[120] Lit., “brought to an end.”

[121] A condensation of Matt. xiii. 3-9.

[122] Deut. xxxi. 20.

[123] i. e. become united with the Godhead. The newly-baptized were given milk and honey. Cf. Hatch, Hibbert Lectures, above quoted, p. 300.

[124] Matt. iii. 10.

[125] This “third gate” is evidently baptism. For the reason see Forerunners, II, p. 73, n. 2.

[126] This seems to be a quotation from the Naassene author.

[127] Perhaps an allusion to the λόγοι σπερματικοί.

[128] Matt. vii. 6.

[129] The derivation to be tolerable should be *ἀειπόλος!