[245] Ps. viii. 2.
[246] Ps. xix. 1.
[247] Irenæus puts what follows into the mouth of “the all-wise Sige.” A section dealing with the name of Aletheia is omitted by Hippolytus.
[248] Or perhaps “Unity in Solitude.”
[249] i. e. “Ineffable.”
[250] Four, unless we spell the word as he apparently does, Σειγή.
[251] In the section omitted (see n. 2 supra) the “body of Aletheia” is said to be δωδεκάμελος or “of 12 members,” which points to some different notation.
[252] Cf. Rev. xix. 11-13.
[253] As Harvey (Iren., I, p. 145, n. 3) points out, this forced isopsephism is only reached by spelling Eta ηι and the Iota in Χριστός εἶ. He quotes Aulus Gellius in support.
[254] The words in brackets ( ) are not in Irenæus and are probably the addition of some commentator.