Section 26 (Page 55)
SEirSOS
SPIR1TALES
DICEBANT.
rpoirov XjOuaoy ev fiopfiopw KarareOeU ovk airoftdWei ryv lib. 1. 1.11.
KaWovrjv avrov, dWd rijv l&lav (pvcrtv Sia(pv\drret, rov MASsu.vi.i.
(iopfidpov fjujSev dSiKrjcrai Svvafxevov rov -^pvcrdv ovrw Se koi avrovs Xeyovcri, Kav ev oirolan vXacats irpd^ecri Karayevwvrai, m. 3a fxrjSev avrovs irapafiXdirreaQai, fJLtjSe diroftdWeiv rrjv irvevfiariKrjv viroerracriv.
Srj 12.
Aio KCU ra. direipri/j.eva irdvra dSewi ol TeXetoraroi irpdrrovcrtv avrwv, irepi wv at ypcupai Siafieftaiovvrai, rovi iroiovvras avrd fiaaiXelav Qeov /xij KXrjpovofi.qcretv.
Kat
eiSwXddvra Siacpdpwc [aSta(f)6pws~j eaOlovai, fx>]Se yap [/j.t]§evj fxoXuvecrOai vir avrwv yyovfievor /rat eirl irdaav eoprdcrifxov rwv eOvwv 3rep^/iv els rifitjv rwv etSwXwv ytvofxevriv
g. si. irpwroi ervvlacriv, ws fjui§e rqs vapa Qew Kat avQpwiroii /j.e/j.t<Tr]fiiv>]f rqs rwv Qtjpioixd-^wv /cat ixovoixaylas dvSpo(pdvov percipere, licet in quibuscunque fuerint factis.
Quemadmoduin enim aurum in cceno depositum non amittit decorem suum, sed suam naturam custodit, cum coenum nihil nocere auro possit : sic et semetipsos dicunt, licet quibuscunque materialibus in operibus Bint, nihil semetipsos noceri, neque amittere spiritalem substantiam.
Quapropter et intimorate omnia qine vetantur hi, qui
2. sunt ipsorum perfecti, operantur, de quibus Scriptune confirmant, quoniam qui faciunt ea, Regnum Dei non hwreditabunt. o«i. v. 21.
Etenim idolothyta indifferenter manducant, nihil inquinari ab iis putantes, et in omnem diem festum ethnicorum pro voluntate in honore "idolorum pro voluptate in honorem Deorum] factum primi conveniunt [I. uti in nihilo quidem abstineant, quod ; est apud Deum et apud homines odiosum muneris 4homicidiale in tbe 16th century, or for the Morquoted by Feuardentius.
Ttp\pu>.
The Latin translation, monite in the nineteenth. a The use of meats offered to idols pro vohmhUe, indicates the preposition
was forbidden in the first synod, Acts Sid, itself a very possible corruption of but the offence conical, which would give a very clear xv.
20, xxi.
; arose in the Church of sense. tinued it so ; Idoloruni has been placed in the Cor. viii.
10, Corinth,
reappeared it
in the Church of Perganios, Rex. ii.
14, text rather arbitrarily by Grade; the mentioned Arundelian and other MSS. exhibit and of Thyatira,
and is ; with reprobation by Tertullian, de eorum; Deorum, therefore, tbe more is Idol., dc Spcctac, Origex, viii. c. Celt., probable reading.
Cyprian d< ifyw«>, &c, whose words are Grade considers that for muneris
VALENTINIANORUM
lib L i. 12. Beas aTre^eerOai eYtovy avrwv.
Ot Se /cat Taty Ti?y rrapKOi MASS.i.vi.3. qSovais KaTdKopws SovXevovres ra crapKiKa tois arapKiKoii, /cat ra TrvevfxaTtKa Tot"y irvevfMaTtKois diroSlSocrdat Xeyov<ri.
Kat ot fjiev avTwv Xddpa ray SiSaarKOfievas vtt avrwv Tt}i> StSa^tjv tclvt>]v yvvaiicas StatpQelpovcriv, as ^iroXXat] TroXXa'/cty vir evlwv avrwv e^airaTrjOeitrai, eiretTa eiriaTpe^aaat yvvatKes ety Ttjv eKicXrj&tav tov Qeov, avv Trj Xotirfj irXdvrj /cat tovto e^wfio\oytj<ravTO' ot Se /cat /caTct to (pavepov airepvQpido-avTes, tov dv epaa-Quxri yvvaiKwv, Tavras air avSpoov aTrocnrdcravTes, ISlas ya/neTcts ijyqcravTO.
"AXXot Se av irdXtv aefx-vws /cot' ap^as, toy /xer' dSeXcpwv vpoa-Troiov/xevot o-vvoiKetv, irpoiovros tov yjpovov tjXiyxdqiTav, eyKv/iovog tijs dSeXtprjs viro tov
dSeXtpov yevt]Qel<Ttft.
Kat aXXa Se 7roXXa fivaapd /cat dOea irpdacrovTes, f/fi-wv fiev Sid tov (pdftov tov Qeov (pvXacrao/xevwv /cat fxe'xpti evvoias /cat Xoyov dfiapretv, KaTaTpe^ovcriv, toy iSiooTwv, /cat /urjSev eirtiTTa/Jievwv eavTOVi Se xnrepv^rovai, m. 31. spectaculum.
Quidam autem et carnis voluptatibus insatiabiliter inservientes, carnalia carnalibus, spiritalia spiritalibus reddi dicunt.
Et quidam quidem ex ipsis clam eas mulieres, quas discunt ab eis doctrinam banc, corrumpunt : quemad modum multae saepe ab iis suasa3, post converse mulieres ad Ecclesiam Dei, cum reliquo errore et hoc confessae sunt.
Alii vero et manifesto, ne quidem erubescentes, quascunque adamaverint mulieres, has a viris suis abstrahentes, suas nuptas fecerunt.
Alii vero valde modeste initio, quasi cum sororibus fingentes habitare, procedente tempore manifestati sunt, gravida sorore a fratre facta.
Et alia multa odiosa et irreligiosa facientes, nos quidem, qui per timorem Dei timemus etiam usque in mentibus nostris et sermonibus peccare, arguunt quasi idiotas, et nihil ecientes; semetipsos extollunt, perfectos vocantes, et semina electionis.
Nos enim in usu gratiam accipere dicunt, quapropter should be read bestiariorum et gladiatoin largesse to the people.
Mabsuet rum, bringing the translation into closer makes the appropriate citation from harmony with the Greek text ; but Suetonius in Cces. : Bestias qmque ad munvs was a term of the arena, very munut populi comparaias trucidaverunt nearly equivalent to the Spanish Fun- . . . Edidit spectacvla varii generis, munus cion (de toros, &c.) and meant the exhigladiatorium, ludos etiam regionatim bition of any public spectacle granted urbe iota.
PERDITI MORES.
reXe/ovf cnroKaXouvTes, kcu virepnaTa «rXcyiJy. 'H/uay fxev yap lib. i. i. 12. ev xpv^1 Tijv X^Plv Xafiftaveiv \eyovo~c S16 Kai ctfpaipedyaeerOai MASs.i.vi.i avrrjs ^avnjvjavTOvs Se ISioktitov avwOev airo Tjjy appqTOV Kai avovofiaaTov ovfyyias arvyKaTe\tj\v6viai> e^efj/ Trjv xapiv Kai Sia TOVTO TrpocTTedqaecrOai avTOis.
At6 Kai e/c TravToy Tpoirou Seiv avrovs aei to T?y avKuyias /xeXeraV fxvcrTqpiov.
Ka< toCto iretdovcri tovs avofjTovs, avrais Ae'iWt Xeyovres oJ/Twy oy av 1ev koo-/xo) yevo/xevos yvvaiKa ovk e<pl\ri<rev, wa-Te avrrjv
KpaTt]6>jvai, ovk eo~Tiv e£ aXtjOelas, Ka) ov xwpfaei els aXyOeiav
Se airo koct/jlov yevofievos, 3yu^ ^l.
/cat] KpaTrjdeis to ev t^J 0.3a. evidvfila.
KpaTtjOyvai yvvaiKOSAia tovto ovv qfias 4/caAouy yvvaiKi, ov ^a>|0i$(7et eis aXydeiav, Sia to /xrj ei> [I.
et auferri nobis: semetipsos autem proprie possidere, desursum Hue. lv.ss. a ab inenarrabili et innominabili syzygia descendentem habere gratiam, et propterea adjici eis.
Quapropter ex omni modo oportere eos semper syzygise meditari mysterium.
Et hoc Quicunque in suadent insensibilibus iis sermonibus dicentes sic : saeculo est, et uxorem non amat, ut conjungatur, non est de veritate, et non transiet in veritatem.
Qui autem de sseculo ei est mixtus mulieri, non transit in veritatem quoniam in con- : cupiscentia mixtus est mulieri.
Quapropter nobis quidem, quos e"{ That no man probably this There a distinction intended by
is is is : the change of preposition (V nbapjp ....
&\n0elas, who does not express, by an iri kIxthov, equivalent, as BiLLius conearthly avtyyla, the likeness of the jectures, to a similar expression in St heavenly av^vylai but all are not of the Joh», where our Lord says of his discispiritual seed ; and any other, diro
; pies that they were «V tQ KbapAp, but nbapu>v, represents nothing heavenly by not in toO xbafiov.
So the Valontinian, a ov^uyla Iv iiri6vp.lq, and as such has though in the world, chimed to be not nothing in common with heavenly truth.
The Greek text plainly requires
the world which the ^ux«6s was. of For ain-ty Kpa.Ti)6riiKU. the Latin correction.
B1LLIU8, and after him the s translator seems to have read avrjj KpaBenedictine, MASSUETandSiiEREN, proBfyfcu.
The same observation will apply pose to read iifuv p&v ovs ifivxiKovs duoto KpaTySels and KpaTTjdijvai yw. pifavai ivayKalav rty (yKpdTeiav no authority for cancelling k.t.X.
Gbabe only cancels the word There
is the two negative particles /xjj, as Masnakovs, which makes sense, but certainly but they destroy the does not express the translator's words, SUET has done ; am inclined to think that the p.-esense, and are ignored by the translator.
I best to sent text represents the following conhave, therefore, judged it I Sii. tovto otw iipiy ous Kai hazard a conjectural emendation in either struction ; place, whereby the sense of the translai(>vxikovs byopdfovai .... ivayicalav ttjk preserved.
The author's meaning ty*p. k.t.\. tion is
RERUM OMNIUM UB.Li.12. -^fVXiKovf ovofidXpvfri, Kai eK ko<t/j.ov eivat Xeyovai, teal avmass.i.vi.4. ayKalav qfuv Trjv eyxpaTeiav Kai ayaQijv vpd^iv, Iva Si avTtjs e\6a>fiev els tov T>ji 1fxeaoTijTOS tottov avTots Se TrvevfiaTiKOii Te Kat TeXelois Ka\ovfievoii fitjSafJiwcov yap irpafys elf TrX^ponfia etcrdyet, aWa to cnripixa to eicefflev vt/ttiov eKTrefiTrofxevov, ~ev8a Se Te\eiov/u.evov.
"Orav Se irav to airep/xa TeXetcodjj, Tqv if. 33.
, A.^)(a/J.w6 Ttjv fjLrjTepa avTwv fieTaftijvat tov Ttjs ixerroTtjTOS fiev tottov Xeyovcri, Kai cvtos TrXrjpwfxaTOs eicreXOelv, Kai cnro- \aftetv tov vvf/.<plov avTrjs tov ^iWTtjpa, tov eK trdvTiev yeyovoTa, iva avXvyla yevrjTai tov ^.WTr/pos Kai tij?
^io(ptas ttjs 1'
A.yafj.u>6.
Kai touto elvai ^vvfJKplov Kai vvfKpijv,
vv/u.<pwva
psychicos vocant, et de sseculo esse dicunt. necessariam continentiam, et bonam operationem, uti per earn veniamus in medietatis locum.
Sibi autem, spiritalibus et perfectis vocatis, nullo modo.
Non enim operatio in Pleroma inducit, sed semen quod est inde pusilluin quidcm emissum, hie autem perfectum factum.
Cum autem universum semen perfectum fuerit. Achamoth quidem matrem ipsorum transire de medietatis loco dicunt, et intra Pleroma introire, et recipere sponsum suum Salvatorem, qui est ex omnibus factus, uti syzygia fiat Salvatoris et Sophia;, quae est Achamoth.
Et hoc esse sponsum et sponsam : nymAt the risk of wearying the reader, 1 fieffoTifros tottov, i. e. in the inter
repeated that one portion of the Valentinian scheme reflects another mediate condition between the Pleroma is it and the seven heavens, which was the ; omnia in imagine* urgent, says Tertullian, plane dwelling of Achamoth, until the con summation spoken of in the sequel, ipsi imaginarii Chrintiani.
Achamoth, the formal origin of the et when Achamoth enters the Pleroma, but leaves without, t&s twv Smaitav ^i/x&s, the souls of the just, with Demiurge, spiritual seed, the Church, 10. end,] upon entering the Pleroma was to be among the ^vxitcot.
For that such is united with her av^vyos, Soter, the col lective excellence of the Pleroma and the meaning of the SUatoi is evident just as the /Eon from the Dictate.
Or., airb Si tov 'ASap. head of the Church ; Ecclesia, or ideal Church in the Divine rpeis 0iV«y yew&vrai, Trpilmj fibf ij dXo17cKafp* Sevripa Si ?Js \oyiK7] Kai Pleroma, had as her avfvyos, ivSpuwos, 70s, ?j ■fl 5iKcUa, 7js tfv'AfitK'
TpLr-rj Si the prototypal divine symbol of the irvevp.aij Man Christ Jesus, the JEon dvOpojiroi. ijv rueijj 77$ Xt)8.
54.
§ ivSi.
Si, Grabe'b proposed read The Valentinian, as might be ex
ing, instead of inffaSi, which he retains pected, made his appeal to Mali. xxv.
6, in the text.
Stieren overlooked his &c.
For vvfup&va Si t6 irav ir\^pwpa, Tertullian h;is, Hie erit in Scripturis note, Lege cum veteri interprete tvBa Si. xp'jnsalis Pleroma.
31. ct spnnsti.i,
CONSUMMATIO.
1 airoSuaafievovs lib. i. l it Se to 7Tuv irkyjpcso/Jia.
Tovy §e irvevfiaTiKout Taf \py^a?
(cat irvevfiara voepa yevofxevovt, aKpaTtjTMS Kai mass. i. vn. aopaTcos evTOi TrXripdifj.aTOi eiae\96vTa? vvfxcpag cnroSoOqereaOat tois trep] tov ILwTtjpa ayyeXois.
Tov Se Ar/fjuovpybv fi.eraf3rjvai ko\ avTOV eii tov Ttji fxrjTpbf 22o(£/ay tottov, TOVTeaTiv ev Ttj (xeaoTtiTf Tat ts tusv StKalwv \J/-i/^ay avairavaretrOai Kai avVay ev tu T>?y juetroVi/Toy tottoj.
NLrjSev yap ■^rvyjKov evTOf irKrjpwfiaTOt ^(wpeiv.
13.
Tovtouv Se yevofievwv ovtws, to e/JKpwXevov tS Koarfui) Trvp eKkdfL^rav Ka\ e£a(p6ev, Kai 3 KOTepyaardfJievov et. 11. m.
Trairav v\qv 4 avvavaXwQqaecrdai avTy, Ka\ ety to /u^Ker' etvat Xwpqaeiv StSdo-KOv&i.
Tow Se At]ftiovpybv /uj/Jci/ tovtwv eyvw-
phonem vero universum Pleroma.
Spiritales vero exspoliatos Matt 11. is. animas, et Bpiritus intellectuals factos, 5inapprehensibiliter et invisibiliter intra Pleroma ingressos, sponsas reddi iis qui circa Salvatorem sunt angelis.
Demiurgum vero transire et ipsum in matris suae Sophia; locum, hoc est, in medietatem.
Justorum quoque animas 6refrigerare et ipsas in medietatis loco.
Nihil enim psychicum intra Pleroma transire.
13.
His autem factis ita, is qui latet in mundo ignis exardescens et comprehendens, universam materiam consumit, et ipsum simul consumptum abire in id, ut jam non sit.
Demiurgum autem nihil horum cognovisse ostendunt ante Salvatoris adventum.
1 &Tro5vaafi4vov$ ras ipvxds.
Their possibly also for comprehendens, he may have written comhurens. souls were the creation of Demiurgus, their spirits were secretly infused by Achamoth, § 10, end.
A separation is 4 Material fire, as every thing else that is material, having no prototype in the Pleroma, should burn itself out.
So Tertullian, Tunc credo ignis Me crum now effected, and the spirit is admitted to the Pleroma, while the indestructible soul rests in heaven.
To di ivrevffev pet, et universam substantia m depopulate, airoOip-eva ra irvevfxariKa tAs tf/vxas, ipse quvquc decineraiis omnibus in nihilum dfia rfj fiijrpl KOfufotifrjj tov vvu^plov, ftnictur. c.
32.
Compare also Didasc.
Kopufbueva Kai aura tovs vvpuplovs rods Or. § 81, and n. 3, p. 48.
Inapprehensibiliter.
Id est ut 0/V7^Aouy tavrutv, els tov vvp.<puva ivros tov 6pov elalaai, Kai Trpbs ttjv tov irvetisuperioribus potestatibus nec detincri nee videri qucant, ut inferius explicabitur.
Ed. Bened. p-aros &$iv tpxpvrai, alwves voepol yevbpxva, els Toiis voepovs Kai aluvlovs ydp.ovs rijs av^vylas.
§ 64.
3 i. e. TTjs 'AxapM>6.
KaTcpyaadficvov.
Tlie translator
Jntcrpres, refrigerare, passive accepit, sicut mox apparet ex § 14.
Hominem animalem, si mcliora elegcrit, in loco mertietatis refrigcraXurum.
Urabe. seems to have read KaraKavadnevov ;
SALVATOR lib. I. Lis.
Kevai airocpalvovTai irpo r!js tov ^wrijpos irapovalas.
EtV< Se
irpoftaXecrOai avTov Kai Xpitrrov vlov iSiov, aXXa mas&i. tii. ot' XeyovTeg cf. in. is. 3i. y^vxtKov irepl tovtov Sia tu>v Tlpo(pt]Twv XeXaXtjg .33.
M. 33. xevai.
Etvai Se tovtov tov Sia Ma^t'ay SioSevaravTa, KaOdirep 3 Sta awXtjvof oSevei, Kai els tovtov eirt tov /3airTiiTfjiavSwp TOi KaTeXdelv eKeivov tov iiro tov TlXripw/maTOS eK irdvTtav ^iWTtjpa, ev elSei 7repio~Tepa$' yeyovevai Se ev avTW Kai to airoj Ttji 'A^a/xwQ airepfia irvevfxaTtKOV.
Tov ovv avro [l.
Tearcrdpwv tovtwv avvQerov yeyovevai (pdJZvpiov qfiwv eK
ctkovo~iv, aTroo~(i>XpvTa tov tvttov Ttjs apyeyovov Kai irpwTis Sunt autem qui dicunt emisisse eum Christum filium suum, sed
et de hoc per Prophetas locutum esse.
Esse et animalem : autem hunc qui per Mariam transient, quemadmodum aqua per tubum transit, et in hunc in baptismate descendisse ilium qui esset de Pleromate ex omnibus Salvatorem in figura columbas : eo et illud quod est ab Achamoth semen spiritale.
Dominum igitur nostrum ex quatuor iis compositum fuisse fuisse autem in So Tbbtullian, Esse etiam DemiTai tt}v IvavBpwirnaiv, Kal tt\v (k irapBi-
urgo suum Christum, filium naturalem, vov ybntnaw p.v8o\oylav airoKakovffi.
BaXortpos be Kal Ba<riXe/5i7S, Kai Tlapbn27.
Similarly the Didasc.
Or., Outos riji tovtuv vdvns, Kal 'Appbvios, Kal Aijpuovpybs sc.) ids eU&v irarpbs Trarfys ol (6 av/i/xoplas, otxov™P-l" T15 irapBivov rV ylverai, Kal irpopdWei irpurrov rbv tpvxiKbv Ki'irjoiv Kal rbv t6kov ovbh be rbv Qebv Hpurrbv vlov elxbva.
47.
§ bia <rw\Tjvos.
Compare Tebtull. De \byov Ik tt}$ TrapBfrov Trpoaei\n<pivai a (paalv, dXXa wdpobbv riva Carnc Christi, 2, and De Res. Carnis, avrrp, iSeirep bi .
Thus we may trace back to the Gnostic
Sta aiSKrjvos, iroiTjffavBat, friritpavrivai be tois avdpujTrois (pavraaia xp7l°'ap.evov Kal period the Apollinarian error, closely bb£as eTvat SfBpvrot, bv Tpbirov wtp&rj t$ allied to Docetic, that the body of Christ 'Appaap.
Kal Ttaw dXXoty twv iraXat&p. was not derived from the Blessed Virgin, but that was of heavenly substance, Ut spiritalcm quidem suscepcrit ab Achamoth; animalem vero, quern mox a it
and was only brought forth into the world by her instrumentality.
The Catholic faith was never other than this, that the creation of the first germ of Demiurgo induit, Christum; cateruni corporalem, ex materiali substantia, sed miro et inenarrabili ralionus ingenio constructum, administrationis causam vi Christ's human nature at the Annuncia tion, and the inseparable union with contulisse, quo congressui ct conspectui et it of the Godhead, was one act of Almighty Power, whereby Christ, both God and contactui et dcfunctui ingratis subjacerd.
Tkbt.
26.
Afterwards the fourth com one Christ.
Grabe quotes added, Super hunc Man, ponent element is is itaquc Christum dcvolasse tunc in baptisfrom Thkodobbt, Ep.
145, ad Mori.
CPtanos, Ijlfiuv pitv yap Kal Mfravbpos, matis Sacramento Jen ('lip', e. 'Inoovv) i.
Ktpbtav xal M.apKlwv vavrdtraciv apvovvper efiigicm columbw.
QUADRUPLEX.
Gl 1 TerpaKTvor e/c Te tov Trvev/iaTiKov, o rjv airb Trji 'A^ayuwO, lib. Li. is.
Kai etc tov -^v^ikov, o dnrb tov Arjfjiiovpyov, kcu etc Trji MASSj tjv v».
L oiKovon'ias, ao tjv Karea-Kevaarfiivov dppr/TW Te^vtj, Kai etc tov p. 52.
Ka.Te\Qovo-a ety avrov irepicrrepd.
Kai tovto t)v HcoTrjpoi, o tovtov~J fiev diraQrj Siafieftevr/icevar (01/ yap eveSe^ero iraGeiv avrov ^aKparr/rov Kai doparov virdpyovra'} 4/cai Sid fl. dicunt, servantem typum primogenitae et primoe 6quaternionis ; et de animali, quod erat de spiritali, quod erat ab Achamoth : et de dispositione, quod erat factum inenarrabili arte de Demiurgo : et de Salvatore, quod erat ilia, quae descendit in eum : columba.
Et hunc quidem impassibilem perseverasse (non enim possibile erat pati eum, cum esset inoomprehensibilis et :
invisibilis) et propter hoc ablatum esse, cum 6traheretur ad In figv.ra.rn principalis tetradis, of the three preserves the fundamental
idea of a steward's duty, which disquatuor eum svbstantiis stipant; spiritali is pensare, to weigh out, or disponere, to Aehamothiana, animali Demiurgina, set out, the master's work to be per incnarraiiva, corporali Ine enarrativa (1. afijrlfrif t^xtd) << Sotericiana, id est, formed by each servant, or to minister eolumbina.
Tkbt. adv.
Val.
27.
The Did.
Or. to his will.
As a theological term it applies to the Incarnation, Christ being 59, gives substantially the § the agent whereby God's eternal pur same account, though not quite consecu according to this account Christ poses as regards man's salvation have tively ; rrippta rpOrov rapa ttjj reicotfffijs ('Axathe substitution, there been dispensed ; /i&0 sc.) iveSforaro .... Kara Si tov t6ttov fore, of dispensationis, proposed by Junius, superfluous. tlttop) yevbuaim evptv '\ij<toSi> Xpurrdv is (1.
. ..Srra Et Soter quidem permansit in Christo
ivSiaacScn tA» rpoKeKTipvy/itvov . impassibilis, ilUesibilis, inapprehemibilis.
Tkbt. 27. cUbva. tov 2wt%>oj.
'AXXA Kai ^i^ncos Xptffrij Sp fveSvo-aro, ibparot rji>.
See i 'SpOax, discessit ab illo in cognition* Ckristi. Tebt.
27.
So in the Did. Or. the quotation continued in note p. 52.
To these three, the Achamothian, the * 5, 61, 'KrtBawer Si, ojroordVTos tou kotoDemiurgian, and the material Kar'
§ pdrros iir' avr(p iirl tQ 'lopSdvu TrvetifiaoUovop.lav, must be added the efflux from the Pleroma that descended as the tos, ovk ISla yevopivov, d\> a owraXAros,
Bdfarof &re! rws rijs twijs irapovaTjs iv airrip, avi&ave to Dove in Baptism, mentioned before, §16, Kai 1»a Kai ivepyiiff^ S irepurrcpa Si aufia (3<p0ij, rjv ij ph> to dytov awi OiaXerrlvov (tpaaiv) to mevna rrp 'EvBv/f/iaeut tou rarpSs, aapa; ol Gbabe's reading, quaternionis,
is rijv KO.T{ktvffu> xerwipLhw irl rijy tov for as terni makes analogically correct ; ternio, and seni senio, so quaUmi the is Xbyov trapxa. correlative of quaternio. rjv, referring to that which had
if. oUorofiia traheretur ad, there can be no doubt
already been said, is § the true reading.
Even the expressed in Latin either by dispenthat this is satio or disposilio, or by administratio, ancient translator could not have been guilty of such a solecism as tradtretur as in the Treatise adv.
Val.
either ;
CHRISTI PASSIO.
oili tik t°uto ypOat, Trpoerayo/uevov avrov tw IliXarm, to eif avrov MASS. 1. vii.
~ v ~ ) *^^t ipn * i \ ~ \ ■2.
KdTaTeuev irvevfia J\.pi<TTov.
AAA ovoe to airo tv/c fJ-iTpos 1 A7ra#ec yup Kai avro to o-irepfia ireirovQevai Xeyovrriv. aTeJ irvevfiaTiKov, Kai uopaTov xai avrw tw St]fiiovpyw.
[I.
Jli7rat7e oe Aoittov (car avTovf \^v^iKOi Ap/crToy, Kai e/c o o 1v t»/? oiKOvo/xtas KaTecrKevacrnevos fxvrrTrjpiwSw^, eiriSel^rj [<V] avTOV fji>jT>]p TOP tuttov tov avw XpitTTod, eKelvov tov rj €TT€KTadevTOi tw ^^.Tavpw, Kai /xop<pwcravTOS Trjv '
A.xa/uLwO /xopfpwcriv tt]v KaT ovcrlav iravTa yap Tavra Tinrovt eKelvwv eV^/cw'a? to cnrepfia Ttjs 'A^a/xa)0 elvai \iyovcri.
Ta?
Se ■v^u^a? afieivovs Xeyovcri yeyovevai twv Xoittwv Sio Ka\ irXelov twv aXXwv tjyairtjcrOat vtto tov Atj/ntovpyov, fxrj eiSoros Ttjv aiTiav, aXXa.
Trap avrov Xoyil^o/j-evov elvai TotavTas.
A/o
Ka\ eii irpocp^Taf, (pao-iv, eTaacrev uvtovv [avTiii], Kai m. 34.
Pilatum, ilium qui depositus erat in cum spiritus Christi.
Sed ne id quidem quod matre erat semen, passum esse dicunt. a Impassibile enim et illud, quippe spiritale, et invisible etiam ipsi Demiurgo.
Passus est autem secundum hos animalis Christus, et ille qui ex dispositione fabricatus in mysterio, ut ostendat per eum mater typum superioris Christi, illius qui extensus est Cruci, et fortnavit Achamoth formationem secundum substantiam omnia enim hsee exempla illorum esse dicunt.
Eas vero quae habuerunt semen id quod est ab Achamoth animas, : meliores dicunt fuisso quam reliquas quapropter et plus eas :
Demiurgo, non sciente causam, sed a semetipso putante esse tales.
Quapropter et in prophetas, aiunt, distri dilectas a ct.
Tradi in manum, or tradi ad xupplicium (irrof/andum), are good Latin Uravpbs or Horus, see note
6, 32, as Theodoret says, X/mittw iireKTav ; but tradi ad aliqucm could never have Oijvai 5td tov "Opov, Kai ^rau/iou na\ovbeen written.
Here Grade must give liivov.
Compare the word iTtxraBds in parallel with in-icrrai, way to the Benedictine.
16, where is it § i.Ta.eh, rendered by Tertuli.ian insubdiiivum, from the idea of subjec tivity involved in irdax€Ly'
to the note upon which passage the referred.
Tertullian also reader is shews that he understood the term as Patitur vero animal!* the synonym of Horus, rather than as carneus • et Christu* in ddincationem tuperiori* Christi. Tebt. c. 17. tw TiSiroc in the text suggests the emendation proposed in note 1, p. 61. involving the notion of the Cross.
Qui ad Achamoth formandam, substantival i non agnitionali forma Cruci, id est Horo, fuerat innixus. c.
27.
Still the if
PR0PI1ETICA
INSPIRATIO.
iepetf, kcu (3atri\eis.
Kal 7roXXa 1 virb tov tnrip/jLaTOi tovtov lirllu clprjcrQai Sta twv irpo<ptjTU>v e^tjyovvrat, are v^>i\oTipas mass. I. vu.
(pvaetDg 2virapyov<raf iroWa Se Kal t>)v /xtjTepa irepl twv IVliix avwripw eiprjxivai Xiyovatv, aXXa Kal 3Sia tovtov Kal twv vtto tovtov yevojxivwv \^v)(wv.
Kat \onrbv 4T€/ivovai Tas ■wpofpiTelas, to fiev ti airo Ttji /xriTpbf eiprjaQai fleXoirey, & xxxiv. to Si Tt cltto tov (TTrep/uiaTOS, to Si ti airb tov Ari/j.iovpyov.
'AXXa Kal tov 'Ii?(row waavTWi, to fiiv ti airb tov Savrijjoos eipijicivai, to Si ti airb t>}s firjTpbi, to Si ti airb tov Armiovpyov, KaOws eTuSel^ofiev irpoiovTOi rifuv tov \6yov.
Tbv Se Aq/uovpybv, ctTe ayvoovvTa to, virep avTov, KivelaOai fiev eirl Toii Xeyo/uivois, KaTairetppovijKivai Se avrwv, aXXore
aXXtjv atTiav vofiltravTa, % sto Trvevfia to TpotprjTevov, e)(ov buebat eas, et sacerdotes, et reges.
Et multa de [ab] hoc seniine dicta per prophetas exponunt : quippe cum altioria naturae esset.
Multa autera et raatrem de superioribus dixisse dicunt ; sed et per hunc, et per eas, quae ab hoc factae sunt animae.
Ac deinceps dividunt prophetias, aliquid quidem a matre dictum docentcs, aliquid a semine, aliquid autem ab ipso Demiurgo : et Jesum tantundem aliquid quidem [a] Salvatore[m] dixisse, aliquid a matre, aliquid a Demiurgo, quemadmodum ostendemus procedente nobis sermone.
Demiurgum autem, quippe ignorantem quae essent super eum, moveri quidem in iis quae dicuntur, contempsisse vero ea, aliam atque aliam causam putantem, quam [sive] spiritus qui prophetat, habens et ipse 4 So Tertulltajt, dividunt enim et passion of the disensational Christ was prophet-idle patrodnium in A chamotk, in prefigured by the Christ of the Pleroma, this would infer the notion also of the semen et in Demiurgum.
28.
Accord ingly the prophetic writings were dic Cross.
1 virb tov 0-rtp/j.a.Tos, the translator tated, as they imagined, partly by a read wepl but vitiose. higher and more divine excellence, 8 sc. tpuxat to <nripp.a tt)S 'AxapwB partly by an inferior power.
0! twv ira\ai£tv ypap.p-6.T03v to. pev dird Buoripas Ixoioas.
3 The reader will remember from \4yovrcs eljrai iwdfUiat Kal 7-77Sd^wrdrw, to.
Si airb vTootearipas.
Orig. in Ezek.
§ 9, io, that Achamoth infused a higher principle into the spiritual portion of mankind through the unconscious De I. p.
200.
5 Imagining at one while that the spiritual principle had gained an inde miurge ; and in the same way, tho souls pendent utterance, and had spoken by formed by him were gifted by Achamoth with the spirit of prophecy. the prophets; at another, that it was
DEM1URGI
IGNORANTIA.
lib. l.i. 13. Kai avrb ISlav rtvd KivijtTiv, ij rbv avOpooirov, 17 rtjv irpo<rGR. I. i. IS.
~> rf ~I \ ff , A * mass. i. vii. irXoKtjv twv yetpwv I yeipovodvj Kai ovroos ayvoovvra IStarereXeKevat a"xPl T5?
Trapovalas tov Jtvplov.
'EXdoVroj Se tow ^oortjpos, fiaOeiv avrov Trap avrov irdvra Xeyovo-i, Kai aa/xevov avrw ^Trpoa-^ooprio-avra fierd 7rd<rt]i rrjs Svvd/nems avrov, koi avrov etvai rbv iv tgo EvayyeXlw eKarovrapypv, Xeyovra rw ~2.oorrjpr koi yap iyw vtto rqv ifiavrov e^ova'tav -l j-i ^X"0
OT/oaTiftSTa?
Kai SovXovs, Kat o eav trporrrd^va, iroioveri. t,K-~^ TeXeo-eiv Se avrov ryv Kara rbv Kotrfiov oiKOVO/uav ne^pt rov m. 35.
I cj^n^ L ^ (.•»'"'
Seovros Katpov, /j-dXitrra Sid rtjv rqs eKKXrjalas hri/ieXeiav, Se
V tdXXa Kai Sta rrp> eiriyvaxriv rov erotnacrOevros avrw eirdOXov, ■ • -■ OTt eis rov rrjs fitjrpbs roirov yoop^rei. r,( j t 14« 'AvOpcoTrwv Se rpla yevtj vcpla-ravrai, TrvevftartKov,
XpiKov, y^vxiKov, KaOws eyevovro KaiV, "AjSeX, 2>y#Kai suam aliquam motionem, sive hominem, eive perplexionem et sic ignorantem conservasse usque ad adventum Salvatoris.
Cum venisset autem Salvator, didicisse eum ab eo omnia dicunt, et in gaudium pejorum : cessisse cum omni virtute sua, et ei eum esse ilium in Evangelio Centurionem, dicentem Salvatori :
^ e9° en^m su^ potestate niea habeo milites et servos, et quod wLue'vii
jussero, faciunt.
Perfecturum autem eum earn quae secundum ipsum est mundi 3creationem, usque ad id tempus quod oportet, maxime autem propter Ecclesias diligentiam atque curam, et propter agnitionem preeparati prsemii, quoniam in locum matris transibit.
Hominum autem tria genera dicunt spiritalem, 4.
] ; psychicum, choicum, quemadmodum fuit Cain, Abel, Seth ut ; the expression of the animal man The translator had StarenipriKivai. or,
; again, that was even the crafty device it is irpoffxuPVffavTat Trpotrxwpijffai s suggested by Fronto Ddc, and he corof the lowest and carnal order of men ; give, and must not be taken with rects the Latin translation, In gaudw
is accessisse. cf. Tertull.
28.
Propere iXkijv.
The unknown word irpoo-ir\oin)t> ei seems to bear the meaning of SiairAoirV, et ovanter accurrit cum omnibus viribus simultatem, though the translator rensuit.
For crcationem we may read proders * by perplexionem, mystification. it Interea Demiurgus omnium adhuc necurationem, or simply curationem.
Ceraliquid et ipse per prophetas tainly Tertullian follows the Greek tcius et si condonabitur, ne hujus quidem operti reading, dispensationem mundi hujus, sui intelligens.
Tertullian, Adv. Vol. vcl maxime ecchsice protcgendce nomine, ■27. quant tempore oportuerit insequitur.
18.
HOMINUM TRIA GENERA.
3 ovkcti Ka& ev, aWa Kara.
J;"-.1-'-'*
I. I. 14.
yevog.
Kai 3 to fiev ^oikov etg (pOopav ywpeiv icai to ^fX'MASS5 e/c tovtcov1 rag Tpeig d>vtreig, L t"'
— kov, eav Ta /3e\Tiova e\t]Tai, 4ev tw T>}y /ueerdTijToy tottw avairau^o-Jecr&zr iav Se Ta ^eipw, -xwptjcreiv /tat avro Trpog o. 35.
Ta ofioia' ra Se irvevnaTiKa, s a av KaTavirelpri q 'A^ayuu)0 e/cTOTe ewg tov vvv oucaiaig ^fv^alg, iraiSevQevTa evdaSe Kal eKTpacpevra, Sia. to vrjiria eKireire/JL^dai, vcrrepov TeXeioTtjTog a^iwOevTa, vufMpag cnroSoQriaecrOai.
Toig tov TEwTtjpog 'A'yye- \oig SoyftaTiXovai, twv ^rvywv avrwv ev /uecroV^Ti KaT avdyKtjv 6/j.eTa tov Atjfxtovpyov avaTrava-a/ievwv eig to iravTeXeg. ostendant et ex his tree naturae, jam non secundum unumquemque. sed secundum genus.
Et Choicum quidem in corruptelam abire :
Animate vero, si meliora elegerit, in loco medietatis refrigeraturum : si vero pejora, transire et ipsum ad similia.
Spiritalia vero inseminat Achamoth, ex illo tempore
usque nunc, propter quod et animae erudientur quidem hie : et semina enutrita, quia pusilla emittantur, post deinde perfectione digna habita. sponsas reddi Salvatoris Angelis respondent ; animabus eorum ex necessitate in medietate cum Demiurgo 1 Either tr l-riStl^uiai must be sup rb Si ipvxiKcv avrt^ovaiov bv iirtr^Seiiy. rrp-a Tpoj re Tiara Kal d<p8apatav, plied in the Greek, or ut ostendant can celled in the Latin.
I prefer the latter.
Kal irpbs dviarlav Kal <j>8opb,i>,Kara ttjv * These three natures are no longer oUelav atpeoiv, rb Si v\iKbv <p6o~eidir6X- \vrai.
56.
The Valentinian, therefore, united in each individual as they were § held the doctrine of absolute election of the Pneumatici, not however by any in Adam, but they constitute distinct generic characters perceptible in three arbitrary decree of God, but by a kind of natural fitness and necessity. several classes of the human race.
Com pare p.
58. note 1, and Hippolytus :
Noao-ffijKol AvOpuntov .... rptxrj SiaipovTertulman has simply, SpirilaU
certce saluti pnejudicalnm, in Seth reconffw' ten fUv yap a&rov, tpaal, rb aiv roepbr, rb Si xj/vxiKOr, rb Si xoiW».
Phil, dunt.
The Greek and Latin texts are at variance.
Of the two t'.ie Greek x.
9. Kal A piiv xoiVAs Ion /cot' cUiva, b is preferable.
The translator, as the Bene Si Tpvxttbs Ka$' bfjboltiHTWOeov, 6 Si irvevaadictine editor observes, seems to have IStav).
Didaxc.
Or. 54. riKbs Kar ISlav (1. read rb. Si ttv.
Karaanelpei .... and for Choicum enim gcnui nuvquam
Stxalais ^uxa's K.r.\. he had Sti rb Kal capere salutaria. Tert.
29.
Kal ra ras ^fX&s TraiSeu$riff€ffBai iv8d.Se Animale media spei ddibratum ad '
ffiripfiara iKrpatpivra, k.t.X. bel componunt. ibid.
The Didasc. Or.
A iv afffbrriri, these words were re describes this threefold distinction as ' peated a second time through careless ToXXol uiv follows vXikoI, ov TroWol ol : so manifest a blemish has been \j/vxiKol, avdnot Si Si ness rrrevaariKol. ol ol ; removed from the text without scruple.
T6 air oiv jrvevpjiTiKbv (pfoei aw^buevov, VOL.
8. SCRIPTURARUM
grSV u" a^T"f Ta?
^i/^/Aray I^\|/i/^ayJ iraXiv inrofiepH^ovres MASS. I. viL x '
* * j / ^/l*AMi'
% * s.
Ae^oi/a-iv, ay fiev <pv<rei ayauas, ay oe (putrei irovrjpas.
JVa< ray /lev ayaOds Tavras eivai rds SeKrticds tov avipfiaros yivofjievas' rds oe (putrei wovijpds titiSevore dv eiriSe^a<r6ai exeivo to <nrepfia.
15- 'Toiavris Se rijs VTroOeaews avrwv ovarjs, rjv ovre TLporprjrai eicr/pv^av, ovre 6 Kiyjtoy eStSa^ev, ovre 'AttootoXoi m *>. irapeSwKav, rjv 3Trepi rS>v oXwv av^ovui irXeiov rwv dXXwv eyvwieevai, 4e£ dypd<pa>v dvayivdocrKovres, «rai to Sr) Xeydfievov, 5e£ dfifiov O")(otvla irXeiceiv eiririSevovres, d^ioirlaruis [dj^ioiritrra Assem.~^ nrpocrapfio^eiv ireipwvrai 6rois elptjfxirefrigeraturis in aeternum.
Et ipsas autem animas rursus sub-
dividentes, dicunt quasdam quidem natura bonas, quasdam autem natura malas.
Et bonas quidem has esse, quae capaces seminis fiunt alias vero natura nequam, nunquam capere illud semen.
15.
Cum sit igitur tale illorum argumentum, quod neque Prophetae praedicaverunt, neque Dominus docuit, neque Apostoli tradiderunt, quod abundantius gloriantur plus quam caeteri cognovisse, de iis quae non sunt scripts legentes, et quod solet dici, de arena resticulas nectere affectantes, fide 7digna aptare conantur iis qua? dicta sunt, vel parabolas dominicas, vel dicThe Dictate.
Or. may here be compared, with the words, na\ws xal p.eyd\ws irepev o&v twv mevfiaTLKurv (Udiraixny b> tpfyarh tis twv iylwv ovrw 5t5d£as.
KaL ij Kv/«o(t5,(suppl.
7jr<x) evdySodSi, (iimpiaidi <pri<riv,TWi/rijs k.t.\.
In Gbabe's day dvopAferai,) wapa rfj iirrrpl (xovra rat the Treatise (MSS.
Bodl.
Cod.
Laud, ^vxas t4 ivSipiara dxpl ffwrcXe/aj ■ oi Si C. 97) had not been published.
Massuet tfXXm tkttoI i/"rx.al wapa ti# BripuovpyQ, indicates some readings from a MS. in repl Si tt\v <rwri\etai> inaxwpovai *ol the Colbertine collection, and Stieben avrai els bySodSa etra to Seirvov twv adds others from Asbeman's edition of • ydpLuv Kombp v&rrwv twv aw^op.tvwv, S. Ephkkm's works, prepared from the H-xpii av irurw$y lrdvra koX dXXijXa collation of nine MSS. fvwplo-Q. §63.
Jf0r wepl twv SXwv the translator s
evidently the true readreads repur<ror(pas. yfivxhi is ing.
The Valentinian hypothesis with aypdupwv, written, but not
i£ respect to the condition of the soul after Scripture. death 'if nuuor, an adage descriptive of —lii. refuted 11. is
, Gbabe first observed that this the incoherent misquotations of Scrip- * section, with the exception of the last ture by the Valentinian heretics, line, was quoted by S. Ephbem Sybub e. by themselves, * i. in the eighth paragraph of his treatise, found in the Arund. MS. digna
is vtpX Tip apertfl.
It not referred to and agrees with Asseman'S reading Ibeh-eus by name, but is introduced ifiirurra corrected. is it dujne, therefore, is ;