[Footnote 63: This ἐντελεχεία or Quintessence Aristotle defines (_Metaphys._, X, 9, 2) as actuality or the property of a thing _in posse_ which lends to its motion or activity _in esse_.] [Footnote 64: ἀποτέλεσμα. The word is much used in astrology.] [Footnote 65: μεγαλειότητος. The word is post-classical and used in its modern sense as an epithet of the Emperor in Byzantine times. Cf. LXX, Jer. xxxiii. 9; Luke ix. 43; Acts xix. 27.] [Footnote 66: ῥητός as opposed to ἄρῥητος, “ineffable.”] [Footnote 67: That is to say, our world.] [Footnote 68: ὡς φθάσαντα τεχθῆναι ὑπὸ τοῦ τὰ μέλλοντα γενέσθαι ὁτε δεῖ καὶ οἷα δεῖ καὶ ὡς δεῖ λελογισμένου. The reading is very uncertain. Cf. Cruice, p. 356 nn. 9, 10.] [Footnote 69: Rom. viii. 22.] [Footnote 70: Rom. v. 13, 14. In the Greek not ἁμαρτία as in the text, but θάνατος, “death.”] [Footnote 71: Cf. Exod. vi. 2, 3. Basilides has twisted the last sentence, “By my name Jehovah was I not known to them,” as Hippolytus notes.] [Footnote 72: ἐκεῖθεν, _i. e._ from the Hebdomad. Cruice will have it from the Ogdoad, but is clearly wrong.] [Footnote 73: Ἀρχή, “Rule.” Cf. Milton’s “Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers.”] [Footnote 74: The simile of the vapour of naphtha rising and catching fire from a light above it is apt. As Prof. A. S. Peake points out in his article on “Basilides” in Hastings’ _Dictionary of Religion and Ethics_, Basilides throughout his system asserts in opposition to Gnostics like Valentinus that salvation comes from the uplifting of the lower powers rather than by the degradation of the higher.] [Footnote 75: There are many conjectural readings of this passage, for which see Cruice.] [Footnote 76: Prov. i. 7. So Clem. Alex. (_Strom._, II, 8, 36), who clearly quotes this passage from Basilides.] [Footnote 77: κατασκευή. Cf. LXX, Gen. i. 1.] [Footnote 78: ἀποκατασταθήσεται. This Apocatastasis, or return of the worlds to the Deity from whom they came forth, is a favourite source of speculation with all Gnostics.] [Footnote 79: 1 Cor. ii. 13.] [Footnote 80: A conflation of Ps. xxxii. 5, and Ps. li. 3.] [Footnote 81: εὐαγγελισθήσεται, “have the good news announced to him”?] [Footnote 82: It is the words in brackets which connect the system of the text with that attributed to Basilides by Irenæus and Epiphanius. Cf. Iren., I, xxiv. 5, pp. 202, 203, and n. 6, H., and Epiph., _Haer._, XXIV.] [Footnote 83: Eph. iii. 3, 5.] [Footnote 84: 2 Cor. xii. 4.] [Footnote 85: As at the Baptism in Jordan where, according to the almost universal tradition, the water was lighted up.] [Footnote 86: Luke i. 35.] [Footnote 87: δύναμις τῆς χρίσεως. Thus in Cruice. Miller would read κρίσεως, and Roeper Ὀγδοάδος. Perhaps the correct reading is χριστός, according to the idea common to nearly all Gnostics that the Christos only came upon Jesus at His Baptism.] [Footnote 88: ἐγένετο ἄν.] [Footnote 89: John iffi. 5.]