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
cit._ (probably Victorinus of Pettau) _Against all
Heresies_, c. XXIV. p. 279, Oehl. He doubtless founded his opinion on
the passage in the Hebrews. The name seems to mean “Holy King” Cf. the
“King of Glory” of the Manichaeans, see Chap. XIII _infra_.
Footnote 503:
p. 35, Copt.
Footnote 504:
He is said to have emanated from the 2nd Tree (p. 193, Copt.) and is
nowhere distinctly named. But one may perhaps guess from the order in
which he occurs in the 2nd part of the Μέρος τευχῶν Σωτῆρος that his
name was Zarazaz, evidently a cryptogram like those mentioned in n. 1,
p. 139 _supra_. It is also said that the Rulers call him “Maskelli
after the name of a strong (_i.e._ male) ruler of their own place (p.
370, Copt.).” This name of Maskelli, sometimes written
Maskelli-maskellô, is frequently met with in the Magic Papyri. Cf.
Wessely, _Ephesia Grammata_, p. 28.
Footnote 505:
They are said to have emanated from the 3rd and 4th Tree respectively
(p. 193, Copt.).
Footnote 506:
p. 193, Copt. He is evidently called _the Good_ because there is a
wicked Sabaoth sometimes called Sabaoth Adamas, and the Great because
there is a Little Sabaoth the Good who seems to act as his messenger.
It is this last who takes the power from the Great Sabaoth the Good
which afterwards becomes the body of Jesus and “casts it into matter
and Barbelo” (p. 127, Copt.). He seems to be set over or in some way
identified with what is called the Gate of Life (p. 215, Copt.) both
in the _Pistis Sophia_ and the Μέρος τευχῶν Σωτῆρος (p. 292, Copt.).
Footnote 507:
p. 12, Copt., where he is oddly enough called the Little Iao the Good,
I think by a clerical error. Later he is said to be “the great leader
of the middle whom the Rulers call the Great Iao after the name of a
great ruler in their own place” (p. 194, Copt.). He is described in
the same way in the second part of the Μέρος τευχῶν Σωτῆρος (p. 371,
Copt.).
Footnote 508:
See last note.
Footnote 509:
p. 12, Copt. This “power” is evidently the better part of man’s soul
like the Logoi who dwell therein in the passage quoted above from
Valentinus, see Chap. IX, p. 112 _supra_.
Footnote 510:
p. 194, Copt.
Footnote 511:
See n. 3, p. 137 _supra_.
Footnote 512:
So the Μέρος τευχῶν Σωτῆρος (p. 321, Copt.).
Footnote 513:
The likeness of Mary the Mother and Mary Magdalene to the seven
Virgins appears in the translation of Amélineau (_Pistis Sophia_,
Paris, 1895, p. 60). Schwartze (p. 75, Lat.) puts it rather
differently. See also Schmidt, _K.-G.S._ bd. 1, p. 75. The “receivers”
of the Virgin of Light are mentioned on p. 292, Copt.
Footnote 514:
p. 184, Copt.
Footnote 515:
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