[443]. Tertullian, de Pudicitia, and Pseudo Cyprian, de Glor. Martyr. passim.
[444]. See [Chap. VII], n. 1, p. [8] supra.
[445]. Tertullian, Scorpiace, c. 1.
[446]. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, Bury’s ed. vol. II. p. 13. Cf. what Irenaeus, Βk I. c. 1, § 8, p. 36, Harvey, says as to the high price charged by the Valentinians for their teaching.
[447]. Hippolytus, op. cit. Bk IV. c. 4, §§ 1-15.
[448]. Irenaeus, Bk I. cc. 7-8 passim, pp. 114-156, Harvey.
[449]. Thus he says that the Dove signifies Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, because Α and Ω, like περιστερά “dove,” have the numerical value of 801.
[450]. A similar miracle is performed by the risen Jesus in the Bruce Papyrus. See [Chap. X] infra.
[451]. Verse:
a.