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they showed the number of the twenty-four. The three elements, however, he leaves aside H. which he himself says belong to the three powers in syzygy, which are six, from which flowed the twenty-four elements, having been quadrupled by the principle of the ineffable Tetrad, he makes the same number for them, which things he says belong to the Unnameable. And that they are borne by the three powers, in the likeness of the invisible, of which elements the double letters among us are images of images, which, when counted together with the twenty-four elements by the power of the H. according to analogy, makes the number thirty. 1.8.7 Of this account, and of the economy H. of this analogy, he says that he has appeared as the fruit in the likeness of an image Hipp. the one who after six days went up the mountain as the fourth, and became the sixth, the one seized and having come down H. come down and seized in the week, being a significant Ogdoad, and having in himself the whole number of the elements, H. which the descent of the dove revealed, when he came to the baptism, which is ω and α. For her number is one and eight hundred. And because of this Moses said that man came to be on the sixth day of the H. days; and the economy on the sixth of the days, which is the Preparation, the last man appeared for the regeneration of the first man, of which economy the beginning and end and del. and H. to be the sixth hour H. in which he was nailed to the wood. For the perfect Mind, knowing the number six, having the power of creation and regeneration, revealed to the sons of light the regeneration which came about through him l. through the revealed sign upon him through him λ. for a sign of the number. Hence he says also the double letters have the significant number. For the significant number, mixed with the twenty-four elements, completed the thirty-letter name. 1.8.8 And he has used as a servant the magnitude of the seven numbers, as the Silence of Marcus says, so that the fruit of the self-willed will might be revealed. This significant number, however Hipp. delet this num.; for the present, he says, understand the one formed upon the sign, the one as if divided or cut in two and remaining outside, who by his own power and prudence, through the projection from himself of this one of the seven powers, and according to Hipp. an imitation tamen an imitation of the hebdomadal power, animated the cosmos, and made a soul to be for all that is seen. He himself then H. loco himself l. and this one used this work, as having come into being by his own will; these things serve, being imitations of the un-imitable, the thought of the mother. And the first heaven utters the α, the one after it the ει, the third η, and the fourth and middle of the seven sounds forth the power of the ι, the fifth the ου, the sixth the υ, and the seventh H. and fourth from the part H. from the middle cries out the element ω, just as the Silence of Marcus, which talks much nonsense but says nothing true, affirms. Which powers together, he says, all intertwined with each other sound forth and glorify him by whom they were projected; and the glory of the sound H. sounding is sent up to the Fore-Father. And of this doxology he says the sound, being carried to the earth, became the moulder and begetter of things on the earth. 1.8.9 And he brings the proof from newborn infants, whose sound H. the soul, upon coming forth from the womb, cries out this sound of each one of these elements H. Therefore just as the seven, he says, powers glorify the Logos, so also the soul in infants, weeping and lamenting Marcus, glorifies him. And because of this David also said: Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings you have perfected praise; and again, The heavens declare the glory of God. And because of this, in H. whenever the soul is in pains and hardships, for its purification, it cries out the ω as a sign of praise, so that the soul above, recognizing what is akin to it, might send down a helper to it. 1.8.10 And concerning the whole, this name being of thirty letters, and

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τὸν τῶν εἰκοσιτεσσάρων ἀνέδειξαν ἀριθμόν. Τὰ μέν τοι τρία στοιχεῖα ἀφίησιν Η. (ἅ) φησιν αὐτὸς τῶν τριῶν ἐν συζυγίᾳ δυνάμεων ὑπάρχειν, ἅ ἐστιν ἓξ, ἀφ' ὧν ἀπεῤῥύη τὰ εἰκοσιτέσσαρα στοιχεῖα, τετραπλασιασθέντα τῷ τῆς ἀῤῥήτου τετράδος λόγῳ, τὸν αὐτὸν αὐτοῖς ἀριθμὸν ποιεῖ, ἅπερ φησὶ τοῦ ἀνονομάστου ὑπάρχειν. Φορεῖσθαι δὲ αὐτὰ ὑπὸ τῶν τριῶν δυνάμεων, εἰς ὁμοιότητα τοῦ ἀοράτου, ὧν στοιχείων εἰκόνες εἰκόνων τὰ παρ' ἡμῖν διπλᾶ γράμματα ὑπάρχειν, ἃ συναριθμούμενα τοῖς εἰκοσιτέσσαρσι στοιχείοις δυνάμει τῶν Η. τῇ κατὰ ἀναλογίαν τὸν τῶν τριάκοντα ποιεῖ ἀριθμόν. 1.8.7 Τούτου τοῦ λόγου, καὶ τῆς οἰκονομίας Η. ἀναλογίας ταύτης καρπόν φησιν ἐν ὁμοιώματι εἰκόνος πεφυκέναι Hipp. πεφηνέναι ἐκεῖνον, τὸν μετὰ τὰς ἓξ ἡμέρας τέταρτον ἀναβάντα εἰς τὸ ὄρος, καὶ γενόμενον ἕκτον, τὸν κρατηθέντα καὶ καταβάντα Η. καταβ. καὶ κρατ. ἐν τῇ ἑβδομάδι, ἐπίσημον ὀγδοάδα ὑπάρχοντα, καὶ ἔχοντα ἐν ἑαυτῷ τὸν ἅπαντα τῶν στοιχείων ἀριθμὸν, Η. ὃν ἐφανέρωσεν, ἐλθόντος αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸ βάπτισμα, ἡ τῆς περιστερᾶς κάθοδος, ἥτις ἐστὶν ω καὶ α. Ὁ γὰρ ἀριθμὸς αὐτῆς μία καὶ ὀκτακόσιαι. Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο Μωϋσέα ἐν τῇ ἕκτῃ τῶν Η. ἡμέρᾳ ἡμερῶν εἰρηκέναι τὸν ἄνθρωπον γεγονέναι· καὶ τὴν οἰκονομίαν δὲ ἐν τῇ ἕκτῃ τῶν ἡμερῶν, ἥτις ἐστὶ παρασκευὴ, τὸν ἔσχατον ἄνθρωπον εἰς ἀναγέννησιν τοῦ πρώτου ἀνθρώπου πεφηνέναι, ἧς οἰκονομίας ἀρχὴν καὶ τέλος καὶ del. καὶ Η. τὴν ἕκτην ὥραν Η. εἶναι, ἐν ᾗ προσηλώθη τῷ ξύλῳ. Τὸν γὰρ τέλειον νοῦν, ἐπιστάμενον τὸν τῶν ἓξ ἀριθμὸν, δύναμιν ποιήσεως καὶ ἀναγεννήσεως ἔχοντα, φανερῶσαι τοῖς υἱοῖς τοῦ φωτὸς τὴν δι' αὐτοῦ l. διὰ τοῦ φανέντος ἐπισήμου εἰς αὐτὸν δι' αὐτοῦ λ. εἰς ἐπίσημον τοῦ δὲ ἀριθμοῦ γενομένην ἀναγέννησιν. Ἔνθεν καὶ τὰ διπλᾶ γράμματα τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἐπίσημον ἔχειν φησίν. Ὁ γὰρ ἐπίσημος ἀριθμὸς συγκραθεὶς τοῖς εἰκοσιτέσσαρσι στοιχείοις, τὸ τριάκοντα γράμματον ὄνομα ἀπετέλεσε. 1.8.8 Κέχρηται δὲ διακόνῳ τῷ τῶν ἑπτὰ ἀριθμῶν μεγέθει, ὥς φησιν ἡ Μάρκου Σιγὴ, ἵνα τῆς αὐτοβουλήτου βουλῆς φανερωθῆ ὁ καρπός. Τὸν μέν τοι ἐπίσημον τοῦτον ἀριθμὸν Hipp. delet τοῦτον ἀρ· ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος, φησὶ, τὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐπισήμου μορφωθέντα νόησον, τὸν ὥσπερ μερισθέντα ἢ διχοτομηθέντα καὶ ἔξω μείναντα, ὃς τῇ ἑαυτοῦ δυνάμει τε καὶ φρονήσει, διὰ τῆς ἀπ' αὐτοῦ προβολῆς τοῦτον τὸν τῶν ἑπτὰ δυνάμεων, καὶ κατὰ Hipp. μιμήσει tamen μίμησιν τῆς ἑβδομάδος δυνάμεως, ἐψύχωσε κόσμον, καὶ ψυχὴν ἔθετο εἶναι τοῦ ὁρωμένου παντός. Κέχρηται μὲν οὖν αὐτὸς Η. loco αὐτὸς l. καὶ οὗτος τῷδε τῷ ἔργῳ, ὡς αὐθαιρέτως ὑπ' αὐτοῦ γενομένῳ· τάδε διακόνει, μιμήματα ὄντα τῶν ἀμιμήτων, τὴν ἐνθύμησιν τῆς μητρός. Καὶ ὁ μὲν πρῶτος οὐρανὸς φθέγγεται τὸ α, ὁ δὲ μετὰ τοῦτον τὸ ει, ὁ δὲ τρίτος η, τέταρτος δὲ καὶ μέσος τῶν ἑπτὰ τὴν τοῦ ι δύναμιν ἐκφωνεῖ, ὁ δὲ πέμπτος τὸ ου, ἕκτος δὲ τὸ υ, ἕβδομος Η. δὲ καὶ τέταρτος ἀπὸ μέρους Η. ἀπὸ τοῦ μέσου τὸ ω στοιχεῖον ἐκβοᾷ, καθὼς ἡ Μάρκου Σιγὴ, ἡ πολλὰ μὲν φλυαροῦσα, μηδὲν δὲ ἀληθὲς λέγουσα, διαβεβαιοῦται. Αἵτινες δυνάμεις ὁμοῦ, φησὶ, πᾶσαι εἰς ἀλλήλας συμπλακεῖσαι ἠχοῦσι καὶ δοξάζουσιν ἐκεῖνον, ὑφ' οὗ προεβλήθησαν· ἡ δὲ δόξα τῆς ἠχῆς Η. ἠχήσεως ἀναπέμπεται εἰς τὸν Προπάτορα. Ταύτης μέν τοι τῆς δοξολογίας τὸν ἦχον εἰς τὴν γῆν φερόμενόν φησι πλάστην γενέσθαι, καὶ γεννήτορα τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς. 1.8.9 Τὴν δὲ ἀπόδειξιν φέρει ἀπὸ τῶν ἄρτι γεννωμένων βρεφῶν, ὧν ἠχὴ Η. ἡ ψυχὴ ἅμα τῷ ἐκ μήτρας προελθεῖν ἐπιβοᾷ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου τῶν στοιχείων τούτων Η. τοῦτον τὸν ἦχον. Καθὼς οὖν αἱ ἑπτὰ, φησὶ, δυνάμεις δοξάζουσι τὸν Λόγον, οὕτως καὶ ἡ ψυχὴ ἐν τοῖς βρέφεσι κλαίουσα καὶ θρηνοῦσα Μάρκον, δοξάζει αὐτόν. ∆ιὰ τοῦτο δὲ καὶ τὸν ∆αβὶδ εἰρηκέναι· Ἐκ στόματος νηπίων καὶ θηλαζόντων κατηρτίσω αἶνον· καὶ πάλιν, Οἱ οὐρανοὶ διηγοῦνται δόξαν Θεοῦ. Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἔν τε Η. ἐπὰν δὲ ἐν πόνοις καὶ ταλαιπωρίαις ψυχὴ γενομένη, εἰς διϋλισμὸν αὐτῆς, ἐπιφωνεῖ τὸ ω εἰς σημεῖον αἰνέσεως, ἵνα γνωρίσασα ἡ ἄνω ψυχὴ τὸ συγγενὲς αὐτῆς, βοηθὸν αὐτῇ καταπέμψῃ. 1.8.10 Καὶ περὶ μὲν τοῦ παντὸς, ὀνόματος τριάκοντα ὄντος γραμμάτων τούτου, καὶ