[79] 1 Cor. ii. 13.
[80] A conflation of Ps. xxxii. 5, and Ps. li. 3.
[81] εὐαγγελισθήσεται, “have the good news announced to him”?
[82] It is the words in brackets which connect the system of the text with that attributed to Basilides by Irenæus and Epiphanius. Cf. Iren., I, xxiv. 5, pp. 202, 203, and n. 6, H., and Epiph., Haer., XXIV.
[83] Eph. iii. 3, 5.
[84] 2 Cor. xii. 4.
[85] As at the Baptism in Jordan where, according to the almost universal tradition, the water was lighted up.
[86] Luke i. 35.
[87] δύναμις τῆς χρίσεως. Thus in Cruice. Miller would read κρίσεως, and Roeper Ὀγδοάδος. Perhaps the correct reading is χριστός, according to the idea common to nearly all Gnostics that the Christos only came upon Jesus at His Baptism.
[88] ἐγένετο ἄν.