Section 38 (Page 147)
CABBALISTICA.
SSJl 16y8odf. 'H ouv Setcas eTricrvveXOovcra Ty SySodSi, koi SeicairKa- ^t''^iJt vi. SO.
» « "» * » /O'/O MASS.I.xv.i. aiova avTtjv iroirjo-aaa, tov twv oyoorjKOVTa irpoepipacrev apiOfxov Kai to. oySoijKOVTa irdXiv SeKairXatridaacra, tov twv oKTaKoo-'iwv apiBfiov eyevvtjaev waTe eivai tov diravTa twv ypafifidTWV apiOfibv airb SySodSos els SeicdSa irpoeXOovTa, o7i. ij Ka\ tt Kai w, o e&Ti SeicaoKTW ("7') [H.
^rjirovf^.
To yap 'Itjcrov £H.
'Iijcrovy^j ovofia koto, tov ev Tot"? ypd/xf/iacriv apiQfibv, *w eo~Tiv 6y§ot]KOVTaoKTw.
"E^et ['E^etjJ ara(pws Kai Ttjv virepovpdviov tov 17 /cat tou <r to?
'I>/<rou] /cot' avrovf [Z. yeveaiv.
Ato /cat tov a\(pdf3>]Tov twv 'EiWrjvwv ej(eiv [H. ftovdSas oktw, koi SeicdSas oktw, Kai eKOTOvrdSat
e^etj M. 76.
OKTW, Trjv TWV OKTaKOVlWV SySotjKOVTaOKTW ^r)(pOV eTTSlTa SeiK-
vvovTa [^Int. et H. eviSetKvvovTa'^, tovtso-ti to rj, [|H. tov e
tov e/c irdvTwv crvveaTWTa twv cipiQfxwv.
Kat Sia tov TH. toCto] d\(pa Kai w Svofid^eirOai avrbv, Ttjv e/c
'I^o-owJ iravTWV yeveatv arjfxalvovTa.
Kat iraXiv ovTWf Ttjs irpwTtjs adjuncta octonationi et decuplam earn faciens lxxx fecit B et rursus octuagies deciea octingentorum numerum numerum : fecit, ut sit universus literarum numerus ab octonatione in decadem progrediens octo et octuaginta et dccc quod est Jesus.
Jesus enim nomen secundum Graecarum literarum computum dccc sunt Lxxxvm.
Habes manifesto et supercoelestis Jesu Grrecorum habere secundum eos genesin.
Quapropter et A B monadas octo, et decadas vm, et hecatontadas vnt, dccclxxxviii numerum ostendentia, hoc est, Jesum, qui est ex omnibus connominari eum, cum significet ex omnibus ejus generationem.
Et iterum ita et propter hoc stans numeris et C2 A : prima; :
K&jnra for 90, and aapiirX for 900.
As regards the true Greek character found in the Aedndel MS., otherwise for 6, the last word is manifeste ; it expresses therefore, the units contain nine less the correct reading, though abbreviated, e. g. pista.
The Cl. has repvarepiv. one, or eight, the tens the same, the Hipp, has Sixa elro [ifira] Setcao/f rc6. which will hundreds also the same
; For the numerical equivalents of serve to explain the text.
* The name Jesus was said to I, the several letters ri, a, 0, a, see * v, represent the entire Alphabet, as the JEon Jesus represented the entire plep. 66, note and note p.
1, 1, 148. nwd&as ixTti.
The reader may be
roma, of which, taken collectively, he again reminded that in the Greek nu was the tAcios napvbt, p.
148, n.
1. merical alphabet, three extraneous cha The Clebhont MS. reads confedt. the iriffijp,a, /3au
racters are imported ; 10—2
CHRISTOLOGIA
titL^ja1» TfT/°a'^°y Kara Trpocrftacriv [Trp6f3acriv~] apiQfiov «s airrriv crvvTiuef/.evtji, o twv oe*ra ave<pav*i apiufios. alia yap koi Svo koi Tpels koi Tevaapes eiri to avrb (rvvreQeivai, oexa ylvovrar Kai tovt eTvai Qekovari tov 'Itjcrovv.
13. 'A\Xa /cai 6 XpeicTTOt, (f>q<ri, ypafifidroiv oktod wv, t*iv 1 av/j-TrXaicettra, o 73. irpwTijv oySodSa o-*iftalvei, !]Tii tw Seica [1J Se, (pqcr), koi vlbf Xpetorof, tov 'Ii/o-ow direKv*i<Te.
A.eyeTai SooSexdi' to yap vibf ovofia ypa/n/iaTccv e<rrt Tovreo-Tiv *i Teaadpwv, to Se XpeiarTOf oktw' ariva ovvTeQevTa to t?s StoSeicdSos eveSei^av fieyeOof.
Tlpiv fiev ovv, (pl&t, tovtov tov oWyuaToy T0 eirl(T*ifJ.ov (pavrjvat, TovretTTi tov 'Iqaovv,
quaternationis secundum progressionem numeri in semetipsam composite x apparuit numerus.
A enim et et T et A in B 4semetipsa composita x fiunt, quod est et hoc esse volunt I, Jesum.
13.
Sed et Christus, inquit, literarum est vui, 5ex quibus primam octonationein significari, quse cum Iota applicita DcccLxxxviii numerum generavit.
Dicitur autem, ait, et filius Christus, hoc est duodecas Yios enim nomen literarum quatuor est, XpeiaTos autem octo : quae composita duodecadis ostenderunt magnitudinem.
Prius autem. inquit, quam hujus nominis : insigne appareret, hoc est Jesus, filius, in ignorantia magna number, the three double consonants
<rvfiir\aKeT<ra, eight, and the sum of eight multiplied into ten, and also into ten squared, e. g. being resolved and added again to the p. 139.
But'IijiroCs com + 80+800=888 14, note is 1, a
= the numerical value of bination of twenty-four elements, there I, a.
17, <s, o, v, Marmov.
Mabsuet says that a, fore add to them the single characters * as symbolising the six letters of the that compose the name, and we obtain, in the same way as in the alphabet, the the symbol of Christ; but a name 'Iij<roPs, is number thirty.
In this way'Ii^roDs the sign for 200, not for and is is 6, the context leads us to look for the exact the iirlaTiiiov of Xpfioris. equivalent of thirty.
The Clebmont writes the babe's note as
T is G G, the other MSS. have r.
It not more satisfactory, who says that is simply an instance of mistake arising the irlcrrinoy of Christ, quia potiium est in aisimilationem et figurais 'I>j(roOs from the similarity of the sigma and of the gamma.
See note 4, p.
138. tionem ejus, as Iben^eos says below, in fact no help, for in what consisted the similitude which The reading of Mabsuet adopted
is is p.
; on the sole authority of the Abdnd.
MS.
The Clebh. and all other MSS.
Now it ? p. 146, that Xpetahas been shewn, note 1, a combination of thirty elements tos have semetipso. is ; a combination of the same the alphabet Indicating tSv in the Greek. is
CABBALISTIC A.
Toit vloig [tov wok J, ev ayvola 7roXXjJ virtjp-^ov ol avOpwrrot HfJ'^f' xat TrXavp.
Ore Se ecpavepwdrj to e^aypdjxfiarov ovofia, of MASSU*vgadp/ca TrepiefiaXXero, Iva eis rrjv ai<r8t](Tiv tov dvQpwirov icareXdy, e^wv ev eavrw avra. to. e£ sat rd etKOtrireo-aapa, Tore "yvoKTer avrov eirauaavro rrjs ayvolas, etc davdrov Se etc ^osrjv avrjXQov, tov ovoftaros avrots 16Sov yevvt]6evros irpos tov Tlarepa rrjs dXtjOelas.
TedeXrjKevai yap tov Tlarepa twv oXmv Xvaai rrjv ayvoiav, /cat KaOeXeiv tov Odvarov.
'Ayvolas Se Xwrty ft eirlyvw&is avrov eylvero.
Kat Sid rovro eicXexOqvat rov Kara to $eXijfjLa avrov icar eiicova aT//y dvo> Svvdfxews oiKOVo/ntjOevra "Av6pw7rov. m. 77.
14.
'Airo rerpdSos yap TrporjXQov ol Aiwves9Hv Se
fihsi*'
TerpdSi 'Avdpwiros /cat 'E/c/cXijcrta, Aoyoy koi Za>q.
'Airo tovtiov ovv Svvdjxeis, (pqcrtv, diroppveitrai, eyeveariovpytjcrav tov eiri yrjs (pavevra 'Irjo-ovv.
Kat tov /xev Aoyov fuerunt homines et errore.
Cum autem manifestatum est vi literarum nomen, hoc quod est secundum carnem amictum est, ut ad sensibilitatem hominis descenderet, habens in semetipso ipsum quoque vi et viginti quatuor; tunc cognoscentes eum cessaverunt ab ignoratione, et a morte in vitam ascenderunt, nomine 11. «ix. iv. eis facto ducatore ad Patrem veritatis.
Voluisse enim Patrem universorum solvere ignorantiam, et destruero mortem.
Ignorantiae autem solutio, agnitio ejus fiebat.
Et propter hoc dic tum secundum voluntatem ejus, eum qui est secundum imaginem ejus, quae sursum est virtus, dispositum Hominem.
14.
A quaternatione enim progressi sunt ^Eones.
Erat autem in quaternatione Anthropos et Ecclesia, Logos et Zoe.
Ab iis igitur virtutes, ait, emanatae generaverunt eum, qui in terra manifestatus est, Jesum.
Et Logi quidem locum adimplesse 1 The Greek text is most likely to cated in the version by dictum, unless be right, for there is a manifest allusion indeed the translator wrote electum. to the words of our Lord, Joh. xiv. 6, * ttjs tra Svfd/ieus, neither Xpurris I am the way, the truth, and the life. nor Zwrijp, as Grabs imagines, and to It is a matter of surprise that this has which Massuet half assents, but the not been remarked.
The passage gives Supreme JEon Anthropos, which the another proof that the translator's copy, Ptolemsean precursors of the Marcosian taken perhaps at third hand from the heresy identified with Propator.
See original, was at that early date no model VI. § 1, 3. vii.
Sti i) inrlp ra t\a Svvap.ii of accuracy.
So within a few lines we koX cpLwtpictcTiK$i tQv wdvrw "A.vdpwiros have the false reading \*xOf)nu, indiKoXefrat.
See note 1, p.
134.
TIIEOPHANIA
LiRi.viij.u. avaireTr\>]pa)Kevai tov tottov tov ayyeXov TaftpirjX, rtjt Se p^PjJ^. mass.i.xv.3. Ytwtjt to aytov TlvevfJia, tov Se ,A.v6pwirov rijv Svvafiiv tov v "
VIOV £H.
T>]V TOV vty&TOV $.J'
TOV Se Ttjs 'E/C/cXlJtTl'ay TOTTOV fi Tlapdevos eireSei^ev.
Ovroos T€
tear oiKOVOfuav Sia Ttjs
Trap' avrw avdpairos, ov 6 Uarijp cr. i. {13.
Map/ay yevea-iovpyelrai twv oXwv SieXdovra Sia fitjrpai e^eXe^aro Sia A.6yov cif avrov ety to vSaip, KareXOeiv 0*6 * eirlyvuxriv avrov.
'EXfloWoy ~avaSpa/j.6vra dvw, koi irX^pwety avrov wy irepicrrepav tov aravra rov ScoSeKarov apidftov ev w virdp^ei to VTrepfia rovavfJLirapivrwv avrw, koi (TvyKarafiavruiv, xat trvvavarwv rwv
rrjv Svvaftiv KareXOovaav <nrepfxa (prjaiv Se fUdvrwv.
Avr^v IlaTpoy £H. irXtipwfiaTOs"^, e-^ov ev eavrqi icai tov o. 7* etvai rod
IlaTepa icai tov Ylov, rf)v re Sia. rovrwv yivaxTKO/J-ev^v avovo-
lxa<rrov Svvafiiv rijs Styijy, Kai tow airavras Auei/ay.
Kai to?t £H. TOirrovJ eivai sro irvevfia to XaX!j<rav Sia. tov 'I^tro? r.
(rro/uaTOf rod Y/ouJ, to 6fioXoytjo-av eavrov vlov S.
[^H.
35. angelum Gabriel, Zoes autem Spiritum sanctum, Anthropi Luc. i. autem Altissimi virtutem Ecclesise autem locum Virgo osten- : dit.
Et sic ille qui est secundum dispositionem, per Mariam generatur apud eum homo, quem Pater omnium transeuntem per vulvam elegit per Verbum ad agnitionem suam.
Cum autem venisset ipse ad aquam, descendisse in eum, quasi columin quo inerat semen eorum qui conseminati sunt cum eo, et condescenderunt et coascenderunt.
Ipsam autem virtutem quae descendit, bam, eum qui recurrit sursum, et implevit xn numerum : semen dicit esse Patris, habens in se et Patrem, et Filium, et earn qusB per eos cognoscitur innominabilis virtus Siges, et omnes ^Eonas.
Et hunc esse Spiritum qui locutus est per os rap' ainwv, the reading of Hipsion, might be defended for the SiW/uj
; POLYTOS suggests rap' aMv, prater eum, that descended upon Jesus at baptism though at variance with the translation. was Swrjjp, Ik vivruv ycyavds, p. 58.
HlPPOLYTirs has ava/Hatvorra.
He was an emanation from the whole ' e. the angels who body, and not from the Father alone,
ovfirapevTuv, i. rb rveviia.
The reader should were his ^Xhciwtoi and o/wyeras, pp. 23, s 39.
HlPPOLYTUS reads cvyxaTaatrapivcompare with this passage the previous tw, and since this the compound statement of Iren-eus, respecting the is most fourfold constitution of the Valentinian form used before, p. is
1, it Two of the parlikely to be the genuine reading.
Christ, p. 60, note 3.
Hippolytus reads r\Tjpw)iaTOf, ticulars mentioned refer to his heavenly, * and the reading, but for the Latin verand two to his earthly character, and
TKTRADICA.
pffioa avQpw-Kov, Kat (pavepwaavra [H.
(pavepwcrav^ rov Harepa, oj^ J ^jj-'J; KareXOov /lev eh tov 'IqtroCv, ivSxrdai <F [H.
6" abest] avrw.
Kai KaOeiXe fiiv tov Qavarov, (pqcriv,
etc rrjs oiKOVOfilat ^corr/p, eyvwpiae Se tov Tlarepa 1Xpt<rr6v £H. Xp. 'Irjaovv'j.
Etvat ovv tov ,It]<rovv ovofia fiev tov 3« r>]s oiKOVO/j.la<s m. 78. avOpunrov Xeyet, redeludai Se els e^ofiolwcriv Kat fi6p<pa><Tiv tov fieXXovTOS eis avrov Karep^ecrOai 'AvOptiirov, tov [^H. ocj
■)(oopijcravTa avrov.
^Ea^ij/cevat Se avrov re t6v "Avdpw7rov, Jesu, qui se confessus est Filium hominis, et manifestavit Patrem, descendens quidem in Jesum, unitus est.
Et destruxit quidem mortem, ait, qui fuit ex dispositione Salvator Jesus; agnovit autem Patrem Christum Jesum.
Esse ergo Jesum
nomen quidem ejus, qui est ex dispositione homo, dicit, positum autem esse in assimilationem et figurationem ejus, qui incipit in eum descendere, Hominis, quern capientem habere et ipsum ed esse quidem filium Jesum, Patrem vera of each pair, one indicates the preexistent prototype of that which waB Christum, et Christi Patrem Deum, and that Marcus may have been of their in due time revealed.
So, there was the spiritual substance derived from Achamoth, and the subsequent revenumber.
But the translation introduces an additional difficulty in reading Chris tum Jesum, with which Hippolytcs latiou of this substance, as the -iEon Soter, at the baptism of Christ ; there agreeB, eyvtipure be tov wartpa HpioT&y 'Iijo-oOr.
For this reason I am inclined was the if/vxucbs awr^p, p.
52, gene to side with Grabe, and to suspect that rated of Demiurge, and the revelation of this non-choic, though animal princi some variation has taken place in the text.
But I would prefer to stop at ple, in the olxowcfjUa.
In the present pas naripa, and to commence the next sen sage there is the same allusion, 1, to tence with the two next words, reading the spiritual substance, 1, to its illapse XpLarbv ofo top 'lyaovv etyai bvopa p.bi .... TcffeToSat Si, k. t. X.
The combina tion of these two names in the opening of the sentence obviates the difficulty that otherwise occurs in the close, where on Jesus at baptism, 3, to the pre-existent psychical Saviour, the prototypal origin of, 4, the Saviour in ttjs oIkovofilas, who abolished death.
In all this, heresy gives a turbid reflection of the the assertion would be expected that great catholic truth, the mystery of Jesus bore the title and power of Christ godliness, God manifest in the fle»h.
The reader may also refer to III.
XVII., also, as well as of the other Moat.
* i ix rrfl olKoroplat'KvBpunrot was where he will find again the Yalentinian the predestined hypostasis, upon which assertion that Jesus and Christ were the Mon "AvSpuros was in due course the pre-existent cause of b (k Trp oUoto descend. voplas XvHjp.
1 Grabe proposes to read Xpioroj, Massukt replies that Iben£US mentions • The two Greek texts, that we now possess, and the translation, enable us certain heretics, III. XVII., who affirm to restore this passage with tolerable
MARCOSIORUM
oil'', xh.1l <*vtov "re tov Aoyov, Kai tov TlaTepa, Kai tov "AppijTOV, Hi_
MASSI.XT.4.
\ « < ( ( '
'1?
A ' p.hlJ?*Kai Ttjv 2jiyt}v, Kai Tqv AXtjoeiav, Kai hiKKXr/o-iav, Kai «. si.
TUmjv1.
15. lavTa or) virep to iou, Kai to (pev, Kai virep to [rqv^ iracrav TpayiKqv (pwvricriv Kai cr'xerXiacrfi.ov «m.
TVs yap ovk dv fiicrqcreie twv TrjXiKovrwv ^revcrfxaTuiv KaKocrvvQerov iroiriTtiv, Trjv fiev 'AXq8eiav opwv eiSwXov viro lAapKOv yeyovviav, Kai TOVTO TOti tov a\<paftijTov ypafifiacri KaTecrTiyHevriv. aNet«)(rT<, irpos [<"'f] to air apjfjjt, to St] Xeyofievov \6et Kai irpwt]v, "EWijvej 6/noXoyovcriv 3diro JtdS/xov irpwTOV /cat oe'/ca irapeiXtjcpevai, erra fiereireiTa irpofiaivovTWV toiv l£
Hominem, et ipsum Logon, et Patrem, et Arrheton, et Sigen, et Alethian, et Ecclesiam, et Zoen.
15.
Haec jam supra Iu Iu, et super Pheujet super universam tragicam exclamationem et doloris vociferationem sunt.
Quis enim non oderit eum, qui tantorum mendaciorum malus compositor est poeta, cum 'viderit veritatem idolum Marco a Nuper, sicut quod est ab initio, quod dici solet heri et ante, Grseci confitentur factam, et hoc BAlphabetae Uteris stigmatam ?
Cadmo se primum sedecim accepisse post deinde procedena : must have run thus, 8k Yaterday and before."
Gen. xxxi. accuracy; it 1, &c.
For irpos we may substitute with Xupfyrama airrbv laxqKtvat atrbv re tov 'Kv9p. k. t. X.
The text of Hifpolytbs the translator Cjs.
The translator seems to have read, as Scaliqer remarked, ir' eUaapav, else the two ancient MSS.
Clerm. and Arund. would hardly have agreed in as follows, 8k xaplaamo. io-xqicivai ' is airrbv.
Kbrbv re etvat rbv "Kv6p. k. t. X.
Here Hippolttus leaves our
author for a few pages, and indicates the Pythagorean, but omits to notice the preposterous reading ab astimationt. the truer Cabbalistic, source of this arithmetical mysticism.
Sixteen letters were first introduced by Cadmus from Phoenicia, and were vciixrrl, k. t. X.
The punctuation of this passage, the meaning of which a therefore called Kaou ijia and tpowiK-tfia ypd/i/iara, in form and order they agree with the Samaritan.
SlMOtUDESof Ceos altogether missed by the translator, is has been altered according to Scaliger's and Epicharmus of Sicily, or, as IreK«CB here says, Palamedes, who lived suggestion, Emeb.
Chron. p. in, the sense of the passage being as follows before the Trojan war, added the eight :
" The Greeks confess that they received x- <t>)as used in Asia Minor and insular Greece.
Three how u. ij/.
6. f. f. i). sixteen letters from Cadmus, recently, as compared with the beginning of all <p. Xi are found in the oldest ever, 6. things, the undefined antiquity of which inscriptions.
BcecKH.
Econ.
Inscr.
The Ionians first adopted the entire described by the scriptural proverb, is
REFUTATIO.
■^povwv avTot e^evptjKevat totI fiev to Sacrea, wore Se ra '■*[•'■ SivXa' etr^aTOv Se irdvTWV TlaXafiqSqv <pacri to fiaicpa MASSl xv-4Tovroti irpocTTedeiKevaf irpo tov ouv "EXAijcrt Tavra yevecrdat, ovk %v 'AXqdeiw to yap awfia avTrjs KaT<x <re, Mapse, /xerao. 75. yevecnepov fiev KdS/xov, /cat twv irpb avTOV' fxeTayeveo-Tepov Se twv to.
Xonrci irpoa-TeQeiKOTWv VTOiyeia'
/xerayeviiTTepov Se koi cravTOV'
<rv yap /xovov e?Sw\ov KaTqyayes Tqv viro erov Xeyo/xivT/v 'AXqOetav.
1 6.
17y S* avefcerai trov tijv TOcravTa (pXvapovaav ^iyrjv, tibus temporibus semetipsos adinvenisse, aliquando quidem aspiratas, aliquando autem duplices : novissime autem omnium Palamedem aiunt longas eis apposuisse.
Prius igitur quam
apud Graecos hoec fierent, non erat Veritas.
Corpus enim ejus secundum te, Marce ; posterius est tempore quam Cadmos, et ii qui ante eum sunt; posterius autem his, qui reliqua elementa addiderunt 1[temporis quam Palamedes] : posterius autem tem pore, quam et tu ipse.
Tu autem solus in idolum deposuisti earn, quae a te praedicatur Veritas.
16.
Quis autem sustinebit tuam illam, quse tantum 2verbosata Clerm. and Arund.
MSS.
Cadmod), alphabet, the Samians earlier than the rest, and from these latter it was re and the subsequent personal application, travrov, induces the belief that the trans lation indicates a lacuna in the Greek, ceived by the Athenians, although the additional letters were not used at Athens in public acts before the Peloin the words temporis quam Palamedes, i. e. tov KOipov Ha\an^5ovt, in regimen with twv preceding ; the translator, ponnesian war.
Hence the shorter alphabet obtained the name of 'ArriKa, while the fuller form was known as 'IcTi/ca ypdfifiara.
The reader will find full information upon this subject in Scaliger ad Euseb.
Cliron. p. no; Montfaucon.
Palatograph.
Gr.; Bohowever, made the name dependent upon /lerayeviffTepor.
I would insert these words, therefore, in the Greek text; it is to mark omission in the Clerm., Voss and Merc. n. MSS. that CHART, Canaan, I.
20 ; Bojckh's Publ. these words are bracketed in the Latin. a Verbosata, chattering.
Grabe, Econ. Ath.; Matth.
Gr. Gr.; Plin. vii. and his predecessor Feuardent, altered this word to verbosa, but Massuet, 16.
* Viderit, the reading of the Cler mont MS. which Massuet adopts, supported by the universal consent of MSS., restores the final syllable, verthough as Stieren Bays, auctoriiatem bosari being an equivalent in later Latin for garrire; and he quotes S. Augustin, nvUam memorat ; the Voss MS. shews the same.
5 The Clerm. MS. has alfabetce and Ardnd. alfa vita, the termination there Serm.
265, de Temp. (App.), In eccleHa ttantes, nolite verbotari; also from a genuine work, Op.
Imp. c. J.
46, 7nfore is retained.
1 The mention of Cadmcb (in the aniter vei-bosarit.
MARCOSIORUM
LIB.1.VHU6.
tf t6v dvovofj-acTTOv ovofia^ei, icai tov dppryrov e^ijyeiTai, /cat mToMASS I xv.6
* ' y I *y * * * ' tov aveciyyiaaTov e^tcrToper koi r/voi^evai to (TTOfia (pijcriv avTO avTOV~j, ov da-dofiaTOV /cat dvelSeov Xeyeis'
/cat trpoeviyicacrOai h.6yov, ws ev ti twv crvvOerwv Xwwv tov re A.6yov avrov ofioiov ovra tw irpofiaXovri, /cat fiop(pt]V tov dopdrov yeyovora, (rroi^elwv /mev eivai TpiaKovra, o-vXXa/3wv Se recradpwv ; "EtTTat ovv Kara rtjv ofioiortira tov Aoyov 6 TLartjp twv irdvrwv, ws trv (phs, (rroiyelwv fiev TpiaKovra, crvXXa($wv Se recr&dpwv.
*H iraXiv t/s dve^erat aov els v^y/Mara /cat dpidfiovs, irore fJLev TpiaKovTa, irore Se eiKOdiTeaarapa, ttote Se e£ fxovov, avyicXelovTOs tov twv iravrwv ktktt^v, koi Srjfiiovpybv, /cat iroitfrrjv A.6yov tov Geo?KaraKepnaTiCpvros avrbv elf crvXXafias /xev reo-<rapas, o-roi^eta Se TpiaKovra'
/cat tw irdvTwv Kvpiov tov earrepewKora tows ovpavovs, els mTi) Kardyovros dpiO/ibv, 6/j.olws ru> dX<pa(3fjTW avrov dX(p. yey.
/cat avrov tt.
7T.J, 7ravTa -^wpovvra yeyovdra [l.
Se virdpyovTa, els TerpdSa, /cat oySodSa, TLarepa, dywptjTOv est Sigen, quae innominabilem nominat (jEonem), inenarrabilem exponit, et eum qui 'inveetigabilis est enuntiat, et aperuisse os dicit eum, quem incorporalem et infiguratum dicis, et emisisse Verbum, quasi unum ex his quae composita sunt aniVerbum quoque ejus simile esse qui eum emisit, et formam invisibilis factum, elementorum quidem esse triginta, syllabarum autem quatuor ei malia :
Erit ergo secundum similitudinem Verbi Pater omnium, sicut tu ais, elementorum quidem triginta, syllabarum autem quatuor.
Aut iterum quis sustinebit te in ? schemata et numeros, aliquando quidem triginta, aliquando autem viginti quatuor, aliquando sex tantum, concludentem universorum conditorem, et Demiurgum, et factorem Verbum Dei, et minuentem eum in syllabas quidem quatuor, elementa et omnium Dominum qui 2firmavit coelos, in dccclxxxviii deducentem numeros, similiter atque Alphabetum: autem triginta : et ipsum qui omnia capit Patrem, nullo autem capitur, in quaternationem et octonationem [et decadem] et duodecadem suba Inventigalilis, that cannot be inMS.
restore firmavit for confirmavit, vestigated, as in p.
15, and II. xxv. as agreeing better with {trrepevKfrra.
I On the authority of the ABDND.
The V0S8 MS. also agrees.
REFUTATIO.
/cat SeKaSa, /cat SwSeKaSa Inrofiepl^ovTOs, /cat Sia twv toiovtwv ^j}"!,6massj xvA iroXvirXao~ia<Tfiwv, to apptjTOv /cat avevvotjTOv, ws o~v (ptjS, tov TLaTpos eKSitjyovfievov ; Kat ov acrwfiaTOV Kai avovo-iov ovofidXeis, Ttjv tovtov ovulav /cat Ttjv virocrTatriv e/c ttoXXwv ypafiej~ fxaTwv, eTepwv erepwv yevvwfievwv, KaTacrKevaXeis, avTOS
AalSaXos Tp-evSrjs, /cat Teicrwv KaKos yevofievos Ttjs vpo-wavmrepTaTOV Svvdfiews'
/cat tjv afiepitTTOv (pr/s eivai, els (Kpwvovs, Kai (pwvyevras, /cat tjfiicpwvovs (pdoyyovs virofiepl^wv to a(pwvov avrwv tw twv ttclvtwv TlaTpi, /cat -rj; tow vlov tovtovJ evvola e7riyjrevS6fievos, els Ttjv avwrarw fiXacr- [l. m. so.
(prjfilav Kai fieyla-Ttjv acrefieiav e/x/3e/3X>?/cac airavras tovs cot TreiOonevovs.
IJ.
Ato /cat SiKalws Kai dpnoXpvrws Ttj TOiavrri vov g. 76.
ToX/Ay deios Trpetrfivris Kai Kqpv^ Ttjs aXtjdelas e/x/xeVyOto?
eTrij3e/36ijKe o~oi, elirwv ovtws'
"Elo'wA.oiroie, Mo'|0K£, Kai TCparoaitoTre, 'AerTpo\oyiKrjt tjU7reipe Kai jUayixrjf Teyyijt, partientem, et per hujusmodi multiplicationes illud quod est inenarrabile et Mncognoscibile, quemadmodum tu dicis, Patria enarrantem?
Et quem incorporalem et insubstantivum nominas, hujus materiam et substantiam ex multis Uteris, aliis ex aliis generatis, fabricas, ipse Daedalus fictor et faber malus facet quam indivisibilem dicis substan tiam, in niutas, et vocales, et semivocales sonos subdividens, id tus sublimissimse virtutis : quod est mutum in his, omnium Patri et hujus intentioni mentiens, in summam blasphemiam et magnam impietatem immisisti omnes qui tibi credunt.
17.
Quapropter et juste et apte tali temeritati tuae divinae aspirationis senior et praeco veritatis invectus est in te, dicens sic :
Idolorum fabricator, Marce, et portentorum inspector, Astrologies cognitor et magical artis, D.f.dalus, the fabricator of the losophy and as having deified the
; Cretan labyrinth, aptly illustrative of alwvcs of the Pleroma but more espe- ; the Marcoaian maze. cially 'AXijfleia. cf.
15.
Te/>a7WKi5ire, § The translator probably read Zeichendeuter.
St. s i The Clebmont MS. omits this
6e6irvcv<TT0f wp. tlbuikoToik, as having given a monword, but owing to the similar teris ' it strous development to the Itiai of phimination of a preceding word.
MARCOSIORUM
At' tJf K/xirvvert fiji ir\dvt}i to St3a'7/iaTa, Sij/ieui BciKvvf to?! wVo <TOU irAat/touet' Oil, 'Airoo-TaTixtj-:
Svvdpews eyj^eiprjfiaTa, '"A <rJ -^opriyeK tn irctTrjp Parana, el At dyye\iKr)t Zviiapeas *'A£a£f;A WOteS* "E^uv <re irpoZpopov avTidtov irauovpyta*;, Ka« Ta?Ta yuev o OeocpiXrjs Trpe&ftuTrji.
'H/ueif Se to. Xonra Ttjy fiverTaywyla? avTwv, fiaKpa ovra, TreipaaofieQa ^pa^eoos Sie^eXdetv, kui 3tcl TroWuS yj)6vu> KeKpvfifxeva e«y (pavepbv ayayetv ovtw yap dv yevotTO eveXeytcra irao-i.
Per quae confirmas erroris doctrinas, Signa ostendens his qui a te seducuntur,
Apostaticos virtutis operations, Qua tibi prcestat turn pater Satanas Per angelicam virtutem Azazel facere, habens te Prcecursorem contraries adversus Deum nequitia.
Et haec quidem amator Dei senior.
Nos autem reliqua mysteria eorum, quae sunt longa, conabimur breviter expedire, et ea quae multo tempore sunt occultata, in manifestum producere.
Sic enim fit ut facile argui et convinci possint ab omnibus.
1 The translation in part, and in Menachem says, in his Commentary upon the Pentateuch :
'sbis pni ton Noinn u ny pppeo part the metre, justifies the emendation, "A trot x°PTY"
Haryp Sara* del.
• 'Afafi^The same demon, as Grabe says, that is mentioned in the .Nt?J '33^ ptSnn Hence the mention of Azael here, in connexion with the juggling of Marcus.
The demonology of the Jews, borrowed from Babylon, Targum Jon. on Gen. vi. 4, under the name Uzziel ; and again by 'EH on not improbably incorporated the names Num. xiii.
34:
0*pjl> D^WPI of some whose gigantic vices were
'P'3 ''POP
]V liPJD bf>1V) 'fiWVti punished by the flood.
So the Rab .Dljf1
The Ncphilim are AnaJcim binical Miscellany Clf!
Rays, ■j'P'tdi ninn ltrjw ^non tn nwn (giants) of the tone of Shamhazai and 3 Marcus was a contemporary of Iren^ds ; but these words apply to the Uzziel, who fell from heaven in the dayt of Enoch.
In the Jewish demonology Azael and Asa, were two angels that Ophites and Peratse already of an old date.
The Marcosian heresy was first cavilled at the creation of man, and broached in Gaul, but notwithstanding were punished by being subjected to trial upon earth ; they were the pro its abstruse and unattractive character, it had spread and taken root in Asia, genitors of the Anakim ; and were bound with a chain of iron, and plunged in as we know from the case of the Asiatic the midst of the abyss, where they are deacon, IX.
Still Marcus was a follower, not a precursor of Valen man's instructors in sorcery; as R.
INTERPRETATIONES.
LIB.I.ix.
I Keep.
6'.
MASS I.xvi. l.
Quomodo solvunt parabolas.
Ph^M.
THN ouv yeveaiv twv Aiwvwv avrwv, Kai Ttjv ifkdvriv O.T7T0V Tpoparov, Kai avevpeaiv, evwaavTes eiri to avro, fivariKwTepov eiri-^eipovaiv dirayyeXkeiv ovtoi ol els dpiOfiovs to. irdvTa KaTayovTes, e/c fiovdSos Kai SvdSos (pdaKovTes to oXa avvearriKevat [^H. avveaTavat JKai airb fiovdSos ews twv m. si.
Teaadpwv apiOfiovvTes ovtw yevvaxri Ttjv SeKuSa.
'Mia ydp, Kai Svo, Kai Tpeis, koi Teaaapes, awTeOetaai eiri to avro, tov twv SeKa Aiwvwv direKvrjaav apiO/nov.
Hd\iv 0* av r) Svds air avrrjs 7rpoe\6ouaa ews tov %eiriar)ixov, otov Suo koi Teaaapes
Kai e£, ttjv SwSeKaSa direSei^e.
Kat irdXtv airo Trjs SvdSos CAP. IX.
Generationem itaque ^Eonum, et errorem ovis, et adinventionem, adunantes in unum, mystice audent annunciare hi qui in numeros omnia deduxerunt, de monade et dualitate dicentes omnia constare: et a monade usque ad quatuor numerantes, sic generant decadem.
Unum enim et duo, et tres, et quatuor, in unum compositae, decern jEonum generaverunt numerum.
Rursus autem dualitas ab ea progressa usque ad episemon, duo et quatuor et sex, duodecadem ostendit.
Et rursus a dualitate the Valentinian numerical system, in which the decad or Pythagorean tAs lot tinus, whom he copied in the pretended revelation of the supreme Tetras ; as Hippolytus says, Philos. vi. 42 : '0 St dpiBp&s was deduced from the Tetractys.
Ph. VI. 23 : 5ti St koX ij TerpaKrds 70^, Mdpxos lu/ioificvos r&v Si$d<rKa\oi> (Valentinum sc.), &c. iRENiEUS also speaks of him as magu&ri emendalorem, c. vm.
We may, therefore, safely class him with the immediate followers of Valen- (prial, riv riXdov dpiBp&r, us h rots «njTO?S Tbv SiKa, SlS&tTKOVGlV OVTWt. dp^dfievos dpidfiuv \tyct tis Sti £r, Kai ttruptpei S60, tireiTa dfiolus Tpla, (ffovrai ravra ?{' irpos St to&tois h-i rttraapa, (arat 6/iolus tS irav, Stua.
To yap tv, tinus, and not with the apostolical age as Predestinatus has done.
1 These words bear the appearance of having been interpolated prior to the translation ; for the words dx' avTijs that follow, bear relation to /xocriSos that precedes the passage, which Hippo lytus omits altogether.
Elsewhere he StiOj Tpla, rtcoapa, ylverai S4xa 6 rtXftos apiBpis.
Ovtus, <pTi(rl, Kara irdvra ifu/xfyraro ij TcrpaKTits t^v vorfrty puovdSa, TAeioc dpiBp&v ywvrioai SvurjOeiffay.
8 Iti<Hip.ov, the cipher, i. e.
See note 3, p. 147.
Here 1 + 4 +6 = 12, and demonstrates the Pythagorean origin of » + 4 + 6 + 8 + 10 = 30.
PARABOLARUM
GR^i'xfii'i OM01'&>? apiOfMOWTUV fjixwv ewf twv SeKa, t\ X aveSel^Or], ev y H^p. mass.i.xvl jjpj.'j Ka* §£Ka Ka\ SdSeKa SySoas Kai Sckus Kai SwSeKat J.
^ T^v w SwSeKaSa, 1 Sta tov £H. toJ eirltrrifiov o-vvea^tjKevai, Siu to <TvveiraKo\ovdrjcracrav £H.
<rweTra/coXoi/05<'"<"/] ai/Tp to ewlo-tj/JLOV, TrdOoi Xeyovai.
Kai Sid tovto 2irepi tov Sa>SeKaTov dpiOfxbv tov arcpaXfiaTOs yevofievov, to irpdfiaTOv diroaKipTrjaav ireirXavrjaQar eTretSrj t>jv cnroaTaaiv diro SooSeKaSos yeyevtjcrOai (pdarKovai.
TuT avrw TpoTTip Kai dird Tqs l~£ SooSeKaSoi dird&Taaiv airo&Taa-av^ filav Svva/xtv aTroXwXevai fiavTeuovTac Kai Taurrjv eTvai
Tt)v yuvaiKa tijv diroXeaaaav tijv SpayjJLijv, Kai a-^raaav Xvyyov, Kai evpovaav a\)Ti)v.
Outw? ovv ko.\ 3(exl) Toll's dpiOfiol/f tous KaTaXet(p9evTas, eVi /xev Tiji
similiter numerantibus nobis usque ad x, xxx numerus ostensus est, in quo est ogdoas et decas et duodecas.
Duodecadem igitur eo quod episemon habuerit (consequentem sibi propter episemon) passionem vocant.
Et propter hoc circa xn numerum cum labes quaedam facta fuisset, ovem luxuriatam oberrasse: duodecade factam dicunt.
Similiter et a quoniam apostasiam a duodecade abscedentem unam virtutem perisse divinant et :
LucXxv'l nano esse mulierem quae perdiderit drachmam, et accenderit lucernam, et invenerit earn.
Sic igitur et numeros reliquos in drachma, qui sunt novem, in ove vero undecim, perplexos sibiManhood, consists of six Greek letters,
Without stopping to detail the
pp.
140, 145, 146.
Since, therefore, the explanations and alterations offered suc even digits, up to the Mari/wr /3oC, cessively by Grabe, Massuet, and Stieren, none of which are satisfactory, e. i. sum twelve, therefore twelve I, 4, 6, add that which seems nearer to the was called that, which was symbolised I truth.
In the first place the text, as so clearly, as they said, by the cipher 6, corrected from Hippolytus, runs with and bore the character of Passion. tolerable accuracy as follows: rty oiv Tfp! rbv SwoVraTov.
The <r<f>d\/ia of the last of the twelve JEow, deve * huhf-K&bo.
Sib. to MdT)ixov auvvrxyiKhai, (bib. to (rweraKoKovdrjffiw oirj to toriloped by Anthropos and Ecclesia, caused trTifiw,) rddm Xtyovcri.
For the number the passion of Knthymesis. to irpo/Soror six {iirltn^fiov )3a0) symbolised the oIkomust here be restricted to Sophia, the prototypal lost sheep.
At the close of this period, Hippolytus ceases for vofiia tov ird0ovs, because man, the counterpart of the heavenly Adam, was a formed on the sixth day of creation, few sentences to transcribe, and gives the substance in words that are still similar to those of IREN.EU8. and Christ suffered on the sixth day of the week, and at the sixth hour of the del. tori.
Of ten pieces of silver day Christ was nailed to the cross, and * the name Jesus, implying the suffering one was lost, and nine left.
PERVERSIONES.
1 eiri Se tov irpofiaTOV Tovg evSeica eiriq^-j-^ \ vi52"v '
»\\ ^ \ ~» /f » / Mass, i.xvi.
* .„ TrAeKOfievovs a\\n\oig tov twv evevrjicovTaevvea TtKTeiv apia/xov j G. 7».
• PhFiE».
^P^XPW tovs evvea, €7rei evvaKti Ta evSeica evevrjKOvraevvea ylverai.
Ato Kai to 3 afiqv tovtov \iyovaiv e^eiv tov apiQ/xov.
Owe oKvycrw Se <roi icai aXXw? e^tjyov/Mevwv avrwv airayyelXat, Iva iravra^oOev KaTavoqcrrif tov Kaptrbv avrwv.
To yap o-Toiyeiov to tj ervv fiev [ap. H. deest /ievj tw eirio~rifia> SySodSa eivcu QeXovertv, airo tov irpurrov oySoov Ket/uevov CITTO TOV A SySoU) KelfieVOV T07Tft)J- €IT<X TToiklV TOTTOV £H. avev tov evicTy/mov y^rjcpl^ovTes tov apiOfibv avTwv twv <TTOf)(ei(ov, Kai eirto-vvQevTes ^H.
<rvvTiO€VTe?~j ne%pi tov t[, tijv TptaKOVTaSa eiriSeiicvvovcriv.
'Ap^d/uevo? yap [^H.
TiyJ
m. «2. airb tov a\<pa, Kal TeXevrwv ej? to t] tu> api6/j.w [^H. tov apidfibv^ twv arTOiyeltov, vire^atpovfievoi 8e to sttIo-ij/xov, Kai eTTio-vvTiOeis Trjv evav^tjcriv tu>v ypafi/xaTWv, evprjcrei tov twv TpiaKOVTa apiQfj.6v.
3Mej(jOt yap tov *d [VJ crTOi^elov metipsis, xcix numerum generare: quoniam novies 5undeni xcix fiant.
Quapropter et Amen hunc habere dicunt nume rum.
Non pigritabor autem tibi et aliter eos interpretantes annunciare, ut undique conspicias fructum eorum.
Literam enim H cum episemo Ogdoadem esse volunt, cum ab alpha[beta] octavo sit posita loco : rursus iterum sine episemo computante s numerum ipsarum literarum, et componentes usque ad H, triacontadem ostendunt.
Incipiens enim quis ab A, et perfiniens in H, [per numeros] numerum] literarum, abstrahens autem [I. episemum, et insuper conjungens incrementum literarum, inliteram, xv veniet tricenarium numerum.
Usque enim ad E M Si tov lrpofHrov, the lost sheep of Valentinus, not of S. Luke.
Sophia sums tlte two names Jehovah Adonai.
Seph.
Zeniutlia, a compendium of the Cabhala, in.
19, having strayed from her twelve co-ordi 6.
Hippolytcs omits the following nates, left eleven in the Pleroma.
ipfr.
The letters of which sum computation as far as the words rpid- * 50) = 99.
The idea Kovra aiibvwv.
This may have been the bor is (1+40 +
+ rowed from the Jewish Cabbala, in result of error in transcribing, owing to the somewhat similar conclusion of the which the same word observed to is sum, Jehovah Adonai, = 91.
11311331 preceding clause, TpidicovTa dptOuov.
Just as in the Clermont MS. the words mn> |noe> inn Wo mm \r)» apposilus eis in the translation, have Amen, which .'131 of similar character is
RATIONES GR?iLxtti.f 'irwreKalSeica ylvovrar ewetra irporrredets avrols 6 twv e7TTa mm.
MAS&I.xvi."
» n '
O '
*\ '
" S1"^ s. apiu/uLos, p Kai k airereKecre' irpoa-eXowv rovrots to tj, oyuaeo-Ttv oktw, Ttjv OavLiacriwrdrijv TptaKovrdSa dveTrXrjpwcre.
Kai evrevOev cnroSeticvvouai rtjv SySodSa nqrepa twv rpidKovra Alwvwv.
'Etc* ovv «c rpiaKovra [H. rwv rpiwv~^ Svvdfiewv yvwrai 6 rwv X dpiQfios, rpels rphJ avros yevdfxevos ra ivevyKOvra eTrolrja-e' rpels £H.
T^oJyJ yap rpiaKovra evevrjKovra.
Kai avrrj Se tj rpids e(pi" eavrrjs avvreOelara, evvea eyevvija-ev.
Ovrws [<^] h oySoas rbv rwv evvea Trap* avrols [H. evevqKovra evvea aVe/c. ap.~^ aireKvija-ev apt6/iov.
Kai eirei
SwSeKaros A.lwv diroards KareXei-^re rovs avw evSeica, KardXXtiXov Xeyovari rov rvirov rwv ypatifxdrwv rw a-)(vfJLaTl rov TX6yov Kela-Qar evSeicarov yap rwv ypanfidrwv icelrai
£H.
Kelo~dai~j to X, o ecrrtv apidfios rwv rpiaKovra, Kai Kar eiKOva Kela-Qai rtjs avw oiKOvo/xlas' eireiStj "airo rov aX(pa, fiunt : post deinde appositus eis vn numerus, n et xx perficit.
Cum autem appositum est eis H, quod est vm, admirabilem triacontadem adimplevit. Et hinc ostendunt Ogdoadem matrem triginta ^Eonum.
Quoniam igitur ex tribus virtutibus unitus est tricenarius numerus, ter idem factus xc fecit.
Et ipsa autem trias in se composita ix generavit.
Sic Ogdoas xcix generavit numerum.
Et quoniam duodecimus iEon absistens reliquit sursum xi, consequenter dicunt typum literarum in figura Logi positum esse : (Undecimam enim in literis esse A, qui est numerus xxx) et secundum imaginem positum esse superioris dispositionis : quoniam ab Alpha sine episemo, ipsarum literacaused an omission of a couple of lines, the passage will then be, They say that being followed by H, quod est VIII.
* 6 has been copied by mistake for the position of the letters is a true co-ordi nate of the method of their calculation. e, some accidental mark perhaps having The Latin translation Lorji is altogether unsuitable.
Hippolytus is suggestive ; given to the vowel the appearance of after mentioning the aberration of the the consonant.
8 The Clermont, Ae. and Merc. n.
MSS. have undecies novem.
Erash. lost ./Eon, he proceeds —(coTdXXijXo» *ol tovto.
'O yap tOwos twv ypap.fi6.ruv and Gallab. have the same; Pass.
SiSdfficcf hbinarot yap, k.t.X.
Would and Voss MSS. novies undeni.
1 It has been proposed and allowed by Grabe and Mabbdet that X' should rdiroi make a more complete sense both in Iren^cs and Hippolytus ! s &ir& tov A., i.e. the sum of the Greek numeral letters from o to X in be substituted for \byov.
But this word means hero compvtum ; and the sense of clusive, omitting the iirbxripjiv F, is 99.
MARCOSIORUM.
ptftm.
Xw/°'?
T0^ eifHryfiov, avrwv twv ypa/xfidrwv
apiOfios ews qiliViu *'
TOi/ A <rvi>Tit)e/j.evo$ Kara rqv irapavtrjaiv twv ypafifiarwv <rw g, airraJ to X, tov tcoj' evevtjKOvraevvea voieirai apidpLOV.
"On Se to A evSeicarov ov
ev evSeKarw ov tottwJ t>7 th^h ^Z. e7r< t^v tou ofiotov 'avrov £H. outgo] /raT^X^e XriTtjvtv, Iva dvairX^pwat] rbv SwSeKarov dptQfiov, koi evpov avrov eiiKt]avrov tov ayi'jfiaro^ tov aroi^eiov. o. 79.
To yap pwQt], (pavepov etvat e£ wcnrep eirt Ttjv tov ofiolov avrtp Xrjricriv TrapaA yevd/xevov, icat evpov, Kai eii eavrbv dpirdcrav avrov, rrjv tov SwSeKarov aveirXripware %wpav, tov M arroty(elov ck Svo A irvyKeifxevov.
Ai6 xai (pevyeiv avrov [H. auTouy] Sta rrjs yvwtrews rr)v twv (pd [H. evevqKovra evvea] y^wpav, rovreart
m. 83. to vo-repyjfia, tvttov apitTrepds yeipdv fieraStWKeiv to ev, Se o Trpotrredev roti evevrjKOvraevvea, 3«y rrjv Se^tctv avrov [l. avrovtj X^Pa HeTGVrrjtTe. rum numerus usque ad compositus, secundum augmentum literarum cum ipso A, xc et ix facit numerum.
Quoniam autem A, quae est undecimo loco in ordine, ad similis ~sui A descendit inquisitionem, ut impleret xn numerum, et cum invenisset eum, adimpleta est, mauifestum esse ex ipsa figurations literae. enim quasi ad sui similis inquisitionem adveniens, et A inveniens, et in semet rapiens ipsum, duodecimi adimplevit locum, M litera ex duobus Lambdis consistente.
Quapropter et fugere eos per agnitionem xcix locum, hoc est deminorationem, typum sinistra manus A A sectari autem unum, quod additum super xcix in dexteram eos manum transtulit.
The reading proponed within the numerarent centum vera et reliqwis
; centurias dextera' gestibus exprimebant suggested by a comparison of the translation with the text of Hippolytus, which has (p icKir^ netbrackets is : unguem scilicet indicts in medio figentes artu pollicis centum dabant.
Juvenalis, Sat.
10.
Atque suos jam dextera comfievov Tdirij). putat annos.
Fronto Due.
Similiter, the reading of HirPOLY-
oiVip is ut ex Ecclesiasticis Scriptoribus hunc TU8, for which perhaps the translator locum cxplicem, Sidonids Apolunaris, the Clerm., Arund. and read airr&ii ; ad Fauitum, in fine scribil other MSS. having eorum in the Latin.
Lib. IX.
Epist.
9, els tt)v Stftif, Massuet tran Quandoquidem tuos annos jam
: dextera numeraverit, id est jam 100 an scribes, but omits to acknowledge his num attigisti, rcl supcrasti.
Nam ut Cassianus Collat.
24, cap.
16, ait obligation to Grade for the following —Centenote:— "Sinistra digitis utebantur Ve : narius numerus de sinistra transfertur tera, ut eorum gaUbut usque ad
VOL.
CUM HiERETICIS
orVxhl» 3"
Ta^ra diepxp/jievoi, ayairtjTe, eu oJSa on MASS 1 xvi -v '
\ % * * ' l ~
/ I r 3. yeXa&eig iroXXa Tt\v TOiavrriv avraiv oiijcrio-ocpov fioopiav.
"Afyoi Se irevOows oi TrjXiKavrriv Oeocrefleiav, *cai to fieyeOos aktiQwf^ appr/rov Swafxewg, Kai Tay TO&avras Ttji aXrjOelas \JoiKOVOfMias tov Qeov, Sia tov aX(pa, Kai tov yS^Ta, Kai oi apidfiuiv ovTWf y^v^pwf Kat fiefttao-fxevws Siaavpovres.
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Ovs TlavXos
eyKeXeveTai rifiiv fJL€Ta p.lav koi Sevrepav vovQealav irapaitov Kvplov fiaBr/Tyi hrereive Ttjv Se TetaOai.
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KaTaSUtjv avTwv, fitjSe yatpeiv avTOig vip' rifiwv XeyeaOai fiovXtiOels.
'O yap Xeywv avTois, (pirri, j(_alpeiv, Koivoovei tois
Tu quidem haec pertransiens, dilectissime, optime scio 3. quoniam ridebis multum tantam illorum in tumore sapientem etultitiam.
Sunt autem digni planctu, qui tantam Dei religionem et magnitudinem vere inenarrabilis virtutis, et tantas diset B, et per numeros tam frigidos, et vi extortos enunciant.
Quotquot autem absistunt ab Ecclesia, et iis anilibus fabulis assentiunt, vere positiones Dei per A semetipsis sunt damnati. nt ul io.
Quos Paulus jubet nobis post primam et secundum correptionem a devitare.
Johannes enim Domini discipulus superextendit daninationem in eos, neque Ave nobis eis dici volens Qui enim sjoh.ii. dicit, inquit, eis Ave, communicat operibus ipsorum nequissimis. a : by dim in dexteram, et licet eandem in suppulikeness of the heavenly (cf.
J1 34), and there descended with tur, nimiura tamen quantitatis maghim two spirits, one on his right, the nitudine supercreBcit."
There tatione digitorum figuram tenere videanote i, p.
a otlier on ha left.
That on the right mis is mixture, however, of Heathen and Rabcalled the holy bouI, as written, binical conceit is it for the ews imagined And he breathed into his nostrils the J ; right and a left soul the latter merely breath (soul) of life.
And that on the a ; —e.g. the left animal, the former spiritual called the animal soul is moved it :
; Miscellany Ctrl Blp^ quotes from the nP and dovm> and could "<* rett untU ,mn ha<l °imicd> and *<=• W° Cabbalistic book ZoW-DIK ttU» nave here clearly the distinction of the ttv wfc niDn3 it pmnn Bpiritual 9eed Achamothj Md ^ VXViVQ ins, irUX mnn animal soul of Demiurge.
The right 3»D3T nenp HDBO np'K (OW and the left immaterial substance.
The ?SDtni D"n nDtJ'J VBX3 nS'l notion may be traced back to Plato's iby ri'n B'Dj iniSI ri'n t^aj np^K cosmogonical account of the mundane I 0'f Nt3nB> ly 3B»nn? S,3» n*n T1»1 soul in the Timams.
See Pref.
When the first .'131 pjj Spfl31 D"IK The translator indicates domino- ■man was created he descended in the <f>ovto have been in his copy.