Renan, _L’Église Chrétienne_, pp. 152, 153, for references. Footnote 443: Tertullian, _de Pudicitia_, and Pseudo Cyprian, _de Glor. Martyr._ _passim_. Footnote 444: See Chap. VII, n. 1, p. 8 _supra_. Footnote 445: Tertullian, _Scorpiace_, c. 1. Footnote 446: Gibbon, _Decline and Fall_, Bury’s ed. vol. II. p. 13. Cf. what Irenaeus, Βk I. c. 1, § 8, p. 36, Harvey, says as to the high price charged by the Valentinians for their teaching. Footnote 447: Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk IV. c. 4, §§ 1-15. Footnote 448: Irenaeus, Bk I. cc. 7-8 _passim_, pp. 114-156, Harvey. Footnote 449: Thus he says that the Dove signifies Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, because Α and Ω, like περιστερά “dove,” have the numerical value of 801. Footnote 450: A similar miracle is performed by the risen Jesus in the Bruce Papyrus. See Chap. X _infra_. Footnote 451: Verse: _a._ Φῶς πατρικὸν ποθέουσα, σύναιμε, σύνευνε, σοφή μου, λούτροις χρεισαμένη Χ(ρειστο)ῦ μύρον ἄφθιτον, ἁγνὸν, Αἰώνων ἔσπευσας ἀθρ[ῆ]σαι θεῖα πρόσωπα, βουλῆς τῆς μεγάλης μέγαν ἄγγελον, υἱὸν ἀληθῆ, [εἰς ν]υμφῶνα μολοῦσα καὶ εἰς [κόλπ]ους ἀνόρουσα[?] [Αἰώνων πα]τρικοὺς κ[αὶ].... _b._ Οὐκ ἔσχεν κοινὸν βιότου [τ]έλος ἥδε θανοῦσα· κάτθανε καὶ ζώει καὶ ὁρᾷ φάος ἄφθιτον ὄντως· ζώει μὲν ζωοῖσι, θανὲν δὲ θανοῦσιν ἀληθῶς. γαῖα, τί θαυμάζεις νέκυος γένος; ὴ πεφόβηται; (Boeckh’s) _C. I. G._ 9595_a_, t. I. and p. 594. “Longing for the light of the Father, partner of my blood, partner of my bed, O my wise one! Anointed at the font with the incorruptible and pure myrrh of Christ, Thou hast hastened to behold the divine faces of the Aeons, [and] The Great Angel of the Great Council, the true Son. Thou hast gone to the nuptial couch and hast hurried to the fatherly bosoms of the Aeons And.... Though dying, she has not suffered the common end of life, She is dead, and yet lives and actually beholds the light incorruptible, To the living she is alive, and dead only to those really dead. O Earth, why dost thou wonder at this new kind of shade? or dost thou fear it?”