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86In Valentinianism the πλήϱωμα meant the totality of aeons, the entire divine sphere, from which Sophia fell (Irenaeus, Haer. 1.1.3).
87The two treatises are set out conveniently in parallel columns in D. M. Parrott’s translation, in The Nag Hammadi Library in English, ed. J. M. Robinson (Leiden, 1977), pp. 206-28; the Christian expansions in the Sophia are thus readily recognized. Cf. M. Krause, “The Christianization of Gnostic Texts,” in The New Testament and Gnosis, ed. A. J. M. Wedderburn and A. H. B. Logan (Edinburgh, 1983), pp. 187-94.
88G. G. Scholem, Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition (New York, 1960), p. 1.