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they had known. Further, when he drew near to Jerusalem, he wept over it, and said: If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden suppl. from you; through the word 'it is hidden', he has revealed the hidden nature of the Deep. And again, when he said: Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest; and learn from me, he announced the Father of truth. For what they did not know, he says, this he promised to teach them ... adj. And as proof l. of the highest things, and as it were the crown of their hypothesis, they adduce these words: I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children; yea, my Father, for before you a good pleasure d. was done for me. All things have been committed to me by my Father; and no one knew the Father except the Son, nor the Son except the Father, and he to whom the Son may reveal him. In these words, they say, he has shown distinctly that the Father of truth, whom they have invented, had never been known by anyone before his coming; and they wish to establish that the Maker and Creator was always known by all; and that the Lord said these things concerning the Father unknown to all, whom they proclaim. 1.14.1 But it has happened for them that their l. tradition of redemption is invisible and incomprehensible; since it is the mother of things that cannot be grasped and are invisible. And for this reason, since it is unstable, it is not proclaimed simply or in a single account; because each one l. of them hands it down just as they themselves wish. For as many as are mystagogues of this opinion, so many are the redemptions. And that this form has been instigated by Satan for the denial of the baptism of regeneration to God, and the renunciation of all faith, we will declare when we refute them in the proper place. And they say that it is necessary for those who have received perfect knowledge, so that they may be regenerated into the power that is above all. For otherwise it is impossible to enter into the Pleroma; since this is what leads them down into the depth suppl. of the Deep. For the baptism of the visible Jesus is for the remission of sins, but the redemption of the Christ who descended into him is for perfection; and they maintain that the one is psychic, but the other spiritual. And that baptism was proclaimed by John for repentance, but redemption was brought l. by the Christ in him, Jesus, for perfection. And this is what he speaks of: And I have another baptism to be baptized with, and I am very eager for it. But also to the sons of Zebedee, when their mother asked for them to sit at his right and left hand in the kingdom, they say the Lord added this redemption, saying: Can you be baptized with the baptism with which I am about to be baptized? And they affirm that Paul has explicitly and often declared the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; and that this is the one handed down by them in diverse and discordant ways. 1.14.2 For some of them construct a bridal chamber and perform an initiation with certain invocations for those who are being perfected, and they claim that what is done by them is a spiritual marriage, according to the likeness of the syzygies above. Others lead them to water, and baptizing them, say this: Into the name of the unknown Father of the wholes, into Truth the mother of all, into him who descended into Jesus, for union and redemption and communion of the powers. Others pronounce certain Hebrew names, in order to impress the more those who are being perfected, thus: Basema chamosse baaianora mistadia rouada kousta babophor kalachthei. The interpretation of these is as follows: Above every power of the Father I invoke what is called light, and good spirit, and life; because you have reigned in the body. Still others pronounce the redemption thus: The name hidden from every deity, and lordship, and truth, which Jesus the Nazarene put on in the lives of the light of Christ, of the living Christ through

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ἐγνώκεισαν. Ἔτι ἐν τῷ προσσχόντα αὐτὸν τῇ Ἱερουσαλὴμ δακρῦσαι ἐπ' αὐτὴν, καὶ εἰπεῖν· Εἰ ἔγνως καὶ σὺ σήμερον τὰ πρὸς εἰρήνην, ἐκρύβη δὲ suppl. ἀπό σου· διὰ τοῦ ἐκρύβη ῥήματος, τὸ ἀπόκρυφον τοῦ Βυθοῦ δεδηλωκέναι. Καὶ πάλιν εἰπόντα· ∆εῦτε πρός με πάντες οἱ κοπιῶντες καὶ πεφορτισμένοι, κᾀγὼ ἀναπαύσω ὑμᾶς· καὶ μάθετε ἀπ' ἐμοῦ, τὸν τῆς ἀληθείας πατέρα κατηγγελκέναι. Ὃ γὰρ οὐκ ᾔδεισαν, φησὶ, τοῦτο αὐτοῖς ὑπέσχετο διδάξειν ... adj. Ἀπόδειξιν δὲ τὴν l. τῶν ἀνωτάτω, καὶ οἱονεὶ κορωνίδα τῆς ὑποθέσεως αὐτῶν φέρουσι ταῦτα· Ἐξομολογήσομαί σοι πάτερ κύριε τῶν οὐρανῶν καὶ τῆς γῆς, ὅτι ἀπέκρυψας ἀπὸ σοφῶν καὶ συνετῶν, καὶ ἀπεκάλυψας αὐτὰ νηπίοις· οὐὰ, ὁ πατήρ μου, ὅτι ἔμπροσθέν σου εὐδοκία d. μοι ἐγένετο. Πάντα μοι παρεδόθη ὑπὸ τοῦ Πατρός μου· καὶ οὐδεὶς ἔγνω τὸν Πατέρα, εἰ μὴ ὁ Υἱὸς, καὶ τὸν Υἱὸν, εἰ μὴ ὁ Πατὴρ, καὶ ᾧ ἂν ὁ Υἱὸς ἀποκαλύψῃ. Ἐν τούτοις διαῤῥήδην φασὶ δεδειχέναι αὐτὸν, ὡς τὸν ὑπ' αὐτῶν παρεξευρημένον πατέρα ἀληθείας πρὸ τῆς παρουσίας αὐτοῦ μηδενὸς πώποτε ἐγνωκότος· καὶ κατασκευάζειν θέλουσιν, ὡς τοῦ ποιητοῦ καὶ κτίστου ἀεὶ ὑπὸ πάντων ἐγνωσμένου· καὶ ταῦτα τὸν Κύριον εἰρηκέναι περὶ τοῦ ἀγνώστου τοῖς πᾶσι Πατρὸς, ὃν αὐτοὶ καταγγέλλουσι. 1.14.1 ΤΗΝ δὲ τῆς ἀπολυτρώσεως αὐτοῖς l. αὐτῶν παράδοσιν συμβέβηκεν ἀόρατον εἶναι καὶ ἀκατάληπτον· ἅτε τῶν ἀκρατήτων καὶ ἀοράτων μητέρα ὑπάρχουσαν. Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἄστατον οὖσαν, οὐχ ἁπλῶς οὐδὲ ἑνὶ λόγῳ ἀπαγγεῖλαί ἐστι· διὰ τὸ ἓν l. ἕνα ἕκαστον αὐτῶν, καθὼς αὐτοὶ βούλονται, παραδιδόναι αὐτήν. Ὅσοι γάρ εἰσι ταύτης τῆς γνώμης μυσταγωγοὶ, τοσαῦται ἀπολυτρώσεις. Καὶ ὅτι μὲν εἰς ἐξάρνησιν τοῦ βαπτίσματος τῆς εἰς Θεὸν ἀναγεννήσεως, καὶ πάσης τῆς πίστεως ἀπόθεσιν ὑποβέβληται τὸ εἶδος τοῦ τοῦτο ὑπὸ τοῦ Σατανᾶ, ἐλέγχοντες αὐτοὺς ἀπαγγελοῦμεν ἐν τῷ προσήκοντι τόπῳ. Λέγουσι δὲ αὐτὴν ἀναγκαίαν εἶναι τοῖς τὴν τελείαν γνῶσιν εἰληφόσιν, ἵνα εἰς τὴν ὑπὲρ πάντα δύναμιν ὦσιν ἀναγεγεννημένοι. Ἄλλως γὰρ ἀδύνατον ἐντὸς πληρώματος εἰσελθεῖν· ἐπειδὴ αὕτη ἐστὶν ἡ εἰς τὸ βάθος suppl. τοῦ βύθου κατάγουσα αὐτούς. Τὸ μὲν γὰρ βάπτισμα τοῦ φαινομένου Ἰησοῦ, ἀφέσεως ἁμαρτιῶν, τὴν δὲ ἀπολύτρωσιν τοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ Χριστοῦ κατελθόντος, εἰς τελείωσιν· καὶ τὸ μὲν ψυχικὸν, τὴν δὲ πνευματικὴν εἶναι ὑφίστανται. Καὶ τὸ μὲν βάπτισμα ὑπὸ Ἰωάννου κατηγγέλθαι εἰς μετάνοιαν, τὴν δὲ ἀπολύτρωσιν ὑπὸ l. τοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ Χριστοῦ Ἰησοῦ κεκομίσθαι εἰς τελείωσιν. Καὶ τοῦτ' εἶναι περὶ οὗ λέγει· Καὶ ἄλλο βάπτισμα ἔχω βαπτισθῆναι, καὶ πάνυ ἐπείγομαι εἰς αὐτό. Ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖς υἱοῖς Ζεβεδαίου, τῆς μητρὸς αὐτῶν αἰτουμένης τὸ καθίσαι αὐτοὺς ἐκ δεξιῶν καὶ ἀριστερῶν μετ' αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν, ταύτην προσθεῖναι τὴν ἀπολύτρωσιν τὸν Κύριον λέγουσιν, εἰπόντα· ∆ύνασθε τὸ βάπτισμα βαπτισθῆναι, ὃ ἐγὼ μέλλω βαπτίζεσθαι; Καὶ τὸν Παῦλον ῥητῶς φάσκουσι τὴν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ ἀπολύτρωσιν πολλάκις μεμηνυκέναι· καὶ εἶναι ταύτην τὴν ὑπ' αὐτῶν ποικίλως καὶ ἀσυμφώνως παραδιδομένην. 1.14.2 Οἱ μὲν γὰρ αὐτῶν νυμφῶνα κατασκευάζουσι, καὶ μυσταγωγίαν ἐπιτελοῦσι μετ' ἐπιῤῥήσεών τινων τοῖς τελειουμένοις, καὶ πνευματικὸν γάμον φάσκουσιν εἶναι τὸ ὑπ' αὐτῶν γινόμενον, κατὰ τὴν ὁμοιότητα τῶν ἄνω συζυγιῶν. Οἱ δὲ ἄγουσιν ἐφ' ὕδωρ, καὶ βαπτίζοντες οὕτως ἐπιλέγουσιν· Εἰς ὄνομα ἀγνώστου Πατρὸς τῶν ὅλων, εἰς Ἀλήθειαν μητέρα πάντων, εἰς τὸν κατελθόντα εἰς Ἰησοῦν, εἰς ἕνωσιν καὶ ἀπολύτρωσιν καὶ κοινωνίαν τῶν δυνάμεων. Ἄλλοι δὲ Ἑβραϊκά τινα ὀνόματα ἐπιλέγουσι, πρὸς τὸ μᾶλλον καταπλήξασθαι τοὺς τελειουμένους, οὕτως· Βασεμὰ χαμοσσὴ βααιανορὰ μισταδία ῥουαδὰ κουστὰ βαβοφὸρ καλαχθεῖ. Τούτων δ' ἡ ἑρμηνεία ἐστι τοιαύτη· Ὑπὲρ πᾶσαν δύναμιν τοῦ πατρὸς ἐπικαλοῦμαι φῶς ὀνομαζόμενον, καὶ πνεῦμα ἀγαθὸν, καὶ ζωή· ὅτι ἐν σώματι ἐβασίλευσας. Ἄλλοι δὲ πάλιν τὴν λύτρωσιν ἐπιλέγουσιν οὕτως· Τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἀποκεκρυμμένον ἀπὸ πάσης θεότητος, καὶ κυριότητος, καὶ ἀληθείας, ὃ ἐνεδύσατο Ἰησοῦς ὁ Ναζαρηνὸς ἐν ταῖς ζωαῖς τοῦ φωτὸς τοῦ Χριστοῦ, Χριστοῦ ζῶντος διὰ