[80] Matt. xiii. 13.
[81] Isa. xxviii, 10. In A. V., “Precept upon precept; line upon line; here a little, there a little.” Irenæus (I, xix, 3, I, p. 201, Harvey) says, Caulacau is the name in which the Saviour descended according to Basilides, and the word seems to have been used in this sense by other Gnostic sects, See Forerunners, II, 94, n. 3.
[82] ἐκ γῆς ῥέοντα!
[83] A direct quotation from the Hymn of the Great Mysteries given later, p. [141] infra. Also a pun between κεράννυμι and κέρας.
[84] John 1. 34.
[85] Sophia, the third person of the Ophite Triad and Jaldabaoth her son.
[86] Something omitted after “cup.”
[87] τρία σάτα. A Jewish measure equivalent to 1½ modius. Cf. Matt. xiii. 33.
[88] The famous ὁμοούσιος.
[89] A compound of John vi. 53 and Mk. x. 38.