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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies
[3058] This clause is very obscure, and we are not sure if the above rendering brings out the real meaning of the author. Harvey takes a different view of it, and supposes the original Greek to have been, καὶ ἄλλας μὲν τῆς ὑποστάσεως ἀρχὰς εἶναι ἄλλας δὲ τῆς αἰσθήσεως καὶ τῆς οὐσίας. He then remarks: “The reader will observe that the word ὑπόστασις here means intellectual substance, οὐσία material; as in V. c. ult. The meaning therefore of the sentence will be, And they affirmed that the first principles of intellectual substance and of sensible and material existence were diverse, viz., unity was the exponent of the first, duality of the second.”
[3059] All the editors confess the above sentence hopelessly obscure. We have given Harvey’s conjectural translation.
[3060] Literally, “antiphrasis.”
[3061] 1 Tim. vi. 20. The text is, “Vocum novitates falsæ agnitionis,” καινοφωνίας having apparently been read in the Greek instead of κενοφωνίας as in Text. Rec.
[3062] Grabe and others insert “vel” between these words.
[3063] It seems necessary to regard these words as parenthetical, though the point is overlooked by all the editors.
[3065] “Decem” is of doubtful authority.
[3066] The text has “qui in labe facti sunt;” but, according to Harvey, “the sense requires πληρώματι instead of ἐκτρώματι in the original.”
[3067] Viz., the “Dii majorum gentium” of the Gentiles.
Chapter XV.—No account can be given of these productions.
[3068] Referring to numbers like 4, 5, 6, which do not correspond to any important fact in creation, as 7 e.g., does to the number of the planets.
[3069] The Latin text is here scarcely intelligible, and is variously pointed by the editors.
[3070] Harvey explains “his” as here denoting “in his,” but we are at a loss to know how he would translate the passage. It is in the highest degree obscure.
[3071] The text is here doubtful: Harvey proposes to read “qui” instead of “quæ,” but we prefer “quod” with Grabe. The meaning is, that three hundred and sixty-five is more than forty-five Ogdoads (45 х 8 = 360).
[3072] “Operositatem.” corresponding to πραγματείαν, lit. manufacture.
[3073] Efficabiliter in the Latin text is thought to correspond to ἐνεργῶς in the original Greek.
[3074] Si is inserted by most of the editors; and although Harvey argues for its omission, we agree with Massuet in deeming it indispensable.
[3076] Comp. i. 2, 2.
[3077] It seems needless to insert an “et” before this word, as Harvey suggests, or, as an alternative, to strike out the first “Nun Propatoris.”
[3078] Some read “cæcutientes” instead of “circumeuntes,” as above.
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