Section 39 (Page 163)
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COMMUNICANDUM.
epyotf avrwv to*"? irovripois^ Kat etKOTa? ovk ?<tti yap JjJJi1",'*- J '
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' A jO » * * ^ MASS. I. xvi.
Xaipeiv Ton acrepecri, Xeyei R.vptof.
Aarepet? oe wep iracrav 3. a<ref3eiav ovroi, ol tov iroir]rrjv ovpavov kqa yrjs fxovov Qeov iravroKpdropa, virep ov aXXos Oeo? ovk eo-nv, e£ vcrrept)Haros, Kai avrov e£ dXXov vtrrepijfxaroi yeyovoros, vpofiej3Xtjo-6ai Xeyovres' ware /cot' avrov? elvat avrov irpofioXriv Irplrov vcrrepqfiaros.
*Hi/ yvwfxqv ovrw? s Karafpvcrqcravras, Kai KaraOefxarlaavras, Seov iroppw ttov /xaKpav (pvyetv air avrwv, Kai If irXeov ouoyvplLovrai, Ka\ y^alpovaiv exi roi? irapevpyfiaaiv avrwv, ravrrj fiaXXov elSevai irXeov avrovs evepyeio-Oai vtto r>jf SySodSos rwv irovrjpwv wevfxdrwv KaQdirep ol etc o. so.
(ppevlriSa Sidde&iv e/x-jreaovre?, vXeov yeXwai, Kai to")(yeiv
Sokov&iv, Kai wt vyialvovret irdvra vparrovai, evia Se Kai Et merito : Non enim est gaudere impiis, dicit Dominus.
Impii j™0^^ sutem super omnem impietatem hi sunt, qui factorem coeli et ^u civ terrae, unura Deum oranipotentem, super quem alius Deus non D"' XIV" 8" est, ex Labe, et ipsa ex altera Labe facta, eniissum dicunt : et sic jam secundum eos esse eum emissionem tertise Labis.
Quam sententiam digne exsufflantes et catathematizantes, oportet porro alicubi et longe fugere ab eis : et quanto plus hasc affirmant et gaudent in iis adinventionibus suis, tanto raagis sciamus plus eos agitari ab Ogdoadis nequissimis spiritalibus : quemadmodum hi qui in phreneticam passionem inciderunt, aut plus rident, et valere se putant, et quasi sani omnia 1 rphov wrrepTj/jtaTos.
Demiurgus aov e&at.
The origin of the practice is was the produce of the abortive converbest expressed in the following rubric sion of the abortive passion of Achaand commencement of one of the praymoth, who was herself the abortive issue ers in the Syrian Order of Baptism :— ofS°Phia- .
. 1^1 .. UlQS a As in baptism evil spirits were ex- ^ orcised and driven forth by ministerial ] ..^/i ^OOl^ »1301 \ tu ^ I ex-sufflation ; a custom formerly of uni versal observation, as Gennadius says, de Dojm.
Eccl.
31:
Cum give parmli y'r^ ~\ * "
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•—»CT1 tire juvcnea ad regenerationU veniunt \ „ _ mn .Vr>\A*~i tacramentum, non prius fontcm vita i ■ adeant, quam exorcismi* et exsufflationInsufflat in aquas tribus vicibut. ibut clericorum tpiritm ab eis immundus 0 Trinitas, da ipsis Domine, tanetum abiyatur.
So also Ctb. Hieros. in ilium, afflatum tuum, quem unicus Filius Catech. Prof.
§ 5 : ko.v iiupvanB^ k&v turn insuJKavit in lanctot discipulot tuos. iiriopKLvByt triorrjpLa trot to Trpay^ia vbuiSeveri Pair. Rit.
11—2
RATIONES orYxm3!
^lr^j° TO vyialvetv, rauTrj fiaWov kcucws e^awri.
'O/xotcoy ie mass. i. xvi. ovtoi, p fiaWov virepcppoveiv SoKovat, kcu
eKveuplj£ov<riv M- •*■ eavrovi, virepTOva Toj^euovres, TavTy [xaWov ov aiocppovovcriv.
'E£eA0oi'
"yap to UKaOaprov irvev/j.a T>jf ayvolas aco/ayj, ^l. eireiTd aj(o\aXovTa^ avTOvf, ov OeoS, a'AAa Koo-fJUKats X/IT^creaiv evpov, irpoairapaka^ov erepa irveufiaTa kirra TrovqpoTepa eavrov, kcu yavvwcrav avrcov Ttjv yvtofitiv, a>s Svva/ievwv ra virep tov Qeov evvoelv, kcu eirirySeiov eig
virepeKKpovcriv KctTao-Kevdcrav, rrjv SySodSa rrjs dvolas tu>v Trovrjpwv irvevfiaTwv eli auTobi eveOi'/Kaxre.
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uemadmodum conversationem secundum figuram ejus, qui apud eos Pleroma, exponunt factum.
BOYAOMAI Q croi kui wi avrhv Ttjv kt'htiv Kar eiKOua Se twv dopaTWv virb tov Si/uuovpyov, wy dyvoovvros avrov, KaTetTKevdirOai Sia Trji M.t]Tpb? \eyovcri, Sitiyqcrao-Qcu.
UpwTOV Hipp. fj.ev Ta 3Teaaapa o~TOi)(cta (pacri, wp, vowp, yr\v, aepa, eiKova agunt, qusedam autem et quasi plus quam sani sunt, tanto magis male habent.
Similiter autem et hi, quo magis plus sapere putantur, enervantes semetipsos, super tonum sagittantes.
Matt. xii.4& tanto magis non sapiunt.
Exiens enim immundus spiritus ignorantia?, dein vacantes eos non Deo, sed mundialibus quaestionibus inveniens, assumens alios spiritus septem nequiores semetipso, et infatuans illorum sententiam, quasi possint quae sunt super Deum adinvenire, et aptabiliter in exelusionem compositam Ogdoadem ignorantitc nequissimorum spirituum in eos deposuit.
CAP. X.
Volo autem tibi referre quemadmodum et ipsam conditionem secundum imaginem invisibilium Demiurgo, quasi ignorante eo, fabricatam per Matrem dicunt.
Primo quidem quatuor elementa dicunt, ignem, aquam, terram, et aerem, imaginem a {Kvcvpltowrw iavroit, exhaust their gony— Geds 4v /ifoip 0tp.a>ot Ik ri'pis
strength.
Kal yijs &4pot re to tov TrdvTOS £5t}/uthe conjecture of oipyricre <rwpa.
Hipp.
Phil.
VI.
28.
Bii-lius.
See also p.
118, n.
And hence the Gnostics borrowed their a iiriKKpovatv is So in the Pythagorean cosnionotion of a fiery Demiurge, presiding
ASTROLOGICJK.
{•hXs 7rjoo/^e/3X5o"0ai T?y dvw ^TrpwTrjs^ [deest ap.
H.^| rerpdSof Qgfj1^ visa.*'
» "» /1 ' f /1 / * MASS-I.xvil. v.. a* Tay T6 evepyeias avrwv auvapiuiu.ovfJi.evas, oiov uepfiov re icai i.
■vj/y^jooi/, fypov re /cat vypbv, aKpifiws efceiKov'iXeiv Trjv SySodSa'
*ei; $e/ca Swd/nets ovrws KaTapiQ/xovcriv eTrrd fJ-ev crw/xariKa KVKXoeiSrj, a /caJ ovpavovs KaXovaiv eireira t6v TrepieKTiKov g. 8i. avTwv kvkXov, ov ko.\ oySoov ovpavov oiofidj^ovcrf wpos Se tovtois rjXtov Te Kai aeXijvrjv.
Tavra SeKa ovtu tov dpiQfiov, eiKovas Xeyovatv eivai tijs dopaTov SckuSos, Trjs diro A.6yov m. 85.
Ka\ liwrjs TrpoeXOovcris.
Tr)v Se SwSeKaSa fxrjvvetrQai Sia tov ^wSiukou tov KaXov/xevov ki'kXov.
Ta yap SwSeKa ^wSia '
(pavepcoraTa rr)v tov A.vQpwTrov Kai Trjs 'EKKXricrlas QvyaTepa " dvTetreXevyQt], SwSacdSa crKtaypatpetv Xeyovm.
Ka5 eVei
eniissam esse superioris quaternationis : et operationes eorum cum eis annumeratas, id est, calidum et frigidum, humectum et aridum, diligenter imaginare Ogdoadem, ex qua decern virtutes sic enumerant : septem quidem corporea circumlata, quae etiam ccelos vocant : post deinde continentem eos circulum, quem octavum ccelum vocant, post deinde solem et lunam.
Hsec cum sint decern numero, imagines dicunt esse invisibilis decadis ejus, quae a Logo et Zoe progressa sit.
Duodecadem autem ostendi per eum, qui Zodiacus vocatur circulus. xii eniin signa manifestissime Hominis et Ecclesise filiam duodecadem, quasi per quandam umbram pinxisse dicunt.
Et e contrario superjunctum, With the exception of the other word are frvxQys, the text of Hippolytus over a material system of the seven
heavens, fire being the most active much to be preferred, and agrees al agent in creation : lorn
iri/pwSijs t) is ypvXii^ ovala,
and, Tdvruv most literally with the version the ; Striav yivcalt Igtiv awb xvpbs.
passage may be rendered, And since the vrtpavw be rrjz v\ns t) itrri bnpuovpyds.
Ptthaqobas in the same way imagined highest heaven bearing upon the very sphere (of the seven heavens) has been linked with the most rapid precession two Salfures, the one earthy, the other of the whole system, as a check, and balanc heavenly ; rbv be ovpdviov, irvp pLirexov tov depos, dtpfiov Kai tyvxpbv.
HlPP.
Philot. i. ir.
TlvBay. ing that swiftness with its own gravity, completes the cycle from sign to so that it 1 Either iffi, in continuation, as the sign in thirty years; they say that this Ilorus encircling their editions print, or i£ an image rjs of is (sc. oySodbot) as the translator read thirty-named mother. dva<popii, as an and seeing that the seven heavens were consi ; to be preferred to astronomical term, is (popa a burthen, which cannot be said dered to derive their substance and to have velocity per se but their properties from the lower ogdoad, do not I ; profess to give the calculation upon the reading may be adopted.
RAT10NES ORi'idT $ao"'> Thv T^>v oKwv (popav WKirroLTiv virapypvarav, ovirep 6 JJ^p^ hab&i.xtU. yp£VOq £JJ_ Ka« eirei aveJ£ev)(dt), (pier), t$ Tiv o\<oi/ ava<popa ^**1 WKirrdrri virapyovari
virepOev ovpavbi]
irpos avrw too /cirrei f3apvvwv, ko\ avTiraXavTevwv Trjv eicavtoV wtcvrrjTa Tjj eavrov f3pa§VT>}Ti, ware avTOV iv TptaKOvra eVetn Trjv ireploSov airb artj/xelov eVt crrj/jLetov TroteicrOai, eiKova Xeyovcri
TpiaKOVTwvvfiov MtjTepa avTwv irepiavrov tov "Opov tov Trjv e^ovTOf.
Ttjv treXrjvqv Te irakiv eavrtjs ovpavov ' efiLirepiejfOfievrjv TpiaKOVTa r)/j.epatf, Sia. twv rjfiepwv tov apiQfibv twv Tptatwvwv 3€KTV7rovv.
J\.ai tov t]\iov oe ev oeicaovo fiqo~i vepiep-fc], Kat TepfiaTiCpvTa Trjv KVKKixrjv [Z. irepie-)(o/JL€vov
inquiunt, universorum oneri, cum sit velocissimum, quod superpositum est ccelum, qui [quod] ad ipsam concavationem aggravat, et ex contrarietate moderatur illorum velocitatem sua tarditate, ita ut in xxx annis circuitum signo in signum faciat, a imaginem dicunt eum [id] Hori ejus, qui trigesimam nominis illorum matrem circumtinet.
Lunam quoque rursus suum coelum circumeuntem xxx diebus, per dies numerum xxx jEonum significare.
Et solem autem in duodecim mensibus circumeuntem et perficientem circularem suam apocatastasin, through an entire sign in thirty years.
The Latin version oneri shews that dcawhich this cycle of thirty years was based.
It can scarcely allude to any erroneous lunar cycle, for the nineteen <f>op$preserves the correct construction.
It may be observed that numbers, years' period, or cycle of the golden
whether they were cardinal or ordi number, had been calculated by the Athenian astronomer Meton, six hun nal, were expressed in MSS. by their was not proper numerical letters dred years before, although since, there it ; applied to ecclesiastical purposes be fore the translator has trigesimam nomi fore the Council of Nice, when Eusewould seem that his copy had nis, X' it BIUB corrected the sixteen years' cycle of Hippolytus, which was faulty.
So S.
Jerome says of Hippolytus —Sedccim 6v6fiaros, instead of iZvvfiov, a name V given here to Sophia, the thirtieth Xon, to identify her more clearly with the cycle of thirty years. annorum circulum, quern Grceci ixxat-
ScKaeTTjplfia vocant, rcperit et Eusebio, Leg. iiureptcpxofitvTpi.
; qui super eodem Pascha canonem (hccm (ktvtovv the conjecture of Petavics, and
is et novem annorum circulum, id est tweacorresponds with the Latin.
But the testimony of MSS. it KaiheKaernplta componiU, occasionem deis only in favour of iicrvirovoi, which dit.
These facts are mentioned, that is a one occasion of misconception may be eli step perhaps towards the true reading minated.
Possibly preserved by HlPPOLYTDS, iKTirrovaav. was imagined that it the equinoctial precession moved at the ATroKardtrraau', the sun's return to any particular point in the ecliptic.
' rate of a degree in the year, and passed
ASTRO LOGICS.
Hipp. avTOv airoKardiTTatriv, Sia twv SwSexa utivwv Ttiv SwSeKUTW «y8,1-,1TtM- [H. SaSacdSa'] (pavepav xouh.
Tas Si [H. Kai auras Se raf] 1 SeicaSuo wpwv to /xerpov eyovvas, tvttov Trjs
(paeivrjs rj/xepas SwSeicdSos eivai.
'A\Xa firjv Kai Tt)v wpav (pacri, to SwSeKarov Trjs rifxepas, €K TpiaKOVTa fioipwv KeKoo-firjaOai Sia tijv eiKova Trjs TpiaicovTaSos.
Kai avrov Se tov "(wSiaKOv kvkXov Tt)v •jreplfxeTpov eivai fioipwv TptaKOcrlwv e^tjKOvra' eica<TTOv yap XwSiov fiolpag e%ei \H. e^etpj TptdicovTa.
Ovtojc Se ku\ Sia, tov kvkXou Tt}v eiKoi/a Trjs <rvva<pelas twv SwSeKa irpbs to TpiaKovTa TeTtiptjaOai Xeyovaiv.
*Eti fir)v Kai ttjv yrjv eis per duodecim menses duodecadem manifestare.
Et ipsos autem
dies duodecim horarum mensuram habentes, typum non apparentis duodecadis esse.
Sed et horam dicunt, quod est duodecimum diei, ex triginta partibus adornatam propter imaginem triacontadis.
Et ipsius autem Zodiaci circuli circummensurationem esse partium CCCLX, quodque enim signorum partes habere xxx.
Sic quoque per circulum imaginem copulationia eorum, quae sunt duodecim, ad xxx custoditam dicunt.
Adhuc etiam et terrain in xii 3climata divisam dicentes, et in unoquoque 1 SexaSio lipQp.
In our system the reciproci, senitque semper horis rum cujusque diei aut noclis, aut loci, sed equinoctial circle, comprising 36odegrees, wquinoctialibut. n. 97.
We need not and subdivided by 24, gives 15 astrono mical degrees to each hour.
The an be surprised therefore at the Marcosian division of the day. cients divided it by 12, and assigned 1 HlPPOLYTUS reads t^s koitis, which
deg. to each double hour.
See the also makes sense.
It should be observed notes of Gbabe and Massuet, who fol low Petavius in Epiphan.
Among the that a contrast is drawn between things Romans the length of the hours varied heavenly and invisible, and the objects of human perception ; hence the transla according to the length of the day ; the tion non apparentis, may express, better only definition of a day in the twelve than the present Greek text, the writer's tables was the rising and setting of the sun, Pliny, II.
YU.
60; and the meaning.
3 Climata, zones parallel with the period of light was divided into twelve equator, which decrease in breadth as equal portions.
Hence the luxra (estiva of Martial, Epigr. xii. i, and hiberna of Plautus, Pseud, v. ii.
10.
Seipio they approach the Pole according to the increasing length of the longest having introduced the clepsydra, Pliny day ; each climate marking the dif ference of half an hour of day.
They says, Primus aqua divi&it horas ceque noctium ac dierum.
(ibid.) It is with were named by old geographers, after reference to this loose mensuration of the different latitudes, Siafuporjs, Siatime, that he says elsewhere of the aievirijs, SiakeijavSplas, SiafyuSfy, Jio/Jtides, that they recur paribus intervallis
TESTIM0N1A
rf'A'Vxw SwSeKa KXl/xara Styprja-dai (pdo-Kovres, lK<xi KaO' eKaarov kXi/jlu i« IASi*2.xvil" SuvafJ.lv etc twv ovpavwv /caret Kaderov viroSe^Ofj-evriv, eoiKora p$}^ r'iKrovarav reKva r*j Karairefxirovari rt)v viroppotav SvvafJ.iv, tL m' tvttov eivai rrjs SwSeKaSoi Kai rwv reKVWv avrrji o~a(pecrrarov Siafiefiaiovvrai. llpbg Se rovroif QeXtjaavrd (f>a<rt rbv Srjfiiovpybv rtjf avw oySodSos to direpavrov, Kat alwviov, Kai tiopiarov, Ka\ d^povov /xiix^crairOai, Kai fir) SuvrjOevra rb fj.6vifJ.ov avrqs, Kai atSiov eKrvwwaai, Sia rb Kapirbv [adde ex H. airrovj eivai vo-reprjixarof, elf ypovovs, Kai Kaipovi, aptdfiovg re iroXvereti rb alwviov aoriji Kararedeio~6ai, oldfievov 2ev rcf irXt'/dei rwv %j)6vwv fjufxr/aairOai avrrji rb direpavrov.
'Evravdd re Xeyovatv, eKCpvyovcrrn avrbv rrjs dX>]6elaf, eirrjKO-
XovQtjKevat rb ^evSog'
Kai Sta rovro KardXvaiv irXrjpwQevrwv rwv "xpovwv Xafieiv avrov rb epyov. climate unamquamquo virtutem ex coelis secundum demissionem suscipientem, et similes generantem filios ei virtuti, quae demiserit distillationem, typum esse duodecadis et filiorum ejus manife8tissimum asseverant.
Ad haec autem volentem aiunt Demiurgum superioris Ogdoadis interminabile, et aeternum, et infinitum, et intemporale imitari, et cum non potuisset perseverabile ejus et perpetuum deformare, ideo quod fructus sit Labis, in temporum spatia, et tempora, et numeros multorum annorum seternitatem ejus deposuisse. existimantem in multitudine tem porum imitari ejus interminatum.
Hie dicunt, cum effugisset eum Veritas, subsecutum mendacium : et propter hoc destructionem, adimpletis temporibus, accipere ejus opus.
1 The sense flows so clearly in the Greek that I am not willing to disturb to t^v yijv.
Hippolytus has xard tt|» an6ppoLa.il bwafxat, i.e.
KararefiiroOir-Q Sw.
And since both Greek texts agree the text by inserting those readings from Hippolytus that are also indicated in the reading of the latter word, they by the translator.
The raria lectiones are possibly more correct than the copy followed by the Translator. supplied by Hippolytus are nab" tv tKaarov .... dpd fiiav SCyapuv .... s h rip tt^Bci t. xThus the Platonist's diretpla was not absolute infinity, but indefinite duration.
So also Aris totle speaks of infinity as a numerical Kai 6/*otc£jit[«']a rlKTovaav.
The reader will observe that the translator had Kara Ka8«riv, though (card KdOerov, in perpendiculuiii, is preferable ; and that sum, which, however vast, may still re ceive the addition of more. inroSex. must be understood as referring