[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!