Section 28 (Page 76)
S. JOHANNES
e<,ire^"
T'lv Twv oXwv yeveaiv, /ca0'
%v Ta iravTa irpoefiaXev
MAS&i.vui. Ylarlip, apxyv Tiva viroTiQerai to nrpwrov yevvtjQev virb tov cHLi'Lia /cat Yiov Movoyevq /cat Qeov K€KX>]Kev, ev w 060?, ov [^oj Sr/ tovtov m. 41.
Ta nravra
Se Trpoe/3aXe cirepfiariKws.
*Y?ro Uarrjp
(prjtri tov A.6yov Trpo^e^Xijadat, Kai ev avrw ryv oXijv twv
A.6yos.
'Eiret tjv Aiwvwv ovalav, avrbi varrepov enop<pw<rev
ouv irepi TrpwTyi yeveuews Xeyei, /caXeS? anrb r>js ap)(tji, rovrevri tov Geo? Kai tov A.6yov, rrjv SiSaaKaXlav iroielrar
oSVtoy 'Ev ap%y qv A.6yos, Kai Se Ao'yoy rjv nrpbs tov Oeov, /cat Qeos >jv Xeyei
A.6yoi' ovro<s iJi/ ev apyfi nrpos tov
Qeov.
Tlporepov SiaarelXas Ta Tpla, Qebv, Kai 'Apxyv, /cat
factum est a Deo quod 4etiam Nun vocat et filium et uni- :
: genitum Domini vocat, in quo omnia Pater 5prsemisit {legemisit] seminaliter.
Ab hoc autem aiunt Verbum emissum, et in eo omnem ^Eonum substantiam, quam ipsum postea formavit Verbum.
Quoniam igitur de prima genesi dicit, bene prina Filio, et Verbo doctrinam tacit.
Dicit autem cipio, hoc est a In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, sic et joh.
1, 2.
Deus erat Verbum: hoc erat in principio apud Deum.
Prius distinguens in tria, Deum, et Principium, et Verbum, iteruni Kai Sip ical Tlbv Kai p.ovoyevrj Oeov k^/cXijp. ioi, As Neander expresses it,
kcv.
The Didam.
Or. indicates fiovoylles den Kcime in wdchem der Vatcr A nach avs tick erzeugle; but the author evrj Sebv to be the true reading, apxyv speaking of the spiritual seed, or yap rbv Movoyevij \tyovo~i, Sv Kai 8ebv is irpoaayoptveirdai, ws Kai iv tois i^s yviSffis, the substantive life of the Plerather than of the roma, see note AyriKpvt debv avrbv Sfjhot X&ywv, p.
3, i, fiovo-
seed of all created substance.
The Pleyevys 6ebs (Syr. deov roma was the ideal of the universe.
The lav els rbv k6\ttov tov Harris tKelvos
reader will have remarked that the high i^rfyijcaTO.
Tbv Be Abyov Tbv iv t% apxv, est gift that JEoa or created being could tovtov rbv ev Tip fiovoyevet, £v Tip vtp Kai receive was that pJ>p(puais Kara yvwaiv, that was derived through NoOs or MowT7} a\r}$ela fnjvOei
Tbv 'KpurTbv rbv \6yov Kai TTjv JV»i}f'
SOev eUbrus Kai avrbv yevi/s from Bythus, as a spiritual seed.
\£yet, tov iv Tip Be<p Tip 6vra.
§ Kai fib pelvas uovoyevijs Tibs eis right in his Grabe, think, s
I tov ko\vov tov Harpos ttjv fr&6p.Tjo~w Sia conjectural reading emisit; the pre if ttjs yvdiacus i^r/yetrtu tois ai&viv, u>s ceding word were abbreviated prcmisit would easily be written for Pr eniUil. av Kai inro tov k6\itov avrov Trpof3\r]Tho Arundel MS. has dimisit; and Oclt.
Didcuc.
Or.
§ The translator gives the synonym, Filii, by way of gloss. here the uncial character E, through
the fading of ink in the light central stroke, may have been mistaken for D.
The translator evidently read * Sii S
PERPERAM ABLEGATUS.
Aoyov, iraXiv avra. evoi, Iva Kai rrjv TrpofioXriv eKarepwv oI^II ',11|- » ~ % tj> V*'"
* "A'
< i '\\ i MASS. I. viii. avrwv deity, tov tc X tov Kai tov JVoyov, Kai t>jv irpog aWrj6.
Xovs afia, Kat rrjv irpog tov Tlarepa evwo-iv.
'Ev yap tw Tlarpi, *cat «c tov Tlarpog 17 apxy, [ev apxfi SeJ Kat eK rrjg Aoyog.
KaXSc ovv elirev 'Ev apjiy tjv Aoyog' rjv apxfj?
yap ev tw Ylw'
Kat Aoyog r\v irpog tov Qeov Kai yap
% Aoyog, aKoXovOwg'
'to yap eK Qeov "PX"?'
K<x* &e°s ?" o ev ap\^ irpog tov Qeov yevvrjOev, Qeog earriv ovrog %v o. 40. f§€l^e TijV T^9 irpofioXrjg rd^tv irdvra St1 avrov eyevero, Kai ov6* ev iraat yap rotg per avrov Aiwgi fiop(pfjg Kat yeveaewg alriog Xoopig avrov eyevero * Aoyog eyevero.
'AXXa
yeyovev ev avrw, (pycri, fiaq earriv ev6a.Se Kai ^&vXvylav o
ea univit, uti et emissionem ipsorum utrorumque ostendat, id est, Filii et Verbi, et earn qu» est ad invicem siraul et ad Patrem unionem.
In Patre enim et ex Patre principium, in principio autem et ex principio Verbum.
Bene igitur dixit, In principio erat Verbum; erat enim in Filio Et Verbum erat apud Deum: etenim principium.
Et Deus erat Verbum, consequenter; : quod enim ex Deo natum est, Deus est.
Hie enim erat in prin cipio apud Deum, ostendit emissionis ordinem.
Omnia per ipsum joh. sine ipso factum est nihil.
Omnibus enim iis qui facta sunt, et post eum sunt ^Eonibus, formationis et generationis causa Ver bum factum est.
Sed quod factum est in eo, inquit, vita est:
&c.
Hpbs 5^ toi)s rty irepl Alwvwv ivaBene notandum hoc, sire Irentri
xXdcravras h <rv£vylais pvOdkoylav, Kal tive Valentinianorum, axioma, per quod olo/itvovi irb NoC Kal 'AXTjflfias irpo/3evera Delias Christi, utpote ex hypostasi Patris geniti, probari potest.
Grabe.
Ex f}\ij<F0ai \6yov xal fuT)K, ovk ivlBanov nal ravra dTropijjai.
TTcDsyap eo enim, quod Principium esset apud Kar3 abrovs ij avfvyos tov \6yov fwi; t6 yeyovfrai h Deum, Yalentiniani colligcbant, Verbum quoque apud Deum esse, quia Verbum in T<pffvfvyip \apif3ivci yeyove yap, (p-nalv, & ; h> ai5r<ji, iiijXoi'iTi t$ irpoeipnp.4vtf
^byf, Principio, id est Filio, juxta eorum plafur) ijv.
Orio. Tom. in. Comm. in Joh., cita existebat.
Ibid.
And Massuet, Ex also S. Cyril Al. in Joh., S. Acgitstin, Tt. i. j'n Joh., &.c. eo enim, quod Verbum esset in principio et ex principio, concludebant Verbum ffvfvylap.
The Latin has the esse apud Deum, quia Principium,
Pilius Deus est. i. plural, but the Greek expresses the cor rect sense, for the author speaking of oii' tr.
The Valentinians were is * no other copula than that of Logos and not peculiar in closing the period with Zoe.
May not the untranslated text have some of the Catholic fathers these words ; read <rv{Vy/05 i/wijftovevrf The same exhibit the same defective reading, as repeated in the indeed does Iren*us, i. 19, 11.
Valentinian notion nr. is 1, 8,
S. JOHANNKS
*fJL*lvv'T€'
Ta /xev yap oXa, eiptj, Si avrov yeyevtjo-6ai, 'rqv Se MASS.I.vili. y '
A "
* «
• / i / »^ j ^wtjv ev avrw.
Avrq ovv ij ev avrw yevofievtj oiKeiorepa eariv ev avrtf twv Si avrov yevo/J-evwv crvveuri yap avrw, Kai Si to 3<pwt twv avQpwirwv,"AvQpwirov elirwv apn, Ka\ ryv 'EKKXqo-lav otiwavrov KapTTO<popei' eireiSri yap eiri<pepei, koi 17 tyoij rjv vvfjLWS tw 'AvOpwirw e/xqvvcrev, oirwi Sia. tov evos ovottaros Sr/Xwatj Ttjv Ttjf ovjfvytat KOivwvlav.
'E/r yap tov Aoyov /cai Trji Zwfc "AvOpwTrof ylverai Kai 'E/r*:Xi7<T«a.
<Pws eiwe twv Se avdpwirwv rijv Zwrjv, Sia to veCpwrlaOai avrovi vv avrrjs, Sij o ecrri fj.efiop<pwcrdai Ka\ Tre<pavepwo~Qai.
Touto Se UavXos \eyer Tlav yap to (pavepovfxevov cf>a>s ecrriv.
'ExeJ rolvvv Kai
ecpavepwcre Kai eyevvtjcre tov re "
AvOpwirov Kai rrjv 'EKKXriatav
Zwrj, (f>ws eiprjcrdai [eipqrai] avrwv.
2a^)co? ovv SeSqXwKev rj 'Iwavvtis Sia twv Xoywv rovrwv, ra re aXXa, Kai rtjv
rerpaSa Trjv Sevrepav, Aoyov Kai Zwr\v, "AvOpwirov ko.) 'E*cKXt]<r'iav.
'AXXa fxrjv /cat rrjv irpwriv e/x^vvcre rerpaSa'
Sitjyovhic enim syzygias manifestavit: Omnia enim, ait, per ipsum facta sunt, vita autem in ipso.
Haec ergo quae in eo facta est, proximior est quam ea quae per ipsum facta sunt: cum ipso est enim, Joh.i.4. et per ipsum fructificat.
Quoniam infert, Et vita erat lux hominum.
"Hominem autem nunc et Ecclesiam simili nomine significavit, ut per unum nomen manifestet syzygise communionem.
Ex Logo enim et Zoe Homo generatur et Ecclesia.
Lumen autem dixit hominum vitam, quoniam illuminati sunt ab ea, quod est formatum et manifestatum.
Hoc autem et Eph. v. 13.
Paulus dicit Omne enim quod manifestatur lumen est.
Quoniam : syr. |lyj> igitur vita manifestavit et generavit Hominem et Ecclesiam, lumen dicta est eorum.
Aperte igitur manifestavit Johannes per sermone8 hos, et alia, et quaternationem secundam, Logon et Zoen, Anthropon et Ecclesiam.
Sed et primam significavit tetradem.
Narrans enim de Salvatore, et docens omnia, quae yiyovev h> airip t$ \bytp, life or ivrt\ixcta, among the number of Didasc. Or.,
ijv Kiptos, things create. iyi) e7/u (rffVyosSib xat (prjoiv fori) i;
Si iv Tavrbrrrri novoyeviis, ov 6.
fun).
t) § Massdet reminds his reader that Kara Sivaiuv aSii.ara.Tov
oariip ivfpyei, the Macedonians or Pneumatomachi ovrds ion rb <pwt tijj iKKK-qolat rijs irpbi adopted this Valentinian view of the repov iv oxbrif koI iv iyvola oSont. same text, that they might include the Didasc.
Or.
§ Holy Spirit, with them a mere spirit of The MSS. have Homines.
PERPERAM
ALLEGATUS.
/mevoi yap irepi tov 2wt>^ooj, Kai Xeycov iravra to. mtoj tov <ja?'i'}a -y '
R J
«. i ~ r, \ •» » i MASS. I. yiii. irArjpcoiiarof
avrov fxeitopcpwcruai, Kapirov eivai (prjcriv s.
1 iravrbs tov irXripwfiaroi.
Kai <^)(oj eiprjKev avrov to ev tj?
CTKorla (paivo/j-evov, Kai fxrj KaraXtjcpBev vir avrrjs, avrov eireiSq iravra to.
3 yevdfxeva «r tov irdOovf dp/nocras ^yvorjQrj y7r ^aurijf.
JVa« wov oe, Kai aAtjueiav, Kai twrtv Aeyet avrov Kai \6yov adpKa yevoiievov ov rtjv Soj-av i8eao-d/j.e0d, <pi<ri, ijv rod iiovoyevovs, viro rod $6£a avrov, 4ota qv Kai % fi irarpdf Sodeto-a avrw, sir\qpw xdpirog Kat a\)j6elaf.
Aeyei 0.41. extra Pleroma sunt, per eum formata, fructura quoque eum esse dicens intra Pleroma.
Etenira lumen dixit ilium quod in tenebris lucet, et non comprehenditur ab eis. quoniam omnia quae facta sunt ex passione formans, ignoratus est ab eis.
Et Filium
et Veritatem et Vitam dicit eum, et Verbum carnem factum : cujus gloriam vidimus, ait, et erat gloria ejus qualis erat uniPatre data est ei, plena gratia et veritate.
Dicit geniti, quae a peierac S6£av (is JAovoyevoCf 8ti eh Kai undoubtedly the true
iravrbs is airbs wr h> rjj Krlaei TrpwrbroKut iarw 'lrjo'oOs, £v Si irXij/xijtiart M.ovoyevr)s. reading; the Valentinian Soter being
an emanation from the collective Ple TrXij/njs.
The Valentinian, as Grabe roma, see end of 4.
The translator
§ shews, did not stand alone in referring this word ungrammatically to S6%av in read ivrbs. yev. in tov irdBovs, e. the forma * i. he cites S. Cyr. Al. tion of matter and material objects from stead of to X670S ; and Theophtlaot.
It would seem that the passion of Sophia. airrijs, rijt aKorias sc., that is, all this entire passage, from the first refer
that was not of the spiritual seed, for ence to the opening of S. John's Gospel, introduced with the words \(yovret interpreted in the Didasc.
(world so is i) ovtws, to the end of this section, Or., xal ffKOrla ainbv oi KOTftajSs', is quoted oi ri from the writings of the Valentinian XohtoZ twv dv8ptbdiroffrarr^avres, xal ol Ptolkm^us.
The misquotations of Scrip ddvaros oi Trwv, oiiK tyvwaav avrbv, Kai
ture are marked with a tpr/ffl, and in the Kario-x^v aMv.
Hence, perhaps, § present instance error the translator expresses that which he knew to be his author's meaning rather than his exact words when he renders exposed by the is production of the exact words of S.
John. The genuine text, therefore, with its prefatory \tyet Si otfrws, vir' avrrjs twice by ab eis. is parenthe tical just as in the outset the Valen
There Bome heretical significance iB ; tinian perversion of the Apostle's words in this alteration from <is to ota r)n tov Mw.
For the Valentinian Swrijp upon 7) first given, and the text itself then is is added parenthetically, \4yet Si oSrus, TrpuT&roKO* 'Iijo-oOs of whom earth was
A670S, k.t.X.
The reader was said S. John was speaking but hi dpxv it i ; will also observe the paraphrase of the in the Pleroma he was p.ovoytvT)s, as
words irapa Trarpis, whereby the glory Si hthe Didatc.
Or. states 7,
§ ravda dtpdels ovk in fwvoyevty, dXX' us of the Only Begotten, e. his modal i. subsistence or yv&ns, p.
53, n. and /jLovoyevris irpbs tov dTroffroXov irpocayo1,
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g'r'i'ms" ouTWS"
Kai
Xoyos <rdp£ eyevero, Kai eaKt'/vaxrev iv i. rifitv, koi e6ea<rd/j.eda tt)v av avrov, So^av ws fiovoyevovf irapa Uarpof, TrXqptjf ydptTOS Kai aXr/Oelai.
'Ar^K/3a>$ 1 YlaTepa etTrwv, m. w ovv Kai Trjv irpwTtjv i/x^vvare TerpdSw Kai Xdpiv, Kai tov M ovoyevrj, Kai 'AXrjQeiav.
OvTWi
'Iwdvvris irepi Trjs irpwTii koi fJLt]Tpos twv oXwv Atwvwv SySodSoi eiptjKe.
YlaTepa yap etprjKe, Kai ~X.dpiv, Kai Mopo- " yevtj, Kai 'AXrjOeiav, Kai Aoyov, Kai Zwr)v, Kai AvOpwirov, Kai 'EAf/cXi/criav3.
19.
'Opai, aya-7rt)Te, Trjv fiiOoSov, iy ol yjxjofievoi ippevaTraTOVtriv eavTobi, iirriped^ovTes tch ypa(pds, to irXd&fia avroov e£ avTuiv avviuTavetv Treipwfievoi.
Aid tovto yap Kai
joh. i. 14. autem sic : Et Verbum caro factum est, et habitavit in nobis, et vidimus gloriam ejus, ghriam quasi unigeniti a Patre, ^plenum gratia et veritate.
Diligenter igitur ostendit primam quaternationem, Patrem dicens, et Gratiam, et Monogeneni, et Veritatem.
Sic Johannes de prima et matre omnium iEonum ogdoade dixit.
Patrem enim dixit, et Gratiam, et Monogenem, et Veritatem, et Verbum, et Vitam, et Hominem, et Ecclesiam.
Et Ptolemaeus quidem ita.
19.
Vides igitur, dilectissime, adinventioneni, qua utentes seducunt semetipsos, calumniantes scripturis, Actionem suam ex eis 'constare annitentes.
Propter hoc enim et ipsas eorum adnot his very substance was derived from out this section, excepting only the two the Father. first lines and the parenthetical texts.
1 ttaripa, i. e.
Bv66r '
Xdpu>, i. e.
Ptolemy and Heracleon were the chief 2171)1». § 1.
It is evident therefore that teachers of Valentinianism in the West, the western Valentinians included Byand in the East Theodotus, Axionicus, thus and Sige in their system of thirty and Bardesanes, who, however, is styled ^Eons. It will be seen in the sequel that more justly the precursor of Manichethe Eastern branch of this heresy adism.
Hipp. Phil. vr. 35. hered more closely to the original notion 3 Plenum, Massukt's reading is conof Valentinus, and treating Bythus as firmed by consent of MSS. in V. xviii. 2. the Monad, and Sige as a mere negation,
constare, confiare would make a made up the number of thirty by subbetter sense if the Greek agreed.
The stituting in their place Christ and the Ogdoad as forming an even number was Holy Spirit; these two ^Eons were infeminine ; the even numbers, according eluded in the Pleroraa, and such a mode to the Pythagorean notions so manifestly of enumeration very likely expresses the adapted by Valentinus, were consioriginal conception of the heresiarch. dered to in volve the feminine idea, as * Suppl. Kai A fiiv UtoXc/iiuos ovtuis, the oddnumbers were deemed masculine, whose words have been quoted throughSo Hippolytus, speaking of the Pytha-
EEFUTATIO.
1 rag Xe$-eig, "iva e£ avrSiv J- }■ avrog [ain-a?J irapeOepiqv avrSiv JjjMASS-1"tlKaTavofryg Tr)v iravovpyiav rtjt fiedoSelag, Kai Tr)v Trovtjplav Trjg irXavr/g.
Tlpwrov fiev yap ei irpoeKeiTO 'Iwdi/vjj Tr)v dva> oySodSa firivvaeiv, Trjv tu^iv dv TeTrjprjKei Trjg irpo^oXfjg, Trjv TTpwTriv TeTpdSa o-efiaa-fiiooTdTriv ovaav, tcaOtog Xeyov<riv, ev irpwTOig dv TeQe'iKei TOig ovofia&i, Kat ovTiog
enre^ev^Ot] Trjv Sevrepav, Iva Sid Trjg Ta^eoog twv ovo/iaTtov Ta^ig Sei^drj r) Trjg dySodSog'
Kai ovk dv fiera to<tovtov SidaTrjfia, a>g e/cXeXrjarfievog, eireiTa avafxvrja-delg, eir eV^aTft) irpooTr/g efiefjLvrjTO TerpdSog.
"EireiTa Se Kai Tag vvCvylag arrifiavat deXoov, Kai to Trjg 'EKKXr/crlag ovk dv irapeXnrev ovo/ua' aXX koi eiri tu>v rj Xonrwv crvQiyiwv rjpKea-dr/ tjj tS>v appevtov Trpoerrjyopla, ofiolwg
Svva/mevwv KaKe'ivwv crvvvrraKOveaOai, Iva Trjv evoTr/Ta Sid ire<pvXaKwg'
[suppl. et twv Xonrwv Tag <rvXyyovg irdvTwv rj posui astutias et dictiones, ut ex eia consideres malitiam inventionis et nequitiam erroris.
Primo enim propositum esset Johanni, illam quae sursum est octonationem ostendere, ordinem si custodisset utique emissionis, et primam quatevnationem, cum sit venerabiiior, quemadmodum dicunt, in primis utique posuisset nominibus, et sic adjunxisset secundam, ut per ordinem nominum ordo ostenderetur octonationis et non utique post tantum intervallum quasi oblitus, 3deinde commemoratus, in : novissimo prims memoratus fuisset quaternationis.
Deinde autem et conjugationes significare volens, et Ecclesise non praetermisisset nomen; sed aut et in reliquis conjugationibus contentus fuisset masculorum appellatione, similiter cum possent et ilia simul subaudiri, ut unitatem per omnia esset custodiens; gorean Tetrad sayB, 'ApiBpi&s yiyove rrrrai Ka\ei<r6ai.
'Eirl traai Si ro&roit ii Si airrbs Kai wpurws dpxVt &T*p inTh/ tv, dbpurros, Terp&s 8t)\vs ipifffiiis, b dxaTdkiprros, (x<i>»h iavr<p lrdirras rods iprios KaXetrai Sti BfjXvs i<rrtv. Phil.
It'
Hitetpov Swa/i&ous i\Bc?i> dpi8p.o(is I Suppl. ris remits Kai.
Cf. Int.
Kara rb ir\i)8os.
HQr Si dpiS/iwn dpxh
For iwe^e&xBii Gkabe proposes to
Tpdrv fwrii, read iirefeiKet, and MA89UET iir4fcv£e. ijns i<rri povds dparjv, yevvwaa irarpiKus It y4ywt KaB' incbaraaui i) more probable that tirefefixBn dv is Scvrtpa was written originally. irdvras roils AXXovt dpiBpuofa.
Aitircpov i] MS. Clermont, dein recommemoSuit SfjXvs dpiBpbs, Si airrbs xal
b i) iprnos inrb twv dpi6p.trriKwv KaXeirai. ratus, which reading seems to embrace rpids dpiBpibs dpOTjn, ofros Kai the elements of the several varicelectitmes,
Tplrov ^ wepicffbi inrb ruv dpi6p.trTiKwv vtvopaBideinde comm. and de re comm.
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19. KareXeye, Kai ti}v tow 'AvOpooirov dv /xe/xrivvKei o-vfyyov, /rat ouc av a<pt]Kev e#r fxavreias »?Ma? Xa/ipaveiv rovvofia avr>]?.
<Pavepa ovv jJ riji e^qyfoews
irapairolt]<ris.
Tov yap 'loodvvov eva Qeov iravroKpdropa, Kal eva /xovoyevt] Xoto-ToV 'Itjaovv Ktjpvaaovroi, Si ov ra iravra yeyovevai Xeyei, tovtov vlov m. 44.
A.6yovJ Qeov, tovtov Movoyevij, tovtov irdvroov ironjrrjv, tovtov (pS>i aXtjOivdv (pwrl^ovra iravra avOpooirov, tovtov [l.
Koo-fjiov iroitjTTiv, tovtov els ra iSia eXrjXvQora, tovtov avrov adpKa yeyovora, koi eo-KtjvooKora ev rnxiv ovtoi iraparpeirovres Kara to iriQavbv rtjv etyytjtriv, aXXov fiev rov Nlovoyevtj QeXovviv etvai Kara rrjv irpo^oXrjv, ov koi Srj rov IZoorrjpa yeyovevai OeXoviri, Se ^apyjiv KaXovaiv, dXXov Kai aXXov rov Aoyov 3vl6v rov Movoyevovs, Kai aXXov rov
Xpicrrbv els eirav6p6ooo~iv rov irXripoofiaros irpoftefiXtinevov G.4».
Kai ev eKao-rov rwv elprj/xevoov dpavres airo rtjs aXtjdelas, Kara-j^pticrafievoi rots ovofiaariv, els rrjv ISlav vir66e<riv fJLerijaut reliquorum conjugationes enumerabat, et Anthropi, (id est, Hominis) utique manifestasset conjugem, et utique non si remisisset de divinatione nos accipere nomen ipsius.
Manifesta igitur expositionis eorum transfictio.
Johanne enim unum Deum exponente Omnipotentem], et unum Unigenitum Christum Jesum annunciante, per quern omnia facta esse dicit, [/. hunc Verbum Dei, hunc unigenitum, hunc factorem omnium, hunc lumen verum illuminans omnem hominem, hunc mundi fabricatorem, hunc in sua venisse, hunc eundem carnem factum, et hi transvertentes secundum verisimilem inhabitasse in nobis :
[verisimile] expositionem, alteram quidem Monogenem volunt esse secundum emissionem, quern scilicet et Principium vocant : alteram autem Soterem, (id est, Salvatorem) fuisse volunt, et alteram Logon, (id est, Verbum) filium Monogenis, (id est, Unigeniti) et alteram Christum ad emendationem Pleromatis et unumquodque eorum quae dicta sunt auferentes emissum a : veritate, et abutentes nominibus, in suam argumentationem Monogenes was called the Son of rapairolriait, the preposition having
s its peculiar force, conveys the notion of Bythus, but we do not find elsewhere perversion, e. g. vain fiction.
Compare that the Word was derived by Va20, p. 89. lentinus from Monogenes by filiathe last words of § Bythus was the irpoapxri NoCs, the tion perhaps the author's own * is it ; ; reflex of BythuB, was called apx/j.
See inference.