Now we have already quoted(2) the opening sentence of Book vi. 35, of the work ascribed to Hippolytus, in which the quotation from John x. 8, referred to above occurs, and ten line3 further on, with another intermediate and equally indefinite "he says" [------], occurs the supposed quotation from Luke i. 35, which, equally with that from the fourth Gospel, must, according to Weizsäcker, be abandoned as a quotation which can fairly be ascribed to Valentinus himself, whose name is not once mentioned in the whole chapter. A few lines below the quotation, however, a passage occurs which throws much light upou the question. After explaining the views of the Valentinians regarding the verse: "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee," &c., the writer thus proceeds: "Regarding this there is among them [------] a great question, a cause both of schism and dissension. And hence their [------] teaching has become divided, and the one teaching according to them [------] is called Eastern ['------] and the other Italian. They from Italy, of whom is Heracleon and Ptolemæus, say [------] that the body of Jesus was animal, and on account of this, on the occasion of the baptism, the Holy Spirit like a dove came down--that is, the Logos from the Mother above, Sophia--and became joined to the animal, and raised him from the dead. This, _he says_ [------] is the declaration [------],"--and here be it observed we come to another of the "clear {70} references" which Canon Westcott ventures, deliberately and without a word of doubt, to attribute to Valentinus himself,(1)--"This, he says, is the declaration: 'He who raised Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies,'(3) that is animal. For the earth has come under a curse: 'For dust, he says [------] thou art and unto dust shalt thou return.'(3) On the other hand, those from the East [------], of whom is Axionicus and Bardesanes, say [------] that the body of the Saviour was spiritual, for the Holy Spirit came upon Mary, that is the Sophia and the power of the Highest."(4) &c. In this passage we have a good illustration of the mode in which the writer introduces his quotations with the subjectless "he says." Here he is conveying the divergent opinions of the two parties of Valentinians, and explaining the peculiar doctrines of the Italian school "of whom is Heracleon and Ptolemæus," and he suddenly departs from the plural "they" to quote the passage from Romans viii. 11, in support of their views with the singular "he says." Nothing can be more obvious than that "he" cannot possibly be Valentinus himself, for the schism is represented as taking place {71}