to her when she lay outside of the Pleroma as a kind of abortion, they affirm Paul to have declared in his Epistle to the Corinthians [in these words], “And last of all, He appeared to me also, as to one born out of due time.”104 Again, the coming of the Saviour with His at- tendants to Achamoth is declared in like manner by him in the same Epistle, when he says, “A woman ought to have a veil upon her head, because of the angels.”105 Now, that Achamoth, when the Saviour came to her, drew a veil over herself through modesty, Moses rendered manifest when he put a veil upon his face. Then, also, they say that the passions which she endured were indicated by the Lord upon the cross. Thus, when He said, “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”106 He simply showed that Sophia was deserted by the light, and was restrained by Horos from making any advance forward. Her anguish, again, was indicated when He said, “My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death;”107 her fear by the words, “Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me;”108 and her per- plexity, too, when He said, “And what I shall say, I know not.”109 3. And they teach that He pointed out the three kinds of men as follows: the material, when He said to him that asked Him, “Shall I follow Thee?”110 “The Son of man hath not where to lay His head;”— the animal, when He said to him that declared, “I will follow Thee, but suffer me first to bid them farewell that are in my house,” “No man, putting his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of heaven”111 (for this man they de- clare to be of the intermediate class, even as they do that other who, though he professed to have wrought a large amount of righteousness, yet refused to follow Him, and was so over- come by [the love of] riches, as never to reach perfection)—this one it pleases them to place in the animal class;—the spiritual, again, when He said, “Let the dead bury their dead, but go thou and preach the kingdom of God,”112 and when He said to Zaccheus the publican, “Make haste, and come down, for to-day I must abide in thine house”113—for these they declared to have belonged to the spiritual class. Also the parable of the leaven which the woman is described as having hid in three measures of meal, they declare to make manifest 104 1 Cor. xv. 8. 105 1 Cor. xi. 10. Irenæus here reads κάλυμμα, veil, instead of ἐξουσίαν, power, as in the received text. [An interesting fact, as it betokens an old gloss, which may have slipped into the text of some ancient mss.] 106 Matt. xxvii. 46. 107 Matt. xxvi. 38. 108 Matt. xxvi. 39. 109 John xii. 27. The Valentinians seem, for their own purposes, to have added οὐκ οἶδα to this text. 110 Luke ix. 57, 58. 111 Luke ix. 61, 62. 112 Luke ix. 60. 113 Luke xix. 5. 869 Chapter VIII.—How the Valentinians pervert the Scriptures to support their…