[255] The Codex has χρι.
[256] π = 80, ε = 5, ρ = 100, ι = 10, σ = 200, τ = 300, ε = 5, ρ = 100, α = 1: total 801. It is evident, therefore that Marcus considered Christ and the Holy Spirit to be the same Person.
[257] ἄρῥητον γένεσιν, “unspoken derivation”?
[258] δεκαοκτώ, an unusual word, unknown to classical Greek.
[259] Words in square brackets [ ] supplied from Irenæus.
[260] δημιουργία. Here, as elsewhere, the word implies construction from previously existing matter.
[261] τὸν τόπον ἀναπεπληρωκέναι.
[262] Cf. Luke i. 35.
[263] κατ’ οἰκονομίαν. This seems here the meaning of the word. See Döllinger, First Age of Christianity, Eng. ed., p. 170, n. 2, Hatch; Influence of Greek Ideas upon the Christian Church, p. 131; Tollinton, Clement of Alexandria, II, p. 13, and n. 1, for other meanings.
[264] This seems unintelligible unless we suppose the “body of Aletheia,” said above to be the number 12, to be the heaven known as “the Place of Truth.” Cf. Pistis Sophia, p. 128, Copt.