[Footnote 219: τῆς ἄνω. Perhaps we should insert δυνάμεως, “the Power on High.”]
[Footnote 220: See _Sibyll. Orac._, III. But the Sibyl says the exact opposite. Cf. Charles, _Apocrypha and Psuedepigrapha of the O.T._, II, 377.]
[Footnote 221: περᾶσαι. The derivation is too much even for Theodoret, who says that the name of the sect is taken from “Euphrates the Peratic” (or Mede).]
[Footnote 222: So modern astrologers make him the “greater malefic.”]
[Footnote 223: A fragment from Heraclitus according to Schleiermacher.]
[Footnote 224: So the _Pistis Sophia_ speaks repeatedly of “the Pleroma of all Pleromas.”]
[Footnote 225: Many magical books bore the name of Moses. See _Forerunners_, II, 46, and n.]
[Footnote 226: Is this why one Ophite sect was called the Cainites? The hostility here shown to the God of the Jews is common to many other sects such as that of Saturninus, of Marcion and later of Manes. Cf. _Forerunners_, II, under these names.]
[Footnote 227: Gen. x. 9. Nimrod, who is sometimes identified with the hero Gilgames, plays a large part in all this Eastern tradition.]
[Footnote 230: For this identification of Eve with the Mother of Life or Great Goddess of Asia, see _Forerunners_, II, 300, and n.]
[Footnote 231: ἄκραν. Cruice and Macmahon both read ἀρχή, “beginning,” but see ταύτην τὴν ἄκραν later.]
[Footnote 232: All this is, of course, quite different to the meaning assigned to these stars by the unnamed heretics of Book IV.]
[Footnote 233: If we could be sure that Hippolytus was here summarizing fairly Ophite doctrines, it would appear that the Ophites rejected the Platonic theory that matter was essentially evil. What is here said presents a curious likeness to Stoic doctrines of the universe, as of man’s being. Hippolytus, however, never quotes a Stoic author and seems throughout to ignore Stoicism save in Book I.]
[Footnote 234: πρόσωπον. The word used to denote the “character” or part or a person on the stage.]
[Footnote 235: ἰδέαι. So throughout this passage.]
[Footnote 237: χαρακτῆρες. See n. on p. 143 _supra_.]
[Footnote 238: Not “ring-straked” like Jacob’s sheep.]
[Footnote 240: Matt. vii. 11. Note the change of “Your” for “Our.”]
[Footnote 242: Here again he dwells upon the supposed evil nature of the Demiurge.]