[215] ὑπόστασις.
[216] A pun on the name of the Supreme Father, Bythos or the Deep.
[217] φιλοπονία and ματαιοπονία.
[218] Or Truth.
[219] i. e. Man.
[220] It would seem from this that Marcus, following perhaps in this the Anatolic School of Valentinus, made Sige not the spouse of Bythos but merely another name for Aletheia.
[221] τῆς διανοίας νόημα. As if he were trying to avoid writing the word Nous.
[222] Hippolytus or Marcus here plays upon the identity of the ἐπίσημον or digamma, the name of the sixth letter in the Greek alphabet, which was used for numeration only, and the adjective ἐπίσημον, “illustrious.”
[223] The word in brackets supplied from Irenæus.
[224] ὧν τὰ μεγέθη. The allusion seems to be again to Matt. xviii. 10. The angels might well be considered on the Valentinian theory the greater parts or counterparts of their terrestrial spouses. In Epiphanius τὸ Μέγεθος seems to be used for the Supreme Being. Cf. Panar. Haer., XXXI, p. 314, Oehl. The passage is said to be suspect.