[89] John iffi. 5.
[90] ὑπὸ γένεσιν, “configuration” or “geniture.” The proper word for a theme or horoscope.
[91] It was the Second and not the First Sonhood who left the Holy Spirit at the Boundary.
[92] It is plain from this that Basilides taught that the most spiritual part of man’s soul was part of the Sonhood and that it was separated from the rest at death. This is confirmed by what is said later about what happened after the Passion.
[93] Εὐαγγέλιον = “good news”? The article is omitted in both these sentences.
[94] He of the Ogdoad.
[95] ἠγαλλιάσατο, a kind of pun on Ἐὐαγγέλιον, “glad tidings.”
[96] ἵνα ἀπαρχὴ τῆς φυλοκρινήσεως γένηται τῶν συγκεχυμένων. So Clem. Alex. (Strom., II., 8, 36), quoting from the “followers of Basilides,” says that the Great Ruler’s fear became the ἀρχὴ τῆς σοφίας φυλοκρινητικῆς, “the origin of the wisdom which discriminates.”
[97] σωματικὸν μέρος.
[98] This flatly contradicts the story attributed to Basilides by Irenæus to the effect that Simon of Cyrene took His place on the Cross. It has long been thought likely that Irenæus was here confusing Basilides with his contemporary Saturninus.