Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume IIHippolytus, Antipope
Philosophy
Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume II
Hippolytus, Antipope
Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Occultism; Philosophy, Ancient
52. But concerning His fashioning[260] (Marcus) speaks thus: Powers
which emanated from the Second Tetrad [Sidenote: p. 324.] fashioned
the Jesus who appeared upon earth, and the angel Gabriel filled the
place[261] of the Logos and the Holy Spirit that of Zoe, and the
power of the Highest[262] (that) of Anthropos and the Virgin that of
Ecclesia. Thus by incarnation[263] a man was generated by Himself
through Mary. But when He came to the water, there descended upon
Him as a dove he who had ascended on high and had filled the 12th
number,[264] in whom existed the seed of those who had been sown
together[265] in Him, and had descended together and had ascended
together. But this Power which descended on Him, he says, was the seed
of the Pleroma having within it the Father and the Son, which through
them was known to be the unnamed power of Sige, and (to be) all the
Aeons. And that this was the Spirit which in Him spake through the
mouth of the Son, confessed Himself to be Son of Man, and manifested
the Father, yet veritably descended into Jesus (and) became one with
Him. The Saviour from the Economy,[266] destroyed death, they say,
but Christ Jesus made known the [Sidenote: p. 325.] Father. He says
therefore that Jesus was the name of the man from the Economy, but that
it was set forth in resemblance and shape of the Anthropos who was to
come upon Him; and that when He had received he retained the Anthropos
himself and the Father himself and Arrhetos and Sige and Aletheia and
Ecclesia and Zoe.[267]
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