[Footnote 277: α = 1, β 2, γ 3, δ 4, ε 5, ζ 7, η 8, θ 9, ι 10, κ 20, λ 30 = 99.] [Footnote 278: Because the Episemon has no τόπος.] [Footnote 279: στοιχεῖον here used for “character.”] [Footnote 280: ΛΛ = M.] [Footnote 281: ὑστέρημα; the usual Gnostic name for the Void.] [Footnote 282: This section passes over Irenæus’ refutation of the last, and forms the beginning of the Xth Chap. (p. 164, H.).] [Footnote 283: There must be some mistake here, as the Sun and Moon were included among the seven planetary heavens.] [Footnote 284: Not of course the Egyptian god, but the Gnostic “Limit” or Cross. The passage is not very clear.] [Footnote 285: Irenæus has φαεινῆς, “radiant,” and the text κενῆς, “empty”; Irenæus’ Latin version “_non apparentes_” or invisible. Probably μεγάλης was the original word.] [Footnote 286: κατὰ κάθετον. Macmahon thinks this refers to the position of the sun, which is unnecessary.] [Footnote 287: Irenæus omits the words “of the Ogdoad.”] [Footnote 288: κατάλυσιν λαβεῖν, “receive dissolution.”] [Footnote 289: καινότερα. The text has κενώτερα, “more inane.”] [Footnote 290: περιεργίας, “bye-work.”] [Footnote 291: Κολάρβασος. The name which is repeated by Tertullian, Philaster and Theodoret can be traced back to the single passage in Irenæus, where it appears in connection with the name Σιγή as “the Sige of Colarbasus.” A German commentator long since suggested that it was not the name of a brother heretic or follower of Marcus, but a corruption of the words קל־ארבע Qol-Arba, or the “Voice of the Four,” and this seems now generally accepted. As most if not all of Marcus’ pretended revelations are said to have been dictated to him by an apparition of the Supreme Tetrad, he may well have called the book in which they were written and which seems to have been known to Irenæus, by some such name.] [Footnote 292: It seems needless to point out that the whole of these chapters dealing with the real or supposed successors of Valentinus is taken direct from Irenæus, and that they have no relation to any other author.] [Sidenote: p. 333.] BOOK VII BASILIDES, SATURNILUS, AND OTHERS 1. These are the contents of the 7th (Book) of the _Refutation of All Heresies_. 2. What is the opinion of Basilides, and that he, having been struck with the doctrines of Aristotle, constructed his heresy from them. 3. And what things Satornilus, who flourished at the same time as Basilides, says. 4. How Menander set himself to declare that the world came into being by angels. 5. What was the madness of Marcion, and that his doctrine is neither new nor (taken) from the Holy Scriptures, but comes from Empedocles. 6. How Carpocrates talks foolishness, and thinks existing things to have been produced by angels. 7. That Cerinthus in no way framed his opinion from Scripture, but out of the teachings of the Egyptians.