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having transferred its state, has the power of the second coming, working in it passionlessness and incorruptibility.

τέσσ. ἀνοικ. θ΄. Sensation follows the practical man, who through labor achieves the virtues; but insensibility follows the gnostic, who has drawn the mind away from the flesh and the world toward God. For the one, struggling through the practical life to loose the soul from the natural bonds of its relation to the flesh, has his will constantly bending under the labors; but the other, having drawn out the nails of this relation through contemplation [unus Reg. contemplative], is held fast by nothing at all; having become pure already from that which is naturally subject to suffering and being held by those who wish to seize it.

ρ΄. The manna given to Israel in the desert is the Word of God, adapting itself to every spiritual pleasure for those who eat it, and being mixed for every taste according to the difference of the desire of those who eat. For it has the quality of every spiritual food. Therefore, to those born from above from incorruptible seed through the spirit, it becomes pure spiritual milk; to the weak, it is a vegetable, consoling the passible power of the soul; to those who through habit have the senses of the soul trained for the discernment of good and evil, it gives itself as solid food. And the Word of God has other infinite powers, not contained here; but one who has departed, and has become worthy to be set over many things, or over all things, will receive all those powers as well, or certain powers of the Word, because here he has been faithful in a very little. For every height of the divine gifts given here, in comparison with the things to come, is a very small and moderate thing.

SECOND CENTURY OF GNOSTIC CHAPTERS. α΄. One God, because one divinity; a monad [the word, monad, is missing in the three Regii] without beginning and

simple and beyond being; (1125) and without parts and indivisible; the same is monad and Trinity; the whole is the same monad, and the whole is the same Trinity; the whole is the same monad according to essence, and the whole is the same Trinity according to hypostases. For Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit is the divinity, and in Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit is the divinity. The whole is in the whole Father; and the whole Father is in the whole of it; and the whole is in the whole Son; and the whole Son is in the whole of it. And the whole is in the whole Holy Spirit; and the whole Holy Spirit is in the whole of it. The whole is Father, and in the whole Father; and the whole Father is in the whole; and the whole is the whole Father. And the whole is the whole Son; and the whole is in the whole Son; and the whole Son is the whole, and in the whole of it. And the whole is the Holy Spirit, and in the whole Holy Spirit; and the whole Holy Spirit is the whole, and the whole Holy Spirit is in the whole of it. For not in part is the divinity in the Father, nor in part is the Father God; nor in part is the divinity in the Son, nor in part is the Son God; nor in part is the divinity in the Holy Spirit, nor in part is the Holy Spirit God. For the divinity is not divisible; nor is God the Father, or the Son, or the Holy Spirit incomplete; but the whole of it is perfectly complete in the perfect Father; and the whole of it is perfectly complete in the perfect Son; and the whole of it is perfectly complete in the perfect Holy Spirit. For the whole Father is perfectly in the whole Son and the Spirit; and the whole Son is perfectly in the whole Father and the Spirit; and the whole Holy Spirit is perfectly in the whole Father and the Son. Therefore also one God is the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. For one and the same is the essence and power and energy of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit; neither being nor being conceived without the other.

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μεταβιβάσας κατάστασιν, τῆς δευτέρας ἔχει παρουσίας τήν δύναμιν, ἐνεργοῦσαν αὐτῷ τό ἀπαθές καί ἀνάλωτον.

τέσσ. ἀνοικ. θ΄. Αἴσθησις μέν ἕπεται τῷ πρακτικῷ, διά πόνον κατορθοῦντι τάς ἀρετάς· ἀναισθησία δέ τῷ γνωστικῷ, τόν νοῦν ἀπό τῆς σαρκός καί τοῦ κόσμου συστείλαντι πρός Θεόν. Ὁ μέν γάρ λῦσαι τήν ψυχήν τῶν κατά φύσιν τῆς σχέσεως πρός τήν σάρκα δεσμῶν διά τῆς πρακτικῆς ἀγωνιζόμενος, ἔχει τήν γνώμην τοῖς πόνοις συνεχῶς ἐποκλάζουσαν· ὁ δέ, ταύτης τῆς σχέσεως ἀνασπάσας διά τῆς θεωρίας [unus Reg. θεωρητικῆς] τούς ἥλους, οὐδενί τό σύνολόν ἐστι καθεκτός· καθαρός ἤδη τοῦ πάσχειν τε καί κρατεῖσθαι πεφυκότος παρά τῶν ἑλεῖν βουλομένων, γενόμενος.

ρ΄. Τό μάννα δοθέν τῷ Ἰσραήλ κατά τήν ἔρημον, ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ λόγος ἐστί, πρός πᾶσαν ἡδονήν πνευματικήν ἁρμῶν τοῖς ἐσθίουσιν αὐτόν, καί πρός πᾶσαν γεῦσιν κατά τήν διαφοράν τῆς τῶν ἐσθιόντων ἐπιθυμίας, μετακιρνώμενος. Πάσης γάρ ἔχει πνευματικῆς βρώσεως ποιότητα. ∆ιό τοῖς μέν ἄνωθεν ἐκ σπόρου ἀφθάρτου διά πνεύματος γεννηθεῖσι, λογικόν ἄδολον γίνεται γάλα· τοῖς δέ ἀσθενοῦσι, λάχανον, τήν παθοῦσαν τῆς ψυχῆς παραμυθούμενος δύναμιν· τοῖς δέ διά τήν ἕξιν τά αἰσθητήρια τῆς ψυχῆς γεγυμνασμένα ἔχουσι πρός διάκρισιν καλοῦ τε καί κακοῦ, στερεάν ἑαυτόν δίδωσι τροφήν. Ἔχει δέ καί ἄλλας ἀπείρους δυνάμεις ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ λόγος, ἐνταῦθα μή χωρουμένας· ἀναλύσας δέ τις, καί ἄξιος γενόμενος ἐπί πολλῶν, ἤ ἐπί πάντων κατασταθῆναι, λήψεται κἀκείνας ὅλας, ἤ τινας τοῦ λόγου τάς δυνάμεις, διά τό ἐν ἐλαχίστῳ αὐτόν ἐνταῦθα πιστόν γεγονέναι. Πᾶσα γάρ τῶν ἐνταῦθα διδομένων θείων χαρισμάτων ἀκρότης, συγκρίσει τῶν μελλόντων, ἐλάχιστόν τι καί μέτριόν ἐστιν.

ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΣ Β΄ ΓΝΩΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΩΝ. α΄. Εἷς Θεός, ὅτι μία θεότης· μονάς [deest τό, μονάς, in tribus Regiis] ἄναρχος καί

ἁπλῆ καί ὑπερούσιος· (1125) καί ἀμερής καί ἀδιαίρετος· ἡ αὐτή μονάς καί Τριάς· ὅλη μονάς ἡ αὐτή, καί ὅλη Τριάς ἡ αὐτή· μονάς ὅλη κατά τήν οὐσίαν ἡ αὐτή, καί Τριάς ὅλη κατά τάς ὑποστάσεις ἡ αὐτή. Πατήρ γάρ, καί Υἱός, καί Πνεῦμα ἅγιον ἡ θεότης, καί ἐν Πατρί, καί Υἱῷ, καί ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι ἡ θεότης. Ὅλη ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ Πατρί ἡ αὐτή· καί ὅλος ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ αὐτῇ ὁ Πατήρ· καί ὅλη ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ Υἱῷ ἡ αὐτή· καί ὅλος ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ αὐτῇ ὁ Υἱός. Καί ὅλη ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ Πνεύματι τῷ ἁγίῳ ἡ αὐτή· καί ὅλον ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ αὐτῇ τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον. Ὅλη Πατήρ, καί ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ Πατρί· καί ὅλος ἐν ὅλῃ ὁ Πατήρ· καί ὅλη ὅλος ὁ Πατήρ. Καί ὅλη ὅλος ὁ Υἱός ἡ αὐτή· καί ὅλη ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ Υἱῷ ἡ αὐτή· καί ὅλος ὅλη, καί ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ αὐτῇ ὁΥἱός. Καί ὅλη Πνεῦμα ἅγιον ἡ αὐτή, καί ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ Πνεύματι τῷ ἁγίῳ· καί τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον ὅλον ὅλη, καί ὅλον ἐν ὅλῃ τῇ αὐτῇ τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον. Οὐ γάρ ἐκ μέρους ἡ θεότης ἐν τῷ Πατρί, ἤ ἐκ μέρους Θεός ὁ Πατήρ· οὔτε ἐκ μέρους ἐν τῷ Υἱῷ ἡ θεότης, ἤ ἐκ μέρους Θεός ὁ Υἱός· οὔτε ἐκ μέρους ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι ἡ θεότης, ἤ ἐκ μέρους Θεός τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον. Οὔτε γάρ μεριστή ἡ θεότης· οὔτε ἀτελής ὁ Θεός ὁ Πατήρ, ἤ ὁ Υἱός, ἤ τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον· ἀλλ᾿ ὅλη ἐστίν ἡ αὐτή τελεία τελείως ἐν τελείῳ τῷ Πατρί· καί ὅλη τελεία τελείως ἡ αὐτή ἐν τελείῳ τῷ Υἱῷ ἡ αὐτή· καί ὅλη τελεία τελείως ἡ αὐτή ἐν τελείῳ τῷ ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι. Ὅλος γάρ ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ Υἱῷ καί τῷ Πνεύματι τελείως ἐστίν ὁ Πατήρ· καί ὅλος ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ Πατρί καί τῷ Πνεύματι τελείως ἐστίν ὁΥἱός· καί ὅλον ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ Πατρί καί τῷ Υἱῷ τελείως ἐστί τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον. ∆ιό καί εἷς Θεός ὁ Πατήρ καί ὁ Υἱός καί τό Πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον. Μία γάρ καί ἡ αὐτή οὐσία καί δύναμις καί ἐνέργεια Πατρός καί Υἱοῦ καί ἁγίου Πνεύματος· οὐκ ὄντος οὐδενός τοῦ ἑτέρου χωρίς ἤ νοουμένου.