themselves as experiencing, to the divine reason, they seem to those who are ignorant of
God to make statements suitable enough. And by these human passions, drawing away their
intelligence, while they describe the origin and production of the Word of God in the fifth
place, they assert that thus they teach wonderful mysteries, unspeakable and sublime, known
to no one but themselves. It was, [they affirm,] concerning these that the Lord said, “Seek,
and ye shall find,”402 that is, that they should inquire how Nous and Aletheia proceeded
from Bythus and Sage; whether Logos and Zoe again derive their origin from these and
then, whether Anthropos and Ecclesia proceed from Logos and Zoe.
402 Matt. vii. 7.
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Chapter XIII.—The first order of production maintained by the heretics is…