He is very difficult to re
PISTIS, GNOSIS, COSMOLOGY, AND THEOLOGY PISTIS, GNOSIS, C Plato Albinus Apuleius \ Clement, Strom. v.
Parmenides 137d: dDid. 164. 14-15: @s De Plat. i. 190: sed 380. 18-22): 8 pire yév meipov Kal dvev oxy}jueyeOos avverociv —haec de deo sensit, quod pure Stagopa pare eiSos a patos. kal oxppa Kal yp@pa — sit incorporeus. pode avpBeBnnds ze pnde Hn ed, aes my aye Ibid., 138a: eretmep TOAAdKIs od KaBapds De Plat. i. 204: incorBeByxév re. 088" dv Be SAo odde a Ta vonTa voobat. poreus. i tts aUTOV Spbdis « » + 088E pur BEA exer Did. 165. 33: pépy gwd adtod Aexréov.
Symp. 211 a: 088? ad te in F ?
Ye pn OUK exw. i + «+ + OLOV TpOooWTrov Tl .
166. 6-7: dore od8¢ yetpes.! dakunres tv a S 2. The transcendence Beds He is very difficult to re from those who want to is Clement's direct sourc Maximus of Tyre Numenius Celsus dence between Strom. ii.
Or. xi. 60 a: o88¢ ypdEus. Praep. Ev.xi.22. vi. 64: oBre peréxet 4, 22-4),' and De Post, C. ay Adyet, od yap elder 1 (= fr. 11
Leeoxrparos 5 Beds # this that God cannot be oddé péyeOos A€yet, ob mans): &Oa pajre tis _xpeparos.? f above space and time. C yap hwaro. avOpwros pyre te C@a a yap th ov erepon on cpa Strom. ii. 6. 1 (ii. 116. 2ff.): péya. prjre opuxpdr. év yrodw 7} tomw 6 Beds drepdvw Kal témov Kal ypdv Tis Tav yeyovdrwr ididrynr ; > .
33° ev ud a, Corpus Hermeticum Gnosticism Gnosticism or Si, pep'oeEET sh :
374. iv. 9: od ydp popé Apocryphon of John, 'Treatise on the three " oad 5¢ 37 en ee pe ae 80):
H wee Fhe Ti ovKovv ev Témw Td mp@rov od8¢ témos eorl adrod ©6224. 16-18 (p.89):
He has no XN ssen dies eal eben Kekw .
. dddvarov yap is neither corporeal aspect, noformwhich P om dodparov cdpart danor incorporeal, neican be perceived by 7, vivac. ther big nor small; means of senses.3 xi. 8: 70G dowpdrov. he has no dimensions xiii, 6: 76 dypdparor, which can be meapletiidied sade am 70 AOXHLATLOTOV eee sured.
, anal ial iain That God is far away fr Platonic doctrine, as can Being without any body and formless, God is also devoid of any ri attribute. A close parallel, which already Friichtel has observed,* rips ch, De Is. et Os. o can be established between Clement and Albinus:
382f (ii. 553: 20-1) :
X €ore pev abrtos azwAa phe ws xe t cE Festugiare, op. eit, 85.
2 Cf Festugiére, op. dit, 115.
TATU nS ys axpave TWw 3 Some passages of this treatise have been translated by H. C. Puech and G.
Tos Kat apiavros. dpu Quispel in VC 9 (1955), 65-102. On this passage see p. 84.
) + BPhW 57 (1937), 5923 sce also the apparatus in the reprint of Stihlin's _, ' On this parallel between C edition, vol. ii. 380.