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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies
[2862] [Mosheim thinks this Marcus was a lunatic.]
[2863] [Some think Pothinus.]
Chapter XVI.—Absurd interpretations of the Marcosians.
[2865] All the editors, Grabe, Massuet, Stieren, and Harvey, differ as to the text and interpretation of this sentence. We have given what seems the simplest rendering of the text as it stands.
[2866] Referring to the last of the twelve Æons.
[2868] Meaning the Æon who left the Duodecad, when eleven remained, and not referring to the lost sheep of the parable.
[2869] Harvey gives the above paraphrase of the very obscure original; others propose to read λ´ instead of λόγου.
[2870] Massuet explains this and the following reference, by remarking that the ancients used the fingers of the hand in counting; by the left hand they indicated all the numbers below a hundred, but by the right hand all above that sum.—Comp. Juvenal, Sat., x. 249.
[2874] The Demiurge being the fruit of the abortive conversion of the abortive passion of Achamoth, who, again, was the abortive issue of Sophia.
[2875] i.e., by aiming at what transcends their ability, they fall into absurdity, as a bow is broken by bending it too far.
[2877] Such is the translation which Harvey, following the text preserved by Hippolytus, gives of the above intricate and obscure sentence.
[2878] Literally, “is adorned with.”
Chapter XVIII.—Passages from Moses, which the heretics pervert to the support of their hypothesis.
[2881] One of the senses was thus capriciously cancelled by these heretics.
[2882] See above, chap. xiv. 2.
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