[Footnote 60: Cr. supplies “virtutem”; but the adjective is in the neuter.] [Footnote 61: Eph. v. 14.] [Footnote 62: κεχαρακτηρισμένος ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀχαρακτηρίστου Λόγου. These expressions repeated up to the end of the chapter are most difficult to render in English. The allusion is clearly to a coin stamped with the image of a king. Afterwards I translate ἀχαρακτηρίστος by “unportrayable,” for brevity’s sake.] [Footnote 63: The famous words which tradition assigns to the Eleusinian Mysteries. One version is “Rain! conceive!” and probably refers to the fecundation or tillage of the earth. Cf. Plutarch, _de Is. et Os._, c. xxxiv.] [Footnote 64: Rom. x. 18.] [Footnote 65: Ps. cxviii. 22. Cf. Isa. xxviii. 16.] [Footnote 66: See n. on p. 123 _supra_.] [Footnote 67: Isa. xxviii. 16.] [Footnote 68: Something is here omitted before ὀδόντες. Cf. _Iliad_, IV, 350.] [Footnote 69: ἀρχανθρώπος, a curious expression meaning evidently First Man. It appears nowhere but in this chapter of the _Philosophumena_.] [Footnote 70: Dan. ii. 45, “cut from the mountain without hands.”] [Footnote 71: The Power called Adonæus or Adon-ai by the Ophites is also addressed as λήθη, “oblivion,” in the “defence” made to him by the ascending soul. See Origen, _cont Cels._ VI, c. 30 ff. or _Forerunners_, II, 72.] [Footnote 72: A compound of _Iliad_, XIV, 201 and 246.] [Footnote 73: Ps. lxxxii. 6; Luke vi. 35; John x. 34; Gal. iv. 26.] [Footnote 74: John iii, 6.] [Footnote 75: Joshua iii, 16.] [Footnote 76: So the Cabbalists call one of their word-juggling processes _gematria_, which is said to be a corruption of γραμματεία.] [Footnote 77: ἀρρήτως, _i. e._, “by implication,” or “not in words.”] [Footnote 78: Play upon προφαίνω and προφήτης.] [Footnote 79: Mariam was Moses’ aunt, Sephora his wife, and Jothor Sephora’s father, according to some fragments of Ezekiel quoted by Eusebius. So Cruice.] [Footnote 80: Matt. xiii. 13.] [Footnote 81: Isa. xxviii, 10. In A. V., “Precept upon precept; line upon line; here a little, there a little.” Irenæus (I, xix, 3, I, p. 201, Harvey) says, Caulacau is the name in which the Saviour descended according to Basilides, and the word seems to have been used in this sense by other Gnostic sects, See _Forerunners_, II, 94, n. 3.] [Footnote 82: ἐκ γῆς ῥέοντα!] [Footnote 83: A direct quotation from the Hymn of the Great Mysteries given later, p. 141 _infra_. Also a pun between κεράννυμι and κέρας.] [Footnote 84: John 1. 34.] [Footnote 85: Sophia, the third person of the Ophite Triad and Jaldabaoth her son.] [Footnote 86: Something omitted after “cup.”] [Footnote 87: τρία σάτα. A Jewish measure equivalent to 1½ _modius_. Cf. Matt. xiii. 33.] [Footnote 88: The famous ὁμοούσιος.] [Footnote 89: A compound of John vi. 53 and Mk. x. 38.] [Footnote 90: Μαθητὰς, “disciples,” not apostles.] [Footnote 91: The κατὰ may mean either “against” or “according to” nature.]