Section 33 (Page 100)
VALENTINUS.
to nev rt Tlarepa ovo/mafyi, to AXyOeiav. o. so.
Se' i.iB.i. v. l. irpof$efi\rja6ai, >fc MASs i.xi.i. 'Ejc rrjs rerpdSos ravrtjs Kapwocpopeicrdai Aoyov koi Zwtjv, Se "AvOpwirov /cat 'EicicXriarlav' eTval re ravrtiv SySodSa irpunriv.
Kat dirb fiev tov Aoyov koi Ttjs Ziwrjs SeKa Suvd/ieis Xeyei tov 'AvOpwirov Kai Ttjs 'E/c/cXiya-t'ay SwSeKa, wv filav cnroiTTacrav /cat v&reprjcram. m irpofiefiXrjcrQai, KaOws irpoeipr/Ka/nev airo Se aav, Tt)v Xonrtjv irpaynarelav TreTroitjo-Qai.
"Opovs Te Suo vireQero, eva nev fiera^v tov BvOov koi tov Xoittov TlXi]pa>fiaros, Sioplfyvra tovs yevvtjTOvs Alwvas cnrb tov ayevvt'/rov rov atpoplfyvra avrw ^avTojv^ rtjv Se Tlarpos' erepov fj.Tjrepa airb rov J\Xtjpwfj.aTOi.
Kat tov X OICTTOV
OVK OTTO twv ev rw TlXrjpwfjLaTi Alwvwv TrpofiefiXtjcrOai, aXXa wo t»J?
[suppl. SeJ yevofievtjs, Kara rtjv yvwjxtjv twv Kpeirrovwv airoKeKvrjaQai fxera. oTcta? tu'o?.
Kat rovrov nev, are
fiyrpbi, e^to appeva virdpy^ovra, airoKo^avra acf) eavrov Tr;v (tkiolv, avaSpa/xeiv els to HXypw/j-a.
Trjv Se fxrjrepa viroXeicpOeio-av fxera Ttjs (TKias, KeKevw/xevyv re rrjs Trvev/naTiKtjs viroardcrews, erepov dualitate, secundam dualitatcm emissam, cujus aliud quidem Patrem vocat, aliud autem Aletheiam.
Ex hac autem quaternatione fructificari Logon et Zoen, Anthropon et Ecclesiam.
Esse autem hanc octonationem primam.
Et a Logo quidem et Zoe decern virtutes dicit emissas, sicut prsediximus.
Ab Anthropo autem et Ecclesia xu. ex quibus unam discedentem et destitutam, reliquam dispositionem fecisse.
Terminos autem duos adhibet unum quidem inter Bythum et [suppl. reliquum] Pleroma, determinantem natos ^Eones ab infecto Patre; alterum
Pleromate.
Et Christum vero separantem illorum matrem a autem non ab his qui sunt in Pleromate ^Eonibus emissum, sed a matre1 foris autem facta secundum 5memoriam meliorum enixam [enixum] esse cum quadam umbra.
Et hunc quidem. quippe cum esset masculus, abscidisse a semetipso nmbram, et regressum
Pleroma.
Matrem autem subrelictam sub umbra, vacuatam in Si in the Greek (tyaTrcijUejw. npo^SaAev oSr xal iyh>facta, which restore I ; traTTjp, tScTep 7jv pJbvos, may have been easily absorbed in the Now Kai 'A\^0eiav, rovriori SvdSa, 17ns following yev.
The particle marks more vrjtrev avrbs
Kvpia Kai apx^l yiyove Kai p.r)Ti)p iravrwv strongly that this dVoitmjins was without rwv (vrbs tov w\iipupMTos KaTapi6p.ovthe Pleroma.
Mass, has matrem foris pjvwv kitbvwv.
Ibid. factam.
See p. 41.
The Arund.
MS. think, has
Indicating the preferable reading preserved the true reading, foris avtem /wij/ttTp.
SECUNDUS.
vtov irpoeveyKacrdar koi tovtov etvai tov Atifiiovpyov, ov koi "^,1-*-,1iravTOKpaTopa Xeyei twv viroKeifievwv.
^EiV/unrpoftefiXqarOat Se MASSlxUavTio Kat apitTTOv apicrTepovJ ap-^ovTa eSoyfidricrev, 6/J.olws [l.
TO?g pt)Qt]cronevoi$ vtp'' fj/xuiv ■^revSwvuft.wf TvwcrTtKols.
Kai tov 'Iqcrovv 7TOT6 yuey difb tov arvcrTaXevTOS cnrb t>js /irjTpbs avTwv, avvavayyOevTOS [ad. TeJ to?s oXois TrpofiefiXrjcrOal (pncri, TOVTecrTt tov OeXrjTOv'
7TOT6 Se cnrb tov avaSpafiovTOi els TO Se dlTO TOV 'A.v6p(&ttov Kai Tiji 'EKKXtjcrlas.
Kai to Jlvev/ma TlXqpWfJia, TOVTeCTTl TOV 'XptOTOU'
7TOT6 to aytov virb Trjs Se
'Ex-AfX^a-jay 'AX^Oe/ay] (prjcri TrpofBeftXtjaOai eis dvaKpimv ku\ KapTTocpoplav twv A.IWVWV, aopdrws e<y avTovg elaidv cV £7. ov tovs Aiwvas KapTrocpopetv to. 3(pvTa T»)y aXtjdelas.
Epujh.
^eKOVvSos Xeyei eljZckovvSos /J-ev tis Kara. f^gjffi0 xxxii.l. tf ** -rr vi 38. vai Trjv 7rpwT>]v oyooaoa, to avTO a/xa tou llToXefxaiw > t \ i / \ TerpaSa Se^iav Kai rerpdSa yevofxevos, ovtos Xeyei rerpddptiTTepdv, ovtws irapaStSovs Sa eivai Sej^tav Ka) TerpaSa autem spiritali substantia, alterum filium emisiese.
Et huno esse Deniiurgum, quern et oranipotentem (licit eorum quae ei et sinistrum principem, simisubjacent.
Coemissum autem ei lem [similiter] iis qui dicentur nobis falsi nominis Gnostici.
Et Jesum autem aliquando quidem ab eo qui separatus a matre a eorum et coadunatus est cum reliquis, emissum dicit, id est a Theleto aliquando autem ab eo, qui recucurrit sursum in Ple- : roma, hoc est a Christo aliquando autem ab Anthropo et Ecclesia. Et Spiritum autem sanctum :
Veritate dicit emissum, a in examinationem et fructificationem iEonum, invisibiliter in eos introeuntem, per quern yEones fructificarent folia veritatis.
Hoec quidem ille.
Secundus autem primam ogdoadcm sic tradidit, dicens 2.
: quaternationem esse dextram, et quaternationem sinistram, We must certainly read 'AXijfoias, by Ei'ifhanics, c. Hcer. xxxi. but a for though the Spirit
i, said ti>have emamore literal counterpart of the Latin, is 4, still 'A\r/in some respects, now supplied by nated from Monogenen, is § Qua was his <Tv£vyos, and so far inseHiproLYTUS, the friend and disciple of parable from him in function.
Iren.eus; this stands in the right-hand tpurd.
The translator indicates the column.
The translator read, Kai worse reading of <pv\\a.
/tin
The Greek text has been snpposed roCro, and the apodosis follows, &cun-
hitherto to have been preserved alone dm autem.
HORUM ASSECLA aptarepav, Kai <pa>$ Kai o~koo. sl ub i'v'I' Ka\eto-dat, 1t>jv fj.ei> /xlav (pwi, MASS.
I.xi.'d.
\ ft* j/\ x / * M Tr;v oe aWqv (TKOTOf Tt\v oe \ < » M- **■ Toy Kai Tr\v aTToa-Tao-av oe cnroaTaaav T€ koi vaTepfaaKai iiaTepriaraGav Suvafuv ovk airb twv TpiaKovra Atuntv o~av Suvafiiv fit) eivai airo twv \eyei yeyevrjaOai, aXX' airo TOioLKOvra Alwvwv, (dXXa) a'XXo?
. twv Kapirwv avTwv.
"AXXo? et lumen et tenebras; et discedentem autem [et] destitutam virtutem, non a triginta ^Eonibus dicit fuisse, sed a fructibus eorum.
2Alius vero quidam, qui et clarus est magister ipsorum, 1 The reader will observe that for eternal correlative of the Good Principle the first few sentences the text of Hippolttus is a more literal counterpart of or Light.
The words of Thkodobet
also correspond with the text as pre served by Hippolytus, and rendered by the Latin than the received text; Tebtullian also follows them :—Sethe Translator. cundus .... Ogdoaden in duas Tetradas
Bishop Pearson supplies the Greek exactly as we read in Hippoly dividens, in dextram el sinistram, in lu tus, adding however the words [6 koI].
It has been generally supposed that men et tenebras; adding, tantum quod desultriccm et dcfectrieem Warn virtutem Epiphanes, the son of Carpocrates, is non vult ab aliquo dcducere ceonum, ted here meant, but Clemens Alexana fructibus de substantia eorum venientibut.
Similarly the author of the LibelDRINUS says, that he died at the early lus adv. omnes Beer.
5 :
Post hunc age of 17, Ifaoc (col to iram-a (rn iirraKalSeKa.
Any philosophical opinions, exstiterunt Ptolemceus et Secundus hceretici, qui cum Valentino per omnia contherefore, formed and taught at this sentiunt, in illo solo differunt: nam cum early age, are little likely to have at tracted public notice ; though it is quite Valentinus ceonas tantum triginta finxisset, isti addiderunt alios complures, in character with heathen superstition, that he should have been deified for quatuor enim primum, deinde alios quatuor aggregaverunt ; et quod dicit certain qualities that endeared him to those with whom he had lived : for the Valentinus JSonem trigesimum excessisse same author adds, Kai Geds ev 2dfiy tt}s Ke^aMijWas TeW/iirrai.
Strom. HI.
The de pleromate, ut in defectionem, negant isti; non enim ex ilia triacontade fuisse hunc, qui fuerii in de/ectione, propter apotheoBis of Epiphanes is quite con sistent with the idea of his own personal deriderium videndi Propaioris.
The obscurity, as Neander observes :—Es author of the Libellus scarcely gives an ist keine Vrsaclie da, diesc Nachricht des accurate account of the notion of Se cundus, who made no addition, but Clemens zu bezweifcln, da der leiclit zu Bimply grouped the Valentinian Ogdoad into two quaternions ; those on the tailschende Aberglaube und Schwarmcrgeist unter den Heiden in dicser zeit dies right, or masculine appellatives, he called nicht unglaublich maeht.
Genet.
Entw. p. 335.
If the translator is mistaken light, while the feminine appellatives, he called darkness.
It was a closer ap proximation to the fundamental notion of Eastern Theosophy, that Ahriman, in rendering iirupavyi by clarus, Tertdllian, who was a contemporary writer, errs with him in speaking of the Evil Principle or Darkness, was the this individual as insignioris apud cos
COLOBBASUS.
LIB.
Tig eiri<pavris StSdaricaXog Se v.
GR. v. 2.
. eTTt to v-^ftjXoTepov KCU Kpiph.
Ha.T. at&xii.
S. avrS>v yvwcTTiKwrepov eTreKTeivdfievoi, .... ovTtog \eyer riv Trjv TrpwTrfv TerpdSa ovtws' "Ecm tis irpb irdvTwv r) irpoap-)(rj, wpoavevvdriTog, dpirptZrri) dpyt) dvevvorjTOg, dpptjrof tc Kai dvovdfi.a<TTOg, fjv prjTOg T6 /ecu dvovofiaaTOS, i)v eyw novdrriTa dpiO/xw. Tairri; HOvoTtjTa /caXet'
Tavrri [Se in majus sublime, et quasi in niajorem agnitionem extensus, primam quaternationem dixit sic Est quidem ante omnes Pro- :
Proanennoiitos, et Inenarrabilis, et Innominabilis, quam arche,
ego 2Monotetem voco.
Cum hac Monotete est virtus, quam et
magistri.
The words also of HippoltSteUcdci Irendus aber V. 2, liaben einige I. tus, Philos.
VI.
38, read altogether as Gelehrte mil Unrecht die Lelire dm Epiphanes zu finden geglaubt, da hier offenbar (irupan)S were intended to qualify if the word SiSdffxaXos, e. g. 4\\os Se' tm imparls SiSiaKaXoi airr&v, where, oben. s.
169) von dem Gnottiker Marcus die Rede ist. Neander, p. 356.
(». the word under consideration had been a if rendered by Tertullj an as Inexcogitabile, c. 37, with which Hippolytus agrees.
The word
is proper name, its ambiguity would have required either the addition of ivi/tan, The translator probably expressed that its meaning might be distinctly
the Greek terminations, as seen in the Arundel readings, Monotetam, Henotemarked, or the name would have been placed last, as in the similar construc tion, c. VIII.
Altogether tarn, the final letter having been added, am inclined I under the idea that the mark of abbre to dissent from the ordinary opinion, that clariu represents the name Epiviation had been lost.
Clemens Al. phanes, and that Ikkn.eus here alludes says, that Kpiphanes, son of Carpocrates, to the son of Carpocrates, author of the was the originator tt}s fxovaoi* ijs *yc(i<Tews, but the account treatise de Justitia, quoted by Clemens Alex.
Strom, m.
Beasons will be not supported by any is other ancient testimony, and was pos sibly suggested by this passage of Iren.eus assigned in the sequel for considering quite as likely, to say for Colorbasus really to have been intended it is ; by the author.
It the least, that Clement should have certainly remarkable is that Hippolttus should class Colorbasus with heretics who called themselves name, as that Tertullian should not have known the mistaken (Vi^oi^s for a heretic whose course was scarcely run irpoyvwiTTtKol, Philos.
XV.
13, and that Iren£US should say of those that ranked with this eVi0aj»^s SiSdffKaXot, that they when he was born.
In default of any other account of the Monadic Gnosti cism, we may very fairly identify the were reXclurv TtXeibrtpoi, and yvo><TTiKu>v theosophic notions here impugned by IreNjEUS, with the arithmetical lucubra yvwirriKurrepoi, while himself was els infa- \tyrcpov Kal yvuffTiKilrrepov tTrtKTUvbp.*vos.
It may be observed, that Neander also tions of ColorbasuB as described by Hippolttus.
This writer has recorded denies that Irenaus here alludes in any the busy trifling of Colorbasus, in way to Kpiphanes the Samian, though divining the relative fortune of indi very probably mistaken in saying that the opinions indicated are those of Marcus.
His words are, In der he is comparison of the monads viduals by a or units that remain after the letters
MONADICA g'r'i'J'I t? f-ovorriTi <rvvvTrdp-)(ei Suvaovocrvvvirdp-^eiv Svvafitv, r)v MASS. I xi.3. /uty, 17P /cat avrtjv ovofid^a) evoriTa.
Aut»j r) evoTijy, 17 Te fid^et evd^r>]Ta"^. Aut»j evor) Tt]i 6tT6 TeJ flOVOTtJS Trpot)fiovoTW, to ev ovcrai, irpor}Kavro, KavTO, fxrj nrpoefxevai, dpxyv
/mi] irpoe/JLevai, dpyj]v eVt irdvTWV vorjTwv dyevvriTOV . fioTe Kai adpaTov, rjv . eiri TrdvTwv voriTrjv, ayevvrrrov . vdSa /caXet.
Tai/Tj; t/J Svvd/mei Te Kat aopaTOV, rjv ap^r/v
Xo'yoy fJiovdSa /caXet.
Tavrri Suv avvvirap-^ei Ouvafiis o/AOOvertos /cat avTrjv ovofidXw to ev.
Avrai al Tecraapes rjv avTrj, Trj fMovdSi avvvTrdpxei Suva/xis o/JLOOvaios avrrj, /cat avTrjv r)v 6vo/J.dXu> to ev. At/Vat at SvvdSvvd/xeis
Te fxovoTtjs Kai evoTr/s, irporjKavro Tay Xot /uety, r]
imovdi Te Kai to ev, irpo^KavTO Tay Xot7ray irpo(3o\as tuiv 7ray Ttoi> rpof3o\a<;.
Hsec Henotes et Monotes cum sint ipsam voco Henotetem. nihil emiserint, principium omnium unum, emiserunt, cum et aoratum, quam Archem sermo 2noeton, et agenneton, Monada vocat.
Cum hac Monade est virtus ejusdem substantias ei, quam et earn voco Hen.
Has autem virtutes, id est MonodpiSpiwv, iva ybfvrat irpunn kqX beKari) found in their names are sumratd aa t) p.ovb.%, did rb Kai rijv beKaba Iffobuva/j-eiv units and numerical factors, and the nines cast out.
Thus the letters in the Kai dpi$p.ei<rOai els fioydba'
Kai avrrj bcKairXaxnaaOtLaa yivrrrai eKarovrbs, koX 20 +
word 'Eicrwp express + +
800+ 100, the initial digits sum 19; iKarovrbs rrdXiv ylverai povbs, k$v r) SeKarr\aowiaa9t'io-a Troi-ti<rrj x'^'^a, Kai cast out the nines and there remains aiiTT) (arai p.ovds.
Hippol. Phil. IV. 43. unity, and upon this residue, as com pared with a similar arithmetical deduc tion from any other name, the relative pLr} irpoliievai.
The translator read
p-riSen, but Hippolytds has /ulj, and Tertullian, protuhrufU non profercnles, fortune of the individual was seen.
The the meaning being this, Unity and Abs reader may refer to a rather curious passage in Hippolytus, Philos. IV.
14.
It may also be noticed, that among traction (p-ovbTTji) put forth, as the original cause, (Ac Beginning, yet so as that the Beginning was eternally insepa other properties of the unit, was it rable from their Unity, As Neandeb observed by the Egyptian sages that it expresses it, Diete beiden MdcJtte, icclche was for ever recurring, qud digit, in die hliclistc Einhcil bilden, erzeugen, ohne decimal notation.
AlyvwTtoi itpaaav eigcntlich 2« erzeugen, (<r will mgen, daes rbv Qebv elvai jj.ov6.oa ddtalperov, Kai a.0e"£ man hier tick Iceine ciyentlichc Erzmgung tt]v iauT7}v yevvCjaav'
Kai ai>r?)s t& odcr Emanation .... denial miinae) das irdvra KaTctTKevdadat' avrrj ydp, tpijo~iv, erstc von dem Gcdankcn ru erfassendc, dykvvtrros ofoa robs e^ijs dpi&pious yevv$' ursprungiose v.nd unsicktbare Onindotov t<p' iavTijv novas kTrnrpoareduGa, 7j princip alles Daseynx, u. a. yevvq tt}v bvdSa, Kai opioids iirurpooTtdtp.
169. f.
Tertullian, c.
p^vij, yewa" ttjv rpidda Kai rerpdba p-txPL Intellect vale, a ; dpxv Kai to re\bs tuv rrjs dtKddos, 17x15 in nascib dr, invisib He. r)
GNOSIS.
Alwvwv.
'lot? lov, Kai (pev <pev.
To TpaytKov yap <Jy dXtjq1®'*/'
/}~ I • - *_ ~ '3 f - ^ MASS.l.xi.4.
Pcoy eirenreiv eernv eiri tj; TotaiTj7 ervfiepopa twv ra yeXoiwSr; Taura yeypacpoTwv Ttjs TO«airr»7y SvofiaToirouas, Kai Trj Toaavrt] toX/ujj, d>? cnrepvOpideras tw y^ever/xaTi avrov ovofia [oW/uaTa] TeOeiKev ev yap tw Xeyeiv, ecnt tjv Tt$ irpoapyji irpb -irdvTWv, TrpoavevvorjTOi, eyw /xovdSa ^fiovoTtjTa^ /caXav Ka) irdXiv, Tavrrj Trj fiovdSi [fiovotitiJ ervvvTrdp^ei Svvafin, /cat avTr)v evoTt}Ta ovor)v fid^w eraepeerTaTa, oti Te irXderfj-a [TrXaV/UGtTaJ avTov eerTi to. eipr/fxeva, w/xoXdyriKe, /cat oti avroi ovdfiaTa TeOeiKe tw 7rXd(TyuaT(, vtto fxrjSevoi irpoTepov aXXov TeOeifieva.
KaJ eraepes eerTtv, oti avros rauTa Ter6X/j.riKev ovohutofMr) Traprjv tw jS/cp avTOS, ovk dv iroirjerar Kai dXtjOeta
el t) efyev ovo/ia.
OvSev ovv KwXvet, Kai aXXov Ttva eiri T»}y avTrji vTroOeerewf ovrwi op'icraaQai 36vo/J.aTa tes, et Henotes, et Monas, et Hen, emiserunt reliquas emissiones iEonum.
Iu iu et Pheu pheu Tragicum vere dicere !
! oportet super 4hanc nominurn factionem et tantam audaciam, quemadinodum sine rubore mendacio suo nomina posuit.
In eo enim quod dicit, est ante omnia Proarche, Proanennocitos, quam ego Monoteta voco, et iterum, cum hao Monotete est virtus, quam et ipsam voco Henoteteni, nianifestum, quoniam figmenta sunt quaecunque ab eo dicta sunt, confessus est, [et] quoniam nernine altero [adj. antea] posita sunt: qui nisi ha?c 5auderet, hodie Veritas secundum eum ipse nomina posuit figmento, qua? a non habuisset nomina [nomen].
Nihil igitur prohibet et alterum quondam in tali argumento sic praefinire nomina:
Est The text as restored by Massuet \&yois tracpis av cfi), a<p' <Zv wpoaveyvu-
here followed. aav. is The text of Stieren as read in Juntos supplies, as the version of EpiPHANIOS. the words recovered in EpiPHANIUS, a
Epiphanius does not think
Super hac mwcria eorum, qui ret it close copy, but hujusmodi ridiculas scripserunt propter necessary to make a merely gives a brief abstract.
Etra \017rdi' kanc. els toDto airrij The Latin reads most like the ixan&piot iirlaKoiros
E/pjfraios, lis ye Tpoelira/iev, jeXoiiibi) original flow of expression, and it is frilfiaTa Kai aurbs TpoeXtrev h'epuvvp.lav not open to the charge of tautology to A<p' &ivtoO, ils avTa^ia rrjs air&v \ypwwhich the Greek amenable.
This is Slas xapievTiS&iievos, -reirbvav yivi\, Kai period, in the Greek, from Kai aatjth ffth'dwV/ Kai KokoKwd&v, ws £ttI Owokciiffriv, seems to have been mutilated, and utvuw rivtav £irnr\a<rduevos, ujs rots <pt\oto have been restored conjecturally.
PERFECTIS
lib. i. v. 2. qusedam Proarche regalis Proanennoetos, Proanypostatos virtus, MAss.i.xi.4.
Proprocylindomene.
Cum ilia autem est virtus, quam ego cucurbitam voco : cum hac cucurbita autem est virtus, quam et ipsam voco perinane.
Ha?c cucurbita et perinane, cum sint unum, emiserunt, cum non emisissent, fructum, in omnibus visibilem manducabilem et dulcem, quem fructum sermo cucumerem vocat.
Cum hoc cucumere est virtus ejusdem potestatis ei, quam et ipsam peponem voco.
Hae virtutes, cucurbita, et perinane, et cucuniis, et pepo, emiserunt reliquam multitudinem Valentini deliriosorum peponum.
Si enim eum sermonem qui de universis fit, transfigurari in primam quaternationem oportet, et quemadmodum vult aliquis ipse ponere nomina, quis prohibet his nominibus, ut multo credibilioribus, et in usu positis, et ab omnibus cognitis ?
Ejiiphan.
Hter. xxxii. 7.
3- **AXXoi Se traXiv av3.
"AXXoi Se irdXiv avrwv 0. 53
° S.Hiup.
Tt]f irptaTrjv icai ap-)(aioyovov ° Twv tt\v wpcoTtiv koi ctp^eyovov oySodSa tovtois tois ovdfxacri [apxiyovovj oySodSa tovtois tois ovofidviv eKaXecrav .
KetcXqiaxn' upwTov irpoap^v, 3.
Alii autem rursus ipsorum primam et archegonon octonationem his nominibus nominaverunt : primum Proarchen, 1 Tkrtullian, c.
Vol.
35, gives an the Divine attributes themselves that almost literal translation of this section, without professing to explain are represented as reaching further and further back in eternity, doubtless with it, but the view of symbolising the truth that Hoc qua ratio disponut, ut sin adds : they are without beginning.
Bythus in the Gnostic Theosophy must be gula binis locis quidem tarn intcrcisis, et nascantur, malo iynorarc quam disccre. taken as the fixed point, the Divine Quid enim recti habent, qua tarn perverse proferuntur But reproduction was of and whereas in every pre subsistence i ; the very essence of the Valentinian ceding scheme the ^Eons were evolved from Bythus and Sige, so in this system system.
So, apxh was a term applied a quaternion of his attributes are by Valentinus to fivdbs as the irpoapxh and to Nous as ipxh, wero to So, after the imagined antecedently as it I• § ogdoad of the Pleroma had been evolved, Achamoth was styled the second ogdoad, Bythus, and subsisting in him when as yet nothing else was and again a ; quaternion of attributes of equally co9.
So, there was the prototype Ec- § clesia in the Pleroma, and its earthly copy; the ^Eon Anthropos, and Alan the eternal subsistence.
The notion was borrowed from Pythagoras, for Hierospiritual seed of the animally consti cles in his commentary on the golden tuted Demiurge.
One and all of these ouk (otw elireiv verses, says jx^ tt}s rerpaKTiot lis jMfos Kal apxos VPTV~ rax' tart, yap, ws tfanev, drj/uovpybs tu>v b ; notions may be referred back to the Platonic iSeai, or forms of things that subsisted eternally in the Divine mind, 5\wv, koi alrla rirpas, 6eAs votttoj, it the Gnostic Pleroma, before they wero atrios toS oipavlov Kal a'urBrrrov 9eou. called into being in this place they are p.
170.
The tctractys being of the ;
l'ERFKCTIOKES.
evetTa dvevvor/TOV, Tr)v Se rpt~ TCTapTrjv aopaTOV.
<$£f Ka} eK fiev Trjs TrpooTrjs irpoMASS.I.xi.5.
Trjv dppryrov, koi Tr)v rerapTt\v dopaTOV Kat ck ju.lv Trjs apyrji 7rpof3e(3\rj(T6ai vpwTU) Kat TrefiTrTtp tottui dp^rjv eK irpwTr/s Tlpoapxfjs irpofief$Xrjo~dai irpwTW Kat TreftTTTU) Trjs dvevvorjTOV, Sevrepu) Se .
. ap-xyv, ck Se rr/i '[ap^y M. 56.
Kat eKTW dKaTaXriTTTOv e/c Se T$y dppr/TOV Tp'tTU) Kat eftSoTjJyJ dvevvor/Tov Sevrepip Kat eKTtp roiru) aKaTaXtjiTTOV, eK fj.01 totto), dvovonaarTOV eK Se Se Trjs dppr/TOV TpiTtp Kai Trjs dopaTov, dyevvrjTOv, TrXr)pwfia Trjs TrpwTris oySoaSos^ Tairray fiovXovrai Tay Svvde(3S6/X(p TOTTU) aVOVOfiatTTOV, eK Se Trjs dopaTov dyevvr/TOV, ixets TTpovTrdp-^etv tov livdov TfKrip(iofj.a Ttjs wpooTrii oySodSos.
Tauras ftovXovrat Taj
Kat Trjs ^SiJy^y SuvdfjLets TTpovTrdpyetv tov BvOov Kat Trjs ^Liiyrjs, Iva TeXelwv TeXetoTepot (pavwcriv ovTes, Kai Yvwcttikwv yvuxTTtKWTepoi' irpbs ovs SiKalws dv TIS eTTi(pu)V)']iTeiev w XrjpoXoyot vocpiGTat.
Kai yap Trepi avrov deinde Anennoeton, tertiam autem Arrheton, et quartam Aoraton.
Et de prima quidem Proarche emissum esse primo et quinto loco Archen, ex Anennocto secundo et sexto loco Acatalepton, et de Arrheto autcm tertio et septirao loco Anonomaston, de Aorato autem quarto et octavo loco Agenneton, Pleroma hoc primjB ogdoadis.
Has volunt virtutes fuisse ante Bython et Sigen, ut perfectorum perfectiores appareant, et Gnosticorum viri.] ad quos juste quis hoc dicat. sO pemagis gnostici veri [7. pones, sophistoe vituperabiles, et non viri [veri].
Etenim de ipso Divine attributes, was co-ordinate with Kai tpywv aTrdvrtov, br ovpavQ (puarijp, 30 that S. Cyril of Alexan the Deity Kai rrdvrwv Trarijp, vovs Kai ^v^wtrts r$ 8\(p kvk\(?, irdvruiv Kirtura.
Ad Gent.
; Jul. I. p. 30), could say truly of dria 6.
(c.
Pythagoras, l5oi> 8Jj aacpuis, iva re elceu Delends hie duse voces, qute sen-
\£yei rbv rutv SKiav Qebv, Kai Trdvruiv sura conturbant, quasque nec vetus interapxty, ipydr-qv re r&v avrov tiwdfiew, pres, nec Tcrtullianus legerunt.
Mass.
HlPPOLYTUS also ignores them.
4>woTT}pakoI Tpvxww, ijroi ^uoirottjffivrwv Grade imagines the author to 6\ii>v Kai k6k\ci>v iravTwv Kim/ffiv expres
have quoted the Homeric line, sions taken from the ai/ris (<pa of the philosopher, as recorded by Clemens Al.
'O p.h Beds ffs- *0 iriiroves K(£<c' i\tyxe'> 'AxaitSet, ovk tr' 'kxaiol. —II.
/3'. 235. but ovTos oix <fs x' rives VTrovoovtjLVf iKrhs toj SiaKOfffiJitrtoi, i\X iv airq.
8Xos iv $hi# T<j>kvk\ip, Mmore probable that he parodied is it :— '(I riirovh pa, aotpt.ara.1
{Kr/KTol, p.rjSi it (tkottos irdaas yevfoios, Kpdats r&v 8\tov' del tov, Kai ipydras rwv avrov Swd/uuv r' d\r]6(is,
FAUTORES "AXXoi Se irepi avrov LIB. I. v 3.
T0Q JlvQov TroWai koi SiaGR. I. v. 3. mass.i.xi.8. rOV S.Hipp. ibid.
Jivdov a.Sia(p6pwi Kivovnevoi, (p0p0l yvwfiai irap avrotf. ol /xev avrov aXvyov Xeyovcri, Mre appeva [tyre OrjXvv, aXi /xev yap avrov a(vyov
ixr/Te appeva, fxyre Xeyova-i,
fJt^re oXwf ovra ri.
Xoi Se rrjv "Siiytjv OyXeiav avrw QrfXeiav, (TvfjLirapetvai, Kai eivai ravrijv "AXXoi Se appevodtjXvv avrov Xeyovcriv eivai, ep/xacppoSlrov irpwrrjv avXyylav.
(pvo'iv avrw Trepia7rrovres.
"SiiyijV Se iraXiv aXXoi crvvevvenv avrw irpoerenrrovcriv, Iva yevrjrai Trpdrrj crvCvy'ia.
Bytho vari;e sunt sententiae apud eos.
Quidara enim sine conjugatione dicunt eum, neque masculum. neque foeminam, neque omnino aliquid esse.
Alii autem et masculum et foeminam eum
dicunt esse, hermaphroditi genesin [genus] ei donant.
Sigen autem rursus alii conjugem ei addunt, ut fiat prima conjugatio. which would require vi-ri in the transla tion, as in the Auund. MS. and Merc. I. distinguished between the Auyos eV5taOctos, and the Abyos irptxpopiKos, so the 1 Elfortas&e hoc Deum, non hie Deus heretic discriminated between the Pan neulro genere prormiUiant.
Tert. c. Vol. theistic notion of the Deity, as the 34.
The truth, that no notion of sex soul or entelechy of the universe, and can attach to the Deity, wag acknow the Deity as He was before anything was created.
The words ffyai and otVio ledged at a very early date.
So the Magi condemned the notion tuip \eybvwere considered to apply only to the TOjf dfyevas thai Qeoi'S Kal 6n\eLas.
Diog. La.
Procem.
Eusebius says state of either material or active exist ence ; hence before anything existed upon which Divine benevolence could that primitive heathenism, whether act, the Divine Principle was an unin barbarian or Greek, knew nothing of tli3 later Tro\vtp\uapla rijs tGiv QeQv telligible abstraction, d/coroci/xacrrot, dpprjTOS and avevvbnros, and it was in appkvw re Kal $rj\eLu;v narovofLaalas. order to mark the utter impossibility for Prcep.
Ev.
Hence the Orphic verse (Proclus in 2'im. Plat.) says : the human mind to conceive the Divine subsistence prior to the revelation of Zeus Hpffnv yevero, Zei)s &/j.j3poros eVXero Himself in creation, that Basilides as vvp.tpt\.
Damascius {Wolfe Excerpta ex Dam. serted with a fearful hardiness, \{yu in Aneed.
Gr. III.
254,) accounts for elvat Oebv ovk 5vra Trewoiwuivoif Kdj/iov this Orphic dictum as follows :—ipaev6Ol'K frvTW, OL'K &VTa OVK iSf.
HlPPOL.
Phil.
14.
Compare also the term &tj\uv avrTjv VTrtaTT)<xaTo, irpbs Zvou^iv avovatos as applied to the Deity by the ttjs TravTwv yevvTjTiKTjs ovalas.
Sc.evola, Marcosians in c. X.
Similarly Maimohead of the college of augurs, affirmed NIDES gays of the Deity, that He exists, that no image expressed the Deity, non per exUtentiam, that He lives, non Quod vents Deus nee sexum habeat, nee per vitam, He is powerful, non pit patenaitatcm
&c. Aug. Civ. Dei, iv. 17.
Ubabe quotes Synesiub to the same effect. tiam, He knows, non per scientiam, but all attributes centre in one reality where 3 piyre SXuy 6vra Ti.
The Basilidian error iH here indicated.
As the fathers in is no multiplicity.
His words are