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they say of him, and that he had been hidden in it, since he himself was leaven. 1.1.17 And that Achamoth wandered outside the Pleroma, and was formed by Christ, and was sought after by the Savior, they say he indicates in saying that he came for the lost suppl. sheep. For they interpret the lost sheep to be their mother, from whom they will it that the Church here was sown; and the wandering, the tarrying outside the Pleroma in Int. all the passions, from which they suppose that matter came into being. And the woman who sweeps the house and finds the drachma, they relate to be the Sophia above, who, having lost her Enthymesis, later finds it after all things were cleansed through the advent of the Savior; wherefore, according to them, she also is restored within the Pleroma. Simeon, the one who took Christ into his arms, and gave thanks to him, and said: Now you are releasing your servant, O Lord, according to your word in peace, they say is a type of the Demiurge, who upon the coming of the Savior learned of his translation, and gave thanks to Bythos. And through the prophetess proclaimed in the Gospel, who had lived with a husband for seven years, and for all the remaining time remained a widow, until seeing the Savior she recognized him, and spoke about him to all, they maintain that Achamoth is most clearly indicated, who for a little while saw the Savior with those of his age, and for all the remaining time, waiting in the middle place, expected him, when he would come again and restore her to her own syzygy. And that her name was indicated by the Savior in having said: And wisdom was justified by her children; and by Paul thus: But we speak wisdom among the perfect. And they assert that Paul, indicating it through one example, spoke of the syzygies within the Pleroma; for writing about the syzygy in this life he said: This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church. 1.1.18 Moreover they l. teach that John the disciple of the Lord indicated the first Ogdoad. in these very words, saying thus: John the disciple of the Lord wishing to speak of the generation of all things, according to which the Father projected all things, posits a certain beginning, that which was first begotten by God, which indeed he has called both the Only-begotten Son and God, in whom the Father projected all things like a seed. And by this one, he says, the Word was projected, and in him the whole substance of the Aeons, which the Word himself later formed. Since therefore he speaks of the first generation, he rightly makes his teaching begin from the beginning, that is, from God and the Word; and he speaks thus: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; he was in the beginning with God. Having first distinguished the three, God, and Beginning, and Word, he again unites them, in order to show both the projection of each of them, both of the Son and of the Word, and their union at once with each other, and with the Father. For in the Father, and from the Father is the beginning, and in the beginning and from the beginning is the Word. Rightly therefore he said: In the beginning was the Word; for he was in the Son; and the Word was with God; for the beginning was also; and the Word was God, consequently; for that which is born of God, is God; he was in the beginning with God; he showed the order of the projection; all things were made by him, and without him was not anything made; for to all the Aeons after him the Word became the cause of form and generation. But that which was made in him, he says, is life; here he also indicated a syzygy; For all things, he said, were made by him, but life in him. This therefore which was made in him is more proper in him than those things made by him; for it is with him, and through him it bears fruit; for since he adds, and the life was the light of men, having just now spoken of Man, he also indicated the Church homonymously with Man, so that by the one name he might declare the fellowship of the syzygy. For from the Word and Life comes Man and Church. And he said Life was the light of men, because of

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λέγουσιν αὐτὸν, καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ συνεσταλκέναι, ἐπειδὴ ἦν αὐτὸς ζύμη. 1.1.17 Καὶ ὅτι ἐπλανήθη ἡ Ἀχαμὼθ ἐκτὸς τοῦ Πληρώματος, καὶ ἐμορφώθη ὑπὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, καὶ ἀνεζητήθη ὑπὸ τοῦ Σωτῆρος, μηνύειν αὐτὸν λέγουσιν ἐν τῷ εἰπεῖν, αὐτὸν ἐληλυθέναι ἐπὶ τὸ πεπλανημένον suppl. πρόβατον. Πρόβατον μὲν γὰρ πεπλανημένον τὴν μητέρα αὐτῶν ἐξηγοῦνται λέγεσθαι, ἐξ ἧς τὴν ὧδε θέλουσιν ἐσπάρθαι Ἐκκλησίαν· πλάνην δὲ, τὴν ἐκτὸς Πληρώματος ἐν Int. πᾶσι τοῖς πάθεσι διατριβὴν, ἐξ ὧν γεγονέναι τὴν ὕλην ὑποτίθενται. Τὴν δὲ γυναῖκα τὴν σαροῦσαν τὴν οἰκίαν, καὶ εὑρίσκουσαν τὴν δραχμὴν, τὴν ἄνω Σοφίαν διηγοῦνται λέγεσθαι, ἥτις ἀπολέσασα τὴν Ἐνθύμησιν αὐτῆς, ὕστερον καθαρισθέντων πάντων διὰ τῆς τοῦ Σωτῆρος παρουσίας εὑρίσκει αὐτήν· διὸ καὶ ταύτην ἀποκαθίστασθαι κατ' αὐτοὺς ἐντὸς πληρώματος. Συμεῶνα τὸν εἰς τὰς ἀγκάλας λαβόντα τὸν Χριστὸν, καὶ εὐχαριστήσαντα αὐτῷ, καὶ εἰπόντα· Νῦν ἀπολύεις τὸν δοῦλόν σου, δέσποτα, κατὰ τὸ ῥῆμά σου ἐν εἰρήνῃ, τύπον εἶναι τοῦ ∆ημιουργοῦ λέγουσιν, ὡς ὃς ἐλθόντος τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἔμαθε τὴν μετάθεσιν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ηὐχαρίστησε τῷ Βυθῷ. Καὶ διὰ τῆς ἐν τῷ Εὐαγγελίῳ κηρυσσομένης προφήτιδος, ἑπτὰ ἔτη μετὰ ἀνδρὸς ἐζηκυίας, τὸν δὲ λοιπὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον χήρας μενούσης, ἄχρις οὗ τὸν Σωτῆρα ἰδοῦσα ἐπέγνω αὐτὸν, καὶ ἐλάλει περὶ αὐτοῦ πᾶσι, φανερώτατα τὴν Ἀχαμὼθ μηνύεσθαι διορίζονται, ἥτις πρὸς ὀλίγον ἰδοῦσα τὸν Σωτῆρα μετὰ τῶν ἡλικιωτῶν αὐτοῦ, τῷ λοιπῷ χρόνῳ παντὶ μένουσα ἐν τῇ μεσότητι προσεδέχετο αὐτὸν, πότε πάλιν ἐλεύσεται καὶ ἀποκαταστήσει αὐτὴν τῇ αὐτῆς συζυγίᾳ. Καὶ τὸ ὄνομα δὲ αὐτῆς μεμηνύσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἐν τῷ εἰρηκέναι· Καὶ ἐδικαιώθη ἡ σοφία ἀπὸ τῶν τέκνων αὐτῆς· καὶ ὑπὸ Παύλου δὲ οὕτως· Σοφίαν δὲ λαλοῦμεν ἐν τοῖς τελείοις. Καὶ τὰς συζυγίας δὲ τὰς ἐντὸς πληρώματος τὸν Παῦλον εἰρηκέναι φάσκουσιν ἐπὶ ἑνὸς δείξαντα· περὶ γὰρ τῆς περὶ τὸν βίον συζυγίας γράφων ἔφη· Τὸ μυστήριον τοῦτο μέγα ἐστὶν, ἐγὼ δὲ λέγω εἰς Χριστὸν καὶ τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν. 1.1.18 Ἔτι τε l. δὲ Ἰωάννην τὸν μαθητὴν τοῦ Κυρίου διδάσκουσι τὴν πρώτην ὀγδοάδα μεμηνυκέναι. αὐταῖς λέξεσι, λέγοντες οὕτως· Ἰωάννης ὁ μαθητὴς τοῦ Κυρίου βουλόμενος εἰπεῖν τὴν τῶν ὅλων γένεσιν, καθ' ἣν τὰ πάντα προέβαλεν ὁ Πατὴρ, ἀρχήν τινα ὑποτίθεται τὸ πρῶτον γεννηθὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὃν ὃ δὴ καὶ Υἱὸν Μονογενῆ καὶ Θεὸν κέκληκεν, ἐν ᾧ τὰ πάντα ὁ Πατὴρ προέβαλε σπερματικῶς. Ὑπὸ δὲ τούτου φησὶ τὸν Λόγον προβεβλῆσθαι, καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ τὴν ὅλην τῶν Αἰώνων οὐσίαν, ἣν αὐτὸς ὕστερον ἐμόρφωσεν ὁ Λόγος. Ἐπεὶ οὖν περὶ πρώτης γενέσεως λέγει, καλῶς ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς, τουτέστι τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ τοῦ Λόγου, τὴν διδασκαλίαν ποιεῖται· λέγει δὲ οὕτως· Ἐν ἄρχῃ ἦν ὁ Λόγος, καὶ ὁ Λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν, καὶ Θεὸς ἦν ὁ Λόγος· οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν Θεόν. Πρότερον διαστείλας τὰ τρία, Θεὸν, καὶ Ἀρχὴν, καὶ Λόγον, πάλιν αὐτὰ ἑνοῖ, ἵνα καὶ τὴν προβολὴν ἑκατέρων αὐτῶν δείξῃ, τοῦ τε Υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ Λόγου, καὶ τὴν πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἅμα, καὶ τὴν πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα ἕνωσιν. Ἐν γὰρ τῷ Πατρὶ, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ Πατρὸς ἡ ἀρχὴ, ἐν ἀρχῇ δὲ καὶ ἐκ τῆς ἀρχῆς ὁ Λόγος. Καλῶς οὖν εἶπεν· Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος· ἦν γὰρ ἐν τῷ Υἱῷ· καὶ ὁ Λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν Θεόν· καὶ γὰρ ἡ ἀρχή· καὶ Θεὸς ἦν ὁ Λόγος, ἀκολούθως· τὸ γὰρ ἐκ Θεοῦ γεννηθὲν, Θεός ἐστιν· οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν Θεόν· ἔδειξε τὴν τῆς προβολῆς τάξιν· πάντα δι' αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδ' ἕν· πᾶσι γὰρ τοῖς μετ' αὐτὸν Αἰῶσι μορφῆς καὶ γενέσεως αἴτιος ὁ Λόγος ἐγένετο. Ἀλλὰ ὃ γέγονεν ἐν αὐτῷ, φησὶ, ζωή ἐστιν· ἐνθάδε καὶ συζυγίαν ἐμήνυσε· Τὰ μὲν γὰρ ὅλα, ἔφη, δι' αὐτοῦ γεγενῆσθαι, τὴν δὲ ζωὴν ἐν αὐτῷ. Αὕτη οὖν ἡ ἐν αὐτῷ γενομένη οἰκειοτέρα ἐστὶν ἐν αὐτῷ τῶν δι' αὐτοῦ γενομένων· σύνεστι γὰρ αὐτῷ, καὶ δι' αὐτοῦ καρποφορεῖ· ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἐπιφέρει, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων, Ἄνθρωπον εἰπὼν ἄρτι, καὶ τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν ὁμωνύμως τῷ Ἀνθρώπῳ ἐμήνυσεν, ὅπως διὰ τοῦ ἑνὸς ὀνόματος δηλώσῃ τὴν τῆς συζυγίας κοινωνίαν. Ἐκ γὰρ τοῦ Λόγου καὶ τῆς Ζωῆς Ἄνθρωπος γίνεται καὶ Ἐκκλησία. Φῶς δὲ εἶπε τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὴν Ζωὴν, διὰ τὸ