[357]. Hippolytus, op. cit. Bk VI. c. 29, p. 281, Cruice.
[358]. i.e. Profound.
[359]. Not “self-existent,” but maker of his own φύσις or nature.
[360]. See n. 2, p. [98] supra.
[361]. Harvey reads here αἰώνιος “everlasting,” which makes at least as good sense as the other.
[362]. Some memory of this seems to have enlivened the disputes between the Nominalists and Realists of the XIIIth century. Cf. the wrangling of the Doctors at the School of Salerno in Longfellow’s Golden Legend
I, with the Doctor Seraphic, maintain
That the word that’s not spoken, but conceived in the brain,
Is the type of Eternal Generation,
The spoken word is the Incarnation.