Footnote 546: It is said (p. 9, Copt.) that it is by him that the universe was created and that it is he who causes the sun to rise. Footnote 547: As has before been said, this is attempted in one of the documents of the Bruce Papyrus. See pp. 191, 192 _infra_. In the present state of the text this attempt is only difficultly intelligible, and is doubtless both later in date than and the work of an author inferior to that of the _Pistis Sophia_. Footnote 548: p. 16, Copt. Yet the First Mystery is not the creator of Matter which is evil, because Matter does not really exist. See Bruce Papyrus (Amélineau, p. 126) and n. 2, p. 190 _infra_. Footnote 549: As mentioned in the _Scottish Review_ article referred to in n. 1, p. 135 _supra_, there is no passage but one in the _Pistis Sophia_ which affords any colour for supposing that the author was acquainted with St John’s Gospel. All the quotations set forth by Harnack in his treatise _Über das gnostische Buch Pistis-Sophia_, Leipzig, 1891, p. 27, on which he relies to prove the converse of this proposition, turn out on analysis to appear also in one or other of the Synoptics, from which the author may well have taken them. The single exception is this (_Pistis Sophia_, p. 11, Copt.), “Wherefore I said unto you from the beginning, Ye are not from the Cosmos; I likewise am not from it”; John xvii. 14: “(O Father) I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.” The parallel does not seem so close as to make it certain that one document is copying from the other. Both may very possibly be taken from some collection of Logia now lost, but at one time current in Alexandrian circles; or from the _Gospel of the Egyptians_, from which the _Pistis Sophia_ afterwards quotes. Footnote 550: See Chap. IX, p. 107 _supra_. Footnote 551: See last note. The _Authades_ or Proud God of the _Pistis Sophia_ seems to have all the characteristics with which Valentinus endows his Demiurge. Footnote 552: So Pistis Sophia sings in her second hymn of praise after her deliverance from Chaos (p. 160, Copt.) “I am become pure light,” which she certainly was not before that event. Jesus also promises her later (p. 168, Copt.) that when the three times are fulfilled and the _Authades_ is again wroth with her and tries to stir up Jaldabaoth and Adamas against her “I will take away their powers from them and give them to thee.” That this promise was supposed to be fulfilled seems evident from the low positions which Jaldabaoth and Adamas occupy in the Μέρος τευχῶν Σωτῆρος, while Pistis Sophia is said to furnish the “power” for the planet Venus. Footnote 553: See Chap. IX, p. 108 and n. 1 _supra_. Footnote 554: