Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume II — David Hume — John Shaqi
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[Footnote 31: ἀνυπόστατος, “not hypostatized.” Cruice has “_non
subsistens_.”]
[Footnote 32: This seems the only construction, unless we are to
consider that it is the Demiurge who _wilfully_ ill-treats the souls.]
[Footnote 33: ἀποψυχεῖσαι. A common pun between ψυχή, “soul,” and
ψῦχος, “cold.”]
[Footnote 34: Not in the Canon. As Cruice points out, it is from some
apocryphal book which puts it into the mouth of Job’s wife and adds
it to Job ii. 9. It is also met with in St. Chrysostom’s homily, _de
Statuis_.]
[Footnote 35: Matt. xi. 14, 15.]
[Footnote 36: This doctrine of transmigration cannot be shown to have
formed part of Valentinus’ own teaching. It appears, however, among
some of his followers. Cf. _Forerunners_, II, cc. 9, 10.]
[Footnote 37: A pun on φθαρτοί, “mortals,” and φθορά, “corruption.”]
[Footnote 38: εἰς τὸν (δέκατον) κόσμον. Cruice would omit the δέκατον.
It clearly, however, means the world of the Decad, Jesus having come
down from the “most excellent Ogdoad.”]
[Footnote 39: Evidently Hippolytus has not here any book or writing of
a particular author before him, but is giving the opinion of the sect
generally.]
[Footnote 40: Εὐηγγελίσατο. Cf. the ἐν τοῖς Εὐαγγελίοις which follows.]
[Footnote 41: John iii. 5, 6. The Greek text omits ὅτι, “because.”]
[Footnote 42: οἰκεῖος, “peculiar to.”]
[Footnote 43: This is markedly Valentinian. The Ogdoad is of course the
Highest Heaven, the Decad the middle one. See n. on p. 31 _supra_.]
[Footnote 44: He here puns again on δοκεῖν, “to seem,” and δοκός,
“beam.”]