[159] ll. 338-341, Stein. Schneidewin has restored the lines as far as is possible.
[160] ὑπόπλασμα, “that which has been moulded.”
[161] Μεσίτης. Not intercessor, but something placed between two others.
[162] Not St. Paul, but Luke xvii. 19.
[163] There is no indication of the source from which Hippolytus drew the material for this chapter. It does not seem to have been the writings of Irenæus, for his remarks in I, xxv tell us even less about Marcion than our text. Possibly Hippolytus was here indebted to the work of Justin Martyr, which seems to have been extant in the time of Photius. With the exception of the notice of Prepon, our text contains nothing that was not known otherwise.
[164] This Carpocrates, whom Epiphanius calls Carpocras, seems to have been another of “the great Gnostics of Hadrian’s time,” and to have been learned in the Platonic philosophy. He is mentioned by all the heresiologists, but there is little that is distinctive about his tenets as they have come down to us, and his followers were probably few. They are accused by Irenæus, from whose chapter on the subject Hippolytus’ account is condensed, of a kind of Antinomianism having its origin in the contention that all actions are indifferent.
[165] μετὰ τοῦ ἀγενήτου Θεοῦ περιφορᾷ.
[166] χωρήσασαν can only apply to ψυχή. The return of the Power to the Deity could not be supposed to affect other souls.
[167] ὁμοίως.
[168] κατήργησε.