⁴²⁰ Ut quae fabricatur, inquis, a Deo.

⁴²¹ Lineis. Tertullian often refers to Hermogenes' profession of painting.

⁴²² In partes venire.

⁴²³ Omnia ex omnibus.

⁴²⁴ i.e. of Matter.

⁴²⁵ Dinoscatur ex.

⁴²⁶ Utique ex pristinis.

⁴²⁷ Aliter habeant.

⁴²⁸ In melius reformatam.

⁴²⁹ Speculum.

⁴³⁰ Mulus.

⁴³¹ Speciatum: ei0dopihqe/n, "arranged in specific forms."

⁴³² Ko/smoj.

⁴³³ Inornatae: unfurnished with forms of beauty.

⁴³⁴ Non totam eam fabricatam.

⁴³⁵ Recesserunt a forma ejus.

⁴³⁶ From which he has digressed since ch. xxxvi., p. 497.

⁴³⁷ Subjacens materia.

⁴³⁸ Aequalis momenti motum.

⁴³⁹ Passivitas.

⁴⁴⁰ Determinabilem.

⁴⁴¹ In loco facis: "you localise."

⁴⁴² In loco.

⁴⁴³ Denique.

⁴⁴⁴ Cum corpori accedunt: or, "when they are added to a body."

⁴⁴⁵ Loca: "places;" one to each.

⁴⁴⁶ Cum ab utraque regione suspendis: equally far from good and evil.

⁴⁴⁷ Dispersisti omnia.

⁴⁴⁸ Inconditrum.

⁴⁴⁹ "Communionem."

⁴⁵⁰ Ornari: "to be adorned."

⁴⁵¹ Ornari: "to be adorned."

⁴⁵² Composite.

⁴⁵³ Incondite.

⁴⁵⁴ Concretus.

⁴⁵⁵ Certaminis.

⁴⁵⁶ Compositionem: "arrangement."

⁴⁵⁷ See above, ch. xxxvii. p. 498.

⁴⁵⁸ Ornata.

⁴⁵⁹ Cessavit a.

⁴⁶⁰ Cessavit.

⁴⁶¹ Facit quid decor.

⁴⁶² Certe.

⁴⁶³ Retro.

⁴⁶⁴ Dan. iii. 21.

⁴⁶⁵ Prov. viii. 22, 23.

⁴⁶⁶ John i. 3.

⁴⁶⁷ Spiritu Ipsius: "by His Spirit." See Ps. xxxiii. 6.

⁴⁶⁸ Isa. xlviii. 13.

⁴⁶⁹ Ps. cii. 25.

⁴⁷⁰ Isa. xl. 12 and xlviii. 13.

⁴⁷¹ Jer. li. 15.

⁴⁷² Ps. lxiv. 7.

⁴⁷³ Aut si.

⁴⁷⁴ Atquin.

⁴⁷⁵ Ubique conveniri.

⁴⁷⁶ Rom. i. 20.

⁴⁷⁷ Nescio quae.

⁴⁷⁸ Sensualia.

⁴⁷⁹ Rom. xi. 34.

⁴⁸⁰ Ver. 33.

⁴⁸¹ Nec competat.

⁴⁸² Nisi quod.

¹ Occultant. [This tract may be assigned to any date not earlier than a.d. 207. Of this Valentinus, see cap. iv. infra, and de Proescript. capp. 29, 30, supra.]

² We are far from certain whether we have caught the sense of the original, which we add, that the reader may judge for himself, and at the same time observe the terseness of our author: "Custodiae officium conscientiae officium est, confusio praedicatur, dum religio asseveratur."

³ Et aditum prius cruciant.

⁴ Antequam consignant.

⁵ Epoptas: see Suidas, s.v. 'Epo/ptai.

⁶ Aedificent.

⁷ Adytis.

⁸ Epoptarum.