²¹⁵ Harvey gives the above paraphrase of the very obscure original; others propose to read l/ instead of logou.

²¹⁶ 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.

²¹⁷ Tit. iii. 10.

²¹⁸ 2 John 10, 11.

²¹⁹ Isa. xlviii. 22.

²²⁰ The Demiurge being the fruit of the abortive conversion of the abortive passion of Achamoth, who, again, was the abortive issue of Sophia.

²²¹ i.e., by aiming at what transcends their ability, they fall into absurdity, as a bow is broken by bending it too far.

²²² Matt. xii. 43.

²²³ Such is the translation which Harvey, following the text preserved by Hippolytus, gives of the above intricate and obscure sentence.

²²⁴ Literally, "is adorned with."

²²⁵ Gen. i. 1.

²²⁶ Gen. i. 2.

²²⁷ One of the senses was thus capriciously cancelled by these heretics.

²²⁸ See above, chap. xiv. 2.

²²⁹ Or, rather, perhaps "curtains." Ex. xxvi. 1.

²³⁰ Ex. xxviii. 17.

²³¹ Gen. vi. 18; 1 Pet. iii. 20.

²³² 1 Sam. xvi. 10.

²³³ Gen. xvii. 12.

²³⁴ Gen. xv. 19.

²³⁵ Gen. xvi. 2.

²³⁶ Gen. xxiv. 22, 25.

²³⁷ 1 Kings xi. 31.

²³⁸ Ex. xxvi. 1, xxxvi. 8.

²³⁹ Ex. xxxvi. 21.

²⁴⁰ Gen. xlii. 3.

²⁴¹ John xx. 24.

²⁴² Gen. xxxv. 22, xlix. 28.

²⁴³ Ex. xxviii. 3.-There is no mention of the number of the bells in Scripture.

²⁴⁴ Ex. xxiv. 4.

²⁴⁵ Josh. iv. 3.

²⁴⁶ Josh. iii. 12.

²⁴⁷ 1 Kings xviii. 31.

²⁴⁸ Gen. vi. 15.

²⁴⁹ 1 Sam. ix. 22.

²⁵⁰ 1 Sam. xx. 5.

²⁵¹ Ex. xxvi. 8. Numbers appear to have been often capriciously introduced by these heretics to give a colour of support to their own theories.

²⁵² Isa. i. 3.

²⁵³ Hos. iv. 1.

²⁵⁴ Rom. iii. 11; Ps. xiv. 3.

²⁵⁵ Ex. xxxiii. 20.

²⁵⁶ Dan. xii. 9, 10. The words in the above quotation not occurring in the Hebrew text of the passage, seem to have been interpolated by these heretics.

²⁵⁷ [From the Protevangel of Thomas. Compare the curious work of Dominic Deodati, De Christo Graece loquente, p. 95. London, 1843.]

²⁵⁸ Luke ii. 49.

²⁵⁹ Mark x. 17.

²⁶⁰ Luke xviii. 18.

²⁶¹ Matt. xxi. 23.

²⁶² Taken from some apocryphal writing.

²⁶³ Luke xix. 42, loosely quoted.

²⁶⁴ Matt. xi. 28.

²⁶⁵ The translator evidently read tw=n for th/n, in which case the rendering will be "proof of those most high," but the Greek text seems preferable.

²⁶⁶ Matt. xi. 25-27.

²⁶⁷ Comp. chap. xiii. 6.

²⁶⁸ The Latin reads "Christ."

²⁶⁹ Luke xii. 50. The text was probably thus corrupted by the heretics.

²⁷⁰ Mark x. 38.

²⁷¹ We have given these words as they stand in the Greek text: a very different list, but equally unmeaning, is found in the Latin.

²⁷² The Latin reads zonis, "zones," instead of "lives," as in the Greek.

²⁷³ Here, again, are many variations.

²⁷⁴ The Greek text, which has hitherto been preserved almost entire, ends at this point. With only brief extracts from the original, now and then, we are henceforth exclusively dependent on the old Latin version, with some Syriac and Armenian fragments recently discovered.

²⁷⁵ The Latin here begins with the words "cum teneamus," and the apodosis is found afterwards at "facile arguimus." But we have broken up the one long sentence into several.

²⁷⁶ Ps. xxxiii. 6.

²⁷⁷ John i. 3.

²⁷⁸ The text is here uncertain and obscure: eternal things seem to be referred to, not as regarded substance, but the forms assigned them.

²⁷⁹ This word would perhaps be better cancelled.

²⁸⁰ Acts viii. 9-11.

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