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sea monsters, fish and reptiles, birds and quadrupeds, and wild beasts, and birds somewhere for the twelfth, man. Thus they teach that the thirty of the Triacontad was spoken of by the Spirit through Moses. But indeed that the molded man, in the image of the power above, has in himself the power from the one source. And that this is established in the place of the brain; from which flow four powers, in the image of the Tetrad above, called sight, hearing, the third smelling, and the fourth taste. And they say the Ogdoad is indicated through man in this way: as he has two ears, and as many organs of sight, and also two of smell, and a twofold taste, of bitter and of sweet. And they teach that the whole man has the entire image of the Triacontad thus: that in his hands, through his fingers, he bears the Decad; and in his whole body, divided into twelve members, the Dodecad. And they divide him, just as the body of Truth is divided among them, about which we have spoken before. Therefore, that the Ogdoad, being unspeakable and invisible, is understood as being hidden in the inward parts. 1.11.2 Again, they say that the sun, the great luminary, came into being on the fourth day because of the number of the Tetrad. And the curtains of the tabernacle, constructed by Moses, having been made of fine linen, and of hyacinth, and of purple, and of scarlet, displayed the same image among them. And they declare that the priest's robe, adorned with four rows of precious stones, signifies the Tetrad; and whatever such things are found in the scriptures that can be referred to the number four, they say came to be because of their Tetractys. Again, the Ogdoad is shown in this way: they say man was formed on the eighth day. For sometimes they wish him to have come into being on the sixth day, and sometimes on the eighth, unless they say that the earthy man was formed on the sixth day, but the fleshly one on the eighth; for these are distinguished among them. And some wish there to be another man, the male-female who came to be in the image and likeness of God, and that this is the spiritual one; and another, the one formed from the earth. And the economy of the ark in the flood, in which eight people were saved, they say most clearly indicates the saving Ogdoad. And that David, being the eighth of his brothers by birth, signifies the same thing. Furthermore, that circumcision, being performed on the eighth day, declares the circumcision of the Ogdoad above. And simply, whatever is found in the scriptures that can be referred to the number eight, they say fulfills the mystery of the Ogdoad. But also they say that the Decad is signified by the ten nations which God promised to give to Abraham for a possession; and that the economy concerning Sarah, that after ten years she gives him her own handmaid Hagar, so that he might beget a child from her, declares the same thing. And the servant of Abraham sent to Rebecca, giving her ten golden bracelets at the well, and her brothers detaining her for ten days; and moreover Jeroboam who received the ten sceptres, and the ten curtains of the tabernacle, and the pillars of ten cubits, and the ten sons of Jacob sent to Egypt the first time to buy grain, and the ten Apostles to whom the Lord appeared after the resurrection when Thomas was not present, prefigured, according to them, the invisible Decad. 1.11.3 And the Dodecad, in connection with which the mystery of the passion of the defect came to be, from which passion they wish the visible things to have been constructed, they say is found remarkably and manifestly everywhere, as the twelve sons of Jacob, from whom also are the twelve tribes, and the breastplate of varied colors having twelve stones, and the twelve bells, and the twelve stones placed by Moses under the mountain, and likewise those by Joshua in the river, and others on the other side, and those who bore the ark of the covenant, and those placed by Elijah at the whole burnt offering of the calf, and the number of the

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κήτη, ἰχθύας καὶ ἑρπετὰ, πετεινὰ καὶ τετράποδα, θηρία τε, καὶ πετεινά που τοῖς δυοδέκατον τὸν ἄνθρωπον. Οὕτως ὑπὸ τοῦ πνεύματος τὴν τριάκοντα τριακοντάδα διὰ Μωϋσέως εἰρῆσθαι διδάσκουσιν. Ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τὸν πλαστὸν ἄνθρωπον κατ' εἰκόνα τῆς ἄνω δυνάμεως ἔχειν ἐν αὑτῷ τὴν ἀπὸ τῆς μιᾶς πηγήν l. πηγῆς δύναμιν. Ἱδρῦσθαι δὲ ταῦτα ταύτην ἐν τῷ κατὰ τὸν ἐγκέφαλον τόπῳ· ἀφ' ἧς ἀποῤῥεῖν δυνάμεις τέσσαρας, κατ' εἰκόνα τῆς ἄνω τετράδος, καλουμένας, τὴν μὲν ὅρασιν, τὴν δὲ ἀκοὴν, τὴν δὲ τρίτην ὄσφρησιν, καὶ τὴν τετάρτην γεῦσιν. Τὴν δὲ Ὀγδοάδα φασὶ μηνύεσθαι διὰ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου οὕτως· ἀκοὰς μὲν δύο ἔχοντας l. ἔχοντος, καὶ τοσαύτας ὁράσεις, ἔτι τε ὀσφρήσεις δύο, καὶ διπλῆν γεῦσιν, πικροῦ τε καὶ γλυκέως. Ὅλον δὲ τὸν ἄνθρωπον πᾶσαν τὴν εἰκόνα τῆς τριακοντάδος οὕτως ἔχειν διδάσκουσιν· ἐν μὲν ταῖς χερσὶ διὰ τῶν δακτύλων τὴν δεκάδα βαστάζειν· ἐν ὅλῳ δὲ τῷ σώματι εἰς δεκαδύο μέλη διαιρουμένῳ τὴν δωδεκάδα. ∆ιαιροῦσι δὲ αὐτὸ, καθάπερ τὸ τῆς Ἀληθείας διῄρηται παρ' αὐτοῖς τοῖς l. σῶμα et dele, σώμασι, περὶ οὗ προειρήκαμεν. Τήν τε οὖν ὀγδοάδα, ἄῤῥητόν τε καὶ ἀόρατον οὖσαν, ἐν τοῖς σπλάγχνοις κρυβομένην νοεῖσθαι. 1.11.2 Ἥλιον δὲ πάλιν τὸν μέγαν φωστῆρα ἐν τῇ τετάρτῃ τῶν ἡμερῶν γεγονέναι διὰ τὸν τῆς τετράδος ἀριθμὸν φάσκουσι. Τῆς τε σκηνῆς, τῆς ὑπὸ Μωϋσέως κατασκευασθείσης, αἱ αὐλαὶ ἐκ βύσσου, καὶ ὑακίνθου, καὶ πορφύρας, καὶ κοκκίνου γεγονυῖαι, τὴν αὐτὴν παρ' αὐτοῖς ἐπέδειξαν εἰκόνα. Τόν τε τοῦ ἱερέως ποδήρη, τέσσαρσι στοιχείοις l. στίχοις λίθων πολυτελῶν κεκοσμημένον, τὴν τετράδα σημαίνειν διορίζονται· καὶ εἴ τινα τοιαῦτα κεῖται ἐν ταῖς γραφαῖς, εἰς τὸν τῶν τεσσάρων δυνάμενα ἄγεσθαι ἀριθμὸν, διὰ τὴν τετρακτὺν αὐτῶν φασι γεγονέναι. Τὴν δὲ ὀγδοάδα πάλιν δείκνυσθαι οὕτως· ἐν τῇ ὀγδόῃ τῶν ἡμερῶν πεπλάσθαι λέγουσιν τὸν ἄνθρωπον. Ποτὲ μὲν γὰρ αὐτὸν τῇ ἕκτῃ βούλονται γεγονέναι, ποτὲ δὲ τῇ ὀγδόῃ, εἰ μὴ τὸν μὲν χοϊκὸν ἐν τῇ ἕκτῃ τῶν ἡμερῶν ἐροῦσι πεπλάσθαι, τὸν δὲ σαρκικὸν ἐν τῇ ὀγδόῃ· διέσταλται γὰρ ταῦτα παρ' αὐτοῖς. Ἔνιοι δὲ ἄλλον θέλουσι τὸν κατ' εἰκόνα καὶ ὁμοίωσιν Θεοῦ γεγονότα ἀρσενόθηλυν ἄνθρωπον, καὶ τοῦτον εἶναι τὸν πνευματικόν· ἄλλον δὲ τὸν ἐκ τῆς γῆς πλασθέντα. Καὶ τὴν τῆς κιβωτοῦ δὲ οἰκονομίαν ἐν τῷ κατακλυσμῷ, ἐν ᾖ ὀκτὼ ἄνθρωποι διεσώθησαν, φανερώτατά φασι τὴν σωτήριον ὀγδοάδα μηνύειν. Τὸ αὐτὸ δὲ καὶ τὸν ∆αβὶδ, ὄγδοον ὄντα τῇ γενέσει τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ, σημαίνειν. Ἔτι μὴν καὶ τὴν περιτομὴν, ὀκταήμερον γινομένην, τὸ περίτμημα τῆς ἄνω ὀγδοάδος δηλοῦν. Καὶ ἁπλῶς ὅσα εὑρίσκεται ἐν ταῖς γραφαῖς, ὑπάγεσθαι δυνάμενα εἰς τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ὀκτὼ, τὸ μυστήριον τῆς ὀγδοάδος ἐκπληροῦν λέγουσιν. Ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν δεκάδα σημαίνεσθαι διὰ τῶν δέκα ἐθνῶν, ὧν ἐπηγγείλατο ὁ Θεὸς τῷ Ἀβραὰμ εἰς κατάσχεσιν δοῦναι, λέγουσι· καὶ τὴν περὶ Σάῤῥαν δὲ οἰκονομίαν, ὡς μετὰ ἔτη δέκα δίδωσιν αὐτῷ τὴν ἑαυτῆς δούλην Ἄγαρ, ἵνα ἐξ αὐτῆς τεκνοποιήσηται τὸ αὐτὸ δηλοῦν. Καὶ ὁ δοῦλος δὲ Ἀβραὰμ πεμφθεὶς ἐπὶ Ῥεβέκκαν, καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ φρέατι διδοὺς αὐτῇ ψέλλια χρυσῶν δέκα, καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτῆς κατέχοντες αὐτὴν ἐπὶ δέκα ἡμέρας· ἔτι τε Ῥοβοὰμ l. Ἰεροβοὰμ ὁ τὰ δέκα σκῆπτρα λαμβάνων, καὶ τῆς σκηνῆς αἱ δέκα αὐλαῖαι, καὶ οἱ στύλοι οἱ δεκαπήχεις, καὶ οἱ δέκα υἱοὶ Ἰακὼβ, ἐπὶ τὴν ὠνὴν τοῦ σίτου τὸ πρῶτον εἰς Αἴγυπτον πεμφθέντες, καὶ οἱ δέκα Ἀπόστολοι, οἷς φανεροῦται μετὰ τὴν ἔγερσιν ὁ Κύριος, τοῦ Θωμᾶ μὴ παρόντος, τὴν ἀόρατον διετύπουν κατ' αὐτοὺς δεκάδα. 1.11.3 Τὴν δυοδεκάδα δὲ, περὶ ἣν καὶ τὸ μυστήριον τοῦ πάθους τοῦ ὑστερήματος γεγονέναι, ἐξ οὗ πάθους τὰ βλεπόμενα κατεσκευάσθαι θέλουσιν, ἐπισήμως καὶ φανερῶς πανταχῆ κεῖσθαι λέγουσιν, ὡς τοὺς δώδεκα υἱοὺς τοῦ Ἰακὼβ, ἐξ ὧν καὶ δεκαδύο φυλαὶ, καὶ τὸ λογεῖον τὸ ποικιλτὸν δώδεκα λίθους ἔχον, καὶ τοὺς δώδεκα κώδωνας, καὶ τοὺς ὑπὸ Μωϋσέως τεθέντας ὑπὸ τὸ ὄρος δώδεκα λίθους, ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ τοὺς ὑπὸ Ἰησοῦ ἐν τῷ ποταμῷ, καὶ ἄλλους εἰς τὸ πέραν, καὶ τοὺς βαστάζοντας τὴν κιβωτὸν τῆς διαθήκης, καὶ τοὺς ὑπὸ Ἡλίᾳ τεθειμένους ἐν τῇ ὁλοκαυτώσει τοῦ μόσχου, καὶ τὸν ἀριθμὸν δὲ τῶν