[250] τούτοις δοκεῖ, “it seems to them.”
[251] Cruice and Macmahon both translate this “into the same nature with the spirit.”
[252] This anxiety of the higher powers to redeem from matter darkness or chaos, the scintilla of their own being which has slipped into it, is the theme of all Gnosticism from the Ophites to the Pistis Sophia and the Manichæan writings. See Forerunners, II, passim.
[253] Or “the substances brought up to the sealer.”
[254] ἰδέαι. And so throughout.
[255] Schneidewin, Cruice, and Macmahon would here and elsewhere read ὁ φαλλὸς. But see the next sentence about pregnancy.
[256] ἐξετύπωσεν, “struck off.”
[257] πρωτόγονος. The others were “unbegotten” like the highest world of the Peratæ and Naassenes.
[258] εἴδεσιν.
[259] Is this Ps. xxix. 3, 10 already quoted by the Naassene author? Cf. p. [133] supra.