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
Religion
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
With the exception of that of St John, since the part of the _Pistis
Sophia_ which it is suggested is by Valentinus does not quote it. His
followers, however, knew of it, as in the _Excerpta Theodoti_ the
opening verse τὸ ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος καὶ ὁ Λόγος ἦν παρὰ τὸν Θεὸν, καὶ
Θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος is quoted with the comments of οἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ Οὐαλεντίνου
on it. Cf. Amélineau, _Gnost. Ég._ p. 209, where the passage is given
in n. 4.
Footnote 404:
Irenaeus, Bk I. c. 1, § 13, pp. 60-62, Harvey: Εἰσὶ δὲ οἱ λέγοντες...
Ἔπαθε δὲ λοιπὸν κατ’ αὐτοὺς ὁ ψυχικὸς Χριστός, καὶ ὁ ἐκ τῆς οἰκονομίας
κατεσκευασμένος μυστηριωδῶς, ἵν’ ἐπιδείξῃ [δι’] αὐτοῦ ἡ μήτηρ τοῦ ἄνω
Χριστοῦ, ἐκείνου τοῦ ἐπεκταθέντος τῷ Σταυρῷ, καὶ μορφώσαντος τὴν
Ἀχαμὼθ μόρφωσιν τὴν κατ’ οὐσίαν· πάντα γὰρ ταῦτα τύπους ἐκείνων εἶναι
λέγουσι. “And there are some” (probably the Anatolic or Oriental
School is meant) “who say.... And further the animal Christ, He who
had been mysteriously formed by dispensation, suffered so that the
Mother might show forth through Him the type of the Christ on high, of
him who is extended by Stauros, and gave shape to Achamoth as regards
substance: for they say that all things here are the types of others
there.”
Footnote 405:
Tertullian, _adv. Valentinianos_, c. IV.
Footnote 406:
That is, not a martyr, but one who had suffered for the faith without
losing his life.
Footnote 407:
Irenaeus, Bk III. c. 4, § 1, vol. II. p. 17, Harvey; Eusebius, _Hist.
Eccl._ Bk IV. c. 11. Cf. Amélineau, _Gnost. Ég._ p. 170.
Footnote 408:
Tertullian, _de Praescpt._ c. XXX. Amélineau, _Gnost. Ég._ p. 175,
objects to this.
Footnote 409:
Amélineau, _Gnost. Ég._ p. 172, n. 1; _ibid._ p. 175.
Footnote 410:
Epiphanius, _Pan., Haer._ XXXI. c. 2.
Footnote 411:
Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VI. c. 35, p. 296, Cruice.
Footnote 412:
Irenaeus, Bk I. c. 1, § 2, p. 13, Harvey.
Footnote 413:
See n. 2, p. 116 _supra_.
Footnote 414:
Irenaeus, _Prooem._ p. 4, Harvey.
Footnote 415:
Clem. Alex. _Strom._ Bk IV. c. 9.
Footnote 416:
Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VI. c. 38, p. 302, Cruice. So Irenaeus, Bk
I. c. 5, § 2, p. 101, Harvey. This appears to be hyperbole rather than
dualism.
Footnote 417:
Amélineau, _Gnost. Ég._ p. 189.
Footnote 418:
Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk VI. c. 35, p. 296, Cruice.
Footnote 419:
Albîrûnî, _Chronology of Ancient Nations_, ed. Sachau, 1879, pp. 27,
189.
Footnote 420:
De Faye, _Intro._ etc. p. 105, n. 1; Tertullian, _de Carne Christi_,
c. XVI.
Footnote 421:
See Hort, Bardaisan, in _Dict. Christian Biog._
Footnote 422:
Eusebius, _Hist. Eccl._ Bk IV. c. 30, says that Bar Daisan was first a
Valentinian and afterwards recanted, “but did not entirely wipe away
the filth of his old heresy.”
Footnote 423:
Rather a suspect name for a hymn writer.
Footnote 424:
Ephrem Syrus’ own date is given as 370 A.D., in _Dict. Christian
Biog._ _s.h.n._
Footnote 425:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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