the offspring of Anthropos and Ecclesia; and on this account he acknowledges himself the Son of man, as being a descendant of Anthropos. Others still, assert that he was produced by Christ and the Holy Spirit, who were brought forth for the security of the Pleroma; and that on this account he was called Christ, thus preserving the appellation of the Father, by whom he was produced. And there are yet others among them who declare that the Propator of the whole, Proarche, and Proanennoetos is called Anthropos; and that this is the great and abstruse mystery, namely, that the Power which is above all others, and contains all in his embrace, is termed Anthropos; hence does the Saviour style himself the "Son of man."
Chap. xiii.—The deceitful arts and nefarious practices of Marcus.
1. But[1] there is another among these heretics, Marcus by name, who boasts of himself as having improved upon his master. He is a perfect adept in magical impostures, and by this means drawing away a great number of men, and not a few women, he has induced them to join themselves to him, as to one who is possessed of the greatest knowledge and perfection, and who has received the highest power from the invisible and ineffable regions above. Thus it appears as if he really were the precursor of Antichrist. For, joining the buffooneries of Anaxilaus[2] to the craftiness of the magi, as they are called, he is regarded by his senseless and crack-brained followers as working miracles by these means.
2. Pretending[3] to consecrate cups mixed with wine, and
- ↑ The Greek text of this section is preserved both by Epiphanius (Hær. xxxiv. 1) and by Hippolytus (Philosoph. vi. 39, 40). Their citations are somewhat discordant, and we therefore follow the old Latin version.
- ↑ Pliny, Hist. Nat. xxxv. 15, etc.
- ↑ Epiphanius now gives the Greek text verbatim, to which, therefore, we return.
and Spiritus; and Pater, Arche, Monogenes, Christus, Anthropos, Ecclesia, were all of them terms of a double denomination."
