[220] See Sibyll. Orac., III. But the Sibyl says the exact opposite. Cf. Charles, Apocrypha and Psuedepigrapha of the O.T., II, 377.
[221] περᾶσαι. The derivation is too much even for Theodoret, who says that the name of the sect is taken from “Euphrates the Peratic” (or Mede).
[222] So modern astrologers make him the “greater malefic.”
[223] A fragment from Heraclitus according to Schleiermacher.
[224] So the Pistis Sophia speaks repeatedly of “the Pleroma of all Pleromas.”
[225] Many magical books bore the name of Moses. See Forerunners, II, 46, and n.
[226] Is this why one Ophite sect was called the Cainites? The hostility here shown to the God of the Jews is common to many other sects such as that of Saturninus, of Marcion and later of Manes. Cf. Forerunners, II, under these names.
[227] Gen. x. 9. Nimrod, who is sometimes identified with the hero Gilgames, plays a large part in all this Eastern tradition.
[228] John iii. 13, 14.
[229] Ibid., i. 1-4.