[29] Basilides and his son must therefore have been contemporaries of the Apostles. Even if we treat the word αὐτοῖς here as a copyist’s interpolation, it is evident that Basilides must have been considerably anterior in time to Valentinus.
[30] πραγμάτων, “transactions.”
[31] The words in this sentence in square brackets are emendations in the text made by different editors.
[32] πραγμάτων, as in last note but one.
[33] κατὰ πλάτος καὶ διαίρεσιν.
[34] Basilides is thus the first Gnostic to teach the doctrine of creation e nihilo.
[35] ὑποστήσας. Cf. the legend of Cybele, Vol. I, p. [118], n. 1 supra.
[36] πανσπερμίαν. The word is found in the fragments of Anaxagoras and Democritus as well as in Plato. Its use has been revived by Darwin and Weissmann.
[37] ἰδέας.
[38] οὐσιῶν. Nothing is here got by translating the word “substances.”