setting the seal of His approval on their conduct, brought together whatever each one had
in himself of the greatest beauty and preciousness; and uniting all these contributions so as
skilfully to blend the whole, they produced, to the honour and glory of Bythus, a being of
most perfect beauty, the very star of the Pleroma, and the perfect fruit [of it], namely Jesus.
Him they also speak of under the name of Saviour, and Christ, and patronymically, Logos,
and Everything, because He was formed from the contributions of all. And then we are told
that, by way of honour, angels of the same nature as Himself were simultaneously produced,
to act as His body-guard.
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