Section 46 (Page 240)

OPHITARUM

ERROR

ANTIQUISSIMUS.

u?,-.Ii autem eum post resurrectionem 1xviii mensibus, et 2sensibixxvlll. 7.

. r Gmass"'v' "tate in eum descendente "didicisse, quod liquidum est: et ""• u' paucos ex discipulis suis, quos sciebat capaces tantorum mysteriorum, docuit haec, et sic receptus est in coelum, 4 Christo eedente ad dexteram Patris Ialdabaoth, uti animas eorum, qui cognoverunt eos, post depositionem mundialis carnis recipiat in se, ditans semetipsum, patre ejus ignorante. sed ne vidente quidem eum, uti in quantum Jesus semetipsum ditat in Sanctis animabus, in tantum Pater ejus in detrimentis factus deminoretur, evacuatus a virtute sua per animas.

Jam enim non habiturum eum animas sanctas, ut rursus demittat eas in sspculum, sed tantum eas quae sunt ex substantia ejus, id est, quae 6unt ex insufflatione.

Consummationem autem futuram, quando

history may have read IH. M. HM2. united for a time with JesuB, but per ('iTjffoOi u.' ij/itpaU) as IH. MH2I. xviii. manently, through the incorruptible JEon, with the principal Hebdomad, mensibus.

So the Saviour's name is com puted in the Ep. of Barnabas, Iura the archetype of that headed by Ialda dVffa, rjra 6ktw' exets '\rjo-ovv . ...AtjXoi baoth.

The Ophites argued that Christ (see p. 328), being intimately united with otiv tov 'Iiktouv iv rots Svel yp&u-futffi, c. 9.

And Clem. Al. Str. vr., to Si 1 nal t6 1; the incorruptible JEon or Ecclusia and with the principal Hebdomad, it was Torjvofia o"rjfialvei to atarhpiov.

2 Sensibilitate, alo-ß-haeus, as in § 16. s Didicisse.

Perhaps the author impossible that he should have been reunited with the mere earthy and cor wrote raOeiv (egisse)

tparcpbv, which ruptible man after the resurrection ; the the translator rendered as naßeiv.

* Christo sedente ad dextram, i. e. mundiale corpus being common to all other animals, and therefore inadmis sible into the Pleroma.

Baur certainly among those higher .<Eons of the prin misses the meaning of Iren^euh, where cipal Hebdomad, which were of the Pleroma and therefore Jejiol with refer he says, aus den Worten des Irenaus, ence to the lower or left Hebdomad, scheint geschlossen werden zu müssen, headed by Ialdabaoth.

The emendation of Neandkr who would substitute Jesu for Christo is unnecessary ; Jesus ist dass sie diese Vereinigung schon vor der Taufe Statt finden Hessen.

Christi.

Gnosis, p.

190.

He is more successful dann in den Himmel erhoben worden in explaining the Ophite notion of the von dem himmlisclien Christus und sitzt zur rechten des Ialdabaoth, u. t. tc.

Resurrection of Jesus ; Jesus aber wurde gekreuzigt, doch sandle ihm Christus Genet.

Ewt.

243.

CT. note p. 267.

Die einen Geist von oben, der seinen Leib Stelle Christo sedente ist wie schon Mos wiedererweckte, doch nur den psychischen und geistigen, denn das Weltliche Hess heim bemerkt, offenbar felilerhaft. Baür's words are quoted by Stieren, and they er in der Welt.

The Greek words in confirm Grabe's text.

Die Worte sagen the final sentence seem to have been, nicht, was man sie sagen lässt, sondern Kai t6 KoofUKÖv aäßa to tCiv fawn vielmehr, dass Christus rechts von Ialda 1 xviii mensibus.

See p. 2(1.

It is baoth, dem Vater Jesu, seinen Sitz ge habt habe, d. h. im Pleroma, weil man not improbable that this strange mis das Pleroma und das ausserhalb desselben statement may have originated from Befindliche wie Rechtes und Linkes un abbreviated writing ; and heretics with an imperfect knowledge of our Lord's terschied.

cainiTuE.

tota humectatio spiritus luminis colligatur, et abripiatur in ^ib. l Monem incorruptibilitatis.

0MAss"iT'

Tales quidem secundum eos sententiae sunt : a quibus, *xx~ velut 'Lernsea hydra, multiplex capitibus fera de Valentini schola generata est.

* Quidam enim ipsam Sophiam serpentem factam dicunt: quapropter et contrariam exstitisse factori Adse, et agnitionem hominibus immisisse, et propter hoc dictum ser pentem omnium sapientiorem.

Sed et propter positionem 3intestinorum nostrorum per quae esca infertur, *eo et] quod talem figuram habeant, ostendentem absconsam generatricem [I. serpentis figurae substantiam in nobis.

"AXXot Se, ouy KaiVouy ovofiaCovtri Kai tov Ka'tV Theod. h.

(pa&iv €k Ttjs avwoev avoevTiat AeAvT paxrvai, /cat tov ticrau,

Kai tov Kojoe, *cat tovs ^oSofiiTai, icai Trdvraf 8e tovs TOiovrovi, avyyevets iSlovs ofioXoyovai.

Kat tovtovs vtto fJiiv tov ttoitjtov fiKTtjQtjvat, fArjSefMiav Se fiXafirjv elerSe^acrOaf Hi autem rursus Cain a superiore principalitate dicunt, et Esau, et Core, et Sodomitas, et omnes tales cognatos suos confitentur; et propter hoc 9.

A factore impugnatos, neminem a ex eis male acceptos [mala acceptasse].

Sophia enim illud So Hippolttus says of the Naascertain extent with the Jewish Cabbala,

dXX' forel vo\vKi<pa\6s where a principal excellence of the iffriy senes or Ophites ; rXdyrj Kai TaXvtrx&fy aXrjdws Androgynous Microprosopus deis ^ laropovpUvt) vSpa, Kara filar rai/njs itc<pascribed as forming the internal viscera ; X4s irarifewes .

Stov to drifter avaip-f,JpnrVKI m«Dn 'HP! tatTSnK 1M .. aoptev.

PhUos.

V. II.

PW3 Idra Salba.

XL.

Moreover this Twis Si avrov tov 6<piv rfj aoipla glory spread out forms the viscera, s avvetval <pa<ri, Kai u>s tvavrttp 0c$ t$ The Clerm. reading et

is proposed voirfT^ voXe/wuvra tov *A54/i ££aTaTTjaai in lieu of Gbabb's eo, for returns it xal SeSwKerat t^v yvQffiv, Kai tovtov better into Greek the translator how- ; X&pw elfnj<r8at (ppovipjlnaTov elvai vdvrwv ever read oeiKvvoar ostendentem, appatov 6(ptv.

Kai rV ito\v(\iktov Si t&v rently in error for Seinvvaiv ostendunt, flUerfpav ivripwv $4ou> rod 6<pcus reptthe entire sentence running as follows:

Ktiodai to oQ/M, SeiKvvaav tt\v faoybvov 'AXX4 Kai 5i4 ttjk tSv fip.eripwv tvripuv wv eltrtp^peraL to fipwfia, Kai ffotplav tov 6<peois.

Theod.

H(er. Fab.

Bleu/, Si I.

14.