Chapter XI: Book VI: Cf. pp. 247, 250 and 259 Cr

[Footnote 26: The only ground for this assertion seems to be Simon’s statement to Helen of Tyre (see p. 15 _supra_), that he was the “Power over all things,” which seems to be explained by that on p. 12 _supra_, that the Power which Stands, etc., is _potentially_ in all things.]

[Footnote 27: πρωτογενέτειραν. While in Book VI, of which these chapters profess to be a summary, the author describes Nous and Aletheia with their projectors as the descendants of Bythos alone, he here gives an account of the rival opinion that Bythos had a spouse called Sigê, and he reckons her in with her descendants so as to make up the number of eight.]

[Footnote 28: This is, of course, the Horos of Book VI.]

[Footnote 29: This word is also used in Book VI (see p. 286 Cr.), as the exact converse of the Pleroma or Fulness.]

[Footnote 30: It is curious that throughout this chapter there is no attempt to quote directly from Book VI, and that it is evidently the opinions of the Italic school of Valentinus and not the Anatolic that the author is here summarizing. In the next chapter, as will be seen, he resumes direct quotations.]

[Footnote 31: So far, the author is transcribing almost _verbatim_ the statements in Book VII, cf. pp. 346-350 Cr.]

[Footnote 32: This is not said of the Holy Spirit in Book VII, cf. pp. 70, 71 _supra_.]

[Footnote 33: This, too, is a new statement, although it may perhaps be implied from what is said on pp. 72, 73 and 76 _supra_.]

[Footnote 34: So p. 76 _supra_.]

[Footnote 35: Save as before noted, everything in this chapter is to be found in the account of Basilides given in Book VII. The few exceptions show that the summarizer had assimilated its contents and an intelligent knowledge of Basilides’ teaching. He entirely omits, however, the prediction of the Great Ignorance.]

[Footnote 36: The summarizer here takes Justinus from among the Ophites of Book V, where he is to be found in the earlier part of the text, and puts him after Basilides.]

[Footnote 37: Reading αὐτῇς for αὐτοῦ.]

[Footnote 38: These are omitted from the text, possibly because the summarizer did not wish to repeat names which might be used in magic. Cruice supplies them in his text from Book V, Vol. I, p. 173 _supra_, which see.]

[Footnote 39: The words in round brackets ( ) are as elsewhere in this chapter supplied by Cruice from Book V.]

[Footnote 40: Cf. Vol. I, p. 175 _supra_.]

[Footnote 41: There is nothing in this chapter which is not taken from the account of Justinus’ doctrines in Book V, nor anything to show that the summarizer had any knowledge of these except from this.]

[Footnote 42: τινὰς τινῶν πρώτους!]

[Footnote 43: So the Codex. Cruice has γεννητόν, “begotten,” but I see no reason for the alteration.]

[Footnote 44: κόσμησιν. Perhaps “adornment.”]

[Footnote 45: ἰδέαι.]

[Footnote 46: Cf. p. 102 _supra_.]

[Footnote 47: ἐκτύπωμα.]

[Footnote 48: ἰδέαι. As before he means “patterns” or “exemplars.”]

[Footnote 49: παραγεννηθῆναι.]

[Footnote 50: Here again there is nothing which cannot be found in Book VIII (see pp. 99-105 _supra_), from which this chapter is evidently taken. As has before been said, the summarizer to arrive at this has omitted all mention of Satornilus, Menander and Carpocrates, while the other systems mentioned in Book VII, he has placed after the Docetae instead of before them.]

[Footnote 51: The summarizer here uses for the first time in our text the expression “First Man,” which plays so large a part in later heresies such as Manichæism. For its early appearance in Western Asia and its influence see Bousset’s _Hauptprobleme der Gnosis_, c. 4, “Der Urmensch,” and _Forerunners_, I, p. lxi, and II, pp. 292, 293.]

[Footnote 52: πάθη. He evidently refers to the ten plagues as on p. 109 _supra_.]

[Footnote 53: He omits the “My God ... my understanding” of the letter to Theophrastus, on p. 110 _supra_.]

[Footnote 54: He alters the ἐξιδιοποιούμενος (cf. p. 415 Cr.) to κατιδιοποιούμενος--a fair proof of the inaccuracy of the scribe. Except for the inaccuracies noted, however, there is no statement in this summary which cannot be found in Book VIII, pp. 106-111 _supra_.]

[Footnote 55: For these few lines, the summarizer has evidently not taken the trouble to refer to the author’s statements about Tatian in