[190]. The LXX or Greek version of the Old Testament belongs to the Western Diaspora rather than to the Eastern. Perhaps this was why Paul and Barnabas in addressing the Phrygians were careful to give them a summary of Old Testament history. See Acts xiii. 16 sqq.
[191]. The Sethians had a book called the Paraphrase of Seth now lost, which from its name may easily have been a heretical version of the Book of Genesis. See Hippolytus, op. cit. Bk V. c. 21, p. 223, Cruice.
[192]. Hippolytus, op. cit. Bk V. c. 7, p. 145, Cruice, says that this was first taught by the “Assyrians,” by which he evidently means the Syrians.
[193]. πλάσμα τὸ πήλινον, Hippolytus, op. cit. Bk V. c. 7, p. 153, Cruice.
[194]. This is certainly the opinion of the sect responsible for one of the later documents of the Pistis Sophia. See Pistis Sophia, pp. 346, 347, Copt. So Rossi’s Trattato gnostico, before quoted, speaks throughout of Satan or the chief of the powers of evil as the ἀρχηπλασμα “originator of the form”?
[195]. Hippolytus, see n. 1, supra.
[196]. Hippolytus, op. cit. Bk V. c. 7, p. 144, Cruice.
[197]. Ibid. Bk V. c. 8, pp. 157-173, Cruice.
[198]. A verse:
Son of Saturn, son of Jove