[267]. Theodoret, Haer. Fab. I. 24.
[268]. Pistis Sophia, pp. 319, 320, Copt.
[269]. Ibid. p. 384, Copt.
[270]. Hippolytus, op. cit. Bk V. c. 13, pp. 188 sqq., Cruice.
[271]. See Giraud, op. cit. pp. 250 sqq. for references and editions. English translations of some of them have appeared in the “Apocryphal Acts” etc. of Clark’s Ante-Nicene Library, and in Cambridge Texts and Studies.
[272]. This is the opinion of Lipsius. See Dict. Christian Biog. s.v. Gospels, Apocryphal.
[273]. Cf. the similar expressions in the speech of the soul on the Orphic Gold Plates, Chapter IV, vol. I. pp. 131 sqq.
[274]. Epiphanius, Haer. XXVI. c. 13, p. 190, Oehler.
[275]. Ibid. p. 172, Oehler. Cf. the “Logia Jesu” published by the Egypt Exploration Fund in Oxyrhynchus Papyri, 1898, p. 3. “Wherever there are two, they are not without God, and wherever there is one alone, I say I am with him. Raise the stone, and there thou shalt find me, cleave the wood and there am I.”
[276]. Pistis Sophia, pp. 206, 230, Copt.