[50] ἡ μεταβλητὴ γένεσις. The expression is repeated in the account of Simon Magus’ heresy (II, p. 13 infra) and refers to the transmigration of souls.
[51] ἀνεξεικονίστος, “He of whom no image can be made.”
[52] Prov. xxiv. 16.
[53] Some qualification like “originally” or “at the beginning” seems wanting. Cf. Arnold, op. cit., n. on p. [58] supra.
[54] Matt. v. 45.
[55] He has apparently mistaken Min of Coptos or Nesi-Amsu for Osiris who is, I think, never represented thus. At Denderah, he is supine.
[56] The “terms” of Hermes which Alcibiades and his friends mutilated.
[57] δημιουργός. Here as always the “architect,” or he who creates not ex nihilo, but from existing material.
[58] For this name which is said by all the early heresiologists to mean “the God of the Jews,” see Forerunners, II, 46, n. 3. He is called a “fiery God” apparently from Deut. iv. 24, and a fourth number, either because in the Ophite theogony he comes next after the Supreme Triad of Father, Son, and Mother or, more probably, from his name covering the Tetragrammaton, or name of God in four letters.
[59] Ps. ii. 9.