Footnote 465: Cf. the ἐσώτερον τοῦ καταπετάσματος “within the veil” of Heb. vi. 19. For other instances of its use in this sense see Crum, _Cat. of the Coptic MSS. in the Brit. Mus._ p. 255, n. 1; and Clem. Alex. _Strom._ Bk V. c. 6. For the _dove_, Mr F. C. Conybeare, in a paper on the subject read before the Society of Historical Theology in Dec. 1892 (see _Academy_ of 3rd Dec. 1892), said that the dove was “the recognised symbol of the Holy Spirit or Logos in the allegorizing theology of the Alexandrine Jews at the beginning of the 1st century A.D.,” and quoted several passages from Philo in support. Cf. Origen, _cont. Cels._ Bk I. c. 31. But it was also the emblem, perhaps the totem-animal, of the great Asiatic goddess who, under the name of Astarte or Aphrodite, was worshipped as the _Mater viventium_ or “Mother of all Living,” with whose worship the serpent was also connected. It was doubtless to this that the text “Be ye wise as serpents, harmless as doves” refers. Both serpents and doves figure largely in the Mycenaean and Cretan worship of the goddess. See Ronald Burrows, _Discoveries in Crete_, 1907, pp. 137, 138, and _Index_ for references. In later Greek symbolism the dove was sacred to the infernal Aphrodite or Persephone whose name of Φερρεφάττα or Φερσεφάττα has been rendered “she who bears the dove.” See de Chanot, “Statues Iconiques de Chypre” in _Gazette Archéologique_, 1878, p. 109. Footnote 466: _Pistis Sophia_, p. 152, Copt. This metaphor is first met with in Philo, _Quaest. in Genesim_, Bk I. c. 53, who declares that the “coats of skin” of Gen. iii, 21 are the natural bodies with which the souls of the protoplasts were clothed. It was a favourite figure of speech with the Alexandrian Jewish writers. So in the _Ascensio Isaiae_, c. IV. 16, 17: “But the saints will come with the Lord with their garments which are now stored up on high in the seventh heaven: with the Lord will they come, whose spirits are clothed.... And afterwards they will turn themselves upward in their garments, and their body will be left in this world.” Cf. Charles, _Ascension of Isaiah_, pp. 34, 35, and _Eschatology_ (Jowett Lectures), pp. 399 _sqq._, where he says that this was also the teaching of St Paul. Footnote 467: