[320] So one of the latest documents of the Pistis Sophia calls the planet Aphrodite by a place-name, which in that case is Bubastis.
[321] προφητεία.
[322] If these words are to be taken literally, Justinus was the only heretic of early date who denied His divinity, and this would distinguish him finally from Marcion. But the words are not inconsistent with the Adoptionist view.
[323] These words are Miller’s suggestion.
[324] John xix. 26.
[325] παραθέμενος. So Luke xxiii. 46.
[326] ἐπριοποίησε. The derivation is absurd and the word if it had any meaning would be something like “made like a saw.” προποιέω would make the pun at which he seems to have been striving.
[327] This was not the case, the statues of Priapus being placed in gardens. The whole passage seems to have been interpolated by some one ignorant of Greek and of Greek customs or mythology.
[328] Isa. i. 2.
[329] τελεῖσθας or “initiated.” In any case a mystical word.