¹⁶⁷ Recogitavit.

¹⁶⁸ "Omnis anima hujus mundi" may, however, mean "every living soul." So Bp. Kaye, On Tertullian, p. 487.

¹⁶⁹ Cetera.

¹⁷⁰ Achamoth's.

¹⁷¹ Exitum.

¹⁷² Utique.

¹⁷³ These two rivers, with their peculiar qualities, are mentioned by Pliny, H.N. ii. 103; [and the latter by Milton against Salmasius.]

¹⁷⁴ Ovid. Metam. iv. 286.

¹⁷⁵ Pipiavit.

¹⁷⁶ Qui.

¹⁷⁷ As light.

¹⁷⁸ Instrumentum: water is meant.

¹⁷⁹ Christ and the Holy Spirit. Oehler.

¹⁸⁰ Saviour: another title of their Paraclete.

¹⁸¹ Col. i. 16.

¹⁸² Fructiferumque suggestum.

¹⁸³ Expumicat.

¹⁸⁴ Habilitatem atque naturam. We have treated this as a "hendiadys".

¹⁸⁵ Aequiparantias corpulentiarum.

¹⁸⁶ Ecce.

¹⁸⁷ Subavit et ipsa.

¹⁸⁸ Trinitas generum.

¹⁸⁹ Exercitior.

¹⁹⁰ Scilicet.

¹⁹¹ Fere.

¹⁹² Eo animo.

¹⁹³ See above, chap. xvi. p. 512.

¹⁹⁴ Demiurgum.

¹⁹⁵ Et velut sigillario. "Sigillarium est neuro/spaston," Oehler.

¹⁹⁶ The Father acting through and proceeding from his Mother.

¹⁹⁷ Commendant.

¹⁹⁸ Delegant.

¹⁹⁹ Communiter in universitatem.

²⁰⁰ Jam.

²⁰¹ Rursus.

²⁰² This is the force of the "qui" with the subjunctive verb.

²⁰³ Soter.

²⁰⁴ Effigeret.

²⁰⁵ There seems to be a relative gradation meant among these extra-Pleroma beings, as there was among the Aeons of the Pleroma; and, further, a relation between the two sets of beings-Achamoth bearing a relation to Propator, the Demiurge to Nus, etc.

²⁰⁶ Duplicis substantiae illius disculsae.

²⁰⁷ Sublimantia.

²⁰⁸ Ogdoadis primogenitalis: what Irenaeus calls "the first-begotten and primary Ogdoad of the Pleroma" (See our Irenaeus, Vol. I.; also above, chap. vii. p. 506.)

²⁰⁹ Noeros.

²¹⁰ Nubeculas.

²¹¹ Arbusculas.

²¹² Puerilium dicibulorum.

²¹³ Sibi here must refer to the secondary agent of the sentence.

²¹⁴ Tenendum.

²¹⁵ Alioquin.

²¹⁶ Adeo rerum non erat compos.

²¹⁷ Censu.

²¹⁸ Scilicet.

²¹⁹ Isa. xlv. 5, xlvi. 9.

²²⁰ Infamia apud illos.

²²¹ Tolerabilior.

²²² Capit: "capax est," nimirum "infamiae" (Fr. Junius).

²²³ Ex nequitia.

²²⁴ Achamoth's.

²²⁵ Irenaeus' word is Kosmokra/twr; see also Eph. vi. 12.

²²⁶ Above, in chap. viii., he has mentioned the Pleroma as "the fulness of the thirtyfold divinity."

²²⁷ Metatur.

²²⁸ Reciprocandi.

²²⁹ Fire.

²³⁰ Ego.

²³¹ Motiunculis.

²³² Febricitasse.

²³³ Vel.

²³⁴ Ex pituitis et gramis.

²³⁵ Choicus.

²³⁶ Accipe.

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