Forerunners and rivals of Christianity : $b being studies in religious history from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D., Vol. 2 (of 2)Legge, Francis
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Forerunners and rivals of Christianity : $b being studies in religious history from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D., Vol. 2 (of 2)
Legge, Francis
Christianity and other religions; Religions
Irenaeus, Bk I. c. 19, § 1, p. 199, Harvey. For the name Abraxas see
_ibid._ p. 203, and Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VII. c. 26, p. 361,
Cruice. As Harvey points out in his note, the passage containing it
has evidently slipped out of Irenaeus’ text and has been added at the
foot of the roll.
Footnote 308:
Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VII. c. 20, p. 344, Cruice. The revelations
in question must therefore have been made after the Resurrection.
Clement of Alexandria says that Basilides was a disciple of Glaucias,
the interpreter of Peter: _Strom._ Bk VII. c. 17.
Footnote 309:
Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VII. c. 21, pp. 345, 346, Cruice.
Footnote 310:
ἀθελήτως καὶ ἀνοήτως καὶ ἀναισθήτως. Hippolytus, _loc. cit._ This
στίγμα ἀμέριστον or “indivisible point” from which all things come is
mentioned in Simon Magus’ Apophasis (see Chapter VI, vol. I. p. 194,
_supra_) as well as in the Bruce Papyrus of Chapter X, _infra_.
Footnote 311:
Or like the Orphic egg from which Phanes came forth. See Chapter IV,
vol. I. p. 123, _supra_.
Footnote 312:
Ἦν, φησίν, ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ σπέρματι Υἱότης, τριμερὴς κατὰ πάντα, τῷ οὐκ
ὄντι θεῷ ὁμοούσιος, γενητὴ ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων, Hippolytus, _op. cit_, Bk
VII. c. 22, p. 349, Cruice. If these are Basilides’ actual words, he
would seem to have been the first author to make use of the expression
Homoousios.
Footnote 313:
Hippolytus, _op. et loc. cit._ p. 350, Cruice.
Footnote 314:
Ἔχειν μὲν αὐτὸ μετ’ αὐτῆς οὐκ ἠδύνατο· ἦν γὰρ οὐχ ὀμοούσιον· οὐδὲ
φύσιν εἶχε μετὰ τῆς Υἱότητος. Hippolytus, _op. et loc. cit._ p. 351,
Cruice.
Footnote 315:
Had Basilides or Hippolytus read Horace?
Footnote 316:
Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VII. c. 23, p. 353, Cruice.
Footnote 317:
Amélineau, _Le Gnosticisme Égyptien_, pp. 139-152. So Mallet, _Culte
de Neith à Sais_, Paris, 1888, pp. 213, 214, says that both Basilides
and Valentinus drew their doctrines from the late form of Egyptian
religion which he describes.
Footnote 318:
_Paut neteru._ Maspero, _Études Égyptol._, II. pp. 244, 245. Cf. the
whole of the luminous essay _Sur l’Ennéade_ in the same volume and
especially pp. 385, 386. Cf. Naville, _Old Egyptian Faith_, p. 117;
Erman, _Hist. Egyptian Religion_, p. 78.
Footnote 319:
_Tu enim, aiunt, omnes cognosce, te autem nemo cognoscat.... Non autem
multos scire posse haec, sed unum a mille, et duo a myriadibus._
Irenaeus, Bk I. c. 19, § 3, p. 202, Harvey. Epiphanius, _Haer._ XXIV.
c. 5, p. 152, Oehler, while copying Irenaeus’ account puts it rather
differently, Ὑμεῖς πάντα γινώσκετε, ὑμᾶς δὲ μηδεὶς γινωσκέτω, which
probably represents Irenaeus’ own expression. One of the authors of
the _Pistis Sophia_ had evidently heard of Basilides’ remark about 1
in 1000. Cf. _Pistis Sophia_, p. 354, Copt.
Footnote 320:
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