[225] One of the later documents of the Pistis Sophia speaks repeatedly of certain τριδυναμεις or τριδυναμοι (both spellings are used) which seem to hold a very exalted rank in the scale of beings, alike in the spiritual and the material parts of the universe.
[226] φ, χ, θ, η, κ, τ, β, γ, δ.
[227] λ, μ, ν, ρ, ς, ζ, ξ, ψ.
[228] τὰ φωνήεντα.
[229] α, ε, η, ι, ο, υ, ω.
[230] μορφὴν αὐτοῖς περιεποίησεν, “has put shape round them.”
[231] Reading Ἐπειδὴ with Irenæus instead of the Ἐπὶ δὲ of Hippolytus.
[232] So that the “ineffable” name of Christ consisted of 30 letters. So Epiphanius, Haer., XXXIV, p. 448, Oehl. No guess hitherto made as to its transliteration into Greek letters seems entirely satisfactory; but Harvey (Iren., I, p. 146, nn. 1, 2), shows that χὶ, ρὼ, εἴψιλον (for which spelling Nigidius Figulus and Aulus Gellius are quoted), ἰῶτα, σῖγμα, ταῦ, οὐ (for ὀμικρόν), and, again, σῖγμα, can be made to count 30.
[233] The text has ἀναλογίας, for which Miller rightly restores οἰκονομίας from Irenæus. Cf. p. 318 Cr. infra.
[234] πεφηνέναι. Irenæus has πεφυκέναι, “grew.”