Anti-Marcion

Footnotes

^[6913] The common reading is, “Onesimum Æonem,” an Æon 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.”

^[6914] 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.”

^[6915] The same as Macariotes, in ch. viii. above, p. 507.

Chapter XXXIII.—These Remaining Chapters an Appendix to the Main Work. In This Chapter Tertullian Notices a Difference Among Sundry Followers of Ptolemy, a Disciple of Valentinus.

^[6916] Velut epicitharisma.

^[6917] Emendatoribus.

^[6918] Censum.

Chapter XXXV.—Yet More Discrepancies. Just Now the Sex of Bythus Was an Object of Dispute; Now His Rank Comes in Question. Absurd Substitutes for Bythus Criticised by Tertullian.

^[6919] Tertullian, however, here gives the Latin synonyme, Invisibilis.

Chapter XXXVI.—Less Reprehensible Theories in the Heresy. Bad is the Best of Valentinianism.

^[6920] The “Gemonian steps” on the Aventine led to the Tiber, to which the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks, to be cast into the river.

^[6921] Mappa, quod aiunt, missa: a proverbial expression.

^[6922] Istam.

^[6923] See above, ch. vii. p. 506.

Chapter XXXVII.—Other Turgid and Ridiculous Theories About the Origin of the Æons and Creation, Stated and Condemned.

^[6924] Oehler gives good reasons for the reading “ingenia circulatoria,” instead of the various readings of other editors.

^[6925] Insignioris apud eos magistri.

^[6926] Non proferentes. Another reading is “non proserentes” (not generating).

^[6927] Sermo.

^[6928] Or, solitariness.

^[6929] Or, Union.

^[6930] Compare our Irenæus, I. 2, 3. [Vol. I. p. 316.]

Chapter XXXVIII.—Diversity in the Opinions of Secundus, as Compared with the General Doctrine of Valentinus.