Gospel of Philip 119. 13-15 (p. 47):... and it is fitting for each
PISTIS, GNOSIS, COSMOLOGY, AND THEOLOGY PISTIS, GNOSIS, C The close relationship between gnosis and rest is also charac- | directly dependent on P teristic ofGnosticism, as can be seen from the following evidence: are again in the sphere Exc. ex Theod. 63. 1: % pev odv TOv mvevparixay davdravats ev KupLaKg, plation of what is beyo ev by8od8u.!
| occurs also in such autho Apocryphon of John, Codex II, 26. 31
(p. 184 Krause—Labib):
| Maximus of Tyre.* They are brought into the repose of the Aeons.
| Gospel of Mary 17. 4-5 (p. 75 Till): In this moment Ireach the repose.
3. Th Gospel of Philip 119. 13-15 (p. 47):... and it is fitting for each | : one of the disciples to enter into his rest.
— a emia Gospel of Truth 24. 16-19: ... and cease their strivings in search the study or nature (P of the Father reposing in him. part of which is represen Ibid. 40. 30-3: He sent him in order that he might speak about world. In Strom. i. 15. 2 the Place and about his place of repose from which he had come the study of gnosis must Pp.
P y of g forth. world and of nature:
Ibid. 41. 28-9: They reach his head which is repose for them.
. dd Tis Ibid. 42. 32: snd on tae Till) Hew : kaiws éxovra mpodiadnpbj "ee '= Cie ay om p. 287 Sa Ne ani sesh Tasioll These words are confirm eré meansof his holy knowieage wl 'oO to the rath . ba goa wncte? fae y the Stromateis, where Cle and will obtain rest in the unbegotten Father.?
; gtd literary activity. He expr In the idea of the Himmelsreise Clement is directly influenced also ing the Stromateis,3 a furt by Philo. In Strom. ii. 51. 1-3 (ii. 140. 1-11) he praises the number of the origin of the worl ten as the perfect number and identifies it with the highest divinity: as the number ten comes after the first nine numbers,
* Phaedrus 247 Cc, ai 5¢ Bewpod Z .
I I acly ithe Bich divin fi 2 Albinus, Did. 180. 18-19, o in the sae WAY the BOD. CAT TEACH the me est Glv unity 2 ter and Maximus of Tyre, Or. xi. surpassing the nine parts into which the sensible world is divided, od8e 74 €v 76 odpavd odpara..
" namely the region ofthe earth, the seven inferior heavens, and the Tod odpavod emi tov dAnOi Tomo ee aha Sas S OBL aNhen-tt toOnrd :
3 See Strom. iv. 2. 1 (ii. 248. eighth heaven of the fixed stars; only when the aicyros Kécpos (ii, 249. 4is left behind is it possible to reach the gnosis of the first principle
87-121), who has demonstrat which is beyond it. Clement connects his eulogy of the number b:5acxadixds of which Clemen A a : hick nord Hi wt'
| mmbol 6G : vol. i. go. 22~4) and that he in ten with the Pascha, which, according to him, is the symbol o on the higher gnosis, namely th \ the liberation of the soul from the bonds of the body, represented
| the Adyos Sdacxadtkds with th by Egypt.3 As Stahlin has shown,* this section of the Stromateis is ; rightly criticized by de Faye alee ; teks thesis has been recently taken | « According to the Valentinians the 'psychical' men also enjoy their restin the | Siromasis:the Adjos Sibdakndua ! eighth heaven, in which they dwell after the mvevjarcxol have entered with the book Etude sur les Stromates... angels into the divine pleroma: see Iren. Adv. Haer. i, 7. 1, 74s re Tay Buxalw Yuxds think that this view can be a | dvaravecbat cal adras &v 7@ rijs Mecdrnros rémw.
| sections with gnosis, never ex i * The connection between gnosis and rest occurs also in the Gospel of Thomas: theology, which represent the Ph. Vielhauer discusses sayings 60, 50, and 51 of this gospel in his essay in in very well with the Adyos SiS Beiheft 30 zur <NW (1964) (especially PP: 293-7). Further material on dvdzavats
| other hand, Clement allots thes has been collected by Vielhauer in this article.
. and also the references collect 3 On the presence of this allegory in Clement see also p. 165 above and foottheory (pp. 109 ff.) (according note 2 on the same page.
+ See app. crit., vol. ii, 140. ferent trilogies, the first repre