168 "Omnis anima hujus mundi" may, however, mean "every living soul." So Bp. Kaye, On Tertullian, p. 487.
173 These two rivers, with their peculiar qualities, are mentioned by Pliny, H.N. ii. 103; [and the latter by Milton against Salmasius.]
178 Instrumentum: water is meant.
179 Christ and the Holy Spirit. Oehler.
180 Saviour: another title of their Paraclete.
184 Habilitatem atque naturam. We have treated this as a "hendiadys".
185 Aequiparantias corpulentiarum.
193 See above, chap. xvi. p. 512.
195 Et velut sigillario. "Sigillarium est neuro/spaston," Oehler.
196 The Father acting through and proceeding from his Mother.
199 Communiter in universitatem.
202 This is the force of the "qui" with the subjunctive verb.
205 There seems to be a relative gradation meant among these extra-Pleroma beings, as there was among the Aeons of the Pleroma; and, further, a relation between the two sets of beings-Achamoth bearing a relation to Propator, the Demiurge to Nus, etc.
206 Duplicis substantiae illius disculsae.
208 Ogdoadis primogenitalis: what Irenaeus calls "the first-begotten and primary Ogdoad of the Pleroma" (See our Irenaeus, Vol. I.; also above, chap. vii. p. 506.)
213 Sibi here must refer to the secondary agent of the sentence.
216 Adeo rerum non erat compos.
222 Capit: "capax est," nimirum "infamiae" (Fr. Junius).
225 Irenaeus' word is Kosmokra/twr; see also Eph. vi. 12.
226 Above, in chap. viii., he has mentioned the Pleroma as "the fulness of the thirtyfold divinity."