[310] Cf. Ps. cxvii. 19, 20; but the likeness is not exact.
[311] Ps. cx. 1.
[312] Lit., “until she wishes it not.”
[313] “Serpent.” See n. on p. [173] supra.
[314] Gen. ii. 16, 17.
[315] That these stories about the protoplasts endured into Manichæan times, see M. Cumont’s La Cosmogonie Manichéenne, Appendix I.
[316] Here again a power is referred to by its number instead of its name, as with the Naassene author.
[317] Gal. v. 17.
[318] τὴν πλάσιν τὴν πονηράν, malam fictionem, Cr. Yet we have been told nothing of any deceit by Edem towards her partner.
[319] The Ophite Diagram, and bar Khôni’s authority both figure the powers hostile to man as taking the shapes of these animals.