[55] These six powers have been compared to Simon Magus’ six “Roots,” which Simon also connects with the six Days of Creation. Cf. p. 252 Cr.
[56] Exod. vii. 20; viii. 16.
[57] σχηματίζει. Macm. translates “shape.”
[58] δεκάπληγος. Qy. δεκάπληγμος? The word is apparently dragged in for the sake of making a pun with πληγή, “a stroke.” Πληγμός is a medical term for a seizure or apoplectic stroke, and probably has the same root.
[59] πληγή.
[60] δεκάπληγος καὶ δεκάλογος.
[61] Salmon (art. cit.) thinks this may have some connection with the Quartodeciman heresy mentioned later in the book.
[62] So Cruice, in omnibus istis creaturam sine fermento mundi, but I see no meaning in the words.
[63] Isa. xl. 6.
[64] These are the “accidents” of substance which Hippolytus has attributed in Book VI to Pythagoras, and in Book VII to Aristotle. See pp. [21] and [64] supra. According to Book VI (ubi cit.) the [Neo-] Pythagoreans also used the image of the tittle.