Simon Magus eBook

G. R. S. Mead
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 122 pages of information about Simon Magus.

Simon Magus eBook

G. R. S. Mead
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 122 pages of information about Simon Magus.

[Footnote 35:  He who has stood, stands and will stand.]

[Footnote 36:  Thought.]

[Footnote 37:  The Middle Distance.]

[Footnote 38:  There is a lacuna in the text here.]

[Footnote 39:  [Greek:  dia taes idias epignoseos.]]

[Footnote 40:  Undergo the passion.]

[Footnote 41:  [Greek:  paredrous] C.W.  King calls these “Assessors.” (The Gnostics and their Remains, p. 70.)]

[Footnote 42:  This is presumably meant for a grim patristic joke.]

[Footnote 43:  A medicinal drug used by the ancients, especially as a specific against madness.]

[Footnote 44:  The conducting of souls to or from the invisible world.]

[Footnote 45:  [Greek:  prounikos:  prouneikos] is one who bears burdens, a carrier; in a bad sense it means lewd.]

[Footnote 46:  Or the conception (of the mind).]

[Footnote 47:  Cf. 1 Thess., v. 8.]

[Footnote 48:  A famous actor and mime writer who flourished in the time of Augustus (circa A.D. 7); there are extant some doubtful fragments of Philistion containing moral sentiments from the comic poets.]

[Footnote 49:  [Greek:  plaeroma]]

[Footnote 50:  Scripture.]

[Footnote 51:  Matth., v. 17.]

[Footnote 52:  John, v. 46, 47.]

[Footnote 53:  Matth., xix. 10-12.]

[Footnote 54:  Matth., xix. 6.]

[Footnote 55:  [Greek archae] the same word is translated “dominion” when applied to the aeons of Simon.]

[Footnote 56:  Genesis, i. 1.]

[Footnote 57:  Matth., xi. 25.]

[Footnote 58:  “The all-evil Daemon, the avenger of men,” of the Prologue.]

[Footnote 59:  Mythologies.]

[Footnote 60:  “Rootage,” rather, to coin a word. [Greek:  rizoma] must be distinguished from [Greek:  riza], a root, the word used a few sentences later.]

[Footnote 61:  Dictionary of Christian Biography (Ed. Smith and Wace), art.  “Clementine Literature,” I. 575.]

[Footnote 62:  Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, etc. (Ed. Blunt), art.  “Ebionites.”]

[Footnote 63:  The two accounts are combined in the following digest, and in the references H. stands for the Homiles and R. for the Recognitions.]

[Footnote 64:  Some twenty-three miles.]

[Footnote 65:  We have little information of the Hemero-baptists, or Day-baptists.  They are said to have been a sect of the Jews and to have been so called for daily performing certain ceremonial ablutions (Epiph., Contra Haer., I. 17).  It is conjectured that they were a sect of the Pharisees who agreed with the Sadducees in denying the resurrection. The Apostolic Constitutions (VI. vii) tell us of the Hemero-baptists, that “unless they wash themselves every day they do not eat, nor will they use a bed, dish, bowl, cup, or seat, unless they have purified it with water.”]

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