[Footnote 142: Schneidewin and Cruice both read λαβεῖν, “receive” (their vestures) for βαλεῖν.] [Footnote 143: Cr. translates ἀπηρσενωμένους, _exuta virilitate_; but it seems to be a participle of ἀπαρρενόω = ἀπανδρόω. The idea that the Gnostic _pneumatics_ or spirituals would finally be united in marriage with the angels or λόγοι σπερματικοί was current in Gnosticism. See _Forerunners_, II, 110. The “virgin spirit” was probably that Barbelo whom Irenæus, I, 26, 1 f. (pp. 221 ff., Harvey), describes under that name as reverenced by the “Barbeliotae or Naassenes”; in any case, probably, some analogue of the earth-goddess, ever bringing forth and yet ever a virgin.] [Footnote 144: Matt. vii. 13, 14. The A. V. has εἰσέρχομαι for διέρχομαι.] [Footnote 145: See n. on p. 119 _supra_.] [Footnote 146: _i. e._ Attis.] [Footnote 147: ἀμύσσω is rather to “scratch,” or “scarify,” than as in the text.] [Footnote 148: Cf. John iv. 21.] [Footnote 149: Cruice’s restoration. Schneidewin’s would read: “The Spirit is there where also the Father is named, and the Son is there born from the Father.”] [Footnote 150: Cf. Ezekiel x. 12.] [Footnote 151: ῥῆμα, not λόγος.] [Footnote 152: Here we see the interpretation put by Hippolytus an the Aristotelian τὰ ὅλα.] [Footnote 153: θεμελιόω. The whole of this sentence singularly resembles that in the _Great Announcement_ ascribed to Simon Magus, for which see II, p. 12 _infra_.] [Footnote 154: This idea of the Indivisible Point, which recurs in several Gnostic writings, including those of Simon and Basilides, seems founded on the mathematical axiom that the line and therefore all solid bodies spring from the point, which itself has “neither parts nor magnitude.”] [Footnote 155: Ἐπινοίᾳ. This also is used by Simon as the equivalent of Ἔννοια.] [Footnote 156: Ps. xix. 3.] [Footnote 157: ἀπρονοήτως, Cr., _sine numine quidquam_; Macmahon, “without premeditation.”] [Footnote 158: Performances in the theatres formed part of the Megalesia or Festival of the Great Mother.] [Footnote 159: I should be inclined to read τῆς Μεγάλης μυστήρια, “Mysteries of the Great Mother.”] [Footnote 160: An allusion to the variant of the Cybele legend which makes her the emasculator of Attis.] [Footnote 161: So Conington, who translated the hymns into English verse, and Schneidewin. Hippolytus, however, evidently gave this invocation to the Greeks. See p. 132 _supra_.] [Footnote 162: δ’ ὀφίαν, according to Schneidewin’s restoration (for which see p. 176 Cr.), seems better sense, if we can suppose that the Sabazian serpent was so called.] [Footnote 163: The whole hymn with the next fragment is given as restored to metrical form where quoted in last note.] [Footnote 164: That is of the _Galli_, or eunuch-priests of Attis and Cybele.] [Footnote 165: Thales only said, so far as we know, that water was the beginning of all things.]