divinity is also ineffable. Noname, no word is sufficiently adequate
PISTIS, GNOSIS, COSMOLOGY, AND THEOLOGY | PISTIS, GNOSIS, C ApocryphonofJohn, 26. 4. (p. 93) : Who willbe abletocomprehend | Corpus Hermeticum him? i. 31: dvexAdN ipBas
; ] mobs NTE, ap: a Gospel of Truth 17. 7-8: That incomprehensible, inconceivable pyre, cum pwvovRef one who is superior to all thought. i peve.
2Ibid., 17. 22: That incomprehensible, inconceivable one." a ker ' dpp 6. Being beyond the reach of the human intellect, the highest ie dno divinity is also ineffable. Noname, no word is sufficiently adequate
Tos to express its nature: the passages Strom. il. 5. 3 (ii. 115. 21), h pév Strom. v. 71. 5 (iis 374. 19), Strom. v. 71. 5 (ii. 374. 22), Strom, v. 78. 3 (ii 378. 2), Strom. v. 79.
(ii. 378. 17), Strom. v. 81, '
Gnosticism 5 (ii. 38. 18), Strom. v. 82.
(ii. 380. 24ff.) are particularly i Gospel of Truth 39.
Tr worth noticing in this respect. The same idea occurs also in i 11-13: For, indeed, nat Philo (see De Mut. Nom. 14, vol. iii. 159. 4-5, and 15, vol. iii,
? the ungenerated has be 159. 12).3 no name. For what me t name could one give ; A :
Plato Albinus Apuleius ; to him?
Parm. 142 a: ob8° dpa Did. 164.7: jv puxpod De Plat. i. 190: quem évopa gorw adr@, obSet Kal dppyrov tyyetquidem pronuntiat inf 88 Adyos .
Cf. dictum, innominabilem.
7. Clement agrees wit mie dpa oddé 164.28 and 165.4. — Apol. 64. 7: nemini ofthe analytical process k éyerat.
; effabilis. the object of knowledge Symp. ati a: ovdd Tis This logical process is e Aéyos. section of Strom. v. 71.
341 ¢: occurs in Albinus, Did. pnréy yap oddapds Bader), and in Maximu Hobein). Philo also seem ; Maxi 'Tr:
N i iva Clement's God recall menue of Tyre . iinienius ; er Plotinus. Like the highest Or. xi. 60 a: rovrov Eus. Praep. Ev. xi. 22. vi.
65: : od8e Ph the Plotinian 'one' has Svopa pev od Aéyer, od =F (= fr. a Leeepuxrds corw 0 VEes escapes those who want yap oldev... mans): dAAd tis dda038" dvopractds.* : i a ae Ibid.: dppyrov dwvg.
79S bia aBurpynros ' The words trepdvw wavrds drexvas épnpia. ian.
* See H. C. Puech-G. Quispe 1 To this passage of the Gospel of Truth attention has been drawn also by 3 The correspondence betwe Danidlou, op. cit, 912. process has been noticed also by 2 See also 18. 32 and 30. 34 (cf. Daniélou, op. cit. 312). Further evidence on 3 The whole passage of Cels the presence of this conception in Gnosticism can be found in Daniélou, op. cit.
310-11. i 5 Enn. v. 5. 11 (4-5), 005€ oxf 3 H. A. Wolfson, Philo ii. 119-21, traces the Philonic conception of the in137 d 2, obre pépy eer, and 137 effability of God also back to the Old Testament.
, $ Enn. Vv. 5+ 13 (35-6), GAN' d 4 Cf. Festugiére, Révélation ..., iv. 116.
7 Enn. v. 5. 10 (9), wav riyns, ;