formed which have been formed. By such a supposition, however, the light of their Father
would incur a reproach, as if He could not illuminate and fill those things which are within
Himself. Thus, then, when they maintain that these things were the fruit of defect and the
work of error, they do moreover introduce defect and error within the Pleroma, and into
the bosom of the Father.
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Chapter IV.—The absurdity of the supposed vacuum and defect of the heretics…