²³⁷ Anima derivaret.

²³⁸ Sermoni perfecto.

²³⁹ Traducem animae suae.

²⁴⁰ Censum.

²⁴¹ Or, the substance of 'Arxh/.

²⁴² Exitum.

²⁴³ Monstruosum illum.

²⁴⁴ Prosicias induisse. Irenaeus says, "Assumed the first-fruits," ta\j a0parxa/j.

²⁴⁵ Ingratis.

²⁴⁶ Reddo.

²⁴⁷ Nescio quae.

²⁴⁸ Fartilia.

²⁴⁹ Farsura.

²⁵⁰ That which descended like a dove.

²⁵¹ Aeque insubditivam.

²⁵² In delineationem.

²⁵³ Agnitionali.

²⁵⁴ Prophetiale patrocinium.

²⁵⁵ Matt. viii. 5, 6.

²⁵⁶ De dispositione.

²⁵⁷ Inunitam.

²⁵⁸ Argumenta.

²⁵⁹ Essentiae.

²⁶⁰ Choicum: "the clayey." Having the doubtful issues, which arise from freedom of the will (Oehler).

²⁶¹ Recondunt: or, "discover."

²⁶² Recondunt: or, "discover."

²⁶³ Superducunt.

²⁶⁴ De obvenientia.

²⁶⁵ Indulgentiam.

²⁶⁶ The "quos" here relates to "spiritalem statum," but expressing the sense rather than the grammatical propriety, refers to the plural idea of "good souls" (Oehler).

²⁶⁷ Depluat.

²⁶⁸ Salutaria.

²⁶⁹ We have tried to retain the emphatic repetition, "inreformabilem naturae naturam."

²⁷⁰ Eruditu hujus.

²⁷¹ Above, in ch. xxv. p. 515.

²⁷² Istarum naeniarum.

²⁷³ Operationes: the doing of (good) works."

²⁷⁴ As, forsooth, we should in the spiritual state.

²⁷⁵ Suffragio.

²⁷⁶ Being animal, not spiritual.

²⁷⁷ See above. ch. ix. x. p. 508.

²⁷⁸ See Scorpiace, ch. x. infra.

²⁷⁹ Passivitate.

²⁸⁰ "Diligentia" may mean "proclivity" (Rigalt.).

²⁸¹ Of the Aeons.

²⁸² Nec legitimum: "not a lawful son."

²⁸³ De consummatione.

²⁸⁴ Urgebit.

²⁸⁵ See above, ch. xxiii. p. 514.

²⁸⁶ Compacticius ille.

²⁸⁷ Fient.

²⁸⁸ Query, the Holy Scriptures, or the writings of the Valentintians?

²⁸⁹ Very severe against adultery, and even against celibacy.

²⁹⁰ In ch. xx. this "scenam de Hebdomade caelesti" is called "caelorum septemplicem scenam" = "the sevenfold stage of heaven."

²⁹¹ Coenaculum. See above, ch. vii. p. 506.

²⁹² Choicae: "clayey."

²⁹³ Isa. xl. 6.

²⁹⁴ See above, in ch. xxiv. p. 515.

²⁹⁵ Interiores.

²⁹⁶ Averterant.

²⁹⁷ Neque detentui obnoxii.

²⁹⁸ Neque conspectui obnoxii.

²⁹⁹ Si ita est: or, "since such is the fact."

³⁰⁰ Claudent.

³⁰¹ But slaves, in fact.

³⁰² This parenthetic clause, "tacendo jam dixi," perhaps means, "I say this with shame," "I would rather not have to say it."

³⁰³ The common reading is, "Onesimum Aeonem," an Aeon called Onesimus, in supposed allusion to Philemon's Onesimus. But this is too far-fetched. Oehler discovers in "Onesimum" the corruption of some higher number ending in "esimum."

³⁰⁴ This is Oehler's idea of "et nulla jam fabula." Rigaltius, however, gives a good sense to this clause: "All will come true at last; there will be no fable."

³⁰⁵ The same as Macariotes, in ch. viii. above, p. 507.

³⁰⁶ Velut epicitharisma.

³⁰⁷ Emendatoribus.

³⁰⁸ Censum.