Forerunners and rivals of Christianity

by Francis Legge

[556]. p. 194, Copt.

[557]. p. 230, Copt.

[558]. On the belief in the Millennium in the primitive Church, see Döllinger, First Age of Christianity and the Church, Eng. ed. 1906, pp. 119, 123 and 268 and Ffoulkes, s.v. Chiliasts, in Dict. Christian Biog.

[559]. p. 230, Copt. Cf. Luke xxii. 29, 30.

[560]. p. 231, Copt. “disciples” not apostles. So the Manichaeans made Manes to be attended by twelve disciples. See [Chap. XIII] infra.

[561]. So Jesus says (p. 230, Copt.) of “the man who receives and accomplishes the Mystery of the Ineffable One”; “he is a man in the Cosmos, but he will reign with me in my kingdom; he is a man in the Cosmos, but he is a king in the light; he is a man in the Cosmos, but he is not of the Cosmos, and verily I say unto you, that man is I, and I am that man.”

[562]. p. 246, Copt.

[563]. See last note and n. 5, p. [147] supra.

[564]. Hatch, op. cit. p. 302 and note.

[565]. pp. 236, 237, Copt.