut et tu 1 The close concurrence of two ad pepercit; quoniam non ad moteriam verbs in the same sentence is so harsh, that there can be little doubt but that scriptural, scd mater iam ad scriptural excogitavit ; et tamen plui abstulit et plui adjecit, aufercns proprir/ates sindx^aios iSv, Lat. rudii cum sit, is the gulorum quoque verborum, et adjiciens genuine reading. a ^irij3o\i)>' was the reading of the Latin translation, and is preferred by Stirrer in his note, although ho retains proprictatei non comparentium rerum.
De Prtescr.
Har.
38.
The reader is referred to the Appendix for the various IniftovXty in the text : but it is objec tionable as rendering superfluous tho word f(u0a>.
The ^tt<|SoXt) of a fleece fragments that have been preserved of the writings of Valentinus, and of his immediate followers.
4 Ironice.
So Tertollian says, Si could not be otherwise than external.
3 Tertulman charges other heretics with mutilating scripture, but ValenTiyus, with perverting its true meaning.
Alius manu scriptural, alius sensus bona fide quceras, concreto rultu, sinpenso supercilio, Altum est, aiunt.
Si subtiliter tentes, per ambiguitates biUngues communcm fidem affirmant, c.
Vol.
1, compare §
below and IV. exposition! iiUervertit.
Neque enim si Valentinus integro imtrumcnto uti vilxix.
5 For i^trriKan.
The Latin trans detur, non callidiorc ingenio, ({nam Mardon, man its intulit veritati.
Marcion lator may perhaps have read ^xs (abbrev. for txovrts) TeTUXiJtiwt.
The present exerte ct palam machatra non stylo usus est ; quoniam ad matcriam suam cadem reading, as being the more difficult, is scripturarum confecit.
Valentinus autem more likely to be genuine, and may
PR/EFATIO.
koi (rb fiadwv avra, ird&i toF? nerd.
<rov pavepa irotqcrris, Kai lib. i.
/3v6bv tjJc avolas, Ka\ Ttjs irapaivearris avrois (pvXa£a(rOai tov eii XptaTov [Int. Qeov~^ /3Xao-(prifi!ai.
Ka/, Kadwg Suva/its q/uv, Ttjv Te yvwfitjv avTwv twv vvv irapaSiSaa-Kovrwv, Xeyw twv 3r) irepi TlToXefiatov,
(nrdvdi<rfia ovcrav T>js OvaXevTtvov o-^oX»??, avvTOfiwi Kai <ra(pwf cnrayyeXovfiev, Kai d(popfids Swaofiev KaTa Trjv tjfierepav fierpioTtjTa, irpbs to avaTpeireiv avrqv, aXXoKora Kai avap/xocrTa Trj dXtjOela. eiriSeiKvvvTeg to. vtt avrwv Xeyofieva, firjTe o~vyypd<peiv etOta-fievoi, fujTe Xdywv Teyytjv 170707/coTey dydirijf ij/ua?
TrpoTpeirofiivtis croi Te koi Se M'4' irao~t TOti fierd aov firjvvcai ra fie^pi ^ev v^v
KeKpvfifiiva, KaTa Tt]v XaPlv T°u Q£ou *'S (pavepov eXtfXvOoTa Se fjSn
SiSdyfiaTW ovSev ydp eort KeKaXvfi/xevov, o ovk cnroKaXv(p6rj0~erai, /cal KpvirTov, ov yvwaO^crerai. o cognoscens ea, omnibus his, qui sunt tecum, manifesta facias, et profundo insensationis, et ejus, quae praecipias eis observare se a est in Deum, blasphemationis.
Et quantum nobis virtutis adest, sententiam ipsorum, qui nunc aliud docent, dico autem eorum, qui sunt circa Ptolemseum, quae est velut 4flosculum Valentini scholae, compendiose et manifesto ostendemus, et aliis occasiones dabimus secundum nostram medioeritatem ad evertendum earn, non stantia, neque apta veritati ostendentes ea, quae ab iis dicuntur neque conscribere consueti, neque qui sermonum arti studuerimus: dilectiono autem nos adhortante, et tibi et : omnibus, qui sunt tecum, manifestare, quae usque adhuc erant absconsae, jam autem secundum gratiam Dei in manifestum venerunt doctrinae ipsorum.
Nihil enim est cooperium, quod non Matt. x. 26. et nihil absconmm, quod non cognoscetur. manifestabitur ; bo rendered, " Have purged the brain."
35, 38. iirfoffurna, in allusion possibly to a parallel extbe fructifications of Valentinus; the Facelus, emunctfe naris, is pression in Horace, and Massuet comword Kapxwpopia was commonly applied by the Gnostics in the sense of " emana- " Immo etiam cerebrum quoque omne tive evolution." pares the lines in PLAUTU8 :
Compare the Philosopkumena, vi.
* capite emunx'ti meum, e where the words of Simon Magcs 9> Nam omnia malefacta vestra repperi radicitus." are recorded, "Sid tar ax ic<f>pa.yusnhov, Mostell.
1. 61.
KCKpvfinivov, KtKaKvii/iiror, Kelfievov iv In allusion to livOos, the root of rip olKT)rtipla ov j>l£a run SXow re6c-
ri the Valentinian system, c.
/neMurai."
In the Cabbala ID* = Hp' and vi.
II. iv. and xl.
Sec I.
Flosculum as a neuter nominative,
a i.
Compare also HirpoLYT.
Philos. VI. 19, where we should expect floscvlus.
PRiEFATlO. lib. i.
Ovk eTTtfyrycreif Se Trap" r)/i£>v rwv ev 'KeXTOty Siarpiftovrwv, Kai irepi fidpfiapov SidXeKrov to irXelcrrov ao")(0Xovfievwv, Xoytav re-^vrjv, ovk e/idOofiev, ovre Svva/iiv r)v crvyypacpea)?, rjv ovk r)<TKr)(rafiev, ovre KaXXwiriafiov Xe^ewv, ovre TriOavoTtjTa, rjv ovk o'Saftev aXXa aVXwy, kcu aXtjOwi, /cat 3lSiwriKws to. fierd aydirrjs aoi ypacpevra, fiera aydirris ov irpocrSe^ri, /cat avros avtyaeis avra irapa creavrw, are iKavwrepos r)/j.u>v Tvyyavimi, olovei airepftara Kai apyas Xafiwv Trap r)/ia>v, Ka\ ev tw irXaTei aov tov vov eiri ttoXv KapirooXlyasv v(f) r)nu>v eipijfieva, /cat Swarms Si <poprj<rei$ rat irapacrrriaeis rots fterd crov rd aaOevwi vcf> r)fiwv cnnjyyeX/xeva'
Kai toy r)fiels ecpiXorifi.riQrift.ev, vdXai X^rovvros crov subf""' fLaOeiv rr)v yvwfujv avrwv, fir) fiovov aoi iroirjaai cpavepdv, aXXa /cat ecpoSia Sovvai irpos to eTriSeiKVvetv avrrjv i^evSrj-
Non autera exquires a nobis, qui apud Celtas commoramur, et in barbarum sermonem plerumque vacamus, orationis artem, quam non didicimus, neque vim conscriptoris, quam non affectavimus, neque ornamentum verborum, neque suadelam, quam nescimus: sed simpliciter et vere et idiotice ea, quae tibi cum dilectione scripta sunt, cum dilectione percipies, et ipse 3auges ea penes te, ut magis idoneus quam nos, quasi semen et initia et in latitudine sensus tui in multum fructifiaccipiens a nobis
: cabis ea, quae in paucis a nobis dicta sunt, et potenter asseres nobis relata sunt.
Et iis, qui tecum sunt, ea quae invalide a queniadmodum nos elaboravimus, olim quaerenti tibi discere sententiam eorum, non solum facere tibi manifestam, sed et subministrationem dare, uti ostenderemus earn falsam sic et :
Gaul was divided into three parts, reading of AeX0o?s, first replaced by KtXrois in the edition of Petavius.
as we learn from the opening of Caesar's Commentaries, and from Pliny, iv.
17.
To the North of the Seine were the ISiaiTtKus, with no affectation of
style.
Belgas, to the South of the Garonne Auges, this as Grabe and Massuet
the Aquitani, and between these two one of those verbs that follow the inflexion both of the second imagine, is " Ab eft ad Garumrivers the CVltas ; and third conjugations, future mean nam Celtica, eademque Lugdunensis." a Lyons, the capital of Celtic Gaul, having been the see of Irenseus, ing being assigned to this word, as was required by the preceding verb in the it by the effect of gross ignorance that translation, and by ai^fyrtit in the the MSS. of EriFHANlua exhibited the Greek.
TRiEFATIO.
ovto) Se Kal (TV <pi\oTt/j.wi tois Xoittois SiaKovyaeti, Kara Tr/v Lla yapiv ri]v viro rod Kvplov <ro\ SeSofiivriv, ets to fitjKeTt irapacrvpeaOai tov? avOp&irovs virb Ttjs €Ketvu)v viQavoXoylai, ovtrrjs Toiavrris. tu efficaciter reliquis ministrabis secundum gratiara, quse tibi a Domino data est, ut jam non abstrahantur homines ab illorum suadela, quas est talis.
s MONAS.
¥Lecp. a'.
M. 5.
G.7.
Narratio omnis argumenti discipulorum Valentini.
AETOY2I 1ydp Tiva etvat ev aopaTOis koi aKarovoLIB. I. i. 1.
GR. I. i. 1.
MASS. I. i. 1. fxaaTOii v^wfiaai *Te\eiov A.iwva irpoovra' tovtov Se Kal [irpoap-)(t]v AtatJ irpoiraTopa Kat JivOov Ka\ov<riv.
Epiph. Haer.
XXXI. cf.Thecxioret. virdpyovTa o* avrbv a^wptjTOV Kal dopaTOv, aiStov Te Kal Hicr.
Fab.
I. 7. 4c.
Tertull. adv.
Val. dyewjTov, ev ^av^la Kal ^pefxla iroWy yeyovevai ev airelpois fjv alwcri *[xp6vu>v~^. avvvirdpyeiv 0* ovtiS Kal ""Evvoiav, St] CAP.
Dicunt esse quondam in invisibilibus, et inenarrabilibus 1. alitudinibus perfectum ^Eonem, qui ante fuit.
Huno autem et Proarchen, et Propatora, et Bython vocant esse autem ilium invisibilem, et quem nulla res capere possit.
Cum autem
: a nullo caperetur, et esset invisibilis, sempiternus, et ingenitus, in silentio et in quiete multa fuisse, in immensis aeonibus.
Cum Epiphanius in his work upon the tinus vixit, setate florentem, lib. n.
[ante medium,] mortis necesheresies has preserved to us the Greek text of this chapter, Theodorkt has an cap.
5. sitatem considerans, ait 06 ydp elpu a'uiv, : and Tertullian also bor abstract of 4XX' MpoiTos.
Neque enim sum Deus, it, sed homo.
Ble autem lib. de Divinis before the close of rowed largely from it 4.
Deus dicitur the second century, in his treatise against Nominibus cap.
§ the Valentinians, and his words are often of great service as a test of the Greek.
Hippolytus, and the Didasc. Or. Clem.
Ah. give the oriental phase of this apx>l Kal p-h-pov alJivwv, Kal xpbvoiv orr6rtji, Kal Atop rum 6ptuv, Principium et mensura seculorum, et temporum essentia, jEvum coram qua existuni.
Nam ct quemadmodum in aluvi sive aeternitate, heresy.
TAttox kldva.
Tertullian adv. nec pneteritum, nec futurum datur, sed a Hunc substantialitcr quidem Vol. ita et Deus oCre rjw, semper prsesens
; alurva t£\(ioi> appellant offre tarai, otfre iyivero, offre 7keTa[, personalker ; vero irpodpxvv & rty &PXfy> ctiam Byodre yevfyrcrat, ut Dionysius ibidem addit,
Airis yap iarai thion (mel.
Bv&6v,) quod in sublimibus indeque concludit
Atop rClv alJivuiv, habUanti minime congruebat {nrdpxw irpb twv and else
; where Valentinus, anu est deos conin the Cabbala means cipere Bytlwm et Sigen, cum usque ad any multitudinous system and each aliiv was a pleroma, ; triginta jEonum ftetus, tamquam ^Eonite 4.
§ Videtur IreNjEUS scripsisse scrofce, examen divinvMis effudit. c.
Marc.
inrdp- :
Grabe says in his note, " ^Eon igitur Valentinianis Deum denoXew Si airrbv dbparov Kal ix^PVrov, 5.
Scriba vero heec omisisse, quod eadem tavit; pro qua significatione, a Lexico- {nrdpxorra Si fere mox recurrant : airrbv, k.t. \.
Grabe. graphis praetemiissa, duorum Philosoxp0""", Grabe justly considers to phorum auctoritatem accipe, Epicteti
be an interpolation.
It gentilis, et Pseudo-Dionysii Christiani.
Hie apud Arrianum eadem, qua Valen neither ex is pressed in the old version nor is it
DYAS.
TETRAS.
LIB. I i. 1.
GR, I. i. 1.
MASS. I. i. I.
Kai Xdpiv, Kai 2fy^i> ovofid'Cpvtrr Kai evvo>]6>jval iroTe a0'
(,„ , L , eavrov TrpoftaXecrOai tov BvOov tovtov, ctp^tjv tu>v irdvratv Kai KaOdirep cnrepfia, Ttjv irpofioXtjv TavTrjv, rjv Trpo/3a.\ea6ai evevoyOt], koi 1 KaQea-Qai toy ev nrjTpa Trj crvvvTrap^ovo-ri eavTtp ^iy$'
Tavrrjv Si vTroSe^afxevtjv to airepixa tovto /cat eyKvfxova yevofxivtjv, cnroKvrjtrai Now, ofioiov Te koi ttrov tw TrpoftaXovTt,
Kai fiovov ywpovvTa to fieyeOos tov TLaTpos' tov Si Now tovtov Kai Movoyevrj Ka\ovo-i, /cat TlaTepa, 3/cat'Aj0^i> twv O. 8. vdvTwv o-Vfjnrpo/3e(3\>}&dai Si avrw 'AXqOetar Kai elvai Tavtt\v vpwTov Kai dpxeyovov ^TlvOayopiKrjv TerpaKTvv, rjv /cat plXav twv irdvTwv koXovgiv %o~ti yap Bv96s /cat *2,iyr), eireiTa M. 6
ipso autem fuisse et Enncean, quam etiam Charin, et Sigen vocant : et aliquando voluisse a semetipso emittere hunc Bythum initium omnium, et velut semen prolationem hanc prsemitti voluit, et earn deposuisse quasi in vulva ejus, quae cum eo erat, Sige.
Hanc autem suscepisse semen hoc, et prjegnantem factam generasse Nun, similem et sequalem ei, qui emiserat, et solum capientem magnitudinem Patris.
Nun autem hunc, et Unigenitum vocant, et Patrem, et Initium omnium.
Una autem cum eo emissam Veritatem, et hanc esse primam et primogenitam Pythagoricam quaternationem, quam et radicem omnium dicunt.
Est enim Bythus et Sige, deinde Nus et indicated in Tertullian'b Infinitit retro Jehovah ; certainly the philosopher might wis; alCbai is used here in the ordinary easily have become acquainted with the and not in the Valentinian sense of the name of God from his intercourse with word ; therefore xpbw ^*8 >n prolearned Jews in his travels in Egypt, bability the exegetical addition of some Persia and Chaldcea, and during his abode scribe. at Sidon.
Joskphus also and Porphyry 1 Stieren restores in the text icadeclare that he had communication with raSiuOai on the faith of the Paris and the people of God.
An intelligent TeBreslau MSS.
; but KaBUuBai is not an trad is here evidently spoken of by unlikely reading.
Ireit^us, and not an irrational combinas NoOs having the two other names tion of mere numbers.
Seo Cudworth, of -rarijp and ipxh twv ttAvtihv, Bv0os Inlell.
Syst.
B. rv. § 20.
But in the from whence XoOs emanated, was also Pythagorean system the properties of distinguished by the appellation of irponumbers, of all things the most distinct Trdrwp and irpoapx^.
See II.
7. and 55. from matter, and pure intellectual abs3 Selden, deDiis Syr., Syntagm.
11. tractions, were adopted to symbolizo c. I, and Gale in his Court of the Genthe immaterial and wholly spiritual fife», Pt.
11. c. ii. 8, say, that the Pynature of the Divine intellect.
The thagoric Tetractys was no other than foundation of ancient Theic philosophy the ivofia. Terpaypafifiarov, the Hebrew was the axiom that the Nature of the
OGDOAS.
No£y /cat AXydeta.
AiaOdjuevov re tov Movoyevtj tovtov e(p'
GRL i' i1.'
.— ois TTpoeftXyOrj, irpoftaXeiv Kai avrov Aoyov Kat Za>r]v, irarepa raravTUV ra>v fier avrov eaonevmv, /cat ap^ijv Kai
fiopcpooaiv iravroi rod TrXripwuaros.
'E/c tov Aoyov /cat rrjs Zoo/ji Si] 7rpo/3ej3X^a6ai Kara, av^vylav 3*Av6pa>Trov Kat 'E/c/cX/jcrtai'- /cat etvai raurqv ap-^eyovov 'OySodSa, pl^av /cat viroaraa-iv twv irdvroDV, rerpaciv ovofiaai irap1 avrots KaXovfievwv, [1.
KaXovfievtjv^ BvOw, Kai NaT, /cat Adya>, /cat ^Avdpwirwetvai yap avrwv eKaa-rov appevodtjXvv ovrws irpwrov tov Tlpoicdropa rjvwaBai Kara wXvylav rrj eavrov 'Ei/cot'atov Se Adyov rij Wlovoyevrj, rovreo-n tov Now, rrj 'AXrjOela' tov Se Zwy, /cat rov "AvOpwirov rrj 'E/c/cX/jcrta.
Tovrovs Se rovs
Aitovaf eif Sd^av tov Tlarpos TrpofteftXrjfievovs, /SovXydevras /cat avrovg Sia rov ISlov So^daai rov Uarepa, irpofiaXeiv irpofioXcts ev avXyyiq' rov fiev Aoyov /cat ryv Zwtjv, fiera to irpofiaXeo-Qai rov "
AvOpcovov /cat ri\v 'E/c/cXiytrtav, aXXovf Alethia.
Sentientem autem Unigenitum hunc in qua prolatus est, emisisse et ipsum Logon et Zoen, patrem omnium eorum, qui post se futuri essent, et initium et formationem universi Pleromatis.
De Logo autem et Zoe emissum secundum conjugationem, Hominem et Ecclesiam, et esse hane primogenitam Octonationem, radicem et substantiam omnium, quatuor nominibus apud eos nuncupatam, Bython, et Nun, et Logon, et Anthropon.
Esse enim illorum unumquemque masculo-fceminam, sic, initio Propatorem ilium coisse secundum conjugationem su39 Ennceae, id est, cogitationi, quam Gratiam et Silentium vocant :
Unigenitum autem, hoc est, Nun AlethiiB, id est, Veritati : et Anthropon cum Ecclesia.
Hos autem ^Eonas in gloriam Patris emissos, volentes et ipsos de Logon autem Zona, id est, Vita?
Lo suo clarificare Patrem, emisisse emissiones in conjugatione ; gon quidem et Zoen posteaquam emissus est Homo et Ecclesia, Sed Vitam ex mnttipeo, Sermonem Deity wholly unintelligible and in et is ... ha'c soboles ad initium univeriitatU, scrutable.
This, as will be seen, gave et formationtm] Plcromatit rise to some of the most startling asser et formati [L lotius emimi. c.
Yal. tions of ancient heresy.
The reader may 7.
The archetypal idea of Man, and compare that which has been said in the * of the Church of redeemed souls in the prefatory remarks upon Basilides.
So Tertullian, Nus simul acccpti Divine Mind, Iv Swd/iei, as the Gnostic
would say, not iv ivepyeia. probation!* suw nJRcium, cmittit ct ipse
DECAS.
DODECAS.
SeKa Alcovas, cov to. ovofiara \eyovo~i TavTW Hvdios Kai lib. i. l i.
Mt'£ty, ^AyfipaTOS /cat 'Evuxris, Avroipvris Kat 'IcLSovt], 'AkiVijMASS •'■'• to? koi IZuyKpacris, blovoyevrjs koi Mcurajo/a* ovtoi SeKa Alcoves, otif Kai (pavKOwiv e< Aoyou Kai Zootjs Trpofie/SXtjadai. tov Se "AvdpbDTrov Kai avTov Trpo(3a\elv jtteTa rrji 'E/c/cXjja-tay Alwvai SdoSeKa, ois TavTa to ovdfiaTa yaplXovraf WapdM7- /cXijroy Kai TltcTTii, TLaTpiKOi Kai 'EX7rty, MjjTjOt/coy Kai *Aydirr\, 9*A«Vovs /cat 2iW<7ty, 'E/c/cXijcrtaa-Tt/coy /cat Ma/caotog.9.
Ttii, QeXtjTog koi 2o^)i'a" ourot elaiv ol rpiaKovra Alcoves Trjs ir\dvT]s avrwv, ol 3 cretriyrinevoi koi fit) yivcoGKOfievoi' tovto to dopaTOV Kai irvevfiartKov /car' avTovs Tr\qpcofj.a, Tpiyrj Siearafievov 4ety SySodSa, Kat SeKaSa, /cat SwSeKaSa.
Kat SidUxii-
alteros decern .Eonas, quorum nomina dicunt hsec :
Bythius et Mixis, Ageratos et Henosis, Autophyes et Hedone, Acinetos et Syncrasis, Monogenes et Macaria.
Hi decern jEones, quos dicunt ex Logo et Zoe emissos.
Anthropon autem et ipsum emisisse cum Ecclesia .Eonas duodecim, quibus nomina ha?c donant :
Paracletus et Pistis, Patricos et Elpis, Metricos et Agape, jEnos et Synesis, Ecclesiasticos et Macariotes, 5Theletos et Sophia.
Hi sunt triginta erroris eorum ^Eones, qui tacentur et non agnoscuntur.
Hoc invisibile et spiritale secundum eos Pleroma, tripartite divisum in octonationem, et decada, et duo1 Compare the Latin translation of aydirrj cduvot. vi.
30.
3 Sige. . .quce et ipsis hcereticis mis these names, II.
19.
For their rationale tacere priBscribit.
Teut. c. Vol. 9. ro&rovs the reader is referred to the Prolegomena.
The ten emanations from Logos and Zoe, (fxiai, robs X' alwvas toU fib AMois dvareferred in the Eastern system of this aw dfiiJXous tlvai, adroit 5i /corns yvwpifiovs.
Theodoret. Hwr. Fab. I.
» Tebtullian has Phileti as also in heresy to Nous and Alethia, are charac teristic of the selfexistent depth of blessedness of the Logos combined with that plastic energy whereby he is tho Light and Life of Creation.
He is the c.
30 and 32 adv.
Vol.
But Theleti is no doubt the true reading, and it agrees best with the Valentinian myth, that modal subsistence of the creative energy,
Sophia transgressed by acting indepen dently of the Divine Will.
Massuet, the source of all generative life diffused without much reason, supposes that this jEon had two names. throughout the universe.
8 Since the male ^Eons have a de rivative meaning, the term 'Advovt is 4 The ogdoad being Bythus, Sige, and the three primary pair of .(Eons. hardly in keeping with the rest.
Tkbtullian has yEnos.
Probably aldwios was The decad, those evolved from Logos written, for Hippolytub in the Philoand Zoe ; the dodecad, the six pair that emanated from Anthropos and Ecclesia, soph. combines it with the preceding as
TIUACONTAS.
liai.li.
TOVTO tov 2a>T^pa Xeyovaiv (ovSe yap Kuptov ovofidXeiv mass, l.i.a avrbv Oe'Xovert) TpiaKOVTa eTeui kutci to (pavepov nySev •weTroiriKevai, eiriSeiKVvvTa to (ivorypiov tovtwv twv Alwvwv.
'AXXa Kai eiri Tiji Trapa(3oXrj<s twv etc t6v a/uareXwva TrefiirofjLevwv ipyaTwv (paai (pavepwTaTa tovs TpiaKOVTa tovtovs Aiwvas /jLefitjvvaOai'
Tre/JLirovTai yap ol /j.ev Trepi irpwTr\v wpav, ol Se -irep\ TpiTtjv, ol Se Trepi eKTqv, ol Se Trepi evaTtjv, aXXoi Se Trepi evSeKaTrjv crvvriOefjievai ovv al Trpoeiprj/xevai wpai eis eavTas, tov twv TpiaKOvra apid/ibv avairXripovai' fila yap, koi Tpeis, /cat e£, Kai evvea, Kai evSeKa, TptaKOVTa twv wpwv tovs Aiwvas /u.e/j.tjvv<r6ai OeXovcrt.
Kat TavT etvai to. fieydXa /cat davfx.a<TTa Kai diroppr/Ta Se ylvovTar Sid
et propter hoc Salvatorem dicunt (nec enim Dominum decada :
Luc in. 23. eum nominare volunt) triginta 'annis in manifesto nihil fecisse, Matt. xx. 2. ostendentem mysterium horum ^Eonum.
Sed et in parabola eorum operariorum, qui in vineam mittuntur, dicunt rnanifestissime triginta hos iEonas declaratos.
Mittuntur enim alii quidem circa primam horam, alii circa tertiam, alii circa sextam, alii circa nonam, alii circa undecimam.
Composite igitur prsedictte horie in semetipsas, triginta numerum adiniplent.
Una enim, et tres, et sex, et novem, et undecim, triginta fiunt.
Per horas autem /Eonas manifestari volunt et hasc esse magna et : admirabilia et abscondita mysteria, quae ipsi fructificant et : the that Bythus, whom slie imitated, was according to the western system ; oriental scheme referred the decad to the sole source from whence Nous and Nous and Alethia, and the dodecad to Alethia emanated.
The term also, ap"peLogos and Zoe.
Valentinus himself viSn\vs, so constantly applied to Bythus, seems to have considered Bythus as a indicates the same notion.
Irenjsus, it monad, and Sige a mere nonentity. The should be remembered, exhibiting the two later iEons, Christ and the Holy later system of the Valentinian Ptoleis Spirit, would then complete the mystical mseus.
Hifpolytus describing the orinumber xxx.
Hippolytus says, ylrovTai ginal scheme of Valentinus says, rpidKovra aiQves p*ra tov Xpiorov Kai iiO(\noe fup^oaadai rbv Haripa, xal tov Aytov Hvctifiaros, Philos.
VI.
31. iyhnrnoe Kaff iavrty Sl\a tov cvfrvyov, But he proceeds to say that others inXva ptnStv '
(pyov vvoieiaTtpov tov Harpbs b e. the folelpyaofievn, ayvoovoa Sri corporated Bythus and Sige, fth iyiwnTos i.
lowers of Valentinus did so.
Tivh Si ovvvirdpx<ov apxo t&p S\wv Kai ptfa, Kai VTripXttv t$ Tiarpl els yijv tt)v ot-fqv) fidOos, Kai fivBbs, Sworws yevvijoai Kai ovv airrois KaTapi$p.eto$at tovs aiwvas p,6vos.
PhilosopJt.
VI.
30.
BfKovoiv.
The myth that Sophia evolved (1.
Annis, as agreeing closely with the
Enthymesis independently of her <ri'fuGreektext,ismorclikelytobetheoriginal 70s, agrees well with the supposition word than nnos of the Arund. MS.
NOUS.
M.u<TTypia, a KapTro(popov<Tiv avroi, Kat el irov n twv ev q1^/''-!'
■kin i '
j - » A I t
\ MASS.I.
ir\t]Vei eiprjfievwv ev ran ypacpats ovvrjOetti Trpocrapfioaai, Kat ii.
I. eiKacrai rw irXd&ixari avrwv.
Top fiev ovv Ylpoirdropa avrwv ytvwo-Keadat fiovw G. 10. m. a Xeyovirt tw avrov yey ovori ^lovoyevet, TOvre<TTi tw N<»* e£ Xonrois iraaiv aoparov Kat aKaTdXrjTrrov virdp^etv Se rots Nov? cot avrovs eTepirero Qewpwv tov Ylaripa, koi to /xeyeOog to a/xerprjrov avrov Karavowv qydXXero'
Kat Se fiovog
Sievoetro Ka\ roti Xotvoii aluxriv avaKotvwaaa-Qat to /xeyeQog rov Ylarpoi, fjXUoi Te Kai oaos virtjp-^e, koi ws tjv dvapyos re Kat aj(wpt]TOi, Kai ov KaraXrjVTOS ISelv
Se avrov Karecr^e q "Zityij fiovXrjaei tov Ylarpot, Sict to deXetv irdvrag avrovs els
evvoiav Kat iroOov fyrrj(rew$ rov irpoetprj/jievov Yl.poird.ro pos avrwv ayayeiv.
Kat ot fiev Xonrot ofiolwg A-twves fevxjj irwg eireiroBovv rov TrpoftoXea rov o-irepixaros avrwv ISetv, Kat rr/v % Se ttoXv reXevratos piXav Itrroptjcraf irporfXaro avapyov
quae dicuntur in scripturis, poterunt adaptare et assimilare figmento suo. sicubi quid eorum,
Et propatorem quideni eorum cognosci soli dicunt ei, 2.
No: reliquis vero omni qui ex eo natus eat, Monogeni, hoc est,
bus invisibilem et incomprehensibilem esse.
Solus autem Nus, secundum eos delectabatur videns Patrem, et magnitudinem inimensam ejus considerans exultabat, et excogitabat reliquis quoque ^Eonibus participare magnitudinem Patris; quantus et quam magnus existeret, et quemadmodum erat sine initio, et incapabilis, et incomprehensibilis ad videndum.
Continuit autem eum Sige voluntate Patris, quoniam vellet omnes hos intelin lectum et desiderium exquisitionis Patris sui adducere.
Et reliqui quidem ^Eones omnes tacite quodammodo desiderabant prolatorem seminis sui videre, et earn, quae sine initio est, radicem contemplari.
Praesiliit autem valde ultimus et junior de duoClem. Alex, in the Didasc.
Or. §29, depended was "MD* fundamentum, or
says of Sige, Eiyy, q*>ao-li>,fiJrnjp ofoa Tip*1 radix.
Quce dicuntur in teripturu] Hie irdvrw tQv vTro^XrjOimui' inrb tov pi.-
in multitudinc, tov ip"prt[rov atalynKai'
/iiv ovk t<rx.fr elwetv irepi inserendse duse voces Sous (pbdovs), i :
Si KartXaficv, (juxta Gneca b> rXjSct) per incuriam i tovto dKardXTprTov irpoo-nydpevo-ev. scribre forte ob recurrentem pneposiIn the Cabbalistic Bcheme of Setionem in omisste.
Gbabe. s Ita Cod. Arund., says Grabe, but phiroth that upon which created nature
sorriiA.
'•j'-22, kcu vewraTOS Ttjs SwSeicdSos, Ttjs virb tov ^A.vOpwirov koi Ttjs I'"'8' 'E/cKXi/tr/a?, irpo/SefiXtifievos Aliev, TovrecrTtv 17 2o^)/a, Kai eirade vddos avev Ttjs eiriifkotcris tov Qjyov ov£-J tov 0eXi7tov'
^l. o evrip^cLTO fj.ev ev tois irepi tov Now /cat tijv 'AXyOeiav,
els tovtov tov irapaTpairevTa, 3Trp6<pa<riv fiev Se
cnrea-Kti^re decade ea, quae ab Anthropo et Ecclesia emissa fuerat, ^Eon, hoc est, Sophia et passa est passionem sine complexu conjugis Theleti : quae sunt erga Nun qure exorsa quidem fuerat in iis,
: et Alethiam; derivavit autem in hunc [iEonem, id est, Sophiam], 5demutatam, sub occasione quidem dilectionis, temeritatis autem, mistaken, the MS. has Nus; 'Eirei Si Bythus ifr ia he ybvip.es, tdo£ev :
aim$ Tore rb KdXXtarov Kal TeXewrarov which also the reading exhibited in is the editions of Erasmus and Gallabius.
Both of Mercer's MSS. read Nu. clxev & avrtp ytwrjaai Kal irpoayayclv
tpiXtpnpos yap ovk 'Aydirn yap, Tertullian expresses the force of
5e dyd-mj ovk (era* tprjalv, rjv 8Xos, J] the Greek better than the translator, rb iyartip^yoi'.
Upoiaydirn, idv p.i) ]J Genus contrahil mtii, quod cxorsum qui rarijp, /SaXec oTw Kal iyiwrjtrev avrbs b dem fuerat, &c. c. Vol. wairep 'qy pAvos, vovv Kal aXr)Qeiav, rovrfori dvdSa, tfris xvpta Kal dpxh y&yovc 9.
Carried infection.'] Tertulliani'S
hoc Irenfei verbum optime circumscriKal p-Tjrrjp Trdvrtiiv rwv (vrbs TrXijpwfiaTos Derivarat, inquit, ut sdent vilia in corpore alibi connata in aliud memKaT7ipi0novp.4vuv aldvav, k.t.X.
Philos. vi. 29.
The reader will observe that Hippolytus refers the origin of these bens : brum perniciem suam efflarc.
Nam ut Galenus lib.
11. de Melhodo Medendi emanations to the Monad Bythus, irre Tom. x. p.
382, spectively of Sige. ad Glauconem cap.
9, Stieren reads qui, and says in 1' scribit A.iroaK'fip.paTa dvop.d£ovai t&s
Stadiaeis iKflvas, Srav xu/*°' rives Ivoquod pro more librarii esse potest qui atU quce Cod. Yoss. scriptum est q' xXouvres trpbrepov krkpip pJ>pl(jp, KaraXtbut iv roh Ttpl rbv Now Kal rr)v ; kXifi. iroVres iKeivo, eis trepov pLeraffTQaw, ' is the usual periphrastic expression for iv Aposcemmata vacant affectiones, quum T$ N<jS, k. t. X. the writer not refer ring to any emanation from this primary kumores loco, quern prius infcstabant, is ; relicto in altcrum confluunt.
Aptissime igitur hac voce expressit Irenasus senpair.
TertulliaV however has, qui circa Now*.
The reader may remark that Sophia and her product Enthymetentiam Valentinianorum, dicentium, quod malum, ex inquisitione imperscrutabilis Bythi contractum, reliquos qui sis are a reflex of the Archetypal Endem jEones infestare coeperit thymesis, whereby Bythus in the begin ning conceived the notion of evolving postmo- ; dum vero instar pravi humoris defluens, in ultimo .<Eone, Sophia, subsederit, uti hie docetur.
Grabe, cf. II. c.
24, Audent dUere, quia a Logo quidem the entire series of Divine Intelligences named jEons and for this reason the ; irdBos of Sophia, i.e.
Enthymesis, had ccepit, dcriratio autem in Sophiam. its commencement in the primary ema Sub.
Kara.
Under a semblance of that love that was the perfect attribute of Bythus.
So Hippolytus says of nation of Bythus.
So the Did. Or.
§ *Ayvw(TTOs oiv Uarfyp wv, ydiXrjffev b yvu3(T0T)vaL toTs aluicnv, Kal 8td ttjs ivO\*-
ENTHYMESIS.
o.n.; dydmjs, ToXfitu Se, Sid to nh KeKOivwv>j(r6ai Tip Harp) Tip lib. ll*.
TeXelw, /caft»?
/cat
Now?.
To Se irdOos eivai X^rrjaiv tov mass.i.u.?.
JlaTpos'
%9eXe yap, <o?
Xeyoveri, to fieyedog avrov kcltoiXafieiv eireiTa fit] SvvriBrjvai, Sid to dSwaTio eTriftaXeiv Ma TTpay/xaTi, /cat ev iroXXw irdw dywvi yevofievov, Sid re to fjiiyedoi tov fidOovs, /cat to dve^i-^viacrTOV tov Tlarpbf, /cat 1 eKreivo/xevov del «rt to irpocrQev, t^v irpoi avrov aropyiiv, ^viro Ttjs yXvKvrrjTOf avrov TeXevratov dv KaraTreirdcrOai, /cat dvaXeXvaOai eh Ttjv oXtjv 3ovarlav, el fit} tjj arripiXpvari icai e/CToj to? apptjTov fieyeOovf tpvXacrcrovarrj to. oXa awervjfe ft ' rp / ft* * ft / * */"k -v ~ til ^ ovva/xei.
I avrtjv oe rqv ovva/j.iv /cat Kjpov KaKovaiv, v<p ijs quoniam non communicaverat Patri perfecto, quemadmodum et Nu8.
Passionem autem esse exquisitionem Patris : voluit enim, ut dicunt, magnitudinem ejus comprehendere.
Dehinc quum non posset, quoniam impossibilem rem aggrederetur, in magna
agonia constitutum propter magnitudinem altitudinis, et propter quod investigabile Patris est, et propter earn quae erat erga eum dilectionem, quum extenderetur semper in priora, a dulcedine ejus novissime forte absorptum fuisset, et resolutum in universam substantiam, nisi ei, qusa confirmat, et extra inenarrabilem magnitudinem custodit omnia, occurrisset virtuti.
Hanc autem virtutem et Horon vocant; a qua abstentum et /n)<rf ws tov {avrov . . . irpoifiake rbv Moco3 fikrp oialav.
These words, passed ycyrj. riyorcv ofo koX b iiri yi/Li<rea!t, over by Ghabe, are explained by NeanTovrio~ri Tijs raTpiKrjs IvButi-fyjeut irpoe\der (" Genetische Entwickelung der Bib*. . . Koi 6 nb> /ictvas /lowyci^s vlbs «(» Gnostische Systeme ") as the common top kAXttok toD irarpij Tty ivBip-naiv Sia substance of the Divinity in Bythus.
T175yvtliatus i^nycirat rots alauw, us av "Also ist unter vkn ovcria zu verstehen Kol irrrb tov k&\tw airrov 7rpo/3X7j9cis. das allgemeine Daseyn in dem Bythos, 8 If, as Gbabe imagines, the four der ganz natiirlicher Sinn ; Sie ware preceding words are an addition of the fast, iiber die granzen ihrer Individualitranslator, we must read dcmutalum, tiit hinauswollend, aufgeluset worden in which would also correspond with the das Wesen des Unendlichen," p. 211.
Greek.
Compare Tertullian above.
Some have 1 The Apostle's words would seem to interpreted the words of the Chaotic be indicated, roit (p.xpoa6(v iKTfwbpxms, substance into which the ^Eon Sophia Phil. in.
13. passed, out of the Pleroma ; but as s Modico abfv.it prw vi dulcedinis et Neandeb (and after him Stieren) laboris derorari, et in rcliquam substanjustly observes, Sophia is said iicrclvtiam di&sohi, ncc alias quam pereundo to8ai dei M to irpbaBev, and subsidence cctsassct, nisi bono fato in Horon incurinto the regions of matter would be ri&sd.
Tebt. adv.
Vol.
9. rather a vcvuv ds to 6irta$€v or k&tw&cv.
HORUS. lib. i.
1 iirea-xfjcrdai icai earrtipl^dat, icai fioyis eiritTTpey^avTa eit MAss.i.ii.a. gavTQV) Ka\ ireiaQevTa ort 3 aKaraXtiTTTOt etniv
TLaTqp, airodecrdat Ttjv irporepav evOv/Atjcrtii crvv tw eirtyivoixevw irddei €K TOV €Klr\l]KTOV eicelvov OavfxaTog.
"Eivioi Se avruiv 3iru>t to irdQot Trjt 2o^)/a? koi Ttjv eiri<TTpo<priv fivQoXoyovtrtv dSwdra) koi aKaTaXqTTTW irpdyHaTi avrtjv eiri^eiprjcracrav Teiceiv ovaiav afioptpov, 4o1av <puatv ei^e dqXetav reicelv rjv icai KCtTavoqa-atrav irpwTov fiev XvirijQrjvai, Sia. to aTeXec T>jt yevicrews, eireira (poftrjOrjvai
5 fiijSe avro confirmatum, vix reversum in semetipsum, et credenteni jam,quoniam incomprehensibilis est Pater, deposuisse pristinam intentionem cum ea, quae acciderat, passione, ex ilia stuporis admiratione.
Quidam autem ipsorum hujusmodi passionem et reversionem Sophise, velut fabulam narrant, impossibilem et incomprehensibilem rem earn aggressam, peperisse substantiam informem, qualem naturam habebat foemina parere : in quam cum intendisset, primo quidem contristatam, propter inconsumma-
The translator evidently read being a female JEon, gave substance iirtaxTpScu, which he rendered absten alone without form, and her Enthymesis tion, meaning that Horus restrained was ApLop<pos.
So HiPPOLYTCS says, iv the JEon Sophia from approaching the e. Hv6$) fori irdma yap tQ iyerm'try, (i.
Pleroma.
The word had also an eccle bp.ov' h/ be roii yewTjToh, to fUf 6tj\v (utiv oixrlat irpopJKririKbv, rb Si t.p'jiai siastical meaning, and signified excom munication, e. g. Abstinere aliquem a p.0ptptOTlKbv T7JS iurb TOV fljJXeOJJ 7T/JOsacris.
Abstentus a communione, &c.
(1. paXko/jUvTjs ovfflas.
UpocrtfiaXev irpoa AKardXtjirTOSj answering to the aotpla touto pirnv dVcp tfiaXev) oiw i] Latin words immensus and incomprelienijbvvaTO, ovfflav e6p.opipov Kal eiS/carasibilis.
Chrysostom gives it rather the aKeiaarov ifwpipov nal anaTaoKe&a- (1. former meaning, where he says, iKardo-tov) Philos. vi.
30.
Tertullian paraphrases these \rprTOV Xeyerat TreXaybs, eij 6 Ka6i4rres
words, Ne finis quoque existeret; iavrods ol Ko\vp.f3trral, kcU Tpbt ToKti e. i.
Kara<j>(p6ftevoi fldffos, rb ripas abwarovlest this should be the period of her man existence.
And this expresses the sense of ffw ebpetv.
7T.T. d/caXij7rr.
3 The translator instead of tQs for as the authoruses Swarfis the Greek ; seems to have read toiop.
If so, per fxeaz for Sfoao'dai, so in this place tc- \etus txca> means TeXeiuBfji'at.
MijS^ haps Tolwi is the correct reading.
4 Such as Iter female nature enabled possibly represents jui} ti or ye.
It may be observed that HirpoLYTUS her to produce, olav referring to oiaiav.
That this is the meaning is evident from refers this airopla to the entire Pleroma, the Gnostic notion, that in generation who began to fearfor their own existence, when they perceived the effect of that the male gives form, the female, sub Enthymesis in Sophia which pervaded their own being.
QApvpot (ye'vero if rip stance.
Bythus as being ap'pa>60Ti\vs contributed both.
Sophia, therefore,
MATERIiE ORIGO.
O. 12.
M 10.
MASS. I. ii. 4. to etvai TeXe/wy e^eiv eiTa eKaTrjvat Kai airoptjtrat, ^rjroveray 1Tqv atrlav, koi ovTiva Tpoirov cnroKpv^ret to yeyovos.
'E'y/caTaye vofievr/v Se tois iraQeai \a(5eiv eiricrTpotpriv, Kai etri tov YlaTepa avaSpa/xetv ireipa<r8>jvat, Kai fteyjii tivos To\fi.qara<rav, e^acrdevijcrai, Kai *iKerw tov iraTpbi yeve&BatawSerjOijvai Se avrr) koi tov? \oiirovf AiwfO?, fidXiaTa
Se tov Now.
'EvTevdev Xeyovtrt TrpwTrjV ap^r/v io~yi)Kevai Tqv 3ovulav, eV Trji ayvolas, Kai Ttjs \inrt]i, Kat tov (pofiov, koi Tqs eKTr\qj~ewi.
'O Se TlaTtip tov vpoeiptjfxevov "Opov eiri TOirroiy "*6ia tov Movoyevovs 4 St, Mc tionem generationis : post deinde timuisse, ne hoc ipsum finera habeat: dehinc expavisse et *aporiatam, id est, confusara, qiuerentem causara, et quemadraodum absconderet id, quod erat " II. iv. 2. vi.
natum.
In iis autem passionibus factam, accepisse regressionem, et in Patrem regredi conari : et aliquamdiu ausam, tamen defecisse, et eupplicem Patris factam.
Una autem cum ea rogasse et reliquos iEonas, maxime autem 5 Nun.
Hinc dicunt primum initium habuisse substantiam materia;, de ignorantia, et taedio, formed matter as oiala iraicros, using Tr\ijpu>p.a.Ti . . . Htl ira.pair'KTitriws &p.op<pa Kai dreXij yevhtttTai tQv aluivwv ra yevv-qfiara, Kai fftdopd tis KaTaXy^erat ovk els the word owt'a for the complex idea "material substance."
Iren^ds uses p.aKpav iroTt tovs alwvas. Philos. VI. 31.
So also Clem. Al. in the Didasc.
Or. the word in the same sense.
The reader will observe the parallel ; as the Enthymesis of Bythus produced intelligent § 31 : did T7js tov SuibeKdrov MSivos welffews t4 SXa TraibevBivra, uis tpaal, <rwesubstance, so the Enthymesis of Sophia resulted in the formation of material rdff-nacv.
The Cod. Clarom. has inconsubstance.
Tertullian has a similar summatam indicating inconsummatum.
1 Subaud. tov yco/ievov, causam account, ilia tunc conflictatio in material originem pervenit, ignorantia, mceror, so. ejus, quod sine mare peperisset.
Tertullian has harere de ratione cams, pavor, substantia fiunt.
4 Sid tov Jtovoyhovs.
Ibi demum curare de occultalione. adv.
Vol.
10. s Ikctw tov warpbs.
So Tertulman, Jhim in malis res est, suspicit ; convertit Pater, aliquando motus, quern supra diximus Iloron per Monogencm Nun in hcec promit, in imagine sua, fcemina-viarem, (L convertitur) ad Patrem, sed incassum quia de Patris sexu Ua variant.
Tertull. enisa, et vires deserehant.
In preccs succedU; tola etiam propinquitas pro ea c.
Val.
10 ; and Hippolttds, if ovv pvqi ' SXus roh alwai to?s TeXe/ois KaTatpavfi supplical, vel maxime Nus; quidnii causa mali tanti.
Similarly Hippolytus, Karti} tov iKTpup.aros dp.optpla, ttoXlv Kai 6 tpvyov ovv irdvTts ol alwves iirl derjaiv tov irar^p {tmrpo§dWei alwva tva rbv oravpbv, os yeya>np.cvos p.4yas ws p.eya\ov Kai Warpbs, Xva \virovp.4vTjv ttjv ao<plav avaTcavo"Q'
<f/c\aie yap Kai Karubvpero M T<f reXelov Tarpbs, elt (ppovptv Kai x<"-paKwp.a tSiv alwvwv Tpofiefi\iip.evos, &pos ylverai yeycvnp-ivip inr* airrTjs iKTpupLarC ovtu tov 7r\T)pii/iaT0S, k.t.X.
Phil. VI. 31.
6 The Cl. MS. adds et; the Ar. omits yap KaXovaiv.
Philos. VI. 31.
3 BlLLIUS supplies rrji vXns, substan tiam materiir; but Philo speaks of unNun, possibly from its likeness to Hinc.
VOL. I.
IIORI NOMINA.
1 aau(vyov, aQrfXvvTov.
Tov yap o'ai'l'a vpofia\\eTai ev etKovi iSla, llaTepa vore fiev fiera crv{yyias T>/y ^iyt]f, irore oe Kai virepappev, Kai virepvrjAv eivai ueAovcri.
1 ov oe \Jpov tov- ^ravpov Kai Atnyrnvri/J'], Kai tov ical ^^vXXvrpoorriv [I.
3Kay07T/(7T^J', /cat 'QpodeTtjv, Kai ywyea KaXovai.
Aia et timore, et stupore.
Pater autem praedictum Horon super haec per Monogenera prsemittit in imagine sua, sine conjuge masculo-fcemina.
Patrem enim aliquando quidem cum conjuge pro masculo, et pro fcemina esse volunt.
Horon vero hunc et Stauron, et Lytroten, et Carpisten, et Sige, modo vero et
Horotheten, et Metagogea vocant.
Per Horon autem hunc
female character, but the Monad had Rendered by the translator, sine
conjuge Masculo fcemina, in apposition the property of investing the odd num with the words, in imagine sua; Sige bers, by addition, with the female type, was no true m'fvyos of Bythus, not and the even numbers with the male. having emanated coordinately with him; possessed the attributes of Therefore it both. iJtis fori ptovas Aparp/ yewGxra term ap hence Masculofcemina was a plied to Bythus.
The Latin version raTpuctZs Trdvras rois AWovs &pi6pj>is. and Tkrtullian both indicate the abla . Aprios Svas 0rp\vs dpiBpAs .
AeiWepov i} . tive, djTvfijyij) i$n\vmifi, in imagine fixorb twv &pi6p.nTLKU>v KaXeirat.
Tplrov 4j . minamare are the words of Tebtullian rpias dpiBphs Apo-rjv, ovtos Kai vepioabs.
Hippoltt.
Phil, de Pyth.
But the Monad contained within itself the pro ; was after this likeness of Bythus and it that Horus was now put forth by Monoperties of either gender genes, as the words that immediately 'A/M<rrorAi7S Si h rip XlvOayopiKip, to fv, <pr)<ja>,dp:- ; follow serve to explain.
It will be seen that in several particulars the phrase tpore'pwv pLCTixeiv ttjs tpfoeus' aprUp p.iv ology and nomenclature of ancient Theoyap Trpoo-reBev irepirrbv ttoUi'
Trepimp Si Apriov. oi* ai> ^SiWto, sophista was adopted by the Gnostics el /i-fj aurpoiv raiv tpvae'ow fiiereixe.
Aib yap dpriob ; for instance, the term i.f>j>ev66T)\vii as revival of applied to Bythus was only rrepirrbv KaXeicrOai rb fv.
STOB^EUS,
Eel. a the old dictum of the Orphic Theosophy, Phys.
For SuXXuTparrVmust evidently be Zeis &par\v yivero, Zeis Aptfiporos (wXcto s read Zravpbv koI Avrpwrty, for compare vip.<pw'
So Damasc. ApaeybBrjXw air^y fareon}the Latin.
Zravpbs in its primary sense a stake.
So Jl. w . 45
(raro, icpbs (ybei^w rijs ttAvtuv yevvifriKT\s is
: oMas.
Wolf, Anccd.
Grcec.
Hip- 'Afupl bi p.eyd\yv avXty icolifaav AvaKn ol POLytus refers the arithmetical mysti Srai'pottri TTVKivoTfft.
The idea intended to be conveyed cism of Valentinuh to the Pythagorean that of a fence, not a cross. is philosophy from whence he says was it derived, and of this there can be no The term Carpistes has been va
doubt.
The term now under considera riously explained.
Grabe, on the au tion bears its own evidence of a Pytha thority of an obscure passage in Arrian,
Massoet, gorean origin.
The odd numbers were the Emancipator renders it ; Stieren, follow considered in that school to have the the Judge or Arbiter ; male character, the even numbers the ing the explanation of Neander, makes