Irenaeus, Bk I. c. 28, p. 232, Harvey. Footnote 184: It is curious that she did not also mention herself or the First Woman. Footnote 185: This is the story of the earliest or Greek text; the Latin says that he said it to divert the minds of his rebellious sons. Footnote 186: Irenaeus, Bk I. c. 28, pp. 232-234, Harvey. This Adam is of course not to be confused with Adamas. Neither did he resemble the Adam of Genesis, for he is described as being _immensum latitudine et longitudine_. Harvey, _ubi cit._, gives many parallels to this from the Talmud and Cabala, which must be either taken directly from the Ophite author or borrowed from a common source. For Eve’s creation, see n. 2, p. 58, _supra_. Footnote 187: Cf. the vestures of light belonging to Jesus in the _Pistis Sophia_, Chapter X, _infra_. So Philo, _Quaest. et Sol. in Gen._ c. 53, explains that the coats of skin made by God for Adam and Eve are a “figure of speech” for a material body. Origen, in like manner (_cont. Cels._ Bk IV. c. 40), says that the clothing of the protoplasts in tunics of skin covers “a certain secret and mystic doctrine far exceeding Plato’s of the soul losing its wings and being borne to earth.” Footnote 188: Irenaeus, Bk I. c. 28, pp. 234-236, Harvey. The idea of the seven evil demons is a very old one in the East. See the Babylonian story of the assault of the seven evil spirits on the Moon. Sayce, _Gifford Lectures_, 1902, p. 430, in which those who like to rationalize ancient myths can see a lunar eclipse. We meet again with Sammael and Michael as names of one of them in the diagram to be described later. Footnote 189: Irenaeus, Bk I. c. 28, p. 237, Harvey. Footnote 190: The LXX or Greek version of the Old Testament belongs to the Western Diaspora rather than to the Eastern. Perhaps this was why Paul and Barnabas in addressing the Phrygians were careful to give them a summary of Old Testament history. See Acts xiii. 16 _sqq._ Footnote 191: The Sethians had a book called the _Paraphrase of Seth_ now lost, which from its name may easily have been a heretical version of the Book of Genesis. See Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk V. c. 21, p. 223, Cruice. Footnote 192: Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk V. c. 7, p. 145, Cruice, says that this was first taught by the “Assyrians,” by which he evidently means the Syrians. Footnote 193: πλάσμα τὸ πήλινον, Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk V. c. 7, p. 153, Cruice. Footnote 194: This is certainly the opinion of the sect responsible for one of the later documents of the _Pistis Sophia_. See _Pistis Sophia_, pp. 346, 347, Copt. So Rossi’s _Trattato gnostico_, before quoted, speaks throughout of Satan or the chief of the powers of evil as the _ἀρχηπλασμα_ “originator of the form”? Footnote 195: Hippolytus, see n. 1, _supra_. Footnote 196: Hippolytus, _op. cit._ Bk V. c. 7, p. 144, Cruice. Footnote 197: