actually formed, is the fruit of defect, and the production of ignorance, is to be guilty of
great blasphemy. For, according to them, the Father of all will thus be [regarded as] gener-
ating in His breast, according to His own mental conception, the emanations of defect and
the fruits of ignorance, since the things which He had conceived in His mind have actually
been produced.
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Chapter III.—The Bythus and Pleroma of the Valentinians, as well as the…