Philosophumena; or, The refutation of all heresies, Volume II
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[Footnote 50: Here again there is nothing which cannot be found in Book
VIII (see pp. 99-105 _supra_), from which this chapter is evidently
taken. As has before been said, the summarizer to arrive at this has
omitted all mention of Satornilus, Menander and Carpocrates, while the
other systems mentioned in Book VII, he has placed after the Docetae
instead of before them.]
[Footnote 51: The summarizer here uses for the first time in our text
the expression “First Man,” which plays so large a part in later
heresies such as Manichæism. For its early appearance in Western Asia
and its influence see Bousset’s _Hauptprobleme der Gnosis_, c. 4, “Der
Urmensch,” and _Forerunners_, I, p. lxi, and II, pp. 292, 293.]
[Footnote 52: πάθη. He evidently refers to the ten plagues as on p. 109
_supra_.]
[Footnote 53: He omits the “My God ... my understanding” of the letter
to Theophrastus, on p. 110 _supra_.]
[Footnote 54: He alters the ἐξιδιοποιούμενος (cf. p. 415 Cr.) to
κατιδιοποιούμενος--a fair proof of the inaccuracy of the scribe. Except
for the inaccuracies noted, however, there is no statement in this
summary which cannot be found in Book VIII, pp. 106-111 _supra_.]
[Footnote 55: For these few lines, the summarizer has evidently not
taken the trouble to refer to the author’s statements about Tatian in
Book VIII, p. 111 _supra_. He now omits all reference to Justin Martyr,
there said to be Tatian’s teacher, and to Tatian’s peculiar ideas about
the salvation of Adam; while he introduces a special world-creating
aeon not mentioned elsewhere.]
[Footnote 56: Here he omits the heresies of the Quartodecimans and
the Encratites, which receive notice in Book VIII, pp. 113, 115,
116 _supra_, and passes on to Marcion, who was a contemporary of
Valentinus. It is plain, therefore, that he does not attempt in the
summary to keep either to order of date or to that of the earlier
books.]
[Footnote 57: οὐδὲν ὅλως πεποιηκέναι. So the Codex. Some word seems to
be missing; but perhaps the passage should read οὐδὲν τῶν ὅλων, “none
of the universals.”]
[Footnote 58: ἀλόγως, “unreasonably.”]
[Footnote 59: Matt. vii. 18.]
[Footnote 60: This also is certainly not taken from the chapters on
Marcion in Book VII, pp. 82-90 _supra_, which are mainly devoted to an
attempt to prove Marcion to have plagiarized from Empedocles. Nor is it
from Irenæus or from the tractate _Adversus omnes hæreses_.]
[Footnote 61: συντάγματα, “summaries”?]
[Footnote 62: The substance of this can be found in the account of
Apelles in Book VII, pp. 96-97 _supra_; but the summarizer does not use
the phrases of the earlier book, and he can hardly have had it before
him.]
[Footnote 63: As before (p. 389 Cr.), Macmahon here translates καὶ
δυνάμεις ἐπιτελέσαι, “he wrought miracles.”]