[Footnote 206: The primitive Church attributed great power to the ritual utterance of the word Amen. Thus Ignatius’ second Epistle to the Ephesians: “There was hidden from the ruler of this world the virginity of Mary, and the birth of our Lord, and the three mysteries of the shout ... and hereby ... magic began to be dissolved and all bonds to be loosed and the ancient kingdom and the error of evil, is destroyed” (Cureton’s translation, London, 1845, p. 15); but Lightfoot would read κήροξις, “proclamation,” for κραυγή, “shout.” In the _Pistis Sophia_ the word Amen is used to denote a class of Powers concerned apparently with the organization of the Kerasmos or semi-material world and called sometimes “the Three” and sometimes “the Seven Amens.”] [Footnote 207: τοὺς [φθόγγους]. The word in brackets is not in the Codex, but is supplied from the corresponding passage in Irenæus.] [Footnote 208: πρόσωπον, a word which, as Hatch noted, is used for the character or part played by an actor in a drama. Matt. xviii. 10 is here evidently alluded to.] [Footnote 209: Cf. the Stoic theory of λόγοι σπερματικοί or “seed-Powers,” for which, see Arnold, _op. cit._, p. 161.] [Footnote 210: προήκατο.] [Footnote 211: That is to say, before Chaos was organized and the Aeons brought into existence.] [Footnote 212: A plain reference to the Ectroma or Sophia Without.] [Footnote 213: ἰδίᾳ τῶν γραμμάτων γραφέντων (Miller). The Codex has διὰ for ἰδίᾳ and γραφέντος for γραφέντων. Cruice bungles the passage and Macmahon omits it. It is not found in Irenæus.] [Footnote 214: _e. g._ the δ can be written δ, ε, λ, τ, α.] [Footnote 215: ὑπόστασις.] [Footnote 216: A pun on the name of the Supreme Father, Bythos or the Deep.] [Footnote 217: φιλοπονία and ματαιοπονία.] [Footnote 218: Or Truth.] [Footnote 219: _i. e._ Man.] [Footnote 220: It would seem from this that Marcus, following perhaps in this the Anatolic School of Valentinus, made Sige not the spouse of Bythos but merely another name for Aletheia.] [Footnote 221: τῆς διανοίας νόημα. As if he were trying to avoid writing the word Nous.] [Footnote 222: Hippolytus or Marcus here plays upon the identity of the ἐπίσημον or digamma, the name of the sixth letter in the Greek alphabet, which was used for numeration only, and the adjective ἐπίσημον, “illustrious.”] [Footnote 223: The word in brackets supplied from Irenæus.] [Footnote 224: ὧν τὰ μεγέθη. The allusion seems to be again to Matt. xviii. 10. The angels might well be considered on the Valentinian theory the greater parts or counterparts of their terrestrial spouses. In Epiphanius τὸ Μέγεθος seems to be used for the Supreme Being. Cf. _Panar. Haer._, XXXI, p. 314, Oehl. The passage is said to be suspect.]